Hurt/Comfort Plots

Hurt/Comfort Plots!

So, what's hurt/comfort? It's when you torture a poor, hapless character only to cuddle him to death later. Spock must have been a favourite of writers because boy, does he get it!
Countless times, Jim runs to Spock at the merest twitch of the Vulcan! But there are ~~worse~~ better scenarii...

The Devil in the Dark

Spock tries to meld with the Horta...

...And slumps back into his Captain's arms!

Jim comforts him and holds him in his arms... They even hold hands a bit!

The Changeling: melding with a hovering pile o'junk is dangerous, man

Spock melds with the floating coffee machine, but things start to go wrong.	The meld is going on but Spock is not touching Nomad anymore!	Kirk shouts at Nomad to release the 'unit Spock'
Spock's mind is freed...	...and he slumps into Kirk's arms.	Kirk takes him away from Nomad,
and props Spock against a wall...	...but the Vulcan is still weak.	Spock starts explaining what he learned.
he is better, but Kirk won't let him go!	He's still so worried...	...even when he finally does let go!

By Any Other Name: a meld and a trance!

Spock is suddenly thrown away from a wall through which he was attemping a meld...	It's not as smooth as on Eminiar VII...	Bones and a (doomed, of course) redshirt run to him.
Awww, Spock & Bones do like each other!	Ain't they cute?	But Jim is so worried again!

Operation: Annihilate! where Spock goes through what even hurt/comfort fanfic writers would find slighly over the top... The evil pancakes have already decimated Kirk's family!

Attacked by the evil pancakes from outer space, Spock lies groaning and moaning in Sickbay.	The pancakes lead him to try and take control of the ship!	Controlled and restrained, he regains control & asks to go back on the planet.
Kirk is sooo proud of Spock!	Spock twitches all through the episode...	...until he's put under a bright light that kills the pancakes.
Oh no!	Spock is blind!	What will happen to him? (guess)

Journey to Babel Spock's father is aboard the Enterprise, but father and son are estranged aaaaaand... Daddy Spock nearly dies and needs his son's help! Kirk gets himself stabbed so he can join Spock in Sickbay.

Sarek's just had a heart attack, and Jim wants to be nice to Spock...Horta...

...so he comes to Spock's station to chat a bit.

Spock, of course, does his best to pretend nothing's wrong.

The Apple , also known as Spock and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day . No, really. Well, a lot of redshirts die, too, but - what else can you expect?

Spock picks up a rock...	...throws it away after having inspected it...	...and it explodes (and later will kill a redshirt).
He sees one of the killer flowers (one redshirt already died...) aims at Jim!	So he pushes Jim and takes the deadly darts straight where his Vulcan heart, er, isn't.	Poor Jim is all worried - and asks Spock why he wants to kill himself!
Transporters are down, a storm is brewing... Spock is getting slightly antsy.	ZAP! Another redshirt is reduced to a pile of ash... Ominous.	BUZZ! For some unfatomable reason, Spock misses the invisible forcefield on his tricorder and is flung backwards!
Jim runs to comfort him...	....and the surviving crew find it very cute and refrain from any interference.	Then they are threatened by Vaal when they want to approach it.
A girl with the IDIC (!) on her cheek makes doe-eyes at Kirk and laughs at his name.	McCoy joins them and starts needling our poor Vulcan into yet another debate...	...before he is asked to explain the birds and bees to Chekov's sweetheart, in a plot to mock him!
More lightning...	...Spock is seriously thinking of asking for a raise...	...and ZAP! He is struck by lightning!
Jim runs to him...	...and takes a smoking Spock back to McCoy.	It HURTS. Spock ~~man~~Vulcanfully grits his teeth.
Behold his poor, mistreated, burnt back! The sling of his tricorder is probably making it worse, too.	Exhausted, disheveled, he warily asks: "Is it over yet?"	Well, no: Bones & Jim tease him on his resemblance with Satan.