Loyal & Kind

Oops, I never uploaded this one to Tumblr (which I only realized when someone else did, but then was kind enough to tag me, thank you)!

Do you think he goes to Spock one night, asking if Spock can remember *anything* about that device with those mathematically perfect brainwaves of his, positing that if Spock was able to adjust the device to work for their thought patterns, perhaps he could puzzle out the construction of the device itself? So that Bones could simply think a healing thought, and will a body whole?

That Spock has to admit that, though he was able to modify the device, despite his best efforts he has no real idea how it worked in the first place. That, though regret is illogical, wonder at the possibilities of the universe is not...

...but that, privately, he cannot discern whether it is wonder or regret that keeps him up at night?

Do you think they share a cup of tea in quiet contemplation before Bones says that he wishes they could go back to Sigma Draconis VI so he could wear the Teacher just one more time; no matter what it would do to his brain, without the threat of medical urgency with Spock's impending death this time, perhaps he could at least write down the knowledge before the end?

And, maybe, Spock pauses, and thinks about both of these times where Bones hadn't hesitated even a second to save Spock's life at the expense of his own --

-- and says to him, impossibly gently, "But, then, who will think the healing thoughts, Doctor?"

I mean can you imagine. singing about how somebody broke your heart and they’re literally harmonizing. they’re right fucking there. they’re in touching distance. insanity! complete insanity! I would either break down crying or fully snap and break their neck

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGykwC0fdJ4

It was written and aired in 1969.  

It probably couldn’t air today.

And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.

make the main cast phenomenally multicultural for it’s time while using white “all-American” guys like William Shatner as a front to make the show look more palatable to conservatives. The bridge crew included a Jewish actor, Leonard Nimoy, and a character who was Russian during the cold war. And notably, Nichelle Nicholls, a black woman, and George Takei, a Japanese-American, whose characters were treated with equal respect and dignity to the other characters.  

making the show deliberately racy (for the time period) so that conservative people would focus on the sexy bits instead of the very real and scathing political commentary going on in a lot of the episodes