#return to tomorrow

[trek-tracks]

Starbie (2023)

#star trek #star trek tos #spock #star trek aos #star trek tng #star trek dsc #star trek lwd #star trek 2009 #star trek beyond #star trek tas #star trek iii: the search for spock #the search for spock #star trek iii #barbie #the barbie movie #happy spocktober #return to tomorrow #star trek is just spock's barbie movie #journey to babel #leonard mccoy #bones mccoy #we have original spock #short treks #short treks/dsc/snw spock #feral spock #child dsc spock #child search for spock spock #teenage sfs spock #old aos spock #tng spock

[your-name-is-jim]

Losing my mind over this deleted scene

> Source < (watch it if you haven't!!)

#with “someone” #WITH “SOMEONE” #just some random person obviously #spirk #star trek the original series #return to tomorrow #james t. kirk #spock #star trek tos #k/s #kirk x spock

[borgcast]

Another Shatner acting masterclass.

#Star Trek #TOS #Return To Tomorrow

[skybson]

2x20 - Return to Tomorrow

#folks waking up post top surgery be like #star trek #star trek tos #jim kirk #return to tomorrow #trekedit #originalposts*

[constanzel]

How jealous was Spock when Jim talked about how it felt to merge with Sargon "as one"???

#star trek #spirk #captain kirk #spock #return to tomorrow

[knittinglizards]

they??????? or it????

#p #star trek #possibly funny only to me #st tos #return to tomorrow #actually i DO intend in using these pronouns to come across like a bizarre bodiless space ghost. personally.

[ichayalovesyou]

Maybe I’m just a glass half full guy that sounds like a broken record. But oh BOY what if I told you I feel like all the Chapel/Spock stuff happening in SNW isn’t a invalidation/detriment to Spock’s relationship with Kirk but in fact makes in BETTER?

Every time I see Spock and Chapel have chemistry together it reminds me of cinematic parallels between Jim & Spock. In fact I’ve made a gif set about it! And I’ll honestly probably make more!

As a matter of fact all I could think about when Spock was staring all sad at wounded Chapel in sickbay was basically the SAME damn scene after Jim gets stabbed in Journey To Babel.

Or like, any number of times Jim or Spock moped yearningly around in sickbay when the other was gravely injured. It’s classic sappy shippy nonsense, they already did it with Kirk, that’s in the future. And given the vibes Chapel & Spock have on-screen in TOS (especially in The Naked Time, Amok Time, and Return To Tomorrow! Which also each have incredibly emotionally charged scenes with Jim as well) all this drama makes sense!

I’m personally taking it as affirmation that Spock & Jim have the same type of chemistry in TOS that Spock used to have with Chapel in SNW before the inevitable drama that’ll end in Spock suppressing his humanity and Christine getting engaged to somebody else.

Maybe I’m just a sucker for doomed romance (and Spock’s getting a 2 for 1 deal lmfao) It’s all very “Someone Like You by Adele” if you ask me and frankly I’m super here for it!

#star trek #star trek tos #tos #Star Trek SNW #snw #star trek snw spoilers #the broken circle #snw 2x01 #spock/chapel #spock/kirk #k/s #Spirk #journey to babel #the naked time #amok time #return to tomorrow

[chernobog13]

"I feel pretty Oh, so pretty I feel pretty, and witty, and bright And I pity Any girl who isn't me tonight"

#Star Trek #Star Trek: The Original Series #Return to Tomorrow #Captain James T. Kirk #Sargon #William Shatner

[tigereyes45]

Leonard McCoy is not happy with Sargon in the Return to Tomorrow episode.

#star trek #star trek tos #tos #tos bones #tos leonard #bones mccoy #leonard mccoy #dr mccoy #jim kirk #james t kirk #captain kirk #tos kirk #tos mccoy #return to tomorrow #mckirk

[anewstartrekfan]

“Only the best minds were chosen to survive.”

There is something truly fucked up about Kirk getting possessed by a guy who survived a mass extinction event because he was deemed more valuable than other members of his society.

#return to tomorrow #star trek tos #star trek #james t kirk #star trek watch through #tarsus iv #I find a way to bring tarsus iv into everything

[trek-tracks]

when they mischaracterize your blorbo but you don't wanna get into it rn

#star trek #star trek tos #jim kirk #captain kirk #return to tomorrow #sargon #awkward trek photos #blorbo

[your-name-is-jim]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees this 40 seconds as very romantic-coded! In such a short time we get:

Kirk and Spock trying to talk to each other at the same time. The subs don't do justice to the scene, but it's really a "Captain"/"Spock" that makes it sound like they're both going to confess something, followed by the classic dialogue where one tells the other he wishes they could go together, but their duty is more important, etc.

