I rewatched some Star Trek fanvids and every time I saw Kirk and Spock in TOS movies era I got emotional and I almost cried. I just feel so happy that we got to see them growing older together. :') They are in love, okay? <3
Uh-oh.
[s1 e17 - The Squire of Gothos]
Close-up that I needed in my life.
"Predictably metaphysical. I prefer the concrete, the graspable, the provable." "You'd make a splendid computer, Mister Spock." "That is very kind of you, Captain."
[s1 e21 - The Return of the Archons]
It's not only when the characters talk, but also when they don't.
William Shatner as Alexander the Great (1963)
This is the pilot of a TV series that was never made. A couple of years later, Shatner will get the main role in Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry was a huge admirer of Alexander. The rest is history. :)
Note: this pilot does NOT have Hephaestion. I can't even imagine how much more accidental(?) homoeroticism there would have been if they had given Shatner's Alexander his Hephaestion! Well… I guess he eventually got him, right? Just in a different series :D
#william shatner#alexander the great#1960s#james t. kirk#star trek tos#star trek the original series#posting this on Shatner and Kirk's birthday#I guess it's the right day#anyway this pilot is so funny because there are so many things we associate to Kirk#but that's also just Shatner being Shatner LMAO#also the random shirtless scenes#I wonder if this is where Roddenberry got the idea of a shaved Kirk suddenly loosing his shirt lol#oh and I guess now we know how the “hug” between Kirk and Spock would have been in front of the Klingons#it still looks like he's going to kiss everyone when he grabs their shoulders tbh lol
Interviewer: Are you very fond of Alexander? Gene Roddenberry: As a matter of fact, I am. I have Mary Renault's new Oxford book―in fact, I'd have everything in the bookstores a few years ago. Passionate admirer of Alexander. Passionate man. [...] Interviewer: There's a great deal of writing in the STAR TREK movement now which compares the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion to the relationship between Kirk and Spock―focusing on the closeness of the friendship, the feeling that they would die for one another― Gene Roddenberry: Yes. There's certainly some of that with―certainly with love overtones. Deep love. The only difference being, the Greek ideal―we never suggested in the series―physical love between the two. But it's the―we certainly had the feeling the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style in the 23rd Century. [He looks thoughtful] That's very interesting. I never thought of that before. [From Shatner: Where No Man (1979)]
Sooo I watched the new docuseries Alexander: The Making of a God and I was hit by indirect Kirk/Spock feelings because I remembered this interview. And of course I had to make a gifset about it. :)
I will absolutely never be over this.
Hey YouTube algorithm, we need to talk! I mean, why did you rec me this? Did you think I wanted to watch it? I mean, okay, I *had to* because it was there, you know… I mean, for science, of course!!! But I love Star Trek for the plot, okay? (Anyway, maybe I should watch it again, just to be sure it's accurate…)
Okay, jokes aside (of course YouTube knows me well), I love that there's a Star Trek video where the premise is like "they say Kirk gets shirtless a lot, but does it ACTUALLY happen so often?" and a few seconds later it's like "Yeah, it does. Here is proof" LOL
starfleet uniform suppliers HATE this man
“I was never aware of this lovers rumor, although I have been told that Spock encountered it several times. Apparently he had always dismissed it with his characteristic lifting of his right eyebrow which usually connoted some combination of surprise, disbelief, and/or annoyance.”
Okay Jim, I got it. You and Spock aren't lovers. Now keep telling us everything about Spock's eyebrow :)
I love that Jim gives money to everyone, but when he offers it to Spock, Spock doesn't take it, so Jim keeps Spock's money for him.
Just Old Married Couple Vibes.
I'm pretty sure this happened in the one with the whales.
[Inspired by this]
Normal landing party walking together:
Kirk and Spock walking together:
your-name-is-jim reblogged
Her: You'd better not be a cunty Kirk when I get home
Me:
"Ted, why doesn't Spock die when he doesn't get laid?"
Listen, I have to make a post about this because I'm laughing out loud :D
In 1967, Gene L. Coon (Star Trek showrunner) wrote to Theodore Sturgeon after reading the first draft of Amok Time:
First of all, Ted, let me say that we are all generally pleased with the first draft of "Amok Time," although, of course, a certain amount of polishing and so on will be necessary.
[...]
We have to learn why Spock will die if he doesn't get to Vulcan in eight days. What kills him? Swollen gonads?... [And] since we have established that Spock either gets to Vulcan within eight days or dies, why doesn't he do so when he doesn't get married or laid? We must establish a sound explanation and have it explained or a lot of people will be unhappy with us…
The source unfortunately doesn't report if Sturgeon ever gave an answer about this. We just know that in the actual episode we never got it.
What I find hilarious is that Coon was worried about a lot of people potentially being unhappy about the lack of "a sound explanation"… But what actually happened is that a lot of people found their own based on what we saw on screen… aaand they wrote and drew a lot about it :)
Come on Jim you keep grabbing him like that
Just kiss him already
DAMN
#well they totally kissed underwater#and when the Klingons left#spirk#space husbands#james t. kirk#spock#star trek tos#star trek the original series#k/s#kirk x spock#the naked time#operation: annihilate!#the changeling#day of the dove#star trek iv: the voyage home#star trek v: the final frontier#my gifs
Just added what I was already hearing in my head :D
Audio ON please :)