Exploring a New World (6/30)

Pairing: James T. Kirk x Reader

A/N: Y/n is not in this chapter (only mentioned). You can skip the BIG monologue said by Spock (mind-meld). 

I will definitely edit this chapter later. This chap would have been better, I was going to finish working on it today, but my friends aren’t being friends and don’t want to associate with me anymore so I’ve been crying for the past few hours... So I’m very sorry this didn’t come out very good. If anyone is curious, don’t worry I’m doing better right now. I’m hanging out with my best friend because he’s a real one!

This series is based off the Star Trek: Alternate Original Series with actual scenes from the films.

Kirk groaned as he woke up in a pod. He directed his attention to the controls on his left and pressed a few buttons as he asked aloud, “computer, where am I?”

“Location, Delta Vega. Class-M planet. Unsafe. There is a Starfleet outpost 14 kilometres to the northwest. Remain in your pod until retrieved by Starfleet authorities,” the computer informed.

“You gotta be kidding me,” Kirk sighed to himself.

The opened the pod and strapped a bag over his shoulder. He started to climb up the hole created by the landing pod. Once he reached the top, he placed the bag on the ground and stood up as he noticed the vast emptiness.

~

While Kirk walked through a snow storm, he pulled out his communicator and logged, “Stardate 2258.42. Or 44. Whatever. Acting Captain Spock has marooned me on Delta Vega, in what I believe to be a violation of Security protocol 49.09 governing the treatment of prisoners aboard a star…” Kirk interrupted himself as his attention was brought to something behind him. He squinted his eyes due to the snow as he forced himself to see past the storm. He eventually saw a figure approach him. It screeched which caused Kirk to yell as he bolted in the other direction.

It almost reached him as a red creature emerged from beneath him and caught the beast that was running after him. It killed the furry beast and tossed it to the side. The red creature screeched at Kirk and ran after him as well. The creature leads him off a cliff. The creature screeched at the top of the cliff not daring to go down. It was too heavy on certain points of the cliff which caused it to break making the creature fall all the way down and right behind Kirk.

Kirk screamed as he ran towards a cave hoping to lose the creature that followed right behind him. The red creature broke through the cave walls and latched its tongue around Kirk’s leg, brining him closer. An unknown figure approached the two from within the cave and waved a torch at the beast which drove it away in fear.

The person turned around revealing themselves to be a male elderly Vulcan who carried a look of surprise as he said, “James T. Kirk.”

“Excuse me,” Kirk responded with a tone of bewilderment.

“How did I you find me?”

“Woah how do you know my name,” Kirk said as he stood up from the ground.

“I have been and always shall be your friend.”

The blonde laughed, “look, I don’t know you.”

“I am Spock.”

After a brief pause Kirk bluntly stated, “bull shit.”

~

The two sat around a fire within the cave as the Vulcan started, “it is remarkably pleasing to see you again my old friend. Especially after the events of today.”

Kirk rose from his spot and stated, “sir, I appreciate what you did for me today, but if you were Spock, you’d know we’re not friends. At all. You hate me. You marooned me here for mutiny.”

“Mutiny?”

Kirk nodded as he said, “yes.”

“I’m surprised Y/n would allow this to happen. You are not the captain?”

“What, Y/-? No, no. You’re the captain. Pike was taken hostage,” Kirk started to walk towards the exit of the cave.

“By Nero,” Spock said to himself in realization.

Kirk stopped at Spock’s words and turned around to look at him, “what do you know about him?”

“He is a particularly troubled Romulan.”

“Please, allow me. It’ll be easier,” Spock spoke as he approached Kirk while he raised his right hand to Kirk’s face.

“Woah, what are you doing,” Kirk asked as he leaned back from Spock.

