Spock/Kirk

my guiding star

Jim reacting to a smug Vulcan

Me, who grew up watching The Next Generation as a kid and hearing in fandom circles about Kirk/Spock lore: I bet TOS isn't that gay.

Me, watching TOS the last couple of weeks: LOL this is hella gay, every other shot is Kirk staring lovingly at Spock, I love it, let's have the next episode lads

Jim always has heart eyes for Spock.

It's a bit ridiculous.

I thought I'd just post a few gifs but cracked up laughing at just how many there are:

Jim "heart eyes for Spock" Kirk.

Like all of us, really.

Sharing the Sunlight Fanzine & Novel | Drawings by Chris Soto, 1992

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Editorial note from author Jenna Sinclair:

sometimes the universe aligns so perfectly

This particular moment in Star Trek is actually quite important. A lot of people don’t realise that understanding something is not the same as approving of something. This particular episode (A Taste of Armageddon) had a civilization where war was fought on computers instead of on the battlefield and instead of people dying in combat they would send the calculated amount of “casualities” into a camp to die. Kirk is outraged completely by this and rightly should be, but Spock is not so overtly disapproving. He understands why they might think their solution is better for their civilization and takes the time to think about why they are doing it. Even though he can understand why, he still believes it is wrong for them to be doing it. 

There is a separation between understanding something and  approving of something that a lot of people seem to miss. 

Thinking about Jim growing up surrounded by cornfields then getting shipped off to tarsus and experiencing a famine….