Snowflake Challenge #6

[snowynight]

Challenge #6

Share your favourite piece of original canon. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Let me share a moment in Star Trek: the original series movieverse.

Star Trek III: the Search for Spock begins with Spock's funeral. Then Doctor McCoy has an apparent mental breakdown. Spock's father comes with an alarming news: Kirk has to bring back Spock's soul and body to Vulcan so he can rest.

Problem: Spock's body is on Genesis, which the Federation has forbidden anyone's access on this planet. If Kirk has to fulfil the promise, he will throw his career and future away.

Conversation between Kirk and his superior:

KIRK: You don't have to believe! I'm not even sure I believe. But even if there's a chance that Spock has an eternal soul ...then it's my responsibility.
MORROW: Yours?
KIRK: As surely as if it were my very own! Give me back the Enterprise! With Scotty's help I could...
MORROW: No, Jim! The Enterprise would never stand the pounding and you know it.
KIRK: Then I'll find a ship. I'll hire a ship.
MORROW: Out of the question, my friend! The Council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis! Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behaviour and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself! Do you understand me, Jim?
KIRK: I hear you. ...I had to try.
MORROW: Of course.
KIRK: Thanks for the drink.
MORROW: Any time.
(as Kirk leaves he is joined by Sulu and Chekov)
SULU: The word, sir?
KIRK: The word ...is no. I am therefore going anyway.


Contrary to popular culture perception, Kirk is a rule abiding officer who loves his job (and pretty much only has his job now). He knows what he has to give up for something he doesn't quite understand. He is willing to throw everything away, because Spock's soul is his responsibility, as surely as if it were his very own!

That's why Kirk/Spock (Star Trek: the Original Series) is my eternal ship.

Comments

[muccamukk]

Yes. Good. I do love that Plan A was asking, and going by the rules. Plan B of course being steal a ship and blow shit up. But his absolute devotion is such a foundational part of the ship. It's such a lovely scene.

[snowynight]

Yeah, it's great that he goes Plan A first. It adds weight when he goes plan B.

Boy loses boy, boy goes beyond to save boy is so fundamental to this ship.

[barbaratp]

Essa é uma das tantas representações da união e vínculo único dos dois que me faz amar Spirk todos os dias

[snowynight]

Eu também!

[sixbeforelunch]

Such a good scene!

Contrary to popular culture perception, Kirk is a rule abiding officer who loves his job (and pretty much only has his job now).

Yes! I hate how many people (including it seems TPTB in later series) get this wrong. Kirk does things by the book 99% of the time, and when he doesn't, he has a very good reason for breaking protocol. And, as you say, he is at this point in a place in his life where all he has left is his job. Going after Spock is a huge sacrifice but he does it anyway.

[snowynight]

Yeah, rebel!Kirk is canon for AOS, definitely OOC for TOS.

[lightbird]

Love this scene and this movie. And the whole crew got their moment (Uhura locking the guy in the closet, Scotty sabotaging the Excelsior, etc.) So many great lines, too.

[snowynight]

It's such a great movie! I love the whole crew too!

[trepkos]

I'm struggling with this challenge, but you have made a great choice!

[snowynight]

Thank you very much!

[kingstoken]

I love the Search for Spock, I think it is really underrated among the TOS movies. I love how Kirk really fears that he has lost Spock and he is going McCoy too. I know you talk about Kirk/Spock, but that scene where Bones is talking to Spock and telling him he misses he always makes me tear up.

[snowynight]

The Kirk-McCoy-Spock trio bond is great too!

[walgesang]

This is such a great scene and has made me so nostalgic.

[snowynight]

Happy sigh. It's such a great movie.

[silveradept]

Kirk very much cares for his crew, and he will do whatever he needs to ensure his crew is safe, or safely returned. But also, yes, I can absolutely see that as a sign of how much Kirk and Spock care for each other, even outside of their responsibilities as officers in Starfleet.

[snowynight]

Yeah, they are so great for loyalty and devotion.

[apachefirecat]

LOVE that last line and it's so perfect for so many of my favorite leaders. "The word... is no. I am therefore going anyway." <3 <3 <3

Any good leader would do this for their people, but Kirk's love for and duty to Spock go way beyond. <3 I've never even watched that many Star Trek episodes, never really had much of an opportunity to do so, but I've heard about their relationship my entire life. It's just kind of a given for me at this point. <3

[snowynight]

Their relationship is so wonderful /happy sigh.

[apachefirecat]

<3