Back on my Star Trek Bullshit

mutual pining is such a great shrancher genre… a delicious blend of culturally-induced obliviousness, duty-bound emotional distance, and belligerent sexual tension… also a huge fan of the comedic potential of "everyone around them thinks they know what's going on, obviously they're sleeping together, DUH," meanwhile they're standing on opposite ends of the bridge and looking at each other when the other one isn't looking and archer is like "yeah I almost died for him the other week, but it's just because our people need to cooperate and he's our best chance at an alliance… we're just normal friends tbh. barely see each other outside of work" and Shran is like "we have an honor-bound covenant. no that's not a euphemism. he clearly doesn't understand when I'm coming onto him, so he's not interested. anyway, he's the only alien I trust. normal-style." meanwhile they're standing one dick-length apart and glaring into each other's eyes like nothing else in the universe matters, and everyone else isn't sure whether they should leave or not, because the diplomatic treaty of the week hasn't been signed yet, but they're scared that these two weird middle-aged soldiers are going to start ripping each other's uniforms off in the middle of the function room like teenage vulcans during their first pon farr

the funniest thing abt the animated series is still mccoy constantly pestering spock for being a weird alien with abnormal physique that is super hard to treat. despite the fact that they introduced another crewman who straight up has three arms and three legs

bones: i hate treating nonhuman aliens so much its soo annoying and lame. not you arex and m'ress you did nothing wrong in your lives ever and i know it

yeah.

This always reminds me of that scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (?) where Drax thinks Mantis' antannae are for sensing doorways that are too low so she doesn't get decapitated 🤣