according to Gene Roddenberry’s prologue in the Novelization of the Motion Picture, officers in Starfleet should be geniuses, but not too smart, because if they were too smart they would get too excited and stay on whatever new planet they discovered
and i think that is both hilarious and incredibly accurate
Later (p. 157) he is asked about the Kirk-Spock friendship again and immediately starts talking about how in heterosexual relationships (read: typical romantic relationships) it’s not so much about the sex as making a connection to someone else and just being able to make contact with them. Immediately, answering a question about Kirk-Spock to how a romance AND SPECIFICALLY SEX are about a human need to make connections.
I mean I just.
Gene.
Oh my gosh, just…
YEP THIS IS WHY I JUST TRANSCRIBED THAT PART TOO BECAUSE
At the risk of appearing to be a one-trick-pony, here’s another installment in the mixed-generation Star Trek tomfoolery.
As with the other manips, we once again have Kirk and Spock, made of combinations of actors past and
present; Jim Kirk is a combination of William Shatner
& Chris Pine, and Spock is a combination of Leonard Nimoy & Zachary Quinto.
As with the previous manip, I tried to keep the original images set aside in the same folder so that I could show any curious tumblerites (tumbleroles? tumblerians?) the images that I mixed together to get this particular portrait. You can see them here. (And yeah, I chose pretty young versions of Shatner & Nimoy.)
