Jurassic World
"Permission to speak Captain."
"Spock you don't need to ask my permission to speak".
"Perhaps I should clarify Captain – considering that you previously told me I was not permitted to comment further on any of the so titled Jurassic Park movies after the first two times we watched them, I would respectfully like your permission to comment on this new one."
"Hmmmm" Kirk squinted at Spock and thought about it carefully. It was true they had had to ban him from commentary and the fact that he could not even in good faith refer to the movies as Jurassic without an alarming raise of the eyebrows did not bode particularly well for Jurassic World's chances with him. It had got to the point where, if Spock had told any of them that the majority of those dinosaurs were in fact Cretaceous one more time he was not the only one who would have wanted to gently kill him.
Comments on the size, abilities and lack of feathers on the raptors had also been decreed forbidden. Kirk suspected that Spock now sat through these movies in what passed for a Vulcan sulk.
And so, perhaps against his better judgement, he gave Spock permission to speak during Jurassic World.
He started regretting the decision ten minutes in when he heard something from Spock that sounded suspiciously like "mumble mumble should have been Indominus Regina not Rex –"
"Something you want to share Spock?" Kirk grinned.
Spock gave him a look of almost obstreperous innocence.
"No Captain".
"You sure? Nothing…..say …..related to how all of the dinosaurs are female and a title that would suggest they were an undefeated lizard king was consequently inaccurate?"
It was the most aggravatingly tempting bait and yet Spock solidly refused to swallow it.
"No Captain".
Kirk was positively impressed.
Half an hour later however Spock fell into a more obviously, distinctly more interested silence than he had done previously as Henry Wu explained the genetic make – up of the dinosaurs to Masrani. When they got to the fact that the mixing of the dinosaurs genes with those of other animals had made them lacking in all of the features one would normally expect these species to have Spock hmm'd and nodded in approval.
"Come on Spock, share, you're going to explode there."
Spock looked at him in confused concern –
"Are you quite well Captain? You must surely know that the chances of myself spontaneously combusting in these atmospheric conditions are minimal in the extreme –"
"It's a figure of speech Spock; share!"
"Well Captain – merely that this plot point, contrived though it may be, does adequately explain the inconsistencies in the dinosaurs design in all of the previous movies."
"Oh I'm so glad."
Behind the Captain, Bones silently face – palmed.
As the rest of the crew reacted in varying degrees of excitement to the final climatic dinosaur battle Kirk sneaked occasional glances at Spock to see the complete lack of excitement in his reactions but noted with some warmth that he was watching most intently, with a polite expression of considerable interest.
"Okay Spock, let's have it" Kirk sighed as the rest of the crew sang loudly and gleefully along to the end music. Spock blinked;
"I will take that to mean you would like my verdict Captain and I conclude that this was entirely theoretically possible; there are numerous examples in nature of two species that would normally prey upon one another combining their strength to take down a larger predator, however I must confess to some level of sympathy for the poorly named –"
"Ha!"
" – the poorly named Indominus Rex. It was simply at odds with a society in which it had no recognisable place."
"Spock are you experiencing sympathy for a made up dinosaur?"
"I can neither confirm nor disregard that opinion captain."
"And that's shut up in Vulcan!" Yelled Bones – "I liked the baby triceratops" he added.
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Ung – I've been to see this like three times now and for once it's my other half who's being the Spock about this; this time I'm Bones – I just like the baby dinosaurs and the stegosaurus. :-)