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*specifically TOS Spock, because AOS and SNW could be different.

The Enterprise probably has a barber shop, right?

I feel bad for the poor fucker who has to trim Spock's bangs.

It was amazing finally seeing “this simple feeling“ in context and yes, it was romantic and glorious but I was prepared for that. What I was NOT prepared for was Spock's delighted little chuckle at the start of the scene.

1) Spock can laugh?? And in this moment, on his ship, he feels so at ease and happy that he allows himself to let go??

2) This is his first expression of emotion after trying Kolinahr. Think about that.

3) He's obviously drawing parallels between himself and V'Ger and he's laughing. He's laughing at himself because how could he be such a fool and of course this simple feeling is beyond the reach of logic, how could he not have realized.

4) His laugh is so sexy oh my god. Good sir you must not let the ensigns hear that or else they would not be able to contain their lust any longer.

5) What was the last time he laughed? Was it years? Decades? I can't stop thinking about Bones and Kirk making him laugh. Maybe he likes really stupid puns and no one has dared to try yet.

6) Just when I thought I could not love him more, he goes and pulls this on me. Spock can you lay it off I'm already going insane

most of my fictional crushes I would prefer to admire from a distance. Not Spock, though. I would sell my body to Spock for a negative sum of money. Too bad he's married

I was disappointed in the lack of a TOS crew themed personality quiz, so I made one.

Go on a mission, make your choices and I'll tell you which crew member you're most like! I think Trekblr will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it))))

All potential results tagged.

I've read hundreds of Star Trek TOS fics by now and it never ceases to amuse me how many different ways there are to fuck up Spock's characterization...now hold on just a minute - this post has a more interesting point than “fanfic writers stupid”, I promise you.

Every time, it's a spin on the massacre wheel. It's kind of amazing. Will he be overly emotional to the point where he's not himself anymore? Will he be so cold it's unpleasant and kind of hard to understand how he's lived to this point? Will he be extremely horny for no good reason? Will he speak in a way that sounds complety wrong?

I chuckle and shake my head. Of course, I KNOW what Spock is like, and MY interpretation of him is the most perfect and correct one. Obviously. He's just a very nuanced character, formed by many people in an unconventional way, with traits that seem to contradict each other at first but ultimately form a rich and unique character that so many people fell in love with specifically because he's so complicated...

Or...is he?

Let's entertain the idea that there isn't one correct interpretation of Spock, that all of these messy bits of characterization are not part of a bigger picture, but...just what they are: a product of many people with starkly different visions, working on a show that refuses to properly develop its characters. What then? Well, then Spock is a Rorschach test. Each viewer connects the random dots in their own way, and ignores the ones they don't like.

Let's use an example: me! In my interpretation of Spock (the most correct one, of course) he is, first of all, gay and on the asexual spectrum, reserved, largely uninterested in casual flirting or sex. When he is interested in the aforementioned things, he tends to be quite ashamed of it.

Makes sense, right? I can show you plenty of evidence for why that could be true. However, in the beginning of the first bloody season, Uhura sings a song about how Spock is actually kind of a heartthrob who likes to drive women insane with how hot he is, and Spock smiles. He smiles at her, as if agreeing and being very amused by all this! This interaction goes against pretty much everything I think about Spock. So what do I do? I explain it away in the most bizzare fucking way possible. See, Uhura and Spock are friends (there is no evidence for this), and Uhura knows everything I've just told you about him (through telepathy I guess? Not like he'd ever tell her!) and she's just trolling him (why would she do that? That is NOTHING like Uhura!). I need to do some Olympics-level mental gymnastics here, the opposite of Occam's razor.

“But Danny,” I hear you say, “it's just the start of the show! They hadn't figured out his character yet!”

To which I say: you can say that about anything! You can blame it all on a bad writer for that episode, and ignore virtually any scene that doesn't jive with your headcanons. It's there, and I can't ignore it.

So...how am I different from the people that want Spock to be thar heartthrob Uhura is singing about? That evidence is as much a part of canon as my favorite lines. Well, I'm not any different, that's the thing. And all those writers I complained about also have a point.

It's kind of a nihilistic take, I know, but maybe the reason Spock is such a cultural icon is because he is...whatever you want him to be: just concrete enough to spur on your imagination, yet vague and contradictory enough to let your brain fill in the gaps.

Don't get me wrong: I absolutely do not believe in this. In my mind, it just so happens that I'm one of the, like, 5 people ever who truly understood Spock (and one of them is Jim Kirk himself). But I still think it's something worth thinking about next time you're mad at a fic.

I wouldn't say I'm a big fan of the music in TOS, but in the scene where Bones and Spock are talking in a cell and Bones says the famous “you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling” the dramatic violin in the background actually haunts me.