companion, do you love the man?
a parallel between this scene in ‘metamorphosis’ and kirk in ‘the search for spock’
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
Star Trek is so funny. All of starfleet is so aggressively Neutral Good. Every time they're up against something they Always do the noble thing. Every one of these motherfuckers is so ready to jump on the grenade. It's so cute I love them
Starfleet officers come out of the academy with 2 things: a passion for science bordering on sexual and an incomprehensible desire for self-sacrifice
I love how this is like, acknowledged in lore, too. Like, the reason Starfleet is so full of these bozos is because it's a big non-profit where you get to Do Science and Be Noble. So only people who want to Do Science and Be Noble join up. The organization has a reputation for producing the most moralistic greater-good-loving yuppies in the galaxy. It's a straight-up hero factory. You love to see it
I bet vulcan ships gossip about how starfleet officers can't go a day without volunteering for a life-threatening mission before they start climbing the walls looking for enrichment
sending them on dangerous missions is actually a safety measure, otherwise they start tinkering with the warp drive, and you end up as salamanders
Or start tampering with subspace rifts and end becoming a galaxy-shattering vocal ensemble
It's a post scarcity society! At least, for the core Federation planets.
So what happens when your healthy, happy citizens (numbered in the trillions) runs out of things to do? You can only learn so many obscure skills, study so much art & philosophy, consume so much media before boredom sets in.
Time to explore!
Send those obnoxious grown-ass "I'm bored, mom" kiddos off to Starfleet to see the galaxy!
And the really super-intense ones end up on starships.
I haven't seen a gifset about this in a while, so I made my own. Now my heart is filled with love too; of course, not as big as theirs.
[s2 e9 - Metamorphosis | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]
this was supposed to be k/s shitposting but it turned into spock being sassy for one minute and nine seconds
Star trek is crazy because when it’s trying to be romantic, I find it the most cringe worthy thing in the world, and then Kirk and Spock will have “platonic” lines to each other that are  so earth shatteringly romantic that I want to burst into flames
“If I hadn't tried, the cost would have been my soul.”
"Spock" ❤️
Just something I made for fun. They are married. That's all
I love the part how he softly whispers "Spock"
I love this meme because I think humans 10,000 years ago or 100,000 years ago would also like it
the heat of the fire draws air straight up from the center over the fire. This draws the air in from the sides in a circle around the fire creating an air current, which means air is being blown toward the fire from all sides. When you sit on one side of the fire, it blocks some of the air moving toward the fire from that side. Now there is more air being blown toward the fire from the side opposite you. This pushes the smoke your direction. When you move to the other side, it just makes the same thing happen over there. The smoke actually literally does follow you around no matter where you sit. Because physics.
in other words what you actually need at the fire is other people sitting around the fire with you to balance it out ;~;
baeddelicto
[ How to keep your Vulcan warm through the winter holiday ☃️ ]
just want to try something new. I know I’m not very good at animating stuff, but I want to try to be better at it one day.
Anyway, a little bit late but Merry Christmas! to all of you!
If I drove a bulldozer through an apple store and the cops just shoved me in a closet and pumped me full of DMT for 8 hours id literally just do it again the second they let me out
This is like the best admission I've ever heard that prison sentences are about fucked up torture rather than keeping dangerous people out of society.
There's literally an entire Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode about how effed up this concept is.
As the Sci-Fi writer in question here, do NOT invent the Torment Nexus. Seriously. No.
When the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger and the mask slips, it's great.
But when the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger, and the mask DOESN'T slip.
Because they understand they need to be calm and unflappable now more than ever; if it protects them, it will certainly protect the person they care about. So their voice doesn't waver, their hands don't shake. They don't panic. From the outside looking in, they're as calm as could be. They handle it.
But after it's over-when the person they care about is safe, and the unflappable character is alone-they completely shatter. Gasping breaths, sobs, barely holding it together because someone they love almost DIED, and it was far, far too close for comfort.
(Optional: Character that they care about finds them in this state and comforts them.)