#where no man has gone before

[skybson]

My Top 25 Costumes from Star Trek : The Original Series

8. Kirk's "Modified" Command shirt

[wwillywonka]

rewatching where no man has gone before and it's wild how different spock's characterisation is in this versus the rest of the series. like i know logically (haha) that the episode was so early that the show and nimoy didn't really have a grasp on the character yet (made evident by the "one of my ancestors married a human woman" line), but it also strikes me that this is technically kirk's first episode in timeline (production) order, meaning jim and spock have barely started to get to know each other. it's obvious from the chess game that they're already very close and likely have been joined at the hip since their very first meeting, so i like to think that spock is almost, ya know, giddy at this point, adjusting to the comforting warmth and joy and security he feels just by being around jim all the time because it's all so new, because he's never had anything like this before. spock likes jim so much and so immediately and wants to get to know him better and feels safe enough around him to let jim get to know him better, too. the interaction at the end, "i felt for him, too" and "there might be some hope for you yet, mr. spock." followed by a very not-subtle, fond smile from our dear vulcan first officer, just stands out so much against the rest of the series. young spock and his brand new blossoming crush for his captain and he hasn't gotten to the point where he's afraid of those feelings yet, just basking in how nice it feels to have a proper friend. so damn cute. it fills me with butterflies.

[your-name-is-jim]

I think about this a lot.

[trek-tracks]

Do you ever think about how Kirk had a "best friend" on the ship before Bones in Gary Mitchell, a man who:

a) deviously manipulates him into heartbreak for Mitchell's benefit,

b) shames him for not being "fun" enough when he's in a position of power,

c) openly insults intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone cruelly as soon as he gets power and tries to seize everything for himself,

e) finds it fascinating that he can stop a person's heart for fun, and

f) tries to murder Kirk instead of admitting that he's a danger to the universe,

and then chooses to replace him with Bones, a man who:

a) tries to save Kirk from heartbreak at every opportunity,

b) gets him to smile and relax by being genuinely interested in how he's doing and telling him that he's great and respected just as he is,

c) openly toasts intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone kindly as soon as he gets power and tries to use it to help as many people as he can,

e) cries about how people suffered when medical treatments were less advanced, and

f) says, "Jim, I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own. I can't."

because I do

[vildo]

Pick your fighter

[discoonthegrass]

**I included characters significant to one episode who I see referenced in fandom/fanfiction fairly regularly, yet who never appeared in other pieces of Star Trek media (not including novelizations of those episodes or beta canon)

[chernobog13]

Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu (George Takei), early in his career aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as head of astrosciences.

Yes, I know he's wearing an Operations badge instead of a Sciences badge, despite wearing a blue shirt. This was only the second pilot, so the production team was still figuring things out.

[frogayyyy]

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Episodes that won so hard they automatically get to go to the finale under the cut:

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[hereticaster]

Spock doesn’t fuck with ESP

[wwillywonka]

Set course for Delta Vega.

1 x 04 - Where No Man Has Gone Before

[bardicious]

Also Spock getting ready to beat the shit out of Sam Kirk, 10/10 superior content, love it. ❤️ kick his ass, fall in love with his brother, you have the range, sweetie. 👏👏👏

[trek-tracks]

Space, the final frontier.

That is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to explore

The strange new worlds of our outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a five-year mission

And, by opposing, end it. To go—to seek,

Once more; and by “to seek” to say we find

The new life and new civilizations

Where man has gone not: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To go, to seek;

To seek, perchance to find—ay, there's the rub:

For in these voyages what dreams may come,

When we have boldly gone whence we have not,

Must give us pause—there's the respect

That makes a mission of so long a life.

For who would bear the Enterprise of time,

The starship’s wrong, admirals’ contumely,

The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'unworthy treks,

When he himself might make his voyage on

With a bare warp core? Who would tribbles bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the hope of something to be found,

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn

We travel and return, puzzling our will,

And makes us wish to solve those ills we have

And fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience makes explorers of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is glistened o'er with the stars of thought,

And Enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents warp ahead

And seize the name of action.

[vildo]

I thought this was underrated so here’s some Spirk noir

Bonus they’re in sync

[firstofficerkittycat]

The gary mitchell episode actually sets the entire tone for spock's recovery arc I think. When he said "I felt for him too" it's played off like wow he is discovering emotions but no he's not? No he's not. Kirk told him to at least act like he's got a heart and that hurt him. He decided he needed him to know he could feel. The dude who finds security in convincing everyone he's a robot just went no not this one. Not him I'm not sabotaging this. Jim might've been the first person in his life that he didn't want to push away and u can see when he says it that he's tryna be brave. That was not aw Spock is learning what feelings are that was spock actively choosing to unmask because he didn't want to lose his friend that was Spock admitting out loud that he's been hiding behind this lie his whole adult life and saying I want to stop lying for you I want to let you in

[agios-rio]

Kirk has chest hair in the pilot episode btw. From which I conclude that the tragic and untimely death of Gary Mitchell caused him to start shaving it for some reason.