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cimorenelast episode in season one! this is a slashy episode which i think leans slightly towards the established relationship side of the force. i have refrained from recapping a few suggestive scenes for reasons of plot, space, etc.
it is also significant for a couple of other reasons: (1) we find out jim has an older brother, who shows up unexpectedly dead, and we see jim's reactions to this grief in moments of crisis. (2) spock is blinded, and at the time, we don't know that it's temporary.
dialogueless: this happens immediately after they discover the body of KIRK's brother, by the way.
these are, obviously, KIRK's hands.
annotated:
KIRK: we've tried heat... radiation... what other qualities or properties does the sun have?
SPOCK: ...it exists. it occupies space. it has mass, therefore gravity. it converts matter to energy.
KIRK has taken a brief mental holiday and is randomly fiddling with the buttons on the console in front of him, apparently without knowing what they will do. he flips a switch and light in front of him flashes.
MCCOY, impatiently: jim, we've been through it and THROUGH it. radiation, heat--
KIRK: [face of I Am Just About To Be Brilliant] and one other thing you haven't mentioned.
MCCOY looks irritated and confused while SPOCK looks receptive and confused.
KIRK: it's bright! it radiates a blinding light, if you get close enough to it!
MCCOY, angrily: there's nothing lethal about light!
KIRK: not to *us*!
the giant saran-wrap amoeba that attached itself to SPOCK's back is one "cell" of a hive-mind kind of body-snatcher which makes its career taking over the entire populations of planets. it makes the victims it infects do what it wants by the application of lots of pain, and its mission is to (dun dun DUN) spread! throughout the galaxy! so SPOCK and KIRK's nephew are both infected, as is the whole population of the planet. KIRK has just figured out above that they can kill the organisms without hurting the hosts by shining bright light on the planet. they test it on SPOCK first to make sure, and it works, but the light is so bright it leaves him blind.
dialogueless:
SPOCK appears in the test chamber door and tells KIRK and MCCOY cheerfully that it worked. then he walks a bit slowly out of the room...
and straight into the table. this stricken look appears on his face.
"i am also quite blind," he says calmly. KIRK runs to him and grabs his shoulders, but SPOCK doesn't react.
then KIRK helps him around the table and into a chair,
without once
taking his hands off SPOCK.
then it turns out they didn't need to use visible light at all so the blindness was unnecessary. KIRK and MCCOY are both feeling very guilty, but their mission is a success (except for, you know, the people like KIRK's brother sam who are already dead).
annotated:
SPOCK and MCCOY enter the bridge at a brisk walk. KIRK is slow at first, staring up at SPOCK arrestedby what he thinks is the most beautiful sight EVAH, his baby walking again without a cane!.
KIRK, breathlessly: spock!
SPOCK stops and turns to watch him approach, but it's a long beat before KIRK can speak.
KIRK: ...you can see!
SPOCK gives a brief nod and an expression slightly short of a smile.
MCCOY: the blindness was temporary, jim. there's something about his optical nerves which aren't the same as a human's.
SPOCK, turning to almost-smile at KIRK some more: an hereditary trait, captain. the brightness of the vulcan sun has caused the development of an inner eyelid which acts as a shield against high intensity light. totally instinctive, doctor. we tend to ignore it, as you ignore your own appendix.
SPOCK continues to his station serenely while KIRK, MCCOY and UHURA exchange a couple of glances. then KIRK follows him.
KIRK: mr spock?
SPOCK turns to KIRK expectantly.
KIRK, beginning to infringe on SPOCK's personal space: regaining eyesight would be an emotional experience for most. [leaning forward] you, i presume, felt nothing?
SPOCK, still matter-of-factly: quite the contrary, captain, i had a very strong reaction. my first sight was the face of dr mccoy bending over me.
MCCOY: [lifting an eyebrow] hmm. 's a pity brief blindness did not increase your appreciation for beauty, mr spock.
KIRK, irritated that his boyfriend is playing with someone else, even if that someone is their mutual best friend: if you gentlemen are finished, would you mind laying in a course for starbase ten, mr spock?
