Cimorene

( you sound bitter, captain. )

bonuses:( kirk strikes two manly and heterosexual poses for your viewing pleasure )

( the big three in their dress uniforms because i think they're pretty x5 )

( the mystical cordless microphone of Deus Ex Machina x2 )

( spock displays the slightly rare but very memorable Sprawl x1 )

unfortunately, this episode presupposes that dna tests don't exist, which creates a fairly large plot hole for the ordinary spackler.  other people might find it more comfortable to simply ignore.  but i kind of like it, anyway.  the themes of the episode are echoed in shakespeare!  and the Girl of the Week is very, very swedish.  her facial structure is a lot like wax_jism's, but she lacks the button nose and is very blond. 

( one k/s sequence on the bridge )

there's a spock/mccoy friendship scene that had me squeeing all the way through, too, where spock comes to the doctor for advice.  but again i finger bad writing, because while he's deliberately dense mccoy isn't really THAT thick.  ( at least don't knock it till you've tried it, spock )

in case you're curious, ( the very swedish face )

and now, if you haven't seen the episode, but you're going to, the last couple are spoilers, but they're quite cool.  this is one of the few episodes where "spoiler" has meaning, but nonetheless it does.  when i figured out the end i had a little "oh cool" moment.  i don't want to ruin that for anyone.  so, there's ( spoiler space inside the cut. )

this episode also sort of mirrors the plot of "the menagerie", which i consider pivotal from a k/s timeline standpoint.  because of his personal suspicion that an actor is actually the vanished-and-presumed-dead governor of the colony where kirk lived when he was about ten--a governor who earned the epithet "the butcher" for declaring martial law in a food shortage and putting half the colonists to death--he arranges to have the actors aboard to investigate for himself.  he diverts the enterprise from her assigned course, refusing to discuss his actions and becoming very brusque on the occasions when spock tries to question him, until a confrontation where he actually yells. 

(in "the menagerie" [1x16][coming soon!], spock hijacks the whole enterprise and picks up the former captain, whom he also served under, to give him a ride back to a planet they visited once before, subjecting himself [and kirk, who as his commanding officer is also responsible] to a court martial.  kirk is very disturbed on that occasion--in my interpretation, principally because spock doesn't confide in him at all.)

this episode wants us to think it's deep, so it has a Very Serious Closer.  first of all you have to understand that during the episode ( kirk was tortured in the Chair of Hypnotic Suggestion )

which works by calming you down, and then emptying your brain completely so that you're so eager for some company you'll do whatever someone tells you if they speak into the ( little microphone. )

(it only causes pain at the higher settings).  while they were busy grabbing control of the hospital, kirk's torturer fell into the chair while it was turned on at full, and nobody remembered to come and save him until he was already Dead, Jim.  but there wasn't a mark on him!  he died from the existential pain of his brain being so Empty! 

( Very Serious Closer scene: n'awwwh )

and this has nothing to do with kirk or spock, but this episode has one of my favourite guest stars.  she looks like jennifer garner and plays a spunky psychologist who keeps arguing with kirk. 

( dr helen noel x9 )

and a bonus from the very beginning of the episode.( k makes some funny faces over s's shoulder )

24 total.  139 of the whole episode in a gallery here.

( the only appropriate location for watching the viewscreen=right behind kirk's right shoulder )

( spock's facial expressions )

( warbird & romulan commander )

( spock fixing a short circuit with actual smoke and sparks )

( k&s on the darkened bridge while they're playing dead )

( kirk on his bunk )

( s attempts to comfort close-to-despairing k )

( more manly heterosexual poses from spock )

( k & s take cover in the grass in a phaser scuffle )

( spock's been knocked out and kirk rushes in when he gets word )

bonus! ( mccoy rather hot in his undershirt )

i'll probably post some annotated screencap scenes from "the man-trap" (1x06) and "the naked time" (1x07) tomorrow, so i decided to post some sequences without the annotation from 1x08 today.  the clips i want don't need dialogue, i think.  25 in all.

( spock playing the lyra, uhura singing )

( kirk and spock play chess )

( kirk models the silliest looking workout outfit EVER )

( when something needs fixin', kirk takes spock off to an empty conference room to brainstorm together )

( scenes from the bridge )

( k and s confront a demi-god unarmed )

whole gallery, 130 caps, is here.

the dialogue isn't important here but i've included it because (a) i love the technobabble and (b) if you've seen the ep it may be of interest.

( seven caps' worth of flirty glances )

bonus ( + 4 )

whole gallery here, 63 caps.

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this is the scene from star trek:tos 1x26: "the devil in the dark" with the odds conversation referenced in my icon.  it's one of my favourite funny kirk/spock scenes.  so. cute.  as i was making this i was thinking i should have made more caps, but really, i do tend to go overboard.

( those are pretty good odds, mr spock. )

there's also a later scene where the alien caves in a bit of cave while kirk and spock are conferring via communicator and spock loses his calm so far as to switch from yelling "captain!" to yelling "JIM!"  when kirk finally responds, spock advises him to kill the alien immediately, even though he's just five minutes past contradicted kirk's direct orders by telling the security agents to try to capture it.  when kirk calls him on it, he says impatiently, [why didn't i write this down?  have to paraphrase] "your life may be in immediate danger!"

eta: whole episode gallery (76 caps) here. ( 10 samples )