So can we just talk about this episode of TAS where Kirk and Spock get turned into water-breathers (because of course they do and there were absolutely no drugs involved in the writing of this script)
Bones drags them up to Sickbay because these idiots and puts them in a tank, and Kirk is like:
waaaahhhh I’m going to have to live in a tank forever weh fix it
and then Bones is like, look, think about this logically, but Spock is no help:
we gotta go to back to the danger zone immediately because waaaahhh I don’t want to have to live in a tank forever
so Bones finally figure out how to fix it with the help of the Aquans, because why the hell not, and to celebrate they invite their leaders to visit the Enterprise, which, you know, would be a terribly boring tour because they’re going to have to spend the entire time in a tank in Sickbay, right?
nah
they’ve got these aqualungs
which Kirk and Spock JUST used to go back down to the planet
which they could have been wearing the whole damn time
instead it was “into the tank with you and we have to live here forever” like the ridiculous drama queens they are
imagine jim secretly learning spock’s first name. he almost drives nyota mad in the process because he can’t get his tongue around the syllables at all. eventually he’s able to pronounce it and oh so casually drops it into conversation with spock (on the bridge, of course, because lord knows jim loves an audience). spock says nothing to acknowledge that he’s even noticed, and only those working near his station would see that his face is bright green for at least an hour afterwards.
Kirk: If I was to flip a coin, what would be the chances of you giving me head?
please imagine jim teaching spock how to dance…. he puts on old terran love songs and starts off very focused, showing spock each step, but then it just slowly evolves into them slow dancing around the room, spocks arms around jims waist and jims arms around spocks neck, and theyre swaying to the music and spocks got this soft look in his eyes and jim just kisses him so so gently and its like theyre in this bubble of their own happiness
“…there must have been something we did in the series that provokes all these questions…In terms of your questions–what you saw was what we did. That’s the best answer I can give you.” Leonard Nimoy on slash fiction
Did Kirk have any relationships with aliens during TOS? “Only one, but it was continuous.” William Shatner at FedCon
“Certainly we all thought the affection was sufficient for that, if that were the particular style of the 23rd century.” Gene Roddenberry on whether Kirk and Spock could have been lovers
“T’hy’la–brother, friend or lover.” The infamous footnote about how Spock sees Kirk, on p. 22 of Roddenberry’s movie novelization.