*remembers that jim told a starfleet admiral that “if there’s a chance that spock has an eternal soul, then it’s my responsibility. as surely as if it were my very own” and later in the movie he told spock’s dad that it was worth it to sacrifice his career, ship, and son for spock, since “if i hadn’t tried, the cost would have been my very soul”* ok time to go kill now
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The Search for Spock Novel: Final Scene
TSFS book is wonderful and I genuinely, strongly encourage fans of the movie to find a copy (physical or online) and appreciate for themselves. There is so much added context and world building / characterization that the movie isn't able to express and i can't express here without spoilers or a 10 page essay
The final scene is particularly amazing, and either accidentally or intentionally reconfirms something from The Motion Picture
kirk chooses these words because he's trying desperately to remind spock of his life before he died, those last few moments would be the strongest and easiest to reach, of course. the twist on "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one)" is also thematically what tsfs is solely about, on top of being an echo to their last moments together.
but that isn't all - i present this moment from the motion picture novelization (also amazing and highly recommended):
even across thousands of lightyears, kirk's desperate longing for spock to be by his side is so intense that spock can actually hear him, as does the priestess.
spock only turns to kirk and the crew when kirk is watching him leave and thinks "live long and prosper." while this is a standard vulcan thing, it's also the very last thing spock says to kirk as he succumbs to radiation poisoning. he projects so hard through their bond, however frail it might be after spock's death and rebirth, and is able to reach spock in a way no one else could
mccoy carried spock's soul, and they retrieved spock's body from genesis, but it is spock's connection to kirk, his t'hy'la, that sparks his memory and brings everything back. Vulcan fal tor pan was able to reconnect spock's body to his soul, but without kirk, spock would have lived, yet known nothing of his past life. bones carried his katra, but kirk also carried his soul
tldr: kirks bond with spock being the spark that reignites spock's spockness, makes my heart ache in good and painful ways
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No context line Tag
Thanks for the tag @blind-the-winds
This is a line from The Second Floor Shop, in one of the early chapters:
"Are you sure this is enough?" Bino started to feel pity and to think maybe they should give her the money after all.
Eiza has, um, peculiar ideas of what other people can do to pay her for her services.
I don't have any funny out of context lines, sorry xd
I'll tag @oh-no-another-idea and give an open tag for everyone who wants to do it!!
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Could you imagine the two year wait between twok and tsfs? Hoping enough people in your life liked Star Trek to talk about it, that they might’ve also believed spock wasn’t dead yet?
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kirk/spock is so special because spock is so loved. he is an outsider in so many ways but he is so absolutely transcendentally loved by kirk. and kirk never asks spock to love him in kirks way. spock loving him in spocks way is always enough
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A federation ship on a research mission finds a life reading that should not be there on a planet they’re surveying for the genesis project. They can’t beam it aboard because of regulations so they have to beam down to investigate.
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imagine if spock coming back to life hadn’t really worked. he’s clearly not himself for a while but it seems to wear off within a few weeks and the arc takes place in a fairly lighthearted comedic movie.
you want khan to be wrathful? you want that to have real stakes? you want a no-win scenario? have spock come back wrong. his eyes are always a little vacant and he doesn’t find anything fascinating. his neck-pinches do more than just incapacitate you. he barely remembers his friends.
make him wrong. make him gangly. make him tilted.
kirk would be clawing at the ground to figure out what was wrong. he already sacrificed everything for spock and it wasn’t enough. what more would he be willing to do? what else is there to burn?
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Consider...
Space Jordans for Birds-of-Prey
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