imagine you start watching this new show and it’s a silly little show about space set in the future then they announce the next season so you wait excitedly for five months and finally it’s here… you all sit round the tv and suddenly one of the main characters who is known for being unemotional starts going mad because of “biology…” and you slowly realise that he needs to have sex or he’s going to die so the other main character risks his entire career to help him out then they start ‘wrestling’ on the sand and the one going through the mating fever ends up killing the other guy which ends the fever but now he’s depressed because he just killed his best friend but wait he’s not actually dead the unemotional one is overjoyed everything’s fine and then they go back to work like nothing happened… you look at everyone else sitting in stunned silence thinking “did any one else think that was a little… yknow” then you accidentally start modern fandom and shipping culture
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Wait till they all actually watch it and see the unnecessary titty window situation.
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#THAT was the plot?? #and they wanted us to believe the guy didnt have sex with the unemotional guy?
#star trek is so so gay
#ive seen some posts. but i did not realize it was….. that gay.
#only halfway through did i realise that this was star trek #i thought at first op was watching some freaky ass gay scifi and i was fully prepared to try find it #but lo and behold #ive already watched the damn show
#star trek #are they… you know… ♀️
(In caps) #what #star trek invented fuck or die?????
#what the fuck is going on in star trek
#i have no idea what happens in star trek but uhm. #this is a little (long string of ellipses followed by semicolons)
#they didnt… they wouldnt… #you cannot be serious is that how all the startrek slash started? #spock went into heat???
#i would need to be lobotomized for my own health
#what the fuck is star trek about. End ID]
Based on some of the first-hand accounts I’ve read, fans already had thoughts in that direction but were very cautious about expressing them, because, you know, it was 1967 and they were nice suburban ladies. They referred to the idea of Spock and Kirk being in love as The Premise. One little housewives’ fan club in California wrote to Leonard Nimoy in the hiatus between seasons one and two, and he was very pleasant and agreed to come and meet their group and tell them about being in the show. They didn’t say anything about The Premise directly, in case it offended him, but of course they expressed their enthusiasm for the rapport between Kirk and Spock and how curious they were about Spock’s background and inner life. And Nimoy, who was working on season two by that time, said that he couldn’t give away any specifics but there was an episode coming up that would focus more on Spock’s personal life and the planet Vulcan, and they were naturally delighted and intrigued.
So when they sat down to watch season two, episode one, “Amok Time,” they were primed for an important Spock episode, and then that played out before their widening eyes and I think it’s safe to say it blew their beehives clean off their heads.
…And this is exactly how some of us got onto the path toward getting into SO MUCH [GOOD] TROUBLE later in our lives. Handwritten fanfic… pages and pages and PAGES of it. Tens and hundreds of thousands of words of fanfic. In looseleaf binders.
Just remember: “The first million words are for practice.” :) After that… all bets are off.
And it’s also worth bearing in mind that Amok Time was written by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon was a bisexual writer (according to his friend, gay author and academic Samuel R Delany) who wrote “The World Well Lost” (1953) which may have been the first SF story about homosexuality to be published in a mainstream SF magazine, not to mention gay-coded stories like “The Saucer of Loneliness”. Ted Sturgeon was a brilliant writer about love, and he knew exactly what he was doing in Amok Time. Although he might not have known what it would spawn.
And if you are curious to read some of his fiction there’s a Selected Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon out there, and the novels The Dreaming Jewels and More Than Human appear to be in print.
Never forget, Vulcan’s are touch telepaths. Their palms are acutely sensitive.
Vulcans began the “hand holding is a degenerate act” meme in the 60’s.
And THEN we find out in First Contact that Solkar, Spock’s paternal grandfather, was the one who met Cochrane, and went full-in for the handshake.
Can’t believe I’m analyzing the stupid golf show, but have y’all thought about the airplane scenes in the golf show?
The first time we see it, Eve’s just gotten back from her first gig working for the mafia. After years of keeping away from that world because she knew it was dangerous she risks it just so she can in some way reach out to Aoi, to chase the genuine joy she gets from playing with her. Aoi on the other hand is looking back down, trying also to reach for the bit of joy, but unlike Eve Aoi doesn’t try to follow her. She’s found a place where she can enjoy her sport fully. Then Eve shoots her bullet up - and it reaches Aoi, impossibly. She reaches the plane.
And that ambition, that ability to roll the dice to drag herself (and her family) to a better future even when the odds are not great coupled with the skill to be able to accomplish it is what allows Eve in the end to get into a match with Rose to finally get the money she needs to get herself on the plane for real. Her ambition is realized with her on that plane, her family back home and taken care of, with her heading off after Aoi to live the kind of life that would have been impossible for her had she not looked beyond the pond of Nafrence.
Rose, on the other hand, jumped head first into the profits being a mafia boss could bring her, and in the end she dies for them. She can look up and imagine what her life could have been like had she kept herself from that path, but in the end she’s stuck back on the ground, with a bullet toppling her down into the docks. She could’ve never made the shot Eve did to Aoi, because by the time that she realized the value of it, too much of her was left on the ground. So her life ends, and her little sister has to skip town to get away from the mob’s wrath. All the while Eve gets her first taste of something beyond the life she grew up in - free drinks.
