For those playing along at home I am 2k into this spirk fic. It will probably take me a while to get there because I’ve got to write it all and then I have to massage and polish it for a while. So yeah just a lil update I guess.
Basic idea: SNW Spock and Kirk run into a race of aliens that are so dangerous to humans they can’t look at/hear/make noise around them without taking severe damage. So Spock uses the mind meld to wordlessly get them out. Also Spock is like oh no I’m having a feeling.
Well it was a fairly good guess 😅
You know I had my initial freak out about the new Kirk and now with some time and a little photo gathering I can like see it enough to give him a chance. I know magnanimous of me, a nobody, who has never seen him act. Could he be curvier? Yes. Could he be shorter? Yes. Could he be less stereotypically handsome? Yes. These are also not really important if he can do Kirk. Shatner isn’t a great actor but he was a great Kirk. Sometimes roles elevate the performer and this role has a lot of meat on it, a lot of potential. I guess in a year’s time we’ll see what he’ll do with it.
(my fan cast was Phil Dunster from Ted Lasso. I don’t even know if he can do an American accent but God he could have done the rest. But that’s in the past now. This is the new Kirk we have)
You know what’s funny. I think Roddenberry accidentally created the greatest love story in Spock and Kirk. The more I look into how he created them and why they are such a unit every creative choice was him creating a metaphor for soulmates or showing the markers of relationships. I’ve run across many accounts of their creation and understanding the creative process I imagine all of them are, to an extent, true.
- Kirk and Spock being a single character broken into 2 (soulmates/call me by your name phenomenon)
- allowing those parts of the self to commune and contemplate and react to each other in an intimate way because there is automatically an intimacy between two halfs of the one whole. They literally complete each other.
- kirk representing the passion and Spock the logic (you kind of see this a bit in relationships sometimes when one person is like the loud one and the other one is like the one that plans haha it seems like a wishy washy point but I believe it stands)
- in response to Spock’s popularity (in my belief particularly because he reflected humanities struggle with emotion, emotional acceptance/ honesty and truth) Gene asked Issac Asimov how to ensure Kirk didn’t fall into the background and Asimov responded “make them a team so when people think of Spock they think of Kirk”. Good relationships are like a team of 2. When you think of Spock you think immediately of kirk. No other person or thing really comes between them in terms of “what comes first in each other’s lives” except maybe the ship but that is something they both share/cherish and care for and would also both sacrifice for each other.
- gene had wanted to include a gay relationship on screen but assumed he would be taken off air and while his reactions to the idea of Kirk and Spock being together have varied it’s never been a definitive no absolutely not. As we know there’s even been a few times where he’s added nods to the possibility with the invention of Th'y'la and his admission that their love for each other was sufficient for sexual intimacy.
Less salient points in support of Spock and Kirk as an actual real thing
- this is obviously a side point not really about thier creation but paramount gave the thumbs up to the most homoerotic subtext in the star trek pulp series. Did they say it was not canon? Yes. But did they approve Spock giving Kirk a naked mind meld that made Kirk melt into him? Yes. Did they approve a poem that is strongly suggested is written by Spock where his love for his captain is written on his heart? Yes. Did they give a thumbs up to Spock and Kirk rolling around in the grass while Spock is in heat? Yes. COME ON.
- there’s a lot of interpretations of kirks sexuality but for me the first time I saw it, without any context of spirk and the broader star trek lore, I assumed Kirk was a very sexual person and that he was not bound by gender/race/alien type. The impression was very much ‘if they’re compatible then I’m down". He’s a very touch based person. He’s cheeky to the extent that it really comes off as flirty with most people. I wanna say he dresses provocatively but it’s not his fault the uniforms fit him like th-(not relevant). Do I think he’s a womanizer? No. Do I think he’s a sexual pan/bi guy that doesn’t go wanting? Yes.
Anyway in conclusion greatest accidental and legitimate love story.
Gene Roddenberry *about Spock and Kirk*: there certainly was enough affection for physical sexual love. It’s up to you
Me: Well then they boned, Gene. Decision made. I made it. They boned.
Spock *internally*: oh surak
Michael,
In your previous message you enquired about the new Captain. He is…not what I expected. His fleet records describe a skilled tactician, diplomat and leader. I have found him to be brash, vexatious and unpredictable. Not unlike you. He is….fascinating.
I shall send another message when I have more information.
Spock out.
‘This link would have to be deep, directional, binding at a distance. It has never been attempted for such a purpose. I would-take care. But you would still find the depth disturbing.’
There was a tap on Spock’s shoulder.
Kirk felt the tap too.
‘Do it, Spock. Now!’
Spock shifted his grip on Kirk’s face. There was no precedent for this, no words which could be used. Only the necessity of reaching deep, quickly, deeper than ever, a swift agony of barriers to be broken, reaching through layers and levels and hidden places which wanted and did not want to be touched, gathering up gossamer strands of the link into a slender, indissoluble thread.
The Human gasped and sagged against the Vulcan. A moment of rebellion, no, not to be so close, so open, no. The rebellion put down. Necessity. Then, finally, being able to bear it, to reach for it, to reach back. Yes.
A gloved hand ripped Kirk’s hand off Spock’s shoulder.
- Page 29 of The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (an actual Star Trek paper back that goes this hard this early and simply does not quit).
Uncensored ver here:
Price of the Phoenix WIP 🚧
An actual scene from The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, the MVPs of getting spirk published.
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ALTTONY DALTON as LALO SALAMANCA
in BETTER CALL SAUL 6x05 - BLACK AND BLUE
