i really hope that in the future, no one is pressured to change their family name because of something like marriage.
however………. someone mistakenly referring to Spock as “Mr. Kirk” is something i think about a lot.
…….Jim is always calling him Mr. Spock, so what if one day in their quarters, he flips it and starts calling him Mr. Kirk? Like just in a cute “you’re my space husband″ kind of way and Spock won’t admit it, but he likes it. It becomes their secret thing…until Jim slips up and refers to Spock as Mr. Kirk in public somewhere.
Imagine Bones overhearing this.
Someone from some non-Starfleet organization sends them an invitation to a formal event and it’s addressed to Mr. and Mr. Kirk.
The nameplate outside of their apartment reads: S’chn T’gai-Kirk
While teaching at the academy, Jim thinks it’s amusing to refer to Spock as “Captain Kirk” and see how long it takes for his class to figure out he’s not talking about himself
Filling out documentation like:
Last Name: | K | i | r | k |
First Name: | S | p | o | c | k |
Spock making reservations like:
“Yes, I would appreciate your assistance in reserving a table on the evening of XYZ at ZYX time. Place it under the name Kirk.”
Spock showing up like:
“Indeed. My reservation is under my last name. Kirk.”
Jim purrs in Spock’s ear, “Good evening, Captain Kirk.”
Before they’re officially married, Jim totally DOES NOT make a list of names to see how they sound, like “S’chn T’Gai Jim, Jim Spock, Spock Kirk, S’chn T’gai-Kirk Spock, Jim Kirk-S’chn T’Gai”
Boarding vessels for trips to Vulcan and the staff greets Spock like: “Welcome aboard, Mr. Kirk!” They then turn to Jim. “Good evening, Mr. Kirk. Your quarters are this way, if you’d both kindly follow me…”
Amanda sending letters to Spock and starting with, “Long time no talk, Mr. Kirk!” Sarek thinks this is entirely illogical (but secretly wishes he took the name Grayson)
After Jim passes on, Spock will only use the last name Kirk to refer to himself; he’s convinced that this helps to keep his husband’s memory alive
Here’s my contribution :-P
Imagine Spock getting to the invite first and being pleasantly surprised by his married name.
In case you can’t read the text, it states: “Mr. and Mr. Kirk - You are formally invited to a dinner in your name which will honor all of your combined accomplishments throughout your service. We request the honor of your presence on stardate 4579.33 at 2100 hours standard time.”
I JUST HAD TO ADD THIS.
“Mr Spock.” McCoy said.
“Actually, it is Mr Kirk.” Spock Prime said, sitting on the biobed.
The younger Leonard McCoy looked at Spock Prime quite oddly.
“What?” McCoy asked, surprised.
“You may call me Mr Kirk.” Spock Prime said. “You may call me Ambassador Spock but not Mr Spock.”
“So I take it Jim is marrying you–your younger self in the future.” McCoy said.
“Precisely.” Spock Prime said.
“You are not surprised.” McCoy said, then looked down toward the medical tricorder.
“Bones, we were t’hy’lara.” Spock Prime said. McCoy looked up in alarm from the tricorder. It appeared that his other self had yet to call the doctor by his nickname or the Tholian events to occur. “We loved our doctor dearly.”
Spock Prime saw tears growing from the edges of the doctors eyes.
“Excuse me.” The young brown eyed doctor left leaving Spock. “Nurse Chapel, please attend to Ambassador Spock.” And he made his way out of the sick bay placing a medical tricorder on the table. Spock saw the fresh, young blonde Christine Chapel. She was so young with light blue eyes. “Thank you, Christine.”
After retirement, they start going in schools to talk to kids about Starfleet and their adventures on the Enterprise. Of course Spock gets the shy kid <3
@spaceandstarlight did me a favor and I promised to draw Tos!Spirk in return. This is for you!
Race isn’t the only thing that makes this new version of Star Trek squeamish. As I have argued throughout this book, one of the most affecting themes in Trek is the tender love between Kirk and Spock, which has over the decades lent itself to intense speculation, most notably in the form of slash fiction, in which voluminous versions of Kirk/Spock romances have appeared […].
Yet, the film’s representation of Kirk and Spock as, initially and for most of the film, rivals who are deeply contemptuous of each other is revealing. […] I see the antagonism between them as another, and the most significant, betrayal of the original spirit of Trek, which valorized male-male love as ardently as did the Iliad in its depiction of the love between Achilles and Patroclus. Here, the war established between Kirk and Spock has, to my mind, a covert purpose: to obscure and transcend the established homoeroticism in this famous bond and to blunt, if not together obviate, the emotional power of male friendship. Or to put it another way: whereas the original series and its subsequent film versions established Kirk and Spock’s friendship as a loving one, this film transmutes love and mutual respect between men into violence […].
This conventional male brutality and the anxieties that fuel it have, as ever, negative implications for the female characters. The Uhura of this film, though wonderfully played by the intelligent and sensual Zoe Saldana, is ultimately a more retrograde portrait of a woman professional than the original Uhura. Nichelle Nichols’ considerable strenghts and appeal as an actor transcended the limitations of role, but those limitations are now starkly apparent. The new Uhura may be a fancier-sounding expert in xenolinguistics, but, unlike Nichols’ original version, she is cast in the typical role of long-suffering girlfriend, this time to Spock. This is, in my view, another effort to squelch the attendant homoeroticism of the Kirk/Spock relationship. It also makes him [Spock] a normatively heterosexual figure by reassuring us of his interest in the opposite sex and, perhaps even more importantly, the opposite sex’s interest in him.
“…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 a convention
“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 p22 of Roddenberry’s movie novelization.
honestly? kirk and spock got together after amok time and spock told amanda who told sarek… it’s why sarek came OUT OF RETIREMENT for this dumb vote, cuz he needed a Logical reason to come aboard the enterprise and size up spock’s new boyfriend. it’s why he was having heart trouble that he refused to tell amanda about even though Logically his uh DAMN WIFE should probably know about his medical conditions. he heard about spock’s new boyfriend and immediately realized how stupid their feud was and that he was missing out on his son’s life and that his heart trouble was only going to get worse unless he ended this dumb feud and went to see spock and meet his boyfriend and see how well he was doing in starfleet and how much everybody respects him. spock in turn has to open himself up, quite literally, so that sarek’s heart trouble can be treated
Cecil. She/her. During the day I sit in libraries staring at books. During the night I write queer fanfiction with a historical slant.
Some not-so-random facts: Gay space lizards are the best lizards. Star Trek is my life. I have too many DS9 ships. Classic Who and the Eighth Doctor Adventures make me grin stupidly. Kelas Parmak is the best. I will defend historically accurate portrayals of Alan Turing to the last drop of blood. Likes and asks end up in the name of @apolesens-otheraccount, because Tumblr doesn't have a way of changing which blog is your primary one. Nothing happens over there - this is the one to follow.
