"And yet, with all its pure logic, Vejur is barren. Cold." His voice broke; he seemed suddenly, astonishingly to be on the brink of tears. "No mystery," Spock whispered, still as if they were utterly alone. "No beauty." His eyes drifted closed, exhaustion overtaking him. "I should have known."
"Known?" [Kirk] managed finally, though it came out in a strangled, stranger's voice. "Known what?" His hands were on the Vulcan's shoulders--how had that happened? "Spock."
"Captain." McCoy tried to make him back off.
Kirk almost snarled at him. "Bones--!" Then he was shaking the Vulcan, pleading with him, not caring that his command composure was shot to hell. "Spock, what should you have known? What should you have known?" For an instant he thought Spock had lapsed into unconsciousness or sleep, and he despaired. Please...
Dark eyes opened then, full of starlight.
"Jim," he said, as if it were an answer to every question ever asked. And his hand closed on Kirk's bicep, then slid down his arm--took his hand, touching him gently in a place no one else had ever touched, a place James Kirk hadn't been touched in almost three years. Kirk held very still. A tremor ran through him, and Spock's voice washed over him in a low, devastating, intimate ripple of certainty. "This... simple feeling... is beyond Vejur's comprehension."
The captain of the Enterprise could not speak. He smiled unsteadily because he could not help himself, and closed his other hand over Spock's, heat rising powerfully behind his eyes.
also from the movies:
+ spock dies of radiation poisoning in stii. he's separated from jim by a pane of plexi-glass at the time, and they're pressing their hands together with the glass in between, clinging to the window, when he dies.
+ after he's brought back to life in the end of stiii--that is, he's a body and his soul, but is supposed to still have no memories at all--he walks past all his own shipmates in a row with no sign of recognition, but stops at last in front of kirk and says slowly and wonderingly, "jim. your name is jim."
+ at the beginning of stiv, spock is being re-trained with most of his knowledge of vulcan, but hasn't yet got in contact again with his emotional knowledge; he has conflicts with his mother and mccoy both over this. at the climax, he shows that he is himself again by choosing to behave illogically by taking a gamble, and the happy last line is him telling his father to tell his mother "i feel fine" (the point being that a full vulcan does not understand the point of the question "how do you feel?")
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also from the movies:
+ spock dies of radiation poisoning in stii. he's separated from jim by a pane of plexi-glass at the time, and they're pressing their hands together with the glass in between, clinging to the window, when he dies.
+ after he's brought back to life in the end of stiii--that is, he's a body and his soul, but is supposed to still have no memories at all--he walks past all his own shipmates in a row with no sign of recognition, but stops at last in front of kirk and says slowly and wonderingly, "jim. your name is jim."
+ at the beginning of stiv, spock is being re-trained with most of his knowledge of vulcan, but hasn't yet got in contact again with his emotional knowledge; he has conflicts with his mother and mccoy both over this. at the climax, he shows that he is himself again by choosing to behave illogically by taking a gamble, and the happy last line is him telling his father to tell his mother "i feel fine" (the point being that a full vulcan does not understand the point of the question "how do you feel?")