#the mark of gideon

[spirk-trek]

I ALMOST SPIT OUT MY DRINK HE REALLY WENT "aww... anyway bye!"

#like JIM #star trek #shitposting #lmao LMAO #AND THEN SHE SAYS I'LL MISS YOU AND HE DOESNT ANSWER GIFKFNFIF #idk why i find this so fucking funny #he's like hm no i'm good #get some birth control on your planet first then we'll talk #also i have a boyfriend #the mark of gideon #star trek the original series #season 3 #tos #spirk

[trek-tracks]

Star Trek, "The Mark of Gideon."

Airdate: January 17, 1969.

Sigh.

#star trek #star trek tos #jim kirk #the mark of gideon #hodin #captain kirk #image source: trekcore #transcript source: chakoteya #i can't believe the us is going fucking backwards on this #i'm okay in canada but as a us citizen it's killing me #star trek has always been political #between the episode about antimaskers and this one the third season should not be this goddamn painfully relevant #anyone who wants to clown on this post: just don't #you will be instantly blocked

[your-name-is-jim]

5 times Spock chased Kirk through time and space + 1 where his behavior was suspicious

Feat. Extremely done Leonard “Bones” McCoy

1. The Gamesters of Triskelion:

2. The Paradise Syndrome:

3. The Tholian Web:

4. Wink of an Eye:

5. The Mark of Gideon:

+1 All Our Yesterdays:

Aw, it’s not surprising that Bones could immediately tell that something was wrong with Spock. I mean, yes, they’re trapped 5000 years in the past on a frozen planet, but when did it ever stop Spock from looking for their Captain? LOL

#spock #james t. kirk #leonard mccoy #spirk #well that's how I see it at least #star trek tos #star trek the original series #bones is so done #someone give him a drink #the gamesters of triskelion #the paradise syndrome #the tholian web #wink of an eye #the mark of gideon #all our yesterdays #k/s #kirk x spock

[skybson]

3x16 - The Mark of Gideon

#agoraphobia planet genuinely terrifing #star trek #star trek tos #jim kirk #the mark of gideon #trekedit #originalposts*

[starofhisheart]

Planning a date, are we Kirk?

#oh how I wish that was what happened in this ep #star trek #spirk #spock #jim kirk #star trek the original series #star trek tos #james t kirk #space husbands #k/s #S03E16 #The Mark of Gideon

[agent-troi]

hehehe x files reference two and a half decades before the show even existed

#star trek tos #the mark of gideon #x files #they lost nine minutes #the truth is out there

[samthetrekkie]

this episode was surprisingly good, even though the whole paradise-not dying-thing because of the germ free air didn't make a whole lot of sense biology-wise. but I didn't expect an abortion/contraception discussion in a late 60s star trek episode, with kirk representing pro choice! I wonder what the audience thought of that back then. bc that was years before roe vs wade. sometimes I love tos for this exact reason, even if some episodes are really unnecessary and odd (and sexist etc.).

I also loved spock being 100% more competent than kirk in this episode. he figured it out within an hour or so. just imagine spock being the captain instead of kirk, all their adventures would take 80% less time. episodes would end after 15mins. and self-confident spock is so rare, but kind of attractive… standing his ground and so on. I generally love the episodes where he takes command.

#star trek tos #the mark of gideon #james t kirk #spock #star trek

[anewstartrekfan]

Guys I’m sorry but I cannot stress enough how fucked up the ending to the mark of Gideon is.

Like ESPECIALLY Kirk of all people just letting her go back down to the planet when she explicitly stated she was going to fill Kirk’s intended role of patient zero for a disease that would genocide god knows how much of the population.

Just cuz the show forgot Tarsus IV happened doesn’t mean I will.

There is no fucking way Kirk would let her go back down. Over population, Prime directive, and starfleet regulations be damned he would NOT give that Ambassador the tools to commit genocide.

This isn’t even a he was out of character the whole episode. No. He rightfully called out the girl’s dad for being a jackass and there being other solutions to their over population problem.