2. Sargon being like:

3. The slow romantic version of Star Trek theme playing in the background as Kirk asks:

I'm dying at Uhura watching in the background because I'm sure she's thinking "OMG, you could at least get on your knees, Captain"

[s2 e20 - Return to Tomorrow]

#spirk #james t. kirk #spock #star trek tos #star trek the original series #k/s #kirk x spock #return to tomorrow #my clips

[borgcast]

Death by purple.

#Star Trek #TOS #Return To Tomorrow

[sshbpodcast]

Character Spotlight: Christine Chapel

By Ames

We’ve hit upon all the main stars of The Original Series, but no list would be complete without giving a fair mention to the woman who stood beside the show, Majel Barrett. While we still wish in our hearts of hearts that the Number One we met in “The Cage” and “The Menagerie” got a fair shake, we are still glad that Gene’s main squeeze was reborn as the quippy and competent Nurse Chapel.

So join us this week on A Star to Steer Her By as we finish off our TOS character spotlights with a bunch of highlights and only a few lowlights on what’s probably going to be our shortest installment of this series. There just wasn’t enough stretching of the character moments to do as we did for, say, our Scotty or Sulu posts. Pick up your medical tricorders to scan on below and follow along in this week’s podcast discussion (jump to 58:16). Needless to say, Majel probably did more on the show than just Gene. Take that as you will. ;)

[Images © CBS/Paramount]

Best Moments

I know he’s alive down there, Captain Very early in the series in “What Are Little Girls Made of?”, Chapel’s backstory of joining the Enterprise as a way to find her lost fiancé, Roger Korby, is established. And it’s a testament to her character that not only is she right that he was still alive (in some form), but she also gets to convince Ruk the android not to kill Kirk AND make the choice to stay on the Enterprise after everything goes typically sideways.

Plomeek soup for the soul While you’ll see in just a moment that “Amok Time” also features some of the more tired and less positive aspects of Chapel’s character, we’ve got to admit that her dutifulness in trying to get Spock to eat during his pon farr was benevolent of her. She goes so far as to whip up some Vulcan plomeek soup to keep her patient well, little good that it ended up doing.

Sound it out I’m still minorly horrified by Nomad taking Uhura’s memories in “The Changeling,” and we’re left not knowing if or how she gets back to her normal self. But one thing’s for sure: she’s got a caring and patient nurse helping along the way, as we see Chapel reteaching the blank-slated Uhura how to read in English. It’s quite sweet, if you don’t think about how horrifying it is.

It has one word on it: Eat I could take a second to gripe that, between Chapel and Rand, the women of the show are very often seen just bringing the men their dinner like they’re waitresses instead of equal crewmembers. Or I could highlight how Chapel cleverly tricks a moping Garrovick into eating in “Obsession” by telling him McCoy’s prescription was a tape that just said “Eat,” so I’ll do that.

The pain will help me to consciousness We joke on the podcast that it was clear that someone(s) on the show was clearly into some kinky stuff, and it shines through in episodes like “A Private Little War” when Nurse Chapel is compelled to bitchslap a half-conscious Spock around until he wakes up, as is the Vulcan way. Or at least, as is someone on the writing staff’s dirty little fetish.

We shared consciousness together I’m sure now that Strange New Worlds is filling in a lot of the Chapel-Spock relationship, there are a ton more shippers out there for them, but back in the day, the best we got was this moment in “Return to Tomorrow” when Sargon put Spock’s consciousness into Chapel’s body to get Henoch out of the Vulcan. And Chapel was all too glad to be Spock’s vessel in a not entirely creepy way. Only a little bit creepy!

I am a nurse first and a member of the crew of the Enterprise second When Nurse Chapel learns that McCoy is dying of xenopolycythemia in “For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky,” her resolve is to help him to live, while he seems to take it in stride that he is destined to die. She encourages him to “Please, give yourself every minute” of his year left in this world, and I’d like to think that that helped him get through it. Natira helped too, wink wink.

The spider catches a fly While we included moments from “The Tholian Web” in almost everyone else’s Worst Moments lists, Chapel actually got a good moment from this otherwise negative episode! When another of McCoy’s assistants has succumbed to the weird space occurrence and attacks him, Nurse Chapel calmly grabs a hypo and tranqs that guy, like a badass!

