when spock is bent over the science station and jim just fully stands with his crotch against spock’s butt and asks “are you worried about your dying dad”
spock coming to understand that ‘talking dirty’ is something terrans enjoy as a sexual experience so he engages jim in a rousing, hour-long discussion about topsoil and minerals and actual dirt and jim is just like ‘what is happening. what the hell is happening right now’
McCoy did nothing to dissuade this perception. In fact, he encouraged it because he thought it would be hilarious.
Concept: Kirk likes memes (because ofc he does). Spock tries to communicate with him through memes. Spock doesn’t actually understand it and now the crew creates Enterprise specific memes based on Spock’s meme fails.
Dr. Leonard brutally rips clothes to give a shot McCoy
There may come a day when I do not reblog this gifset… Today is not that day.
Fun fact, the original series uniforms weren’t just t-shirts (despite how they might look) they were made out of velour and had zippers along the shoulders. This isn’t bones ripping Kirk’s shirt. This is de accidentally destroying props/wardrobe but continuing to go through the scene like it was supposed to happen.
I’ve been rewatching the original Star Trek movies for reasons, and somehow I don’t think I ever really put it together that Kirk stole the Enterprise and ruined his career with no expectation at all that he was going to get Spock back. The whole plan was to get Spock’s body and bring it and McCoy to Mount Seleya to do whatever Vulcan mystic funeral they need to do to preserve his katra; they didn’t know about Spock’s body being regenerated until they got to Genesis.
So Kirk’s endgame here was to end up both widowed and dishonorably discharged, with no Spock and no possibility of ever sitting on the bridge of a starship again. That is: without any of the things that make Jim Kirk’s life worth living.
He didn’t sacrifice everything to save Spock. He wasn’t supposed to get a damn thing for himself out of this mission. He sacrificed everything because if there’s even a chance that Spock has an eternal soul, then it’s his responsibility. In death as in life.
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