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I stopped brushing my teeth for a bit when I got super depressed a few years ago. I was barely taking care of myself. My breath was awful and I knew it and I didn’t want to be around anyone ever because of it, which only made everything worse.

I don’t know what pulled me out of it but I realized I needed to take care of myself. So I started brushing just once a day, because 1 > 0. I figured I probably had a dozen cavities and was going to have to spend a fortune at the dentist already. May as well pump the brakes a little, and it made my breath smell nice again!

Then I had a filling pop out. It lodged between my teeth and I couldn’t get it out. I couldn’t afford a dentist, so I had to meticulously floss it every single day multiple times a day because food kept getting jammed and it was uncomfortable as hell. I put a bag of floss sticks on my desk and would just pick away while doing whatever on the computer.

And since I was there anyway, I started flossing more of my teeth. Eventually I worked up to brushing 2x a day, sometimes.

When I was finally able to see a dentist, I fully expected to be told I’d need root canals by the dozen after all that time I’d spent not brushing at all. But to my surprise, she said my cavities weren’t too bad and there’s nothing urgent. I now have an over-time plan to fix one at a time until they’re all done.

It’s still going to set me back about $4000 in total, but imagine how much worse it could have been if I hadn’t started caring for my teeth again? And it’s worth mentioning I would have saved $4000 by just brushing once a day.

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But in "The Naked Time"...they completely shatter Spock's brain.

Like everyone else is goofy or violent or horny, like they're drunk. But Spock defines himself as the guy who is in control when no one else can be. And he just melts into a puddle here. And they take TIME with this.

This man's entire sense of self is flushed down the Space toilet because of this stupid water-borne prionic protein whatever-the-fuck. And Nimoy sells the shit out of it. Spock is NOT okay.

Come on Jim you keep grabbing him like that

Just kiss him already

"𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞. 𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭. 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝! 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐢𝐥." -𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐢

However, I had actually forgotten that one of my favorite early scenes involves the whole soft-lit gorgeous lady with the starry-eyed close up shtick, and is actually my favorite instance of it in the whole show. Unsurprisingly, it's Uhura.

More specifically, it's the scene in "The Naked Time" where they're trying to get control back from a drunken Riley before he endangers the whole ship, and Kirk (unfairly) snaps at Uhura out of general frustration and tension. Uhura (quite fairly) snaps back:

Sir, if I could cut him off, don't you think I—!

And she's right, and he knows she's right, and he immediately apologizes to her on the bridge with very evident sincerity. Uhura is so startled and touched by his immediate apology that the episode halts mid-disaster for a moment just to linger on her reaction. Her expression goes from indignant to soft with full starry-eyed glamorous lighting: