I've wanted Bones-M'benga interaction since watching TOS, but like. Even moreso with the Rukiya Plotline compared to Bones' Father like.

Terminal illness neither could cure through medicine. One a father, one a son. M'Benga using the transporter to keep Rukiya in stasis, preventing her disease from progressing; Bones' father being kept alive through the bio-bed even as his illness progressed, presumably falling much earlier on the timeline than even Rukiya's birth; who knows the state of transporter buffers at that time, or why exactly Bones has a distaste for using the transporter when not strictly necessary? M'Benga having, while deeply painful, a lucid, loving farewell to his child into an entity that would allow her what he could not; having to release his child into that conscious ether forever. Bones having to literally pull the plug on his father, who doesn't seem to register anything other than his pain. Bones living with the knowledge that weeks after his father's death, a cure was found. M'Benga knowing Cygnokemia still has no cure.

M'Benga having a father himself. McCoy having a daughter.

There's plot material there, in their tragedies that are as similar as they are different.

If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. -Caitlyn Siehl, It Ends or it Doesn't

[Image IDs: Nine images. (1) Text that reads: 'It ends or it doesn't.' / Una: What are you keeping in there that could be worth all our lives?/ M’Benga: Not what. Who. Rukiya. My daughter. // David McCoy (barely audible): Leonard. / McCoy: I'm here, Dad. I'm with you. (2) Two images in black and white. One of M'Benga's daughter, Rukiay. The other of McCoy's dad, David. (3) text that reads: 'That's what you say. That's how you get through it.' / McCoy: All my knowledge and I can't save him. // M’Benga: I am chief medical officer. On the flagship of Starfleet. You'd think I'd be able to do something about it. But nothing worked.' (4) text that reads: 'The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn't. / Sybok: You've done all you can. The support system will keep him alive. / McCoy:  You call this alive? Suspended between life and death by a bridge of pain? // M’Benga: Did you know there's no limit on how long you can store someone's pattern in the buffer? You just have to materialize them regularly. In the buffer, my daughter doesn't age. And her disease can't progress.' (5) Two images. One of McCoy, looking down at his dying dad. His expression in pained. The other is of M'Benga, who's expression is also pained. (6) text that reads: 'Adapt. Adjust.  / M’Beng: …the light virus epidemic was my fault. / Una: It seems so, yes. / M’Benga: I can't endanger our crew for one life. No matter how much that life means to me. // David McCoy: Release…me / McCoy: I can't. (in agony) But how can I watch him suffer like this? / Sybok: You're a doctor. / McCoy: I'm his son!' (7) Text that reads 'It ends' followed by an image of McCoy looking down after his father dies. (8) 'Or it doesn't' followed by an image of Rukiya, alive and smiling at her father. (9) Text: 'We do not perish.' /End ID]

Barry Trivers and Gerd Oswald dropping “The Conscience of the King” on December 8th of 1966, only to never elaborate on Tarsus IV and Kirk’s past there

Happy Pride

(Bi gay flag by @bi-lesbian )

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine // S04E16: Bar Association

Listen, Trek is far from a perfect franchise, but one thing they've consistently done that I've appreciated is embrace that actors age. They let the characters age with the actors during the TOS films, again with the TNG movies, and again with Picard (quality of the writing notwithstanding) and with Disney's Star Wars midquel shows deepfaking their Young Luke who is already a young Hamill lookalike, I also have an appreciation for Trek's embracing that the new people they have playing younger versions of legacy characters don't look like dead ringers of the classic counterparts.

Here we are, antibodies of our own galaxy.

i want to be a Marek + Richard bitch once i have the money to spend on them but more than anything i need to draw Bones in this

No one believes Spock.

the

A wonderful blooper from “The Trouble with Tribbles”— the camera is solely on Leonard for Spock’s reactions while the rest of the unseen cast (Kirk, Scotty, McCoy) say their lines and fake laugh.

This is just as funny with the sound off.

soft hearts electric souls

Do you ever think about how Kirk had a "best friend" on the ship before Bones in Gary Mitchell, a man who:

a) deviously manipulates him into heartbreak for Mitchell's benefit,

b) shames him for not being "fun" enough when he's in a position of power,

c) openly insults intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone cruelly as soon as he gets power and tries to seize everything for himself,

e) finds it fascinating that he can stop a person's heart for fun, and

f) tries to murder Kirk instead of admitting that he's a danger to the universe,

and then chooses to replace him with Bones, a man who:

a) tries to save Kirk from heartbreak at every opportunity,

b) gets him to smile and relax by being genuinely interested in how he's doing and telling him that he's great and respected just as he is,

c) openly toasts intelligent and powerful women,

d) treats everyone kindly as soon as he gets power and tries to use it to help as many people as he can,

e) cries about how people suffered when medical treatments were less advanced, and

f) says, "Jim, I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own. I can't."

because I do

i-chaya’s legacy lives on in spock’s poorly named pets.

and dr. mccoy.

They did another time travel arc