SPOCK: my pleasure, captain.
MCCOY follows KIRK to his command chair and leans close to speak confidentially.
MCCOY: an unusual eye arrangement... i might've known he'd turn up with something like that.
KIRK, leaning closer: what's that, bones?
MCCOY, practically whispering: i said please don't tell spock that i said he was the best first officer in the fleet.
KIRK frowns.
SPOCK turns his chair around.
SPOCK: why, thank you, dr mccoy.
SPOCK raises his eyebrows and smirks.
KIRK: you've been so concerned about his vulcan eyes, doctor, you forgot about his vulcan ears. [leaning back in his chair] ahead warp factor one, sulu.
KIRK glances sideways to exchange one last warm private look with SPOCK, who definitely smiles to himself before turning back around.
bonus! panty line, lack of personal space, weird faces, dorky goggles.
the look of loooooooove.
i just like this one for some reason.
the alien.
that's majel barrett, roddenberry's wife, playing nurse chapel.
seriously, could they be any touchier and cuddlier?
oops, someone is behind me, i guess i'd better engage in full-frontal body contact with spock.
hmm, maybe frottage in public WASN'T such a good idea.
the whole gallery is here. a handful of the individual pictures won't load--i think this is an lj server issue, but i could be wrong.
also, there's a not-to-be-missed story set during this episode. and in darkness bind you by greywolf the wanderer is an angsty and solemn spock-pov first-time, and a spackle. i consider it a classic of the genre. i think it's safe to say that greywolf is a classic for the pairing, too. spock point of view is sort of his specialty (and it's very good, though weirdly talkative and unorthodox in places). i find his kirk often rings false for me and i think it suffers from a slight plot flaw, but the story is beautiful.
it is also significant for a couple of other reasons: (1) we find out jim has an older brother, who shows up unexpectedly dead, and we see jim's reactions to this grief in moments of crisis. (2) spock is blinded, and at the time, we don't know that it's temporary.
dialogueless: this happens immediately after they discover the body of KIRK's brother, by the way.
these are, obviously, KIRK's hands.
annotated:
KIRK: we've tried heat... radiation... what other qualities or properties does the sun have?
SPOCK: ...it exists. it occupies space. it has mass, therefore gravity. it converts matter to energy.
KIRK has taken a brief mental holiday and is randomly fiddling with the buttons on the console in front of him, apparently without knowing what they will do. he flips a switch and light in front of him flashes.
MCCOY, impatiently: jim, we've been through it and THROUGH it. radiation, heat--
KIRK: [face of I Am Just About To Be Brilliant] and one other thing you haven't mentioned.
MCCOY looks irritated and confused while SPOCK looks receptive and confused.
KIRK: it's bright! it radiates a blinding light, if you get close enough to it!
MCCOY, angrily: there's nothing lethal about light!
KIRK: not to *us*!
the giant saran-wrap amoeba that attached itself to SPOCK's back is one "cell" of a hive-mind kind of body-snatcher which makes its career taking over the entire populations of planets. it makes the victims it infects do what it wants by the application of lots of pain, and its mission is to (dun dun DUN) spread! throughout the galaxy! so SPOCK and KIRK's nephew are both infected, as is the whole population of the planet. KIRK has just figured out above that they can kill the organisms without hurting the hosts by shining bright light on the planet. they test it on SPOCK first to make sure, and it works, but the light is so bright it leaves him blind.
dialogueless:
SPOCK appears in the test chamber door and tells KIRK and MCCOY cheerfully that it worked. then he walks a bit slowly out of the room...
and straight into the table. this stricken look appears on his face.
"i am also quite blind," he says calmly. KIRK runs to him and grabs his shoulders, but SPOCK doesn't react.
then KIRK helps him around the table and into a chair,
without once
taking his hands off SPOCK.
then it turns out they didn't need to use visible light at all so the blindness was unnecessary. KIRK and MCCOY are both feeling very guilty, but their mission is a success (except for, you know, the people like KIRK's brother sam who are already dead).
annotated:
SPOCK and MCCOY enter the bridge at a brisk walk. KIRK is slow at first, staring up at SPOCK arrested
KIRK, breathlessly: spock!
