paul wesley gets it. that’s MY CAPTAIN KIRK!!
[image ID: from a star trek strange new worlds comic con cast interview. the interviewer asks paul wesley (who plays captain jim kirk in strange new worlds): “what can you tell me about the kirk/spock dynamic?” paul wesley replies: “spirk.” end image ID]
What about spirk Paul? What about it? Care to speak on it more? Hm hm hm? Speak on your thoughts on that?
Kirk completely lost in Spock’s touch, hanging on for dear life like its all he can do. This is a NSFW fanart so I won’t be describing it more then that but if you’re 18+ you can check it out here - https://twitter.com/sassy_spade/status/1551203624327745541?s=21&t=GjuDB8dGm5NGgndLVKO1Vg
✨ spirk wip ✨ what could ever be happening here ✨
Michael,
An update on Captain Kirk. He continues to subvert my expectations. The other day gravity on the ship ceased functioning while we were in engineering. Many Captains would find this a stressful or annoying situation. However, as no danger presented itself the Captain was not only calm but seemed to enjoy solving the problem in zero gravity. He is highly intelligent and quite…acrobatic.
Spock out.
ID: Spock and Kirk are floating within the cavernous space of engineering. Behind them is the warp core, below them science stations. Spock is floating almost horizontally looking up while Kirk is floating vertically about his head and shoulders. They are face to face and Kirk is grinning wide seemingly enjoying himself. Spock’s expression is the Vulcan picture of surprise as Kirk opts for a ‘fun’ approach to fixing a problem.
MCCOY: Spock, what happened down there? The girl? The wedding?
SPOCK: Ah, yes, the girl. Most interesting. It must have been the combat. When I thought I had killed the captain, I found I had lost all interest in T'Pring. The madness was gone.
Um, yeah. Sure.
Must've been the "combat."
(TOS S2E1: Amok Time)
Welcome to my unhinged rantings about the season finale of SNW in general and why I think Spirk is now dead in the water.
SOME POTENTIAL SPOILERS BASED ON S2 SET PHOTOS.
Ok so I love Balance of Terror, I love that the Romulans began with this ornate double speak, Mark Lenard who played the Romulan commander (and then on the strength of this performance later played Sarek) brought a staggering gravitas to the role, the cat and mouse games they played through the episode were delicious and it was a shining example of Kirk railing against attacking and not seeking war where one could be avoided. Given all this I did not love they they kind of gutted that episode, placed Kirk in a more combative position and used it as a vehicle for Pike’s acceptance of his future. I kinda feel like I wish Kirk wasn’t in it at all.
This was an alternative timeline so I’m trying to give it the benefit of the doubt but aside from Kirk being disappointingly combative in a moment when he should have been exemplifying cool-headed restraint, I also found him to be not charming and flat. He also came off as profoundly unslutty which made me sad. I know this episode didn’t give him a lot of moments to be charming or complex or indeed slutty so maybe given a different timeline he will be different. But also maybe not you know. Which brings us to spirk.
Ah spirk. Spock and Kirk as a story device work so perfectly because they are two parts of the same whole. JJ didn’t know what to do with a relationship this close so he settled for begrudging affectionate rivalry and then awkward put upon friendship. It looks like SNW is content to swerve even more off the exceptionally-close-relationship path by giving meaningful character development meant for the two of them to share to female love interests. With Spock it’s t’pring AND chapel and with Kirk, given the kissing photos we’ve seen from season 2 of SNW it’s gonna be ba-da-ba-ba-ba La’an.
La’an makes sense as Kirk’s love interest. They’ve both suffered severe trauma at a young age and in fact when La’an discussed her experience with the Gorn I did literally think of Kirk’s experience on Tarsus IV. La’an is also intelligent, strong, beautiful, determined and tough. So instead of wiling away nights playing chess or chatting or rolling around in one of the ships gardens at night mind melding (it happened in the books) Spock and Kirk will be operating on a fully bros level with lady problems instead. I can almost guarantee that.
I feel like it’s really a testament to how much I genuinely love this show that in spite of them very likely killing spirk with a hammer in the streets and gutting balance of terror that I cannot wait for next season and I just wish they were given way, way more episodes to play with. You don’t get a ‘Geordie and Data play Sherlock Holmes’ ep if you only have 10 eps in your season. You don’t get a trouble with tribbles ep if you get 10 eps a season. You don’t get a ‘Lwaxana makes everyone horny with her menopause’ ep if you only have 10 eps. And that’s a crime my friends.
I love that there was this version above (with De and his beautiful smile) of this great publicity photo from Star Trek VI.
Above is the photo that was used on billboards, bus stops, etc. De is serious in this one.
Look at these goofballs not standing in front of their characters during the press conference.
Power stances!!!!!
Spock and Kirk foot touching ✨
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ALTTONY DALTON as LALO SALAMANCA
in BETTER CALL SAUL 6x05 - BLACK AND BLUE
