trek-tracks:

We love one (1) captain

deepspaceclawstation:

meowmeowarcher:

kirk literally has so many psychological problems. i look at him and im like that is not a man who is doing alright. yes because of tarsus and the farragut but thats not even the half of it…. he is SO distraught about his unhealthy relationship with his starship its like king! read a self help book about work life balance already

Such a interesting point because I was having similar thoughts the other day! Only, I was thinking that this is a characteristic of almost all the Captains (I was wrong). I was thinking mainly about Kirk and Picard, not because of anything particular to them but simply because they were the first, the prototypes. And in both of their cases, we see people reluctant to get promoted from their current post - to take the next step, climb the next rung in the Starfleet hierarchy.

However, this promotion is framed as something that should be desirable to them, after all, isn’t that the one collective motive of post-22nd century humans? ‘Betterment of self’? (Of course, seating at the very top of a military hierarchy is not the only way to do that, but that’s what it is shown to mean in-universe)

This won’t be so egregious if it was only endemic to the two of them (and Riker lol), only a little strange because both their ships they have such an attachment to are, at heart, the same ship. It won’t be, except that Gene Roddenberry was adamant about the postulation that Kirk and Picard aren’t special, this is just what post-scarcity humans are like. But both of them are deeply unsatisfied about their career progression! So what is the truth? Are post-22nd century humans endlessly ambitious or are they ambitious till a certain end goal (in this case Captaining a starship)? Of course, someone may argue that all humans don’t need to be uniform in this respect, except that Kirk and Picard are supposed to be exemplary Starfleet Captains and relatively average humans. Do most Starfleet Captains face this same dilemma then? If so, isn’t this a glaring flaw in the Starfleet/Federation command structure?

fractal-baby:

God I love how in Court Martial Jim sees Areel and he’s like “Babe! How have you been? Man why did we break up? Emotionally unavailable? I don’t know what that means, lol. Anyway what are you doing tonight” and she’s just like “Jim you are going to go to jail”

trek-tracks:

What if Jim and Bones accidentally skip forward seven levels of friendship at the Academy through a combination of codependency and peril and forget that they actually don’t know everything about each other six months in…

Jim: Yeah, when I was on Tarsus, we -

Bones: Excuse me, when you were on WHERE

Jim: did we not have this conversation 

Bones: no we fucking well did not

Jim: whoops

Five minutes later

Bones: I can’t believe you were on Tarsus because your family sent you there. I would never send my daughter to- 

Jim: YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER? 

Bones: oh we missed that too didn’t we

Five minutes later

Jim: I can’t believe this! Do we actually know anything about each other? Is your name even Bones? 

Bones: …you know it’s not, right?

shranstan:

the “t” in james t kirk stands for transgender

do does the “t” in julian suba-T-oi bashir btw

fractal-baby:

fractal-baby:

Sometimes you’ll be watching an episode of TOS, totally invested, thinking about the plot and the characters, totally in it and then out of nowhere Shatner will launch his entire body across the screen like a ferret being shot out of a cannon and you die instantly

KIRK WHY