“Our mind, one and together,” Spock said as he placed his hand on Kirk’s face. “One hundred twenty-nine years from now, a star will explode and threaten to destroy the galaxy.” A connection was made between the two minds allowing Spock’s memories to flow through Kirk’s mind. “That is where I’m from, Jim, the future. A star went supernova consuming everything in its path. I promised the Romulans that I would save their planet. We outfitted our fastest ship. Using red matter, I would create a black hole which would absorb the exploding star. I was en route when the unthinkable happened. The supernova destroyed Romulus. I had to extract the red matter and shoot it into the supernova. As I began my return trip, I was intercepted. He called himself Nero. In my attempt to escape, both of us were pulled into the black hole. Nero went through first. He was the first to arrive. Nero spent the next 25 years awaiting my arrival. But what was years for Nero was only seconds for me. I went through the black hole. Nero was waiting for me. He held me responsible for the loss of his world. He captured my vessel and spared my life. For one reason. So that I would know his pain. He beamed me here so that I can observe his vengeance. As he was helpless to save his planet, I would be helpless to save mine. Billions of lives lost because of me, Jim. Because I failed,” Spock finished.

Kirk breathed heavily as the connection was lost, Spock then stated, “forgive me. Emotional transference is an effect of the mind-meld.”

Kirk panted as he walked away from the Vulcan to lean on a wall, “so you do feel.”

“Yes.”

“Going back in time you changed all our lives.”

“Jim, we must go. There is a Starfleet outpost not far from here,” Spock started to walk towards the exit of the cave.

“Wait, where you came from, did I know my father?”

Spock stopped walking and turned to face the young man, “yes. You often spoke of him as your inspiration for joining Starfleet. He proudly lived to see you become captain of the Enterprise.”

“Captain?”

“A ship we must return to as soon as possible.”

Kirk pondered for a moment then furrowed his brows, “wait, sir, what was that about Y/n?”

“You often spoke of Y/n as your whole world and as did she. She has always been most loyal to you, till the very end. For that, you must keep an eye out for her.”

Kirk chucked as he slightly shook his head, “trust me she can take care of herself.”

“Be that as it may, but Y/n will always place you and others before herself to a fault,” Spock stated. “Now, if you will follow me.” The Vulcan turned around and led the way towards the exit.

The blonde carried a small smile on his face as he said to himself, “so, I have a chance with her… right?” He looked over to Spock and notice him leaving the cave. Kirk then took off to catch up.

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Jim Kirk x fem!reader (1)

“Please open all hailing frequencies,” you requested, calmly, sitting upright in the captain’s chair. The girl looked up from her console sharply.  “Pardon?” she questioned, incredulously. “I said, open all hailing frequencies,” you repeated, firmly. “Signal the Klingon ships.” She tapped something on the console, then turned back to you, eyes still wide in confusion. “Robinson, to the transporter room, please. Do whatever you can to open transportation and beam that crew aboard.” “Hailing frequencies open.” You nodded, turning back to the screen. You were vaguely aware of the beginnings of chaos emerging in your peripheral vision. “We have a response,” the girl exclaimed, turning to you. “Requesting a line.” “Bring it up on the screen.” The screen flickered, then a grainy static transmission opened and a Klingon voice cut through. “Explain,” he demanded, roughly. “A disabled civilian vessel has drifted into your space, leaving all passengers and crew requiring rescue. I request permission to retrieve the ship and crew,” you answered, calmly, though you could feel your leg vibrating in its place. “This vessel does not belong to StarFleet?” the voice questioned, lowly. More to himself than you. “The Klingon Empire operates by a code of honour. We will return the ship to your space. Do not enter the Neutral Zone.” “MajQa’,” you offered, “Understood.” The Klingon nodded, and the transmission ended. You pressed the comm to transporter bay. “Robinson, you can relax. The ship is being returned to our space. Ready the transporter to beam crew aboard.” Five minutes passed before a Klingon Bird of Prey emerged from the Neutral Zone, dragging the civilian ship behind it.  “All passengers and personnel of the Kobayashi Maru safely aboard,” Robinson reported, breathily. The simulation lifted, and each of the appointed bridge crew exited the room. Admiral Barrows caught your eye, shaking his head subtly, and you settled yourself back into the chair, preparing yourself for whatever lecture he had planned.

