And Not To Give Too Much Of Themselves For Others - Blog Posts

In “The Naked Time”, while Spock becomes overwhelmed by his emotions and love to the point of even questioning why he ever lived by Vulcan values, Jim on the other hand goes almost insane over his rejection of love and intense loneliness. This is the most apparent moment in the franchise where we see that to their core, Spock and Jim are narrative foils: no matter how deeply someone looks into their characters, one will always be surrounded by debilitating isolation for the sake of self dependence while the other is so compassionate it borders on self destruction.

However, with the resolution of the episode we see that such traits will always make both Spock and Jim a strong dynamic, as they are paralyzed apart but perfectly balanced together, showing the unity of some of the most well-intended yet corruptible traits of the human condition. In this essay—