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dogateer · 1 year
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Who the fuck takes their boss to meet their grandparents whilst on vacation? Spock! That’s who
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mourningmaybells · 9 months
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mr spock im obsessed with how you write
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pyjamacryptid · 8 months
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Emma & Mr. Knightley from 'EMMA' || Spock & Jim Kirk from 'STAR TREK' || Parallels
This was inspired by the similarity I noticed between the last two quotes.
S1 E16: The Galileo Seven, Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) // EMMA, dir. Autumn de Wilde (2020) // S3 E24: Turnabout Intruder, Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) // Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, dir. Nicholas Meyer (1982) //Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, dir. Leonard Nimoy (1984) // EMMA, Jane Austen (1815) // The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, Una McCormack (2021)
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brookbee · 1 year
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I’ve seen some confusion as to why the chapter on Jim in The Autobiography of Mr. Spock is rather short. And because I love this book and would like to encourage Spock fans to read it (bc it is genuinely touching and has some lovely character moments), I want to offer up a possible answer to that.
I’m going to compare a couple passages from the novel in order to answer this. I would first like to bring to your attention this passage from the chapter on Sarek:
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In the passage it is referring to what is essentially Sarek’s own autobiography (the t’san a‘lat) and it talks about how it contains no mention of Sarek’s family in the account. The t’san a’lat is meant to be a completely honest document, but how can you honestly and fully express the significance that people you loved have had on your life?
I think that Spock has this interpretation about Sarek not writing about Amanda or their children in part because Spock now finds himself in a similar position. Spock is now writing about the people he loved most in his own autobiography, and he is encountering this problem that Sarek chose to avoid in his writing. I think it is safe to say that writing about Jim is particularly difficult for Spock.
In this passage from the chapter on Jim, there are quite a few parallels with what Spock says about Sarek’s autobiography:
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Namely, that the people they love most are at the heart of the account, that they do not know how to outwardly express how significant their loved ones were to them, and their hesitancy/refusal to write about their loved ones at all.
Essentially, the reason the chapter on Jim is comparably short is because Spock wishes to protect his love for Jim and keep what they meant to one another private (as well as Spock clearly still grieving over Jim’s loss and wanting to experience that privately as well). He is also not sure how to write about a person that, in many ways, is at the center of his life. It is not from lack of regard that Spock writes less of Jim, but instead that his regard for Jim is so strong that mere words could not summarize what the man meant to him.
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lt-cmdr-titties · 2 years
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spock is an anarchist: "the autobiography of mr spock" edition
i've finally finished the autobiography of mr spock, and in the last fifty pages or so i saw so much anarchist shit that i just had to make a post about it
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spock says to punch your local nazi and fuck appeasement
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cis-hetero-allo-normativity walks hand in hand with fascism, as does the idea that reproduction is the most important thing a person can do
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silence is itself complicity in systemic violence
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we have more things in common with each other than we have differences. rather than allow ourselves to be divided by arbitrary borders, and therefore be more easily conquered, we owe it to ourselves and each other to unite and stand as one
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when looking to enact real social change, go to the common person. politicians are only interested in keeping themselves in power
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mutual aid in the face of an isolating system (be it the romulan empire or capitalism) is itself a radicalizing tactic, because it allows us to see the world as it could be
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any protest that allows your oppressors to be comfortable will fail to create any sort of change. speaking the truth about oppression is one of the most dangerous things a person can do
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the-danish-daddy · 1 year
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Part 2 to my findings in Barnes and Nobel and WAS NOBODY GONNA TELL ME THAT THIS BOOK
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CONTAINS THIS PHOTO
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Why are we not talking about this canonical baby picture of Spock. This image has altered my brain chemistry why was I not told about this. This is an actual photo Amanda Grayson has and has more than likely shown to Jim. Jim adores this photo. Spock has asked that this photo not be shown to Doctor McCoy. This is little kindergarten baby Spock.
Additionally I just wanna put this out there
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They ripped stills from different episodes and mushed em together but honestly it's so sweet. I love the idea behind the pictures in this book. 'These important events in his life obviously would've been photographed, so we made them.' I adore the mindset these people have. More of this
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just-fandomthings · 2 years
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He was not wrong.
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Perhaps the most authentic photo of me to exist.
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Clock the Nimoy autobiography.
Taken by my sister on my 21st birthday, aka the day before Amok Time dropped.
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nevinslibrary · 4 months
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Make It So Friday
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I really liked this book, but, it was also one of the hardest to get into of the Autobiographies. I think part of that is because Spock is one of the most dense story wise characters there is in the Star Trek universe, he has had even more time spent on him than Kirk. Honestly, in every generation there seems to be a Spock, and, for the most part, while they’re a lot a like, the also each add to the layered onion that is the character.
So, because there are so many Spocks, and such a rich and layered story, this book seemed to be so so much more interwoven with the canon from the screen (I mean, if I'm recalling correctly, they even used canon from the Animated Series, which was awesome).
It tells the story of Mr. Spock from his birth through right before the 2009ish reboot movie. And, even more interestingly, it’s not just him writing his autobiography, but, he’s also sort of writing it to Jean-Luc Picard (see, layers upon layers). As usual, the author blended the canon with the non-canon, and, McCormack also got the voice of Spock almost perfect. It was such a fun read.
