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Absolutely, this bit really does have everything: in addition to the telepathy and hand kink, I'd also put in a bid for competence kink

Whatever Spock has, Kirk wants

I recently noticed I've been inadvertently writing Kirk as having a telepathy kink, but I see that's just canon

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Kirk is trying so hard to flirt with Spock successfully (though Kirk at least still seems to have fun with it when he fails, so it's win-win really)

His latest strategy is teasingly suggesting Spock might be having an emotion and then cheerfully backpedaling when Spock is affronted, which Spock still seems a bit unsure about, but I'm pretty sure he does eventually get in on the joke with this one

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Kirk has, so far, only really succeeded at flirting with Spock once

He won't just accept a compliment, it has to be the right kind of compliment

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It's pretty clear Kirk would rather just move on and forget about the events on Tarsus IV, but I swear that old trauma is the reason he's so determined to put an end to the simulated war by computer in A Taste of Armageddon

What else could Kirk think of with all that talk of people being chosen to die so that the society as a whole may live, and one of the authorities even mentions that it prevents starvation

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They may be on the same page when it comes to missions, but Spock still doesn’t quite know what to do with Kirk’s flirting

Though to be fair...

Spock: You did take a big risk there.

Kirk: Flirts like his life depends on it

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Today on Star Trek: Oh no, the unintentional foreshadowing...

Spock: It would be interesting, Captain, to return to that world in a hundred years and to learn what crop has sprung from the seed you planted today. Kirk: Yes, Mister Spock, it would indeed.

They're going to find out in 15 years, and they're not going to like it...

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I recently noticed I've been inadvertently writing Kirk as having a telepathy kink, but I see that's just canon

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Today on Star Trek: Kirk and Spock are finally on the same page! So much so that I would almost swear they're communicating telepathically, but it's a little soon for that

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I may have tripped and written a draft of an Amok Time follow-up with some Vulcan hand touching and a kiss (because Kirk's romance instincts are too strong), and the thing that amuses me the most is that after all of that, it doesn't really change their relationship because they're so close already that doing more romance is a lateral move

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For some ridiculous reason, Tumblr on mobile has decided that it doesn't like the word "vids" in tags and will hide any post that uses it. "Fanvids" is fine as is "vid" but apparently "vids" is right out

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Generally watching Star Trek: The Original Series in production order has felt chronologically correct with a fairly natural progression of the characters and their relationships over time. However, the episode Arena (where Kirk fights the lizard guy) is episode 20 of season one but feels like it takes place way earlier.

Kirk feels a lot less experienced as a captain, most notably trying to command the ship in a spacefight while he's caught in the middle of a gunfight on the ground. He's also pretty quick to jump to the possibility of an invasion and rather snappily ignores Spock's suggestion that there's something else going on.

Meanwhile, Spock cautiously suggests that maybe they shouldn't attack unfamiliar aliens on sight, which seems like a step toward his attempt to protect all lifeforms in The Galileo Seven (S1E14), but when Kirk insists it must be an invasion, Spock concludes in that case their only choice is to destroy their opponents in a show of power like with the Romulans in Balance of Terror (S1E09; Spock's early characterization was surprisingly bloodthirsty).

This episode also felt like it showed a step in Spock's progression from giving up when he can't think of a solution, as seen in The Corbomite Maneuver (S1E03), and insisting that there's always a way in The Galileo Seven; in Arena, Spock initially gives up but Dr. McCoy goads him into finding something he can do to try to rescue Kirk (not that it makes much of a difference in the end).

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Spock's perspective on The Motion Picture to the tune of Hello My Old Heart

This song is part of my Kirk/Spock playlist, which spans their entire relationship, and I'm planning on gradually filling it in with vids!

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Spock: Very typical, Captain. Iron-silicon base, oxygen-hydrogen atmosphere, largely arid, no discernible life. No surprises.

The planet:

Jamie: [Seaweed]'s not a living thing, is it?

Doctor: Everything in the sea is living, Jamie.

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That time Kirk thinks it's Spock giving him a back massage on the bridge feels like a perfect encapsulation of all the ways they're not quite on the same page at this point in the show.

Kirk would apparently love for Spock to give him a back massage when he's stressed, but Spock instead tries to help by pushing Kirk into taking shore leave, which Kirk just finds frustrating.

Sometimes Kirk finds Spock's concern helpful, but he just as often loses patience with it. And meanwhile, Spock sometimes responds in kind to Kirk's flirting and sometimes doesn't know what to do with it.

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It's surprising how serious Kirk is about not romancing his subordinates despite clearly having a very strong instinct to romance. The main exception, of course, being Spock who he flirts with from the start, perhaps because Spock is so resistant to romance and therefore there's less/no risk of Kirk inadvertently taking advantage of him

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Kirk and Dr. McCoy chatting over a drink turned into "having a glass of the needful" and now I'm envisioning Wooster accidentally romancing his way across the galaxy (and wishing he hadn't)

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Spock keeps doing things that feel like they ought to be weird writing for the sake of a particular episode plot, but are actually remarkably consistent character traits...

Spock says he hopes an officer doesn't die because that would put Kirk in worse danger, no that's not the writers clunkily trying to remind the audience of the stakes, Spock is just like that.

Spock commandeers the ship to bring his former captain to a forbidden planet, no it's not contrived tension, he's going to try to take over the ship again next season to go to Vulcan against orders from higher up.