“What the hell was that, Cadet?” he demanded, folding his arms.  “I was responding to the situation as it was presented, Admiral,” you answered, raising an eyebrow. “I was unaware that it was recommended practice to follow only the two options given in campus gossip.” “You’re not James Kirk, Cadet,” Barrows insisted, still towering over you. “Whatever stunt you pulled here, you’re not going to –” “Admiral Barrows.” The interruption was unexpected, but not unwelcome. Barrows spun to face the incoming figure, and you recognised the quiet, worn dignity from the moment he stepped into the room. “Admiral Pike, sir,” you stood, hurriedly, offering a smart salute. “Cadet (L/N),” Pike responded, easily. “As you were. I admit I have been following your progress with interest.” You stiffened a little, unsure. “Sir?” He smiled, noticing the tension in your shoulders. “Relax, Cadet,” he replied, gently. “Hospital confines gave me a lot of time to explore the emerging promise in our new recruits. Consider me impressed, even James Kirk was not fast-tracked as quickly as you were.” Barrows stiffened at his tone, narrowing his eyes. You relaxed, again. “Thank you, sir,” you offered a small smile. “I believe, Cadet, you have an advanced xenolinguistics class in five minutes,” Pike answered, smiling broadly. “It would be best not to besmirch your attendance record, would it not?” “Yes sir,” you collected your book bag from beside the captain’s chair and made your way out, “Thank you sir. Admiral Barrows.” You nodded to each of them, then escaped hurriedly from the room.

Their voices followed you, and you could hear Barrows’ complaints echoing over Pike’s steady responses, but you didn’t stop to listen. You rounded a corner, and quickly dodged the man in your path, before you recognised the blond hair and the path to Admiral Pike’s office. “Captain Kirk, sir!” you exclaimed, bowing your head as he turned to you, “Admiral Pike is currently in the simulation room with Admiral Barrows, sir. I ticked off Barrows’ temper, sir. Fair warning.” You turned to scamper away, towards your class, but he caught your wrist. “Are you alright, Cadet?” he questioned, eyeing the familiar stoicism in your face. “Yes, sir,” you answered, face breaking into a small, but warm smile. “Thank you, sir, but I must get to class.” “Of course.” His blue eyes twinkled. “May I get your name first, Cadet?” “(Y/N) (L/N), sir.”

<<Cadet (L/N) to Admiral Pike’s office, 0900.>> The StarFleet issued message on your comm wasn’t a surprise. Pike’s name was more so. You couldn’t imagine Barrows giving in easily, but Christopher Pike was possibly the most respected man in all StarFleet, following the events with the Narada, and his recovery from almost inevitably fatal injuries from Khan. Barrows was rather destined to lose that fight, but why Pike had begun it was another question entirely. You straightened your dress uniform, irritably, the grey collar scratching at your throat, then stepped out of your room. The San Francisco wind was cruel, biting through the stiff threads as if they were barely there. Huffing, you tightened your arms around you and made your way across campus.