Now all I want is to crawl away and die While I found Uhura’s reaction to the forced kiss with Kirk in “Plato’s Stepchildren” to be uncomfortable in an entirely different way, the Chapel-Spock kiss is exactly as uncomfortable as it’s supposed to be. Chapel’s pining after Spock is used as a weapon against her in this moment of torture. A worse show would imply that she’s finally getting what she wants, but she makes it clear that without consent, there is no enjoyment and it’s commendable to state that so directly.

I heard Spock’s voice Unlike my reaction to the different women’s scenes in “Plato’s Stepchildren,” I must say that all the women in “The Lorelei Signal” are absolutely on point. While Uhura takes command of the ship, Chapel serves as de facto CMO in the absence of all the men. And what’s more: she uses that weird bond she has with Spock (perhaps lingering from “Return to Tomorrow”?) to save him from the temptresses!

And they've probably redesigned the whole sickbay By The Motion Picture, we see that Chapel found time to learn a new trade, as she’s an MD by the time McCoy arrives. Was it that the writers seem to incorrectly think that nurses are on the same job track as medical doctors, just a lower rung on the career ladder? Probably. But we can read it as her changing jobs because she wanted to do something new, and that’s a more exciting interpretation for this change.

Look for the helpers. You will always find people that are helping. Blink and you can miss it, but Christine Chapel in The Voyage Home is busy coordinating relief efforts at Starfleet Command during the whale probe attack. She gets like one line and you only catch quick glimpses of her, but it’s an excellent touch to show that her character is there and focused on doing the thing that she’s been known for all series long: helping people.

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Worst Moments

You hide it, but you do have feeling Onto some of the lousier things Chapel does in the show, and you’ll find that most are related to her one-sided relationship with Spock. We first see it in “The Naked Time” (before we know that BOTH of them are engaged) when she dumps all her love on him while space-drunk. And it’s a little sad and pathetic knowing she’ll never receive it back [in this series], but also just annoying that it’s the main characteristic the writers ever give her. Sigh.

A mechanical geisha would be no more difficult While we did include some moments from “What Are Little Girls Made of?” above in our Best Moments list, there’s some bad to go around as well! Did you notice just how jealous Chapel immediately got of Andrea the moment she laid eyes on her? Before she knows Andrea is a robot, she’s immediately grouchy when Andrea calls Roger by his first name. And afterwards, Chapel is flat out hostile to the poor, jumpsuited thing!

You never give up hoping, do you? Now for all the times in “Amok Time” Chapel utterly degrades herself because she has a crush on Mr. Spock. Bones jokes about it when she brings him the soup, for one thing. For another, there’s an entirely weird scene in which she goes to tell him they’ve changed course to Vulcan, but he’s still pon farring around and she starts crying. And to top it off, she just had to be present on the bridge (for no reason!) to witness T’Pring on the viewscreen and learn that he’s engaged, just to rub salt in the wound. And then she has no lines the rest of the episode! Poor Christine.

Spock will be yours forever One last time to roll our eyes at how contrived it’s been all series long, and now into The Animated Series, to watch Chapel swooning over Spock so much. So much so that she’s easily swayed by Harry’s Mudd’s offer of some of his love potion in “Mudd’s Passion.” She falls for it, and when it turns out to be the real thing, she barely even gets to enjoy having Spock all to herself!

Since when did we even have ID badges? She makes such an ass of herself that I’ve broken “Mudd’s Passion” into two entries! She is so distracted (and a little drugged) by Mudd that he steals her ID badge. She almost makes up for it by capturing him in the shuttlebay, but instead ends up drugging the whole ship by accident AND gets herself kidnapped and forced into a pretty pathetic damsel in distress role for Spock to heroically save. Oh Chapel, this is all beneath you.

Plenty of fish in the sea One final ditzy moment from Nurse Chapel, and it’s in the clownishly inconsistent “The Terratin Incident.” Sure, everyone in that episode is made to look silly because they’re shrinking down to the size of cockroaches (or smaller depending on the scene), but Chapel nearly drowns in a fish tank after tripping over a sewing needle. Why a sewing needle was next to a fish tank might be the stupidest question yet.

— And that’s it! We couldn’t see stretching the list further than that since you didn’t get to see Chapel do much else in TOS, TAS, or the films. Keep your eyes fixed here because next we’re going to be repeating the same experiment with all the TNG main characters, as well as keeping up with our watchthrough of all of Enterprise over on SoundCloud or wherever you podcast. We also keep all our logs up on Facebook and Twitter. Now eat your plomeek soup! Doctor’s orders!

