The Scarlet Manuka

You are in the house of Elrond. And it is ten o'clock in the morning, on October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.

~ Popular Amusements, Rev. J.T. Crane, D.D., 1870

yes, I can. You are being Reginald Barclay rn, who no one liked, who was addicted to interacting with holo-people, who had ISSUES.

The first episode of Star Trek EVER, the Cage, follows the Talosians, a race of people who became so reliant on entertainment via the creation of illusion that they lost the ability to do ANYTHING for themselves in real life because the illusion was COMFORTING AND PREDICTABLE.

Can we talk about how much trust Starsky has in Hutch? Look at this moment from "The Fix" for example. Poor Hutch is going through horrific withdrawal and desperate for it to end. They work on the streets. They know the score. They know what kind of things situations like this can drive otherwise good people to do.

Still, Starsky doesn't flinch. A quick blink is the extent of his reaction. That's some next level, almost idiotic amounts of trust. This is the fourth episode of season one! They really drove home how special their bond was from the word go, and boy did it ever pay off!

Bonus gif because it's so sweet:

Sorcerer’s Gun by Don Maitz (1999)

Art © Don Maitz