No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

vulcanplomeeksoup

Captain Kirk has been stabbed in his quarters, apparently by Ensign Bearclaw. Kirk crawls toward his communication terminal to call for help, but collapses before he reaches it…

On the bridge, Spock becomes aware that something is wrong with Kirk. He orders a medical team to the captain’s cabin and joins them there himself. Dr. McCoy and the other medical officers are unable to open the sealed door, but Spock pulls it open with his bare hands. Kirk is rushed to Sickbay…(x)

Star Trek #53 - You’re, Dead Jim,
Star Trek: The Original Series (DC Comics, Series One)

lejoursobre

Oh yeah this issue is ICONIC

You can read it here (no don’t waste your time to thank me GO READ IT) : https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Star-Trek-1984/Issue-53?id=86339

spockandstars

Spock looks like a speed skater LMFAO

Anyway I quickly skimmed through this unparalleled work of art and I have some notes:

-after he’s stabbed Kirk has this wack pirate dream? And then Spock realizes somethings up. Which as everyone has already pointed out, how tf would he know that if they’re not bonded?

-while Spock is hovering anxiously in sickbay, McCoy is like “isn’t the logical place for you to be on the bridge?” And Spock’s like “no f you” so Sulu takes the helm.

-it features this weird callback to the time Scotty and Jim got wasted and bonked their heads off a table on shore leave and spock was not entirely amused

-the comic ends basically because Spock melds with Jim to enter into his near death hallucination. Jim is about to move on to reunite with his dead family members, but Spock shows up and he decides to stay.

Here is Scotty and Kirk getting high and finding feet incredibly amusing? Jesus who tf writes these things? A genius no doubt. (BREEP?)

dduane

(chuckle) …my Other Husband doesn’t mess around.

(ETA: …just remembering that some of you are gonna be too young or new to get this reference. For a while there was some confusion in the Trek (novel) fandom among people who knew I was married to somebody called Peter, and somehow…Ghu only knows how… they got the idea that this meant Peter David. When PAD and I got wind of this, we had a good laugh and then started referring to each other online [and also when we were physically in the same place at the same time] as “Other Husband” and “Other Wife”. Fortunately both Kathleen and @petermorwood found this amusing…) :)

togglesbloggle

Public service announcement:

If you happen to teach undergrads as a teaching assistant, you will be given a certain amount of latitude depending on the gig. Sometimes they’ll just have you taking notes on attendance and not otherwise be interacting with the students much, sometimes you’ll grade, give lectures, and have flexibility in attendance policies and rubrics. These tend to involve more work, but are also more rewarding.

When they assign you to high-responsibility postings, you’ll also have a fair amount of independence. Usually this situation arises because you’re teaching lab sections for a course with several hundred students in the lecture, and the professor has neither the time nor the inclination to read through everything that the students are doing with chemical titration or mineral identification or whatever. They’ll tell you what to teach, provide some slides and some worksheets, tell you what grade distribution to vaguely expect, and then let you do your thing. They’ll mostly hear about you if something goes really well, or really badly.

So here’s the thing. You will, absolutely, get in trouble for going off-book and giving the students an extra credit option to collect a large number of dead scorpions. But it won’t be that much trouble, especially if you play the naive grad student card, and it’ll take a couple weeks for the rumor mill to jump from students in your section to students in someone else’s section to another TA to the professor. So you’ll have plenty of time to collect all your ill-gotten scorpion gains, and explain to your students about stimulated emission and coherence in light and how scorpion chitin is capable of a weak phosphorescence. And sure, the powers that be can scold you a little bit, but for the rest of your life you’ll always get to be the teacher who collaborated with their class to build a scorpion-powered laser.

mentalisttraceur-conversations

The kind of post that makes me realize the poster is more powerful than I will ever be, in dimensions of power I hadn’t even realized exist and will never fully comprehend.

grison-in-space

…I can’t believe I never thought to offer extra credit to students in exchange for capturing and providing me with an abundance of live giant centipedes. Genius.

DNOT U FUMKING DARE!!

~JollyBaby~

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

DNOT U FUMKING DARE!!

~JollyBaby~