#tos nonsense

[lenievi]

love amused Spock listening to McCoy rambling

#spones #leonard mccoy #spock #tos rewatch #tos nonsense #star trek tos

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Jim likes to pick up Spock after work at the Embassy. Sometimes, they drop by the store on their way home and get some wine for the evening. Jim is always so excited to finally see Spock after a long day of work, that he blabs the whole way home, while Spock silently listens, responding with occasional "hms" and "indeeds". Spock will never admit it but walking home from work with Jim is his favourite part of the day.

#the older jim gets the more he is prone to going on rants #spock just listens to his nonsense while thinking about how much he loves his human #old married spirk #space husbands #star trek tos #star trek #star trek art #spirk #tos spirk #spock x kirk #k/s #kirk #jim kirk #james tiberius kirk #spock #domestic fluff #spirk fluff #my arts #eldar of zemlya

[neosatsuma]

sorry about your boyfriend, he got canceled after only one season. yeah no the ratings were really good, it wasn't that people didn't like him, it was just like, some arcane executive nonsense. yeah. I mean if it's any consolation, he'll be a cult classic for the next 20 years

#sorry about your boyfriend #this applies to lots but what am i thinking rn #1899 #1899 Netflix #firefly #I am not okay with this #star trek tos #to be HONEST #i know that got 4 seasons but it was still cut short and BOY has it remained a classic #my nonsense #altered carbon #hannibal #yeah we're extending a little past a season into 'planned arcs cut short'

[the-last-teabender]

It's been days but I'm still thinking about how someone basically asked Neil Gaiman for passive permission to use AI for writer's block and he was like "I recommend having a friend instead"

and a lot of people were like "lol yeah but your friend was Pterry" and SURE. POINT.

But the majority of friends I consult when I have writer's block are not prolific beloved authors. And many aren't authors, period.

The story I just sent in to an editor? The friend who got me unstuck is a mechanic by trade, a writer once in a while for fun. He's also known me for half my life, knows what kinds of stories I like to write, and knows what makes an entertaining story for the readership I was writing for (since he's part of it). The whole second half of the story - the good part - came about because of his suggestion. You can read it probably later this year and let me know if he was helpful, but I'm pretty sure you'll agree that he was.

Your consultant for writer's block doesn't have to be The Late Sir Terry Pratchett to be worthwhile. A friend who knows you and enjoys a good story will still help you infinitely more than an algorithm whose only chance of knowing anything about you is if it was fed one of your stories.

#and randomthunk is one of my go-tos for writer's block also #the swan and the flame is largely down to her #again a few words of suggestion that worked because she knows me and my nonsense

[house-of-cards-and-crime]

deep, long-suffering sigh

hey do you guys think that grian has gone a bit too f-aha-r with fishing this season? i mean it's become a problem by now, it's pretty bad, boys. it seems like he's really raised the b-aha-r with commitment to a bit, which i gotta admit is pretty rad boys

#ghhhhhhgjk i cannot believe i just wrote this post LMAO #i couldnt fit in a “did that make you jump” sadly those are my three go-tos #hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermitcraft s10 #hermitcraft season 10 #hc s10 #hc season 10 #hermitcraft 10 #bad boys #limited life #last life #grian #grian hermitcraft #grianmc #organizey tags as usual > #stuff and nonsense ramblings etc #hyperfixation type beat #moon big fish big

[muirmarie]

MCCOY: You're determined not to let me share in this, aren't you? SPOCK: This is not a competition, Doctor. Whether you understand it or not, grant me my own kind of dignity. MCCOY: Vulcan dignity? How can I grant you what I don't understand? SPOCK: Then employ one of your own superstitions. Wish me luck. (Silence and stares, then McCoy opens the hangar deck door. Spock walks across and into the Galileo. The doors shut.) MCCOY: Good luck, Spock.

Spock, believing he is heading towards almost-certain death, sharing a would-be final conversation with someone to whom he will one day give his katra for safe-keeping. Is he thinking about it, here? Is he thinking of his own kind of dignity, of his own Vulcan superstitions, is he thinking of his katra, and how it is far too soon to part with it? He'll need to fly the shuttle, take readings, find a way to save everyone on this ship. Including this man.

Is he thinking of this lost not-even-an-opportunity when he says McCoy should've wished him luck? Does he think of it, fleetingly, decades later, when he is once more walking away from McCoy? When McCoy stands back up, far too late to stop him - does he think of it, then, when he sees him? Is he too focused on his task, on the pain, on Jim? Does it matter now that his katra is safe, his captain is safe, his ship is safe?