The hallway outside Pike’s office was crowded, for some reason, with a broad array of photographers and reporters alike. They paid very little attention to you as you slipped towards the door, navigating the tiny gaps. “Cadet (L/N)?” the secretary questioned, as you tipped up to the door, finally escaping the suffocating crowd. His voice was barely above a whisper, but instantly the crowd turned on you both. “Cadet (L/N), do you have a comment about your performance in the Kobayashi Maru simulation?” “Is your meeting with Admiral Pike concerning the allegations made by Admiral Barrows that you cheated the simulation?” “Cadet (L/N) do you have a response to allegations that your performance in the Kobayashi Maru was a result of cheating?” You raised a hand for the crowd to quiet themselves. “I cannot comment on this morning’s meeting as I have not yet taken part in it, nor can I comment on Admiral Barrows’ assessment of my performance in the Kobayashi Maru simulation. I will say that I did not attempt any interference with the simulation or its code, and had no contact with it outside of the test parameters. I have no further comment, relevant information will undoubtedly be relayed to you through official channels. Thank you.” You took a seat, ignoring the immediate clamour of the reporters in front of you, the cameras and microphones shoved immediately towards you. You closed your eyes against the uncomfortably sterile brightness of camera flashes, then the door opened behind you. You stood, immediately, but caught only a flash of blond hair and the immediate shouting of “Captain Kirk! Can we have a comment on the recent updates on the Enterprise?” “Captain Kirk! Do you have a comment on the accusations of cheating in the Kobayashi Maru?” “Captain Kirk! How are you associated with Cadet (L/N)?” “Captain Kirk! How did Dr McCoy treat you for such severe irradiation?”, before you were dragged inside and the door slammed shut behind you.

“Is this what you put up with every time you come to earth?” you questioned, turning to the exasperated but smiling face of James T Kirk. “No wonder you prefer space.” Kirk laughed, warmly, and clapped you gently on the back. “You handled that very professionally, Cadet,” another voice commented, drawing you back into your surroundings from the warmth and safety the Captain radiated. Commander Spock stood before Pike’s desk, with the Admiral himself seated behind it. “Thank you, sir,” you acknowledged, gently bowing your head. “I sometimes wonder if the courses in diplomacy are more for managing press than alien species.” “You need something much stronger than diplomacy to hunt the press off your tail,” Kirk scoffed, moving to stand next to Spock. Pike smiled, wryly, as he stood. “I take it you have met Captain Kirk, Cadet,” he surmised, before gesturing to Spock, “And I’m sure you recognise Commander Spock?” “Yes sir,” you answered, nodding. “I am honoured.” “She beat your test, Spock,” Kirk pointed out, smirking at his first officer. “Without even cheating.” Spock raised an eyebrow at his captain. “Indeed,” he answered, keeping his hands folded behind his back, “I believe that means she bested you also, Captain.” You and Pike both muffled laughter at Kirk’s outrage. “However, I am sure Admiral Pike did not invite us all here for you and I to rekindle our debate regarding your performance in the Kobayashi Maru.”

“I don’t know, I think (L/N) and I might find this...debate rather interesting, don’t you, Cadet?” Pike teased, a broad smile dancing across his face. “There never was a final decision in that trial, Admiral,” you agreed, eyes laughing. “It would be fascinating to hear.” The door slammed open and closed again, and you all turned to face the newcomer. “...I’ll show them a comment when I shove their damn cameras where the sun don’t shine,” he grumbled, pinching the bridge of his nose, before he opened his eyes. He zeroed in on his captain. “This is your fault, Jim. Couldn’t have just graduated and risen through the ranks like a normal person. No, gotta have the Jim Kirk flair.” “Oh, come on, Bones,” Kirk smiled, slinging an arm around the doctor. “You wouldn’t have me any other way.” Growling another series of obscenities under his breath, McCoy shoved Kirk off him and greeted the Admiral, before turning to you. “Cadet (Y/N) (L/N), sir. It’s an honour to meet you, Doctor McCoy,” you greeted him, inclining your head. His eyes flicked back to Spock, thoughtfully, but he offered his hand. “So you’re the one they’re all asking about the Maru for, then,” he mused, shaking your hand. “Congratulations, kid, just don’t wind up like him,” he flicked his head back at Kirk, “And you’ll be doing wonderfully.” “Hey!”

