Remember the look Kirk gave Spock when he found out about Leila?
and how he stared her down LIKE THIS afterwards
Since they didn’t specify why Kirk was the only one immune to spores, I’m gonna take it so far as to say it had no effect on him because he was so mad at Spock about this
Star Trek writers really said “this is Spock our guy who doesn’t feel anything. the plot of every episode is that he feels too many things and tries to explode the ship.”
Pairing these two scenes together because there's Something about their phrasing that is driving me Insane. (Is it the use of religious imagery turned on its head--purgatory is not a thing to desire much less create for yourself, losing paradise is normally a tragedy to be mourned--to highlight a unifying belief that both Kirk and Spock live by? That both accept the loss of paradise for the uncertainty of life?)
Like. I Know Spock's line about "self-made purgatories" (and what a line! I am gnawing on it like a dog with a bone) is referring both to his Duty to The Enterprise and Kirk as the First Officer vs his experience of love from the plant spores, but it's also referring to him being both human and Vulcan and trying to adhere to one half at the expense of the other and finding himself fitting in nowhere as result (although, I would argue The Enterprise with Kirk is where he fits in as Kirk has consistently shown he doesn't expect Spock to be More Vulcan or More Human but to just be Spock).
And Kirk.... knowing his past on Tarsus IV and how he shouldn't be alive had Kodos had his way.... His dogged determination to beat the odds against him.... Dare I say it's giving Born To Run vibes? The mindset of, "Fine. Paradise is lost, but I'll keep going anyway."
constantly surprised by TOS because no one told me that the sex pollen episode is real, I was just supposed to find this out by what, watching the show???
THE ROARING TWENTIES (1929) | Written + Directed by Taylor Swift
*ALL-TALKING PICTURE*
Flapper Clara falls in love. With a Princeton sophomore.
Every night they spend together feels like a dream. All the social occasions, the scent of wine she tasted on his lips, dance floor reflecting broken mirrorball lights, tossing pennies in the pool, sneaking in campus, night walks around the Nassau Hall, joking about school dorms, long dinner that seems never end and sophisticated conversations. His innocence and passion. Her wide-eyed gazes. Breathes that felt too close in the dark.
Finally, one day, the kid went down on his knees and pulled that damned rock out of his pocket.
Will Clara say "yes"?
Headcanon that the reason, in star trek s1 ep24 This side of paradise, that Kirk wasn't affected easily by the spores was because he was so upset at seeing Spock being all lovey dovey with someone that wasn't him that the intensity of his jealousy, similar to how the rage thing worked, killed the spores...
Or whatever I wasn't really paying attention to how they got their heads screwed back on. All I know is punch slap and they came right back.
I don’t get why Bones has a really heavy southern accent when he’s zonked out on the pollen from Omicron-Ceti III. like does that imply that he’s vocally masking his southernness on the ship even though he literally makes it his entire personality