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of course, you can’t say this because in the diet culture infested world that we live in, no one thinks twice about complimenting someone on their visible weight loss. it isn’t meant as a insult, it’s a thoughtless comment. it is unfathomable that someone may have been happier or healthier when they weighed more. and you don’t want to have to recount your personal medical history in graphic detail to explain why losing weight was not good.

The Final Frontier is the gift that keeps on giving. /lh

Three old guys in denim on the bridge of the enterprise

Uhura singing nude

First appearance of a toilet in the brig

The almost hug

The navigator and helmsmen both pretending to be lost in Yosemite

Poor Bones reliving having to euthanise his own father

The weirdest hug

The hardest line ever

- The main plot is a quest to find God. They find that God is a delusional, monomaniacal narcissist. So Spock gets the Klingons to help him kill God.

- The campfire scenes.

- McCoy’s trauma. One of DeForest Kelly’s finest performances.

It’s the kind of humanist, atheist sci-fi that’s at Trek’s core. (And how openly atheist it is may be part of why it gets such hate.)

Is it perfect? No. Shatner’s direction is clumsy at times, a lot of the humor falls flat, and it was clearly made on a tight budget.

Picard seeing kirk's dream existence as living in a cosy home with his favorite dog while making breakfast while picard tries to talk to him, only for spock to come down the stairs in a cosy bedrobe like he just woke up, much to picards immense confusion. It's only then while kirk looks up with so much affection while spock makes a comment about them not expecting any visitors so far in the country - while greeting his jim with a little morning finger kiss - that picard notices the blend of vulcan and terran aesthetic decorating the house. Realizing then that Kirks dream life to live with spock in quiet peace...

Using that to his advantage to tell kirk this isn't real and that's not actually spock (to which he receives a raised vulcan brow), but if kirk comes back to reality with him to stop sorren he can be reunited with spock, the real spock, who has refused to believe kirk is dead and has been searching for him for 80 long years, and that leaving the nexus means they could find each other again and share in this vision in reality and together. That makes kirk pause and after some time finally agree to come back (even the nexus' version of spock informs him of the logic of returning to reality, because of course he would)

Kirk not actually fucking dying at the end of generations because I still refuse to believe they did something so dumb. Reuniting with his t'hy'la who is so overcome with emotion a tear actually escapes his eye as he cradles kirks head, which kirk gently wipes away with a finger before they kiss and embrace like on genesis when they found each other before.

Kirk not having aged for 80 years which actually lines up with the vulcan's longer lifespan so they're pretty close to the same page now and can grow old together in a way that would have been impossible otherwise

Spock telling picard he owes the man a life debt for discovering the half of his soul the universe had told him was extinguished