“I hate to interrupt,” Pike interrupted the two men’s squabbling, “But Spock was correct when he pointed out that I brought you all here for a reason. I’m sure five years in space will give you plenty of time for bickering.” McCoy and Kirk straightened, as Spock raised an eyebrow at the Admiral. “We already reviewed the recent updates on the Enterprise, so I admit I remain at a loss as to why we were called here,” Spock pointed out, calmly. “Given the presence of Cadet (L/N), I would assume it concerns her performance in the simulation yesterday.” “Almost,” Pike agreed, gesturing to all of you to take a seat. “I’ve had a lot of spare time confined to recovery recently, which has given me the opportunity to track the progress of promising new recruits. Cadet (L/N) has been fast-tracked through the academy faster than even you two.” He gestured to Jim and Spock.  “What about Chekov?” Kirk queried, curiously. “I believe I proceeded through courses at the same rate as Ensign Chekov, sir,” you answered, tapping lightly on Pike’s desk. “However, I undertook a significantly different course of study, so it would be a difficult comparison to make.” 

“Indeed,” Pike conceded, “Nevertheless, (L/N) is certainly the most highly qualified graduate available.” “I haven’t graduated yet, sir,” you murmured, quietly. “Especially given Admiral Barrows will be grading my Maru.” “Actually, I have taken over assessment of your performance in the Maru yesterday,” he answered, as though there was nothing unusual about that. “Barrows has been reassigned to management of Starbase 15.” Kirk and McCoy failed at concealing dry laughter. “So, congratulations, Ambassador (L/N), you have officially completed your studies.” He said it so calmly it barely registered, as he turned to Kirk again. “I’m personally recommending (L/N) as a member of your crew for the five year mission, as you will be moving into unknown space and she has qualifications in advanced xenolinguistics and diplomacy, which will make any first contacts easier. I also have a hunch that she will get on incredibly well with Lieutenant Uhura.” “Well, I think we can safely say it’s been proven that not listening to your advice usually ends badly, Chris,” Kirk smiled, warmly, earning a smile in return from the Admiral. “Send me her papers and I’ll get started, sir.” Pike nodded, pulling out a PADD and tapping quickly over it. “Wait, wait,” you interrupted, making all four men look over at you. “You mean you’re assigning me to the Enterprise?” “They move on a different plane, kid. You’ll get used to it,” McCoy answered, shrugging, as he stood and reached out to clap you on the shoulder. “Welcome to the crew, I’ll expect you in two hours for your physical. Is there a back door outta here or do I have to face the news demons again?”

There was...let’s say ‘touches’...of quality in “Project Daedalus”.  Some very good characters moments between the members of the B-cast, and there aren’t many points where the stupidity of the main characters actively degrade their own efforts.  These bits were dragged down by the truly moronic main features, but hey at least it’s better than a bunch of other season two episodes.

We finally learn something about Airiam, a character that’s been there from the beginning which we were never given any info about.  From her perspective we also get more scenes with lieutenants Detmer and Owosekun, and I pointed out way back in season one that the B-cast was an area where this series pulled it together.  So that was good.

Commander Nhan got to have a few lines as well, so...she’s still around.  And is able to see the blindingly obvious that something is Up with Airiam, which is good to have in a security chief...although that just makes it more glaring when her friends don’t notice anything.

The reveal that Control had killed off all of the commanders of Section 31 does retroactively lend some credence to their absolutely ridiculous command decisions throughout the season as well.  Now their completely idiotic ideas like working with the Terran Emperor and making Ash an official operative can be justified a bit since it wasn’t actually them at all...although the timeline means that they had to be involved in at least the beginning of it, so they were still being morons then.

The problems of the episode, unfortunately, are more of the same that has been popping up all season.  False drama and false conflict.

Spock and Burnham are arguing, and Burnham asks why he’s taking out his anger on her when he is literally saying -- literally, as in not a metaphor or some sort of subtle veiled deflection -- that their problems aren’t her fault and she is blaming herself for situations outside of her control.  They are having two different conversations and the show doesn’t seem to realize that.