Twiddles thumbs and waits impatiently for The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko
You may like this book If you Liked: The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard by David A. Goodman, Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward, or The Romulan War by Michael A. Martin
The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by Una McCormack
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autisticlegolas · 1 year
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taking a break from reading the silmarillion by starting the autobiography of mr. spock .. my boy stop calling me “my friend” im about to form a parasocial relationship and cry
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speakvulcantome · 1 year
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croc-odette · 8 months
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The Search For Spock // The Autobiography of Mr. Spock
[image id: a screencap of James Kirk clinking together glasses in a toast, with several people who are offscreen. behind him are windows that reveal a landscape of mountains in a blue dusk. his face is grim.
text: I have tried on many occasions to write about Jim Kirk. This seems to me an increasingly impossible task.
a second screencap of what appears to be a playback recording due to the screen grain and aspect ratio, of kirk and spock speaking through a glass panel between them.
text: But a great deal of what is said these days about him is wrong, or, at best, woefully simplistic. How do you write about a legend?
a third screencap of kirk, looking heartbroken. a vulcan in the foreground is moving his hand, in the shape of the vulcan mind meld, away from kirk's face.
text: How do you write about someone you so deeply loved?
end ID]
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bcnes-archived · 8 months
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autobiography of mr spock is like. fantastic for a million different reasons obviously. but something makes me so personally ill about spock adopting the ‘bones’ moniker to refer to mccoy after he dies
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That quote from Leonard Nimoy's autobiography where he says that so many people look at him and see Spock and he hopes that one day people will look at Spock and see him? I think about it every time I see Nimoy as Spock. I see you, Mr. Nimoy.
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brookbee · 1 year
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So I've got a random theory on the difference between Vulcan vs human emotions.
I’m writing a fic that kind of just mentions this off-hand, but I’ve been ruminating about the actual difference between Vulcan vs human emotions and I kind of want to write all of my thoughts down here. I often see it being reduced down to “Vulcans repress everything” and “humans feel everything,” but I have a slightly different theory on that.
I think that the way Vulcans perceive, and therefore experience emotions is almost completely different to how humans/other emotional species do. It’s not that they’re repressing the emotion per se, but the way that they perceive what it means to be emotional is different.
My theory basically boils down to this:
Vulcans perceive emotions as actions, while humans perceive emotions as descriptors.
Let me elaborate!
So we know that ancient Vulcans were ruled by their emotions, and by using logic they were able to gain control over them. For ancient Vulcans, emotions meant violence. Emotions equated to actions that are difficult to control once they run rampant. With logic, though, Vulcans can “stop” the emotion, preventing it from translating into an action. I don’t think it’s that they don’t feel the emotion at all, but that the vital thing is that the emotion doesn’t become an action.
So when Spock says something like, “I am unfamiliar with that emotion,” I don’t believe that he’s always lying, but that he more precisely has not experienced that emotion being translated into an action. 
If we consider some of the emotions we see from Spock in TOS, there is usually a corresponding action involved. For some examples off of the top of my head: In "The Galileo Seven," there’s his act of desperation in trying to get the Enterprise’s attention. In "Amok Time" the emotions involved with the mating drive translate into acts of trying to redirect the ship to Vulcan. In "The Requiem for Methuselah," there’s an act of love and compassion in making Jim forget Reyna.
Humans on the other hand, don’t see emotions as actions but as adjectives to be used to describe life and its experiences. Facial expressions describe how someone is feeling in any precise moment, memories are often relayed by how you were feeling at the time, with your entire perception of an experience being rooted in how you were feeling at any given moment. Emotions, for humans, aren’t actions. They can inform actions, certainly, but the emotion itself is not an action.
Being around humans, it seems that Vulcans might start to understand this particular nuance. I’m thinking about the chapter about Sarek from The Autobiography of Mr Spock. Throughout the chapter Spock considers the actions of Sarek, and what his potential inner emotional experience might have been like. He doesn't say that Vulcans don't feel emotions, he instead separates it into the internal and external experiences.
Spock at this point has embraced both his human and Vulcan halves, and I think he has been able to differentiate the slight nuances in what emotion means to both sides of his heritage. Just as an example, here’s one passage about how Sarek outwardly expressed love:
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Spock doesn’t actually know if Amanda ever saw any of these poems, but the fact that they exist is proof that Sarek experienced love as the action that it is. There is no logical reason for Sarek to write poetry for someone after they have died, either. It is an action of love and grief, and poignant enough for Spock to mention.
Also, the entirety of this novel is being written with the intent that Picard (a human) is going to read it. I think understanding that, Spock has carefully described emotions as a human would understand them, as well as the actions of emotion that are all the more significant to a Vulcan.
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vulcanhello · 1 year
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Hi!! Your blog is great!! Btw there’s a book called The Autobiography of Mr Spock! Not sure if you know about this Trek book, but here ya go!
i genuinely appreciate you sending me this! i love book recs so i’ll be sure to add spock’s autobiography to my list. i thought kirk’s was really well done and accurately conveyed his voice/character so i’m gonna look forward to reading spock’s. ty!
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