SPOCK stops and turns to watch him approach, but it's a long beat before KIRK can speak.
KIRK: ...you can see!
SPOCK gives a brief nod and an expression slightly short of a smile.
MCCOY: the blindness was temporary, jim. there's something about his optical nerves which aren't the same as a human's.
SPOCK, turning to almost-smile at KIRK some more: an hereditary trait, captain. the brightness of the vulcan sun has caused the development of an inner eyelid which acts as a shield against high intensity light. totally instinctive, doctor. we tend to ignore it, as you ignore your own appendix.
SPOCK continues to his station serenely while KIRK, MCCOY and UHURA exchange a couple of glances. then KIRK follows him.
KIRK: mr spock?
SPOCK turns to KIRK expectantly.
KIRK, beginning to infringe on SPOCK's personal space: regaining eyesight would be an emotional experience for most. [leaning forward] you, i presume, felt nothing?
SPOCK, still matter-of-factly: quite the contrary, captain, i had a very strong reaction. my first sight was the face of dr mccoy bending over me.
MCCOY: [lifting an eyebrow] hmm. 's a pity brief blindness did not increase your appreciation for beauty, mr spock.
KIRK, irritated that his boyfriend is playing with someone else, even if that someone is their mutual best friend: if you gentlemen are finished, would you mind laying in a course for starbase ten, mr spock?
SPOCK: my pleasure, captain.
MCCOY follows KIRK to his command chair and leans close to speak confidentially.
MCCOY: an unusual eye arrangement... i might've known he'd turn up with something like that.
KIRK, leaning closer: what's that, bones?
MCCOY, practically whispering: i said please don't tell spock that i said he was the best first officer in the fleet.
KIRK frowns.
SPOCK turns his chair around.
SPOCK: why, thank you, dr mccoy.
SPOCK raises his eyebrows and smirks.
KIRK: you've been so concerned about his vulcan eyes, doctor, you forgot about his vulcan ears. [leaning back in his chair] ahead warp factor one, sulu.
KIRK glances sideways to exchange one last warm private look with SPOCK, who definitely smiles to himself before turning back around.
bonus! panty line, lack of personal space, weird faces, dorky goggles.
the look of loooooooove.
i just like this one for some reason.
the alien.
that's majel barrett, roddenberry's wife, playing nurse chapel.
seriously, could they be any touchier and cuddlier?
oops, someone is behind me, i guess i'd better engage in full-frontal body contact with spock.
hmm, maybe frottage in public WASN'T such a good idea.
the whole gallery is here. a handful of the individual pictures won't load--i think this is an lj server issue, but i could be wrong.
also, there's a not-to-be-missed story set during this episode. and in darkness bind you by greywolf the wanderer is an angsty and solemn spock-pov first-time, and a spackle. i consider it a classic of the genre. i think it's safe to say that greywolf is a classic for the pairing, too. spock point of view is sort of his specialty (and it's very good, though weirdly talkative and unorthodox in places). i find his kirk often rings false for me and i think it suffers from a slight plot flaw, but the story is beautiful.
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Date: 15 Nov 2005 10:53 pm (UTC)i firmly believe that because of you, kirk/spok lives on. with keen goggle glasses. plus, it's hip!
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Date: 15 Nov 2005 10:57 pm (UTC)you know, there are other people on lj who are into k/S. i mean, nobody whom i consider a good writer is still writing it to my knowledge, but i think they have a good time.
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Date: 16 Nov 2005 12:18 am (UTC)in the interim i have maybe four days where i am online all day if i so desire. it's weird, because now it gets old. i didn't think it would. i think i'm just going through a depressed spell which is something strange and foreign, but i've done things like cleaned up my friendslist and such. of course, i check you.
i am sure that the ones who are hip are tuned in to your journal (ks watchers, i mean) and vice versa.
today i saw someobody on my list
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Date: 16 Nov 2005 12:41 pm (UTC)yeah, i know your access is intermittent, i haven't seen a comment from you in quite a long time. ulp, months without internet! sad.