#unification

[harrykim]

The Wrath of Khan / The Search For Spock / Unification | ID in ALT

[jim-bones-spock]

[spirk-trek]

Unification (2024)

[frogayyyy]

Return to Tomorrow (deleted scene), 1968 // 765874 Unification, 2024

Together, forever. I hope someday, with someone, you'll find out what that is...

[egonkula]

they undoomed my yaoi what the fuck

[nerdicorntheshipper]

Will be thinking about this forever gang

[pavel-chekov-appreciator]

My interpretation of Unification is that when Kirk died, because he and Spock are literally one soul/Katra in two bodies, he can’t pass on without his other half.

So he’s being sent to fetch the missing piece of himself-but he doesn’t know right away that the missing piece is Spock. Just that there’s something missing he has to find first. That’s why we get that scene with the three different versions of himself. He doesn’t know quite what he’s looking for yet, so he’s first looking inward.

And yes, obviously it’s TOS Kirk and Movie Kirk because those are the Iconic Looks for the character, but also, within the story itself? I think he’s specifically seeing the two times in his life he lost Spock-right at the end of their first five year mission when Spock resigned, and then after Spock died in TWOK. Those are the two times in his life he had felt like a piece of himself went missing, and when he realizes that, Kirk immediately understands what he’s meant to do.

His missing piece is Spock.

[old-type-40]

I just wanted to talk about how Unification was a great follow up to the other Rodenberry archive short film Regeneration which came out a year and a half ago. In Regeneration, we saw Spock visiting Kirk's grave on Veridian III and picking up Kirk's insignia from atop the grave where Picard left it after burying him.

Unification implies that the events of the photo novel Strange New Worlds are canon in that Gary Mitchell became a powerful non-corporeal being after his death on Delta Vega. Mitchell initially wants revenge on Kirk but Kirk eventually gets him to realize that he can set aside human desires and flaws. Mitchell sets out to travel the universe. And in Unification, Mitchell finds out about Kirk's death, sees Spock mourning at Kirk's grave, and Kirk's remains in storage at Daystrom Station.

So Mitchell brings Kirk back, has his insignia returned to him, and gives Kirk and Spock one last sunset to share together. And that's beautiful.

There's been so much focus on just the Spirk moment that I didn't want the rest of it to be overlooked and under appreciated.

[sevnofnines]

Where would you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler? You? At [Kirk's] side, as if you've always been there and always will.

[xenwrites]

No!!!! You don't understand!!!

Jim Touched him!!

He touched him!

He touched Spock!!!

Spock held Jim's hand as he was dying!!! He could transfer his Katra!!!

So Jim could house his soul! So they could be together forever!!!!

Don't touch me!!!!!

[redraspberryleaf]

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

I can't believe the Roddenberry archive posted their own fix it fic im-

[spirk-trek]

cannot stop thinking about all the fandom foremothers (and fathers) who would have been so happy to see this. who never could have imagined the technology involved to create it 54 years after the show was cancelled. the ones who were around to watch generations but not to see this final moment, and how they would've smiled and cried and drawn their art and clutched onto each other in excitement just like we are <3

[frogayyyy]

the way young kirk starts to run to spock to try and save him but is stopped by wrath of khan kirk. who's been there. he knows what it's like to not be able to save spock. he says "no. not you." and looks behind him to post-death kirk. spock doesn't need to be saved, he needs someone to go with him.

[palpablestupor]

They made it :)

[theshipscloset]

If original K/S isn't soft, emotional, and gorgeous all at the same time it's simply not K/S, and in the age of subversion and irony and flinching in the face of sincerity Unification managed to capture that old sentimental magic and beauty to absolute perfection.