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It's very interesting to me that Kirk actually begins his career as a command officer firmly in the square of lawful good. He's a rule-follower. He believes in the chain of command. Comparatively, Spock is much more of a neutral good character throughout the series: he will do things by the book when he thinks that will do the most good— which is often, otherwise he would not last long in Starfleet— however, when he feels disobeying the rules is the more moral choice, he does it without hesitation. But over time you watch Kirk's frustration with those occasions where the chain of command fails, times where he makes the 'correct' choice and it doesn't work, times he pushes his orders to the absolute limit, crossing boundaries to do what his instincts tell him to do. And it makes him question things more. He and Spock are alike in that they both believe that there's no such thing as an 'acceptable' loss, if that loss is a fellow officer.

That one tumblr post about supine vs prone constantly haunts me. I’ll be reading a fic that’s like:

how daniel molloy feels after trying to conduct an accurate interview about vampires, but his subjects are louis de pointe du lack of information, lestat de lyingcourt, armanipulator, and claudead.

oh sisko i love u like how u love basebal...

he's trying his best to be nonchalant... 🚬