Does McCoy, standing on the surface of Vulcan, think of this moment as he steps forward? When he repeats the word remember to Spock's breathing, empty body, when he says I choose the danger, when the Vulcan Priestess places her fingers on his forehead, does he think of this? Does he think, like an echo, you should've wished me luck?

#star trek #probably none of this makes sense but i am just in a mood and sometimes that involves me rambling quasi nonsense what can i say #the immunity syndrome #leonard mccoy #spock #you can't make homes out of human beings (except he could. except he did) #st:tos #star trek tos #no idky tumblr is butchering the italicization no i cannot fix it no i no longer care

[97b0n3s]

Very upset thinking about saavik today… “we didn’t want to keep her in the movies or she might turn into a villain-“ SILENCE. Simply do not do that to her. It just makes me sad because I felt like Spock was always trying to find a successor (hello valeris) and was always disappointed or backstabbed and I feel like at the end of the 6th movie he was like damn so I really can’t trust ANYONE but Kirk and McCoy that’s crazy.. and that makes me very very sad. saavik helped fill that void in the second and 3rd movie but she was also just an interesting character that I felt was deserving of staying. (hashtag best lesbian) she had lots to learn and was very brave and helpful and like if she wasn’t on genesis baby Spock could’ve totally died of hypothermia. She kicks ass and she just stayed on vulcan.. i just wish she was in the movies in some way like a cameo or at the end of the 6th she pops up out of nowhere.. she kicked ass.. just blabbing my apolocheese

#star trek #star trek tos #spock #captain kirk #s'chn t'gai spock #saavik #valeris #if there’s wrong info my bad I have bad memory #star trek tos movies #Star Trek undiscovered country #rant post #nonsense #just me talking #saavik my beloved

[vaguely-concerned]

I've been devouring the first few seasons of star trek deep space 9 recently and folks... after several false starts we might finally have found the trek that will take my brain down like the weak gazelle of the herd. I love this shitty little space station and the cast of exclusively weirdos that inhabit it so much

#star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #so begins the great game of 'which tags are gonna stick for me here' #I have watched a lot of TOS and enjoyed it (the search for spock especially Did things to me) #but not like in a brain eating way. not like this hfjdska #I tried tng for at least half a season and I retain absolutely no memory of it at all I am sorry. fully head empty #these fucking weirdos immediately resonated with me though there's not a one of them I didn't vibe with on sight #I think I just needed a more cramped shitty everything-breaking-down environment to really thrive and ds9 is giving that bless #will I finally reach the full sci-fi trinity. will I reach the gate the wars and the trek of it all at long last and know enlightenment #(also will the occasionally overlapping but often diverging sci-fi nonsense words and concepts break my brain? we'll see!)

[ovaryacted]

*taps mic*

Should I write sub Leon with a mommy kink again…cause…I’m thinking about it again…hehehe…thinking real hard. I’ll make him extra pathetic and whiney for shits and giggles hehehe. (Someone please say yes or I’m going to fucking lose it).

#ཐི♡ཋྀ nic’s nonsense #I think we need more of that tbh #and if he’s older #it would be even better #sorry I just think it’s hot okay #mommy or ma’am are my go-tos #but either one can get me HAWT

[always-a-mad-comet]

Guy of all time

#star trek #spock #star trek the original series #star trek tos #s'chn t'gai spock #art #commander spock #the immunity syndrome #I really liked the lighting in this scene #sams nonsense

[scherzokinn]

Star Trek godly species: Humans are repulsive. Do these limited mortal creatures only settle conflicts with force and violence? What utter barbarism.

Also Star Trek godly species: And for that, they should die.

#star trek #star trek tos arena #star trek the original series #star trek memes #world building nonsense #q actually comes off as very reasonable here lmao

[lenievi]

randomly thinking about how Spock's older years are very influenced by McCoy's existence and then when McCoy dies, Spock is like nope, can't live here anymore, and leaves the Federation space

#tos nonsense #headcanon times #spones #because of their katra sharing ghost!mccoy might be around because a piece that was left in mccoy was returned to spock upon mccoy's death #and with it mccoy's spirit #so imagine that in aos there is always a ghost!mccoy floating behind tos!spock's shoulder

[adarkroomandawallflower]

My recent antique store scores:

It was a Spock day, apparently!

#obsessed with the light up & talking shuttlecraft ornament #it's SO cute #and mint condition mirror Spock was only $5!! #a good antiquing day for sure #star trek #star trek the original series #star trek tos #mister spock #spock star trek #antiquing #noll's nonsense

[ramshacklefey]

My friend sent me a post today about RPG classes for the TOS bridge crew, and while they were funny they were also so wrong that I was compelled to make my own list:

Captain James T. Kirk: Bard. But not in the "slutty rock star" way, in the "genuine renaissance man who can do at least a bit of everything" way. Kirk is the guy who read the entire player's guide cover to cover and built a character who would be the most useful in the widest array of situations.

