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?
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"Then grant me one of your own superstitions. Wish me luck."
Hey McCoy, a good luck kiss would be very fitting here!
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I don't care how many times I rewatch The Immunity Syndrome, I am never not going to feel a little bit insane when McCoy thinks that Kirk is apologising to Spock because he didn't pick him for the suicide mission... like babygirl what is wrong with you????
Who the hell apologises to the guy they didn't pick to get killed?
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Gotta be honest the immunity syndrome is pretty boring so far but Kirk, Spock, and McCoy arguing over who will possibly sacrifice themself to save the enterprise is like the peakiest mcspirk
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Spock- "Do not risk the ship further on my behalf."
McCoy- "Shut up, Spock!"
M- "We're rescuing you."
S- "Why, thank you, Captain McCoy."
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