Pike gets up on his high horse and claims that the Federation doesn’t use mines when, A) That has never been established in any previous Trek series, and DS9 even famously featured mines heavily in a seven-part story-arc. And B) There is no reason why the Federation wouldn’t use mines since the humanitarian issues with minefields in the real world do not apply to space mines in any conceivable way, particularly not around an active military facility.  The problem with landmines in real life are the way they deny the use of land to its inhabitants even after the conflict has ended, the way they indiscriminately affect all local populations, and they way they can become “lost” or mismarked, none of which apply to mines placed in space.  The mines themselves are also ridiculous: None of them explode, instead having different gimmick effects that are more at home in a video game (Blades?  Blades?  Seriously?  I know that Control secretly wanted the Discovery to survive to get close enough to board the station, but why the fuck were fucking blade mines installed in the first place?).

The show also continues to just stroke itself over how awesome Pike is -- as it has done over and over again -- with Admiral Cornwell literally saying that Pike is the best Starfleet officer there is and Starfleet Command had selected him to singlehandedly pioneer a new Federation in case they lost the war with the Klingons.  Pike’s ego continues to shine through as well when he accuses Cornwell of sidelining him from the war because she knew he would pitch a fit about those mines, as though the Admiral fighting a war would have thought to take into account that his feelings would be hurt by their tactics.  The TNG era shows didn’t gloat this hard over how awesome James Kirk was, and he actually managed to succeed in his missions.

Lastly was the complete oversell of Airam’s death.  Despite the fact that she has been present for the entire series, when it comes to learning anything about her this is functionally her first episode.  We didn’t even know her species before this episode, or if she was some sort of robot or cyborg or that was just how her people looked.  We didn’t know her hobbies or her relationships or anything.  To suddenly throw a lot of info at us all at once in order to make her death have meaning at the end if the episode is pointless, she’s functionally just a red shirt.  And after five different TV shows of red shirts dying without the main cast caring, or expecting the audience to care, why is it suddenly different now?  Why does this background extra count for more than all the other characters that have died when she hasn’t been shown to have been closer to the main cast than everybody else?  Heck, in Pike’s first episode on Discovery he lost his substitute science officer, who he had presumably served with for years aboard the Enterprise, and he barely even seemed to notice.

Plus, the issue of needing to kill Airiam was itself pointless: Why didn’t the Discovery just beam her aboard after she was sent out the airlock?  She would only be exposed to vacuum for a few seconds, and that is survivable with just modern-day medical assistance, let alone future medicine.  They managed to beam on to the station without issue, and they don’t talk about how there’s suddenly a super-duo jamming field or anything, so why not just bring her back to the ship?  They can subdue and restrain her once they do and then focus on un-hacking her.  Boom, problem solved with techniques you have used in this episode.

There were good character moments, and I definitely like the concept of exploring the importance of the deaths of background characters, but the episode was still weighed down by the moronic main story.

Star Trek: Discovery - ‘Context is for Kings’ Review

By Mark Greig 

"We are creating a new way to fly."

After last week's extended prologue, this was our first glimpse of what an actual episode of Star Trek: Discovery will look like.

Welcome aboard the USS Discovery, a mysterious ship full of mysterious people doing mysterious things mysteriously. Thrown into this, under suitably mysterious circumstances, is Michael Burnham, six months into her life sentence for mutiny and sporting a new curly prison hairdo. Now something of a Ro Laren/Tom Paris-ish figure, Michael's not interested in getting involved in whatever mysterious shit the crew of Discovery are up to. She just wants to keep her head down, go back to prison and serve her time. That's what she says, but that isn't what she does. She wasn't even on Discovery a day before she decided to break into the secret labs and have a nose around, which was exactly what Captain Lucius Malfoy expected her to do.

