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
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The gary mitchell episode actually sets the entire tone for spock's recovery arc I think. When he said "I felt for him too" it's played off like wow he is discovering emotions but no he's not? No he's not. Kirk told him to at least act like he's got a heart and that hurt him. He decided he needed him to know he could feel. The dude who finds security in convincing everyone he's a robot just went no not this one. Not him I'm not sabotaging this. Jim might've been the first person in his life that he didn't want to push away and u can see when he says it that he's tryna be brave. That was not aw Spock is learning what feelings are that was spock actively choosing to unmask because he didn't want to lose his friend that was Spock admitting out loud that he's been hiding behind this lie his whole adult life and saying I want to stop lying for you I want to let you in
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They were looking at each other like this in the first. Episode. That Kirk and Spock were filmed together in.
Where No Man Has Gone Before was the 2nd pilot of Star Trek ever filmed, and it was the first episode filmed with WIlliam Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk.
While The Man Trap was the first episode that aired, Where No Man Has Gone Before was the 2nd pilot recorded and therefore it was the first time Shatner and Nimoy worked onscreen as the Kirk and Spock duo together.
It’s so insane to me how much discernable chemistry there was from the start.
Spock when Jim Kirk:
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Space, the final frontier.
That is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to explore
The strange new worlds of our outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a five-year mission
And, by opposing, end it. To go—to seek,
Once more; and by “to seek” to say we find
The new life and new civilizations
Where man has gone not: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To go, to seek;
To seek, perchance to find—ay, there's the rub:
For in these voyages what dreams may come,
When we have boldly gone whence we have not,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes a mission of so long a life.
For who would bear the Enterprise of time,
The starship’s wrong, admirals’ contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy treks,
When he himself might make his voyage on
With a bare warp core? Who would tribbles bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the hope of something to be found,
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
We travel and return, puzzling our will,
And makes us wish to solve those ills we have
And fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience makes explorers of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is glistened o'er with the stars of thought,
And Enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents warp ahead
And seize the name of action.
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fascinating how the kirk-spock dynamic is often construed as "spock stops the captain back from committing too-drastic decisions and guides him towards a less extreme solution"
when all throughout "Where No Man Has Gone Before" has kirk agonizing over the moral and ethical implications of stranding a crewmember and friend because of the consequence of an event none of them had asked for in the manner of shakespeare and spock is just hanging out in the background like this:
like he’s right in the end (spock) but it’s still funny how they flip-flop in their roles as “chaos” and “whoa there slow down!”
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