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spock wakes up and stretches and jim goes BIG STRETCH 

Ngl I love how in Star Trek AOS first movie, they introduced Leonard 'Bones' McCoy to Jim Kirk and then promptly jump cut to them in like academy reds talking to each other, and the fandom's instant reactionary headcanon was 'omg they were roommates'

#look down and away baby boy #you’re putting it together and it fucking sticks in you #klingons? you fucking wish #you’re the only genius-level repeat offender in the midwest #your brain is running five different scenarios at once even before khan tells you what you already know #and the thing that keeps screwing you over is the thing that makes your crew love you so much #even as the brain is doing the work you can see it in your eyes —you -hope- it isn’t true #even as you come to know it you still hope it isn’t #and the most sickening thing is that you got your whole crew into this situation #you briefly trusted blindly in an organization that claims to protect despite that your orders were against its mandate #even though you’re figuring it out faster than anyone else would have #it’s still not fast enough #the federation’s on your tail and your choices are run and fight #and you realize with the weight of 1500 lives on your shoulders —it fucking sticks in you because it’s a no-win scenario (tags via historianisms)

#and you realize you can’t hack this one #you won’t get three tries this time#there is no changing the parameters #you lost before you even began#everything else is damage control#and you have less than ten minutes to figure out how you’re going to save your family#and this #more than anything #brings you closer to the father you never knew#which is ironic #isn’t it? #that on the mission to avvenge the father you did know#you met the man whose shadow you lived in from the second you first breathed#and in that moment #you could greet him as an equal #Perhaps you can say#that this is Pike’s last gift to you #now you have nothing to prove to anyone#and you’re damn lucky to have survived that lesson (via imadoctornotablog)

Watching Star Trek as an adult shines new light on why my dad used to look really uncomfortable sometimes during our late-night marathons.

star trek heritage post (August 6th, 2013)