



k/s movie moments (3/?) - “Welcome aboard.”
Kirk could see a pattern emerging; except as duty situations required, Spock obviously intended to completely and impartially ignore every member of this starship’s crew. The reasons for that might turn out to be as interesting as whatever it was that brought him here. Perhaps as painful, too. Kirk decided that it would not hurt Spock to be reminded that pain could be two-edged.
He waited until the Vulcan was in mid-step into the waiting turbolift. Then:
“Mister Spock! Welcome aboard.”
Spock hesitated for an instant—Kirk knew that his voice had carried enough sincerity to call forth a memory or two in the Vulcan’s mind. But although he had hesitated for an instant, Spock continued into the turbolift.
-Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek-The Motion Picture: A Novel (x)
# what if it wasn’t a breakup at all# what if Spock had always planned to return to Vulcan # and the pain he felt was pain he didn’t understand # because he didn’t realize until he met V’Ger # that he was in love # and that it wasn’t pain at all # but a very simple feeling # that Jim reciprocated # and that Spock would never have known this # if it hadn’t been for a machine calling to him through the cosmos # unable to comprehend the feeling itself
i am really bad at explaining things. but kirk/spock is so much more than just a ship. it goes beyond just a fandom. it’s so much more than a desire to see two people together.
never have i encountered a ship like this. it’s not even just a ship. it’s an entity. it’s…
Jim! Good-bye my … my t’hy’la. This is the last time I will permit myself to think of you or even your name again.
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“Spock, your thoughts. Open them to me.”
Spock could not refuse the High Master T’sai, not even at this moment of shame. As she touched him, Spock let his mind open, in the giving and receiving of mindmeld Oneness. Kaiidth! What was there was there, and it was T’sai’s right to learn the complete truth of it.
//The Klingons weren’t destroyed. It feels like … like they’ve become “wall exhibits in Hell.” And it’s headed for Earth. Spock, I wish you were here to help me understand.//
Spock looked up, puzzled. That had felt like Jim Kirk’s thoughts. And yet it was T’sai who was standing here and to whom he had opened his thoughts. She was now releasing Spock’s consciousness and retrieving her own. Then her lips opened, and before she spoke Spock already knew what her words would be.
“Your answer lies elsewhere, Spock.”
-Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek-The Motion Picture: A Novel (x)(x)

My favourite thing about imagining Spock fielding rumours about whether or not he and Jim were having sex is
Okay
There will always be students who sit around and gossip about their teachers, so the same must be true for cadets and I can just see a bunch of them…