Anghraine

As a lieutenant, Kirk was a bookish nerd and terror of Starfleet cadets taking his "think or sink" philosophy course

fictionandtheatre responded:

#i love all of them but i love stack of books with legs kirk so i chose the tough grader #would LOVE a glimpse into that kirk honestly

kleine-snowdrop responded (on 2 February):

#It's always Kirk being a walking stack of books #I really want more details about his days teaching at the academy #Also this big old space square is my baby #So yeah

Spock is ashamed of his feelings for Kirk, and guiltily tries to explain why

dannyketch responded (on 2 February):

#jim. when i feel frienship for you. i'm ashamed #actually this explains a good deal of how i like my romance to be like... anyways

McCoy inventing HIPAA

star-temeraire responded (on 2 February):

#in this house we respect the autonomy of disabled people

talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla responded (on 5 February):

#actual ethical medicine?? #in MY 60s tv show??

The Gorn Did Nothing Wrong

howtospeakhovitos responded:

#i will never forgive the otherwise excellent strange new worlds for retconning the original gorn and making them evil

youngpettyqueen responded (on 2 February):

#THE GORN!!!!! #look I enjoy SNW but I am NOT forgiving their crimes against the Gorn #THEY WERE PROTECTING THEIR HOMES!!! THEY WERE PROTECTING THEMSELVES!!! #THEY ARENT INHERENTLY VICIOUS BLOODTHIRSTY MONSTERS #THEY WERE ONLY PROTECTING THEMSELVES!!!!!!

myboombsaresentientbeings responded (on 2 February):

#I'm choosing the gorn fact because i hate what snw is doing with them

kityana responded (on 13 February):

#the original gorn plot!! #i hate what they did with them in snw #the entire point of the gorn episode is to learn to respect them despite how scary they look and act #snw just use them as generic monsters completely missing the point

Sulu and Chekov refusing to just follow orders

isadora-greenhall responded:

#cheering for sulu and chekov for doing the right thing

landofalwayswinter responded (on 6 February):

#sulu+chekov two person union strike

More than one

chiemirose responded:

#i love all these details

officialbabayaga responded:

#literally mention tarsus iv and i am fully incapacitated #these are such fun facts though! definitely didn’t know most of these actually

vitabreva responded:

#monotheist kirk #didn't know original series had a yuri moment

mccoysaccent responded:

#i did the mccoy and dr jones one #BUT ALSO THE GORN DID NOTBING WRONG #THE WHOLE POINT OF THAT EPISODE WAS TO SHOW HOW YOU DONT KNOW YOUR ENEMY AND WHEN YOU DO YOU REALIZE THEYRE JUST LIKE YOU #IT WAS A GODDAMN METAPHOR #FUCK STRANGE NEW WORLDS

lavenderandlemons responded (on 5 February):

#spock being ashamed of his afection is a close second #but 13 yo kirk going throught a genocide makes me want to hug him so bad

bumblingbabooshka responded (on 6 February):

#these are all so interesting~! I love character details #The Gorn one is so sad especially with snw v_v

chaotic-enterprise responded (on 1 February):

#some of these I already knew but some I did NOT and I am FASCINATED

I replied (on 21 April):

Thank you! It was difficult to narrow down to these options, but there is so many more character details to chew on in TOS than I ever expected.

noggington responded (on 2 February):

#ty fir citing sources <3#i <3 fandom bibliographies

I replied (on 6 February):

Thank you! I considered not doing it because it makes the post so much longer, but felt I would be spiritually haunted by my grad school committee if I didn't include them, lol >_>