happy pride
okay so spock (the alien in blue) essentially goes into heat. like literal heat like an animal. Anyway, spockβs in bloodlust in this episode and must go back to vulcan to have sex with his finace (or someone. but its supposed to be his fiance) or heβll literally die. this is called pon farr and some backstory spock is half human and thought he wouldnt go through pon farr so he abandoned his HOT fiance to fuck around in space except oops pon farr happens so. he and kirk (in yellow getting his tits cut open, heβs also spocks captain and best friend) and their other friend mccoy go to vulcan so he can have sex with his fiance or get married or whatever so he doesnβt die. but then spockβs fiance (tβpring) is like no i dont want to marry spock i want to have him fight someone to death (which she can do) and spock at this point is fully in the βblood lustβ and is basically not in his right mind and doesnt get whatβs happening. and tβpring picks kirk to be her βchampionβ in the fight (her logic is that if spock dies in the fight she doesnt have to marry him and if kirk dies, spock will be so upset with her he wonβt marry her anymore anyway). anyway kirk doesnt know that its a fight to the death and so heβs like of course iβll do this fight if itβll help spock and then he gets told itβs a fight to the death and he goes WHAT and right afterwards spock slices his titties open like in the gif. also eventually spock and kirk roll around in the sand and kirk fakes his death and THIS somehow knocks spock out of his blood lust and he goes back to the ship super sad bc heβs killed his βbest friendβ only to discover kirkβs alive and we see one of his biggest smiles of the series (a big deal bc spock is vulcan and they dont show emotion). anyway this aired as the season opener in 1967. know your history and all that happy pride
To summarize, star trek invented fuck-or-die and spock attempted to resolve this by giving kirk a boob window and wrestling with him half-naked in the sand
The fact that this is accurate is fucking killing me
btw, it is widely acknowledged that this episode and particularly this scene is what spawned the first housewife trekkie fans and spock/kirk shippers as we know them, which in turn shaped fandom culture as a whole for generations to come. no, seriously, modern fandom culture and art including fanfiction as we know it today only exists because of the creative efforts of 1960s/70s housewives and a whole lot of the inspiration behind that passionate collective effort came from the homoerotic spock/kirk shippers, most of whom experienced their awakening with this exact episode. truly a historical moment.
