tochaoticallygo:

tochaoticallygo:

Listen. Scotty is intensely Scottish. Bones is pretty damn southern. I really wish that we got a Jim Kirk who was just incredibly midwestern. Jim dropping things and saying “ope” under his breath. Jim running into things/people with an “ope, sorry”. Jim trying to get through crowds with a “let me squeeze right past ya”. Jim going on about how corn from Iowa is clearly the Superior Corn, far above other midwestern states’ corn and DEFINITELY better than non midwestern corn, which isn’t even worth eating in his humble opinion. Jim taking 30 fucking minutes to say goodbye to someone to the confusion of some alien culture who can’t figure out why Captain Kirk keeps stating his intention to leave but is STILL FUCKING HERE. It would have been beautiful and it’s a damn shame nobody was brave enough to give it to us

@stardateunkown thank you for the wonderful addition, all intensely valid points

ichayalovesyou:

I’m noticing something absolutely fascinating about the early part of Spock and Kirk’s relationship. I’m making video compilations of every time kirk says Spock/Mr.Spock and vice versa every time Spock says Captain/Jim (I’ve got a spreadsheet and EVERYTHING because I’m obsessive like that)

Regardless! In the beginning, Kirk is very verbally/publicly protective of Spock which makes sense Star date-wise since Kirk just got promoted to captain of the Enterprise and Spock to first officer instead of just science officer:

• He’s the first to call out people that won’t let Spock talk in Where No Man Has Gone Before, Charlie X and Balance of Terror.
• He has an I’ll Kill You glare whenever anyone is racist/xenophobic toward Spock like Styles and Charlie (even Bones initially if you watch the Man Trap! Which is only their fourth mission).
• You can even pin point exactly when Kirk is like “alright… I’m in love with this man” you can pin point it as a slow motion tumble from about halfway through The Enemy Within when he asks Spock to tell him when he’s slipping, to watching Spock stand up against Trelaine in The Squire of Gothos.
• He’s got this “if Spock won’t fight for his place on this ship, I will.” Attitude that hits a fever pitch in The Menagerie

Spock on the other hand is extremely physically protective of Kirk from the get-go, even though he hasn’t even fully sized Kirk up. I think at least initially this could be chalked up to feeling like he failed to protect Captain Pike in The Cage (and later from the events that prelude The Menagerie) but it’s more than that. I think it’s also a manifestation of his inner frustration about how closed-off Kirk is because of his painful past:

• He goes so far as to request a freaking phaser rifle in Where No Man Has Gone Before, just to potentially protect Kirk from Mitchell, and seems a little peeved that Kirk fought him alone. That’s not his freaking job, he’s a science officer
• Pretty much ALL Spock’s actions in The Man Trap, Charlie X, Squire of Gothos, What Are Little Girls Made Of are directly to protect Kirk, forsaking his scientific curiousity (something he will keep doing for Kirk’s sake as we know)
• In Dagger of The Mind Spock even forsakes his own personal boundaries to potentially protect Kirk by mind melding with Dr. Van Gelder.
• All of this frustration culminates in the way they bicker in Conscience of A King, Kirk is closed off and has a self-destructive streak that Spock can only curb by physically getting in the way.
• This protectiveness (like Kirk’s) hits its fever pitch in The Menagerie where Spock is willing to potentially face the death penalty for both his captains because of his intense protectiveness of them.

They protect each other in opposite ways that you’d expect them to, Spock the academic punches monsters and throws himself into bodily/mental peril without hesitation. Kirk the soldier cuts with words and wit to defend Spock from prejudiced assholes and is absolutely enthralled by Spock’s intellect.

All these episodes I’ve discussed are only the first half of the first season. It sets the tone for their relationship, their proclivities complete one another and it’s so… romantic. I don’t see how other people don’t see it.

Of course the relationship evolves beyond this simple feelings protectiveness but man, it sets a tempo to their romance.

alk0n0st:

Sorry for being MIA, I accidentally let Star Trek completely consume my life

tammycat:

in my opinion i will live to be 200 and can punch through walls

trek-tracks:

They’re all very tired

thylaforever:

queenofgol:

yellowandgray:

I love the trope of Spock saying something straightforward and unromantic and Kirk responding as though he was serenaded on a bed of roses under moon and candle light.   

It’s not a trope that’s the whole damn show

Here is Jim listening to Spock talk about, literally, dirt