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Spones Day is on June 26th!

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General:

Spock gets a cold and it turns out that Vulcans have a hard time controlling their emotions when they’re sick, what’s a doctor to do?

The end of the five year mission is fast approaching and while they’ve come to a mutual understanding of their affections for each other, neither Spock nor McCoy has made a move. It’s their last shore leave and one (or both) is determined to make the first move.

Spock finds out that McCoy is actually extremely good at chess, but he made no mention of it so that Spock and Kirk had a friendship building activity that was just theirs.

The rumor mill and just about the entire ship ships Spirk and/or McKirk, but Spones are the ones in the relationship. Who cracks first–McCoy or Spock? (Or is it Kirk?)

AOS:

How is the nature of McCoy’s father’s death revealed in the AOS verse and how does Spock respond? (Assuming same method of death as TOS.)

Spock finds out that McCoy and Sarek have maintained steady communication and even a friendship since the Battle of Vulcan.

TOS:

The ‘deleted scene’ in TMP where McCoy confronts Spock about his decision to undergo Kolinahr and accuses him of doing it to run away from their affections for each other.

Deleted scenes between TSFS and TVH where Spock helps McCoy heal after holding his Katra…despite Spock having no working memory of McCoy yet. (Bonus points if Spock subconsciously remembers them being in a relationship and Spock’s body compels him to care for McCoy as a romantic partner would.)

McSpirk and away missions. The Hazard Husbands.

The reason I ship these three (Kirk/Spock/Bones) comes down to one simple point and it is as follows.. theres is no logical reason for them to be the 3 on away missions as much as they are. Actually, it's probably not the suggested Starfleet protocol at all, or at least not for most types of missions. It's a quirk of the writing but it reads as them being so interwoven and almost like they are making excuses to be together as actual characters. We see this kind of thing way less in later series. Because they find other ways to give their main characters more screen time, make main characters out of less high-ranking officers, or have a truer ensemble cast vibe.

Kirk and Spock should rarely be down on the planet together because of chains of command. It's fine that Sulu and Scotty end up having the bridge a lot during actual away missions. You don't need a pilot as much in orbit around a planet and Engineering is able to contact Scotty if there's an emergency elsewhere. But they have other responsibilities. If something happens to the people on the away mission the death of the first and second in command is not ideal for the ship. Then there is McCoy. Bones is the chief medical officer. He goes on a lot of missions that don't need a medical officer, and while shit goes wrong and he comes in handy, it didn't make sense to put the whole crew's medical care at risk by sending him down before shit hit the fan. Additionally, in many situations where there is not an extreme medical crisis, it would make more sense to have Nurse Chapel on the planet and Bones watching over med bay.

So why does this happen? Why do each of the three keep letting this happen?

McCoy hates transporters enough it wouldn't be out of character for him to be mostly shipbound. He's one of the few roles on a ship where he can truly challenge a commanding officer. Who can say no captain I'm needed here you should take my assistant down to look at your damn rocks/broken leg/lap dog in a unicorn costume/etc. Yet he goes.

Kirk gets to pick the away teams, do I need to say more. Okay, I will, these two by his side. If he is going to be in harm's way, having fun, or even bored out of his mind, he'd rather do it with them, logistics be damned.

Spock dearest Spock knows this is all illogical. Not just not advised by Starfleet, but truly a risky choice but he says nothing. None of his quips about humans, not of his protestations in the face of Kirk Choas or McCoy's emotion. He never calls out this pattern of behavior as a fault. Perhaps because he thinks their combined skills make it work the risks, but that feeds into it even more.

They are inseparable when their roles should inherently keep them in close communication, but with physical distance in all risk situations. They choose to take the risk, to face the crises together. Therefore.... husbands. Hazards to their crew, but in love hazards.