It is clear from these first three episodes that Discovery is not going to strictly adhere to the pure Utopian view of the future that Gene Roddenberry envisioned and nothing seems to encapsulate that more than the character of Captain Gabriel Lorca (played by the always wonderful Jason Isaacs). In previous Star Trek shows the captain was always a reassuring presence, the emotional and moral centre of the show, and the one person we could always rely on to do the right thing (or in Sisko's case the wrong thing for the right reason). But in Lorca we have a captain who is untrustworthy, manipulative, militaristic, probably a dark wizard, maybe has his own personal torture chamber, and could potentially end up being the real villain of this entire series. In short, he is everything that Roddenberry would not want a Starfleet captain to be. And that is by no means a bad thing. 

One of the many reasons Star Trek shriveled and died as a television franchise more than a decade ago is because the people making it became unwilling to embrace change or innovation, allowing the franchise to slip into stagnation. To add insult to injury, much of the former talent went away and made the rebooted Battlestar Galactica, which made Star Trek: Enterprise look practically archaic. It also didn't help that the idiots in charge (Rick Berman and Brannon Braga) thought the only way to keep people interested was to treat their female characters as nothing more than scantily clad figures of lust for horny fanboys. Under Berman and Braga's odious leadership, Star Trek went from being groundbreaking and thought provoking to lazy and embarrassing. It is fair to say that no one misses them. 

Which brings us to Discovery, our latest hope for the second coming of Star Trek. We thought it would be the new movies but they really do not stand up well to repeated viewing and after the muted critical and box office reaction to Beyond I doubt we'll be seeing another Star Trek movie anytime soon. Which I really think is for the best because, for me at least, Star Trek has already worked better on the small screen. Television allows for more scope, more variety, and more chances for the secondary characters to shine. Can anyone think of anything memorable Geordi or Crusher did in any of the Next Gen movies? 

When Discovery was first announced I hoped that it would be a show that combined the character drama and strong storytelling of DS9 with the clever sci-fi ideas of TOS and TNG. I wanted a show that would be faithful to Roddenberry's vision in spirit, but at the same time unafraid to question or even outright challenge it. I wanted a show that understood that Star Trek needs to change and evolve if it is to survive and thrive in the current TV landscape. 'Context is for Kings' is an episode that does exactly that. I'm not saying it is up there with the very best of those shows, but this is exactly what I was looking for from a modern Star Trek series.

One thing I really liked about this episode is how it explored the inherent contradiction of Starfleet itself. This is a military organisation with a military hierarchy that's stated mission is one of peace and exploration. Starfleet officers are meant to be explorers first and soldiers only when necessary, but we see how quickly that gets switched around when the existence of the Federation is threatened. In peace time the Discovery (and its late sister ship) would've been a ship of pure research, but in war time it becomes a mobile Manhattan Project, pushing scientific boundaries to give the Federation the edge in the war with the Klingons.

One thing I didn't like was how quickly they rushed through the mission on the Glenn. They could've done a whole episode about Michael, Stamets, Tilly, Commander Cylon and the red shirt Mulder and Scullying their way around the dark, blood splattered corridors of Discovery's sister ship. Instead, the whole thing was over and done with in barely 10 minutes. Because of this, the entire mission felt shoehorned in just so Michael could have a selfless hero moment and slip in some Fringe style body horror. Mind you, I did find that shushing Klingon a lot funnier than I should've. 

Where Were They Then

Seeing as Discovery is set ten years before 'Where No Man has Gone Before' I decided to skim through Memory Alpha and put together this handy little guide of what all the major Star Trek characters alive at the time were up to.

— James T. Kirk was 23 and an ensign in his last year of a five-year officer training program at Starfleet Academy. After graduating Lt. Kirk would be assigned to the phaser station aboard the USS Farragut.

— Spock was 26 and serving as science officer aboard the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike.

— Dr. Leonard McCoy was 29 and had recently ended his relationship with Nancy Carter ('The Man Trap').

— Montgomery Scott was 34 and serving as an engineer in Starfleet.

