OKAY BUT that last post about the Stans being twelve when Star Trek came out. Got me thinking.

Like you know that not only was Spock far and away Ford’s favorite character, Stan was the one who latched onto Kirk. Ford loved the intelligent, logical, quiet one who was more than capable of destroying the people who gave him shit or harassed him, but chose not to out of pacifism. Stan loved the guy who was eager for adventure and took crazy risks, got into fights and got to kiss alien women.

Both of them were aware of what a great TEAM Kirk and Spock made, too. Best friends who explored the galaxy together and trusted each other more than anyone else. They’d be like “they’re just like us!” or “that’s us when we grow up and go to space. Everyone’ll have a spaceship by the 80s, right?” They’d call each other “Spock” and “Kirk” for fun and as a joke.

(I mean personally I typically see Kirk and Spock as an old married couple, but I think the Stans would just interpret them as BFFs ;)



They’d play on the beach and pretend they were exploring an alien planet. Stan would do pointless somersaults from one rock to another and Ford would steal one of his mom’s pocketbooks and pretend it was a tricorder and wave a stick at a seagull all “the lifeforms appear to be hostile, captain. Perhaps if we placate them with an offering of sunflower seeds.”

(They wouldn’t appreciate Doctor McCoy as a character because both of them would be upset at him for making snide comments about Spock’s pointy ears and green blood so they’d turn him into the foil for their games all “shut up Bones” all the time.)

And then, THEN, one day on the Stan O’War II they’re discussing whether or not to steer into some uncharted territory or something. (It’s a formality, both of them always choose to go into the dangerous uncharted waters.)



Stan says something like “well, at least if we don’t know anything about it, we don’t KNOW it’s dangerous, right?”

Ford looks at him and raises an eyebrow. And in a perfect, I mean PERFECT deadpan Leonard Nimoy impression says “insufficient facts always invite danger, Captain.”

Stan dies laughing.