It’s just the last 5 minutes.

The worst part is they try to play it off like Elaan of Troyius where the two part understanding that they have their own duties to their people and so can’t get romantically involved,

EXCEPT THIS BITCH’S DUTY IS LITERALLY MASS GENOCIDE

AND KIRK JUST LETS IT HAPPEN

#star trek tos #star trek #james t kirk #star trek watch through #the mark of gideon #I am seething

[spirksworld]

My favorite part about The Mark of Gideon is Spock’s fantastic push back against the beast that is diplomacy. I hate the tangled web that diplomats and bureaucrats weave as much as the next guy, and it could be easy to assume that because Spock is a Vulcan, he could fall under a category of person that also believes the blind following of rules is the best course of action.

But OF COURSE he doesn’t. Because the run around and manipulation of one’s words that runs so rampant in politics is the least logical thing in the galaxy. And Spock knows this. He is the first to suggest they bypass Starfleet and beam down to the planet anyway. Because the rules cannot help them in this situation and he knows it. That miraculous intuition of when rules should and should not be followed is one of Spock’s defining half human/half Vulcan traits.

It’s that blind obedience to rules that you don’t quite understand the function of, and the deliberate misuse of those rules to sway a situation in one’s favor, that makes diplomacy and bureaucracy so infuriating. Just happy to know Spock agrees

#Star Trek #tos #Spock #ep 16 s 3 #The Mark of Gideon #talking

[spaceageslacker]

"We are incapable of destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we love so deeply. Life, in every form, from fetus to developed being. It is against our tradition, against our very nature. We simply could not do it."

"Yet you can kill a young girl." 

Slightly different issue, but I feel the quote still applies. 👀👀👀

#star trek #star trek tos #the mark of gideon #roe v wade #reproductive rights #here's to a show from the 60s #that's somehow more progressive than the 2022 supreme court

[weenie-moon]

#queue #my gifs #lol #star trek #star trek tos #the mark of gideon #s3e16 #60s

[spirk-trek]

S3E16: The Mark of Gideon ⋆.˚ ✧ ·

#I LOVE THESE STILLS SO MUCH #the lighting! #immaculate! #looking like a whole meal #spock #star trek #leonard nimoy #star trek tos #the original series #star trek the original series #screencaps #my edit #the mark of gideon #science fiction #sci fi #1960s #television #film #cheekbones

[your-name-is-jim]

That’s a completely reasonable request, I don’t know why you two are surprised??

[s3 e16 - The Mark of Gideon]

#spirk #spock #leonard mccoy #hikaru sulu #star trek tos #star trek the original series #k/s #kirk x spock #the mark of gideon

[dammitkirk]

god, can you believe that star trek went after the anti-choice crowd in 1969?

#text post #and when you consider it was for sure written before that? #five years before roe v. wade? #st:ml pairing #the mark of gideon

[taxinealkaloids]

two b-list sons of God and a second-rate resurrection

#tlt #my art #tower princes here pictured shortly after having chopped up a bunch of devil-infested civilians at antioch and burning the bits #which is a thing they did! crazy. #like...between htn and ntn ianthe and kiriona were just. bonding over committing war crimes in the name of imperialism i guess! #i think ppl forget sometimes that they weren't JUST on the mithraeum they were actually at antioch. idk how much they were actually on #the front lines but they were THERE roughing it in the military encampment or w/e. and gideon seemed to have #pretty firsthand knowledge of the devils and their specific disposal methods so. yeah i think she was doing some chopping and burning. #anyway the text in image 1 is the parable of the prodigal son #and image 2 is luke 9:22 (jesus foretells his death) and mark 16:6 (the resurrection) #imagine you practice ninth house religion and your iconography looks like this.

[nuclearbleu]

Redraw time! drew the original (2nd photo) about six months ago in October, and its crazy to compare it to the updated version

#legends of avantris #once upon a witchlight #gideon coal #muscular men deserve stretch marks #I want those pants so badly but they're $500