No wonder romance in other media feels dull.

Theirs is simply much more than that. 'romance' is an unfitting term for them. Spock felt Kirk's conscience from Gol, of all places.

The poets of old would have written much about them.

Picture taken from a TMP novelization copy, with a picture of TMP Kirk right next to it (the book was bound like that and the pictures are gorgeous). Might be coincidental, might not be.

Edit: Roddenberry's DELIBERATE decision to create a Vulcan term which he specifically used in this book was bold and telling, especially as it was used for the very first time to describe Kirk and Spock's bond. ''Screw censorship, I will get the gayness across no matter what," he might have thought. ''Let's give 'em fans some candy, but let's make it almost subtle.''

Almost.

Also, props to Shatner for making Kirk even more in gay love with Spock than Roddenberry's. Peak acting choice.

TMP might be my second favorite Trek movie of all time. While I do find immense delight in the Enterprise sensual sequences -- Scotty would be proud, the shift in dynamics between Kirk and Spock within the paradigm of their wrecked relationship hits deep. Many a one has published well-documented, detailed studies of their whole story from TOS, so I shall not elaborate on that further, as their works explain it all infinitely better than I ever could.

Ramble over.

Little by little, carefully. Lots more to do.

What have I gotten myself into...

"there's a guy in the walls" movies exist in a universe that I fucking WISH was real. imagine how easy it would be to install stuff in walls if the space behind a wall was not 3.5 inches/8.9 cm deep and I could get my whole self in there. of course that would mean a guy could get in there too, but what are the odds.

voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.