the thing I love most about Kirk’s string of ex lovers across the galaxy is that every time he runs into one he’s like
“!!!!! How are you!! I missed you so much!! How’s your career?? Successful?? I’m so happy for you!! Haha, remember that time we almost got married!! But both of our careers were in the way?? That hasn’t changed but I’m still kinda in love with you and I’m happy you’re doing well!!! Goodbye forever again it’s a shame we never got married but I understand!!”
Bring back this kind of male hero please and thank you.
could you imagine The Enterprise having like a yearly inspection and Kirk bugs out every time because the best running ship in the fleet certainly doesn’t become so because they follow therules. He has to remind the crew a week in advance to actually call him Captain and use formal titles. Bones and Scotty’s shared bathroom which is one hundred percent a liquor cabinet/distillery cannot be a thing.
Sulu has to collect all of his plants out of everywhere that’s not the Botany Labs and hide the illegal ones he picked up during their journey in his quarters. Scotty has to remove all of his Scotty-Approved-Modifications from Engineering. Spock can’t work four shifts in a row and break the ensigns that challenge him in the gym to sparring matches. Bones can’t medically offer alcohol to anybody. Uhura needs to not curse every ten minutes, in any language. Chekov needs to focus more on his console and less on every pair of legs walking by his station.
Nurse Chapel needs to actually do what McCoy says, rather than agreeing with him then doing something wildly different but more productive and helpful. Bones isn’t allowed on the Bridge unless called. Spock needs to sit at his console, standing up and leaning over all coy is actually a safety hazard. Scotty can’t use scottish slang over the comm system
But then something *happens* like it always does to Kirk–the “hole in space/giant glowing hand” kind of thing–and all of that goes out the window–in the course of, say, 38 hours Jim gets called “jim” 50 times, Spock never goes off shift, the ship is hit and all of sulus plants fall out of the closet they were stuffed in, uhura is swearing up a storm and Scotty’s jurry-rigging everything, checkov gets caught staring at the pretty alien, and Chapel does her damn job thank you, and Bones appears in the bridge to yell at everybody like he does.
BUT, at the end of the day, Kirk has secured a new treaty because the culture values closeness over formality, Spock’s marathon at the science station has collected enough data to keep the academy busy for *months*, one of the aliens is fascinated by the plants ensuring a new collaboration between their scientists and starfleet, Scottys improvements to the systems prevent their new friends from getting eliminated by their enemies and uhura’s swearing intimidated the enemy into backing off, and the princess is totally ensnared with Chekov–oh, and Bones discovers the cure for the new mystery illness is the bathroom moonshine, and chapel saves the fucking day.
The inspector just throws up their hands because he’d read the Kirk file, *but he never believed it was true*
ive been thinking lately about the tng/ds9/voy triad and like, im sure im giving someone in writing the benefit of the doubt, but how perfectly those series reflect and mirror each other philosophically, like 3 sides of the same coin, and its pretty damn good. tng 2 me is exactly summed up by siskos quote of its easy to be a saint in paradise. ds9 itself is about war in all its impersonal brutality and the nasty side of politics and especially of the federation itself, and surviving that. voyager is about being so far removed from it all and still trying to keep up a moral highground - without any outer context to supply it anymore, and no overarching institutional law (read consequence) at all. and that theyre set the same time too. and then you go into it a bit more and you see each independant show bring this up in itself a few times (even if they continue regardless the next episode which is pheh). its just really fucking cool 2 me
like picard is about following the rules even if its wrong. he’ll debate it to the cows come home the writers will go Ah Ah Ah Is This Right? but he will always side with the federation - law - because law is primarily good. ds9 lampshades all of tng by having sisko be forced to do horrible terrible things for the good of federation at large, and how he takes things into his own hands to protect others because he doesnt actually trust the federation at all and for good reason - law is primarily bad. taking the federation away entirely - voyager makes an effort of trying to be about janeway trying to apply irrelevant morals to her crew for stabilitys sake, which in the end the writers dont really do very well as she always sides with federation morals but theres a few where she dont because the law is inapplicable, utterly
and its just like, i dont know, its cool
So…
Picard is Lawful Good, Janeway is Neutral Good, and Sisko is Chaotic Good.
spock: self care is meditation, organizing your thoughts, and applying logic to your situation in times when your mind is not at peace
kirk: self care is drinking fifteen red bulls and launching yourself into space so you can go get in a fistfight on the astral plane with an alien who says hes god
