this simple feeling

Who are you?

Thine Own Self

cant decide which version I like more so have both

AOS Kirk is an angry kid who isn’t following the rules to spite. He’s trying to live up to what a Kirk is through his brother’s eyes. But he only ends up hating the name because he can never seem to be enough for it. 

TOS is James T. Kirk, passionate, but controlled, thoughtful and mature.

AOS is Jim Kirk, young, angry and living in the shadow of his own last name.

This one damned scene explains so much. This was an entirely different way of living. This isn’t just about his father dying. This is about when and how he realized he didn’t have to do the expected.

This is about WHY he became the reckless man we see in AOS. 

This one tiny scene shows us a motive for the wildness of AOS’ Jim Kirk. This takes it out of the realm of “he’s young and doesn’t understand why he has to play by the rules.“ 

TOS Kirk ignores the rules because he knows they could be wrong, he knows it could make actions better.

STAR WARS PREQUELS APPRECIATION WEEK

Ah, Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space.

getting to know each other

Captain Pike’s ready room aboard USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 is “indigenous and cowboy themed”, decorated with Navajo artwork, pottery, glass, rug, Frederic Remington horse sculptures, sofa and lobster chairs/recliners, wooden conference table from Pike’s childhood that had been hit by lightning, and a screen of the starry sky above Mojave desert.

Tamara Deverell, production designer: “When we decided we were going to do the ready room for Captain Pike I, of course, watched “The Cage” and went back to TOS and looked a lot at the character. We talked a lot to the writers as well about what his backstory is, what his history was, where he is from in Mojave, what he collected and what he brought with him. He brought stuff. We had stuff from New Mexico, from Mojave, from Arizona and we brought all of that in.

He had a table that he brought in that was his table from childhood that had been hit by lightning. So, there was a whole backstory and richness and the other aspect was that he was a warm character who wanted to welcome people. He didn’t want a cold space. He wanted people to come in, so we had a sitting area. We made a bigger space and place where you could have a meeting.