That one time when Spock finally fell for one of Kirk’s conversational traps and accidentally said something that was both a human cliche and an expression of emotion, and even though Kirk totally noticed, he pretended not to because Winona Kirk raised a flirt, not a bully.
spock: i didn’t understand why everyone loved their dumb human friends until i got a dumb human friend myself
spock: ive only known jim for a day and a half
spock: but if anything happened to him i would kill everyone in this room and then myself
WARNING! I’M ABOUT TO GO INTO SOME SLIGHT GORE/VIOLENCE/WEAPON PHYSICS META OF SORTS
Spock was shot in the back. We see that from the way he falls. There is blood on the front of his uniform, which means that the bullet went clean through his chest and made an exit wound.
There is quite a bit of debate about what type of bullet wound is worse, a clean one or an embedded one, but the general consensus is that both are very bad, and it is better not to get shot at all!
If you have an exit wound like Spock does, even though his heart isn’t in his chest, he’s going to lose a lot of blood from that wound.
If Jim was checking for a heart rate, he would likely be using it to gauge how bad Spock’s condition is. If his heart-rate was elevated, it would mean he was going into shock from blood loss, and that would definately be a cause for panic.
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