#star trek #star trek podcast #podcast #the original series #christine chapel #the motion picture #the voyage home #what are little girls made of #amok time #the changeling #obsession #a private little war #return to tomorrow #for the world is hollow and i have touched the sky #the tholian web #plato's stepchildren #the lorelei signal #the naked time #mudd's passion #the terratin incident #majel barrett

[daraoakwise]

Rewatching the Original Series just for the Uhura parts! Because we love her. Episode 2x19 - A Private Little War and 2x20 - Return to Tomorrow. Featuring Uhura in command (maybe?) and a rather amazing scream from Nichelle Nichols.

Episode 2x19 - A Private Little War. Uhura is barely in this one, although there is an interesting scene at the beginning.

Spock is shot on a early-civilization planet by a weapon that shouldn’t be invented there yet and is critically wounded. Kirk and McCoy beam up with him, and as the medics try to stabilize Spock in the transporter room, Uhura brings the ship to red alert. Kirk calls up to the bridge; a Klingon ship has appeared, she tells him urgently.

Kirk rushes up to the bridge with Spock’s life still very much in the balance. When he arrives, it’s not clear who has been in command. With Kirk and Spock on the planet, Scotty would have been, but he ran down to the transporter room to beam the away team home after the report of a critical injury. The center seat is empty; it honestly looks like Uhura, Chekov, and the helmsman are the only ones there. Uhura is kind of acting in charge. She certainly ranks Chekov, and random helmsman doesn’t say a word. Is this the first (only?) time we see her in command of the bridge?

The Klingons haven’t seen the Enterprise, Uhura’s reports; they are making a routine transmission to their base

Kirk muses, in concern, that just thirteen years ago the indigenous people had barely learned how to forge iron, and now had flintlocks. Uhura states that it took earth twelve centuries between those two events. Kirk surmises that the Klingons have interfered on the planet. Scott, Uhura, and Chekov push him on that, rapidly tossing out various alternatives until Kirk growls at them that he did not invite a debate. The three officers straighten, chastised and a bit shocked. It is uncharacteristic of Kirk to snap at his officers like that. Kirk apologizes; he’s very concerned about Spock and the planet.

Other than being on the bridge when a healed Spock returns to it, that’s it for Uhura in this episode.

Episode 2x20 - Return to Tomorrow

We open on a tense bridge; Uhura reports that while there isn’t a signal, and nothing seems to exist to explain their readings, something is affecting all channels.

The arrive around a dead world, and a booming voices fills the bridge. Uhura looks up in amazement. Her hailing frequencies are not open.

Kirk is invited to the planet, although the voice admits that the voice is dead. Kirk makes a log stating that he’ll go, in the name of exploration. Uhura tells him Starfleet won’t get the log for three weeks.

As a complete aside, I love these little moments when they are way out there. Sometimes it seems like they are just patrolling Federation space, but sometimes they are so far away that a recorded signal, traveling at warp speeds, will still take weeks to get home. It also means no one is calling home; there are alone out there, and only have each other.

The episode unfolds around alien consciousnesses who need help and, with permission, inhabit the bodies of Kirk, Spock, and Pretty Lieutenant of the Week. It turns out the one inhabiting Spock is the bad guy who intends to keep Spock.

Uhura doesn’t appear again until the end of the episode, giving a truly blood-curdling scream when the alien inhabiting Spock’s body uses its mind to torture her for some transgression (presumably refusing to cooperate), causing her agonizing pain. She slumps forward onto her station, nearly unconscious. It’s really pretty horrible, even more so because it Spock (sort of) torturing her.

She has recovered enough to stand up when it seems that Spock has been killed in both mind and body. But Spock is restored, and Uhura reaches toward Nurse Chapel and straightens her as Chapel slumps forward a bit — it turns out Chapel has been hosting Spock’s consciousness. (I truly think Uhura and Chapel are friends. They don’t interact often, but end up touching one another every time they do.) Uhura looks on as the aliens inhabit the bodies of Kirk and Pretty Lieutenant of the Week one more time to share a goodbye kiss before spreading themselves into oblivion.

#star trek #nyota uhura #uhura rewatch #tos uhura #uhura #a private little war #return to tomorrow

[slightlycrunchy]

NOT SPOCK STRAIGHT UP LOOKING AT THE FLOOR IN DEJECTION AT THE END OF 2x20 RETURN TO TOMORROW AS THEY ALL WATCH THE ALIENS USE JIM’S AND THE WOMAN’S BODIES TO MAKE OUT

EVEN CHAPEL EYES HIM WITH CONFUSION LIKE “that was beautiful—what’s wrong with Spock?”

AKDBAJANDBJSNABA

#Star Trek tos 2x20 #return to tomorrow #Spirk #k/s #slightlytreks