Tag: tos

spicyshimmy:

i often forget that other people see jim kirk as a womanizer because that’s their understanding of the masculine ideal, not what he—and the imagined ideal of masculinity as proposed by star trek in the original series—really is:

a massively intelligent nerdoramapalooza who fought with inventiveness, loved with his whole heart, was a complete and oftentimes weird-as-hell individual, and kept hope burning like a star that refuses to go out

classictrek:

“Spock’s Brain” was the first episode of Star Trek’s third season. It was also the last one directed by Marc Daniels, who had directed fourteen previous installments, including “The Man Trap,” “The Doomsday Machine” and “Space Seed,” He would later write the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode “One Of Our Planets Is Missing.”