Commander Spock: Monk. Everyone assumes he'd be a wizard, and I can see why because he's a scientist and he's terrifyingly intelligent, but this fails to account for the way that his strict "logic over emotion" ethic is so central to his character, or the fact that his wisdom score is at least as high as his int. He's also got pretty insane physical strength, and a lot of his abilities come from his meditative practices. Plus there's the psychic abilities he has, which I would put down as a kind of monk-magic.

Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: World's angriest paladin. Refused to let everyone else run off without a healer. Is a healer in the way that makes you very aware that healers are all doms.

Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott: Artificer. Nuff said.

Lt. Hikaru Sulu: Bard, but the kind who's an acrobat. His job on the ship is pilot, and he's the best damn pilot in all of Starfleet. We don't see this as much in TOS, because they didn't have the ability to do cool scenes of the ships flying around, but Sulu could fly the Enterprise through a needle with room to spare.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: Another bard. She's the friggin comm's officer! That means she's a linguist and a radio operator (something people forget was an actually necessary and technically demanding job). She also canonically is a beautiful singer and dancer.

Ensign Pavel Chekov: Here's our wizard. Hear me out. Chekov is the ship's navigator (another job that seems to be somewhat forgotten in contemporary sci-fi). Everything he does is based on intelligence, he's a little bit of a nerpus (low wisdom), and he works off of careful study and calculation. My guy was doing calculations for interstellar space plans using something slightly more advanced than an old DOS computer.

#star trek #star trek tos #ramshackle nonsense

[instantpansies]

ok i'm finally watching amok time and i'm trying so hard to take it seriously i really am but

"it has to do with biology"

"what"

"biology"

"what kind of biology"

"VULCAN. biology"

"you mean... the biology of vulcans?

bi,ology as in. reproduction ??"

it's just so absurdly, brilliantly awkward. the way spock looks like he would rather be dead. the fact that they're treating pon farr like it's an enemy they need to be real careful of or they'll never get out alive. the way spock says "we must return home. and take a wife." so morosely like okay gayboy we get it marriage to a woman is your worst nightmare. lets get on with the plot. i've seen sixth graders at church youth group talk about sex more straightforwardly than this scene. i'm obsessed. it's awful. i love it so much

as for the rest of the episode... where do i start? the scene where all the ritual stuff is happening before kirk decides to accept the challenge is shot just. so jarringly. the zooms and cuts to random objects and focal points throughout the scene?? like are they trying to build tension rn because this just looks like a high schooler with a video camera trying to make a short film about drugs (i say this lovingly).

the fact that the episode almost perfectly follows the beats of your standard classic western. the VERY FIRST SUCCESSFUL BLOW being the famous titty window slice (wow they were not holding back). the loud musical stings whenever something remotely tense happens - which are a completely different motif and style than anything we've heard on the show previously. the proportional lack of dialogue comparative to the rest of the show (in my perception?), but the simultaneous exponential increase in cheesiness as well. chapel crying??? when she goes into spock's quarters????? what's that about??????? and going off of that, the weird half-one-sided relationship hinted between those two that came out of nowhere and seemed completely arbitrary. THE SILLY LITTLE VULCAN OUTFITS!!!

tldr; this episode just can't fulfill its supposedly angsty and tense premise because the execution is just so absurd and silly. this is a comedy. it's absolutely a masterpiece in campiness and completely missing your goal (but in the process finding something at least as good). it's so good

#toast watches #star trek #star trek tos #amok time #it's just. so silly and nonsensical and doesn't fulfill its goal at all. it's absolutely a comedy #to me #and i frankly wouldnt want it any other way #not my favorite episode overall - there were a few in season one that just AUGHGHGH. but a deeply silly and extremely fun one. i'm a fan #btw sorry for weird spacing in the dialogue bit tumblr is being mean to me

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

Love Star Trek blogs on this site, they’re 99% of the time absolutely unhinged, living in another (glorious) world, half the time nigh incomprehensible to an outsider, and like you see a little freak and everyone just collectively goes:

#Star Trek #objectively the ds9 posters are the funniest because they got the most popular lil freak #deep space nine #but I love the general vibe of all the Star Trek blogs I’ve seen like absolute nonsensical gold #true to the vibes of the show <3 #ds9 #voyager #tng #tos #enterprise