— Pavel Chekov was 11 and no doubt learning about how everything ever made was Russian.

— It is unknown how old Hikaru Sulu and Nyota Uhura are during this period or what they were doing, but it is likely they were both in high school.

— The Dax symbiont's current host was either Emony or Audrid.

— I haven't got the foggiest idea how old Guinan was or what she was doing, but I imagine it involved the buying of lots and lots of really big hats.

— And Q was no doubt off annoying some species somewhere.

Notes and Quotes

— The design of the Discovery has been tweaked since the first teaser trailer was released. The ship's look was based on Ralph McQuarrie's redesign for the Enterprise for the unmade Star Trek: Planet of the Titans.

— For those of you interested, the Discovery is a Crossfield class ship. — Amanda's fondness for Lewis Carroll comes from the animated series episode 'Once Upon a Planet.' — As well as Captain Lorca, this episode introduced us to two other members of the main cast: Paul Stamets, an astromycologist and your typical asshole genius who is not at all happy about being press ganged into the Federation's war effort, and cadet Sylvia Tilly, the offspring of a rainbow and sunshine. Because she's so adorable, and her friendship with Michael shows a lot of promise, I'm willing to overlook the fact she is a walking collection of nerd cliches. — Loved Saru showing Michael around while munching blueberries. — One of the things that has always bugged me about every Star Trekseries is how the crew always beamed into hazardous situations in their regular uniforms. I am happy to see that this show is dispensing with that. — Tilly with her hair down made me think of T'Pau and I don't mean the Vulcan. — I'm assuming the reason the ship isn't swarming with them is because Lorca had his Tribble neutered. — The uniforms have pockets. Pockets!!! Now that truly is revolutionary. — I don't trust Commander Cylon. — Anyone else think the black badge dudes are connected to the ones from Wynonna Earp? I know they are probably Section 31, but what if black badge and Section 31 are one and the same? Then when can we have a crossover and see if even the universal translator can make sense of what Doc Holliday is saying. Lorca: "No matter how deep in space you are, always feels like you can see home. Don't you think? Maybe it's just me. Forgive the lighting. The lack thereof. A recent battle injury. There's nothing they can do if I want to keep my own eyes, and I do. I have to suffer light change slowly. I like to think it makes me mysterious. No?" Tilly: "Wow, is that a book?" — Somewhere the ghost of Rupert Giles is weeping. Three out of four Beatles' cover bands.

Broken Shackles 25 (END)

Two years later "Agent Kirk, what is your status?" Jim's earpiece buzzed and he activated his comm unit in his wrist as he finished relieving an unconscious Pirate of his weapons. "All guards secured and disarmed. Ready to enter the main cargo bay, sir," he reported. "Very well. We'll beam them to the brig and you and Park go in. Be very cautious for extra guards and remember to be wary approaching the hostages."

"Yes, Sir," Jim replied, well aware of the need for delicate handling. He nodded to his partner, Lucas Park, and they destroyed the lock on the cargo bay door. "You got the translator ready?" He asked Lucas. They'd need it to talk to the many species they would likely find. "Yeah, Kirk, she's all set. Blast it open." They drew their phasers and Jim blasted the lock. Clearing away the debris, they took up stations on either side of the doors and entered the cargo bay. The stench inside was nauseating, like Jim remembered from his own voyages in the bowels of a slave ship, but he set his teeth and ignored it to focus on the frightened, chained, occupants. There was a staggering amount of them, crammed in like sardines and Jim saw that this group was mostly Orion, human, and Andorian: not as diverse as usual, which meant that these slavers cruised around picking people off of colonies. He knelt beside a skinny couple who clung to each other, despite the chains. "What are you going to do with us?" The man said fearfully. "Lock your kidnappers in prison and get you out of this place and back where you came from," Jim answered, removing the manacles. "We're with the Federation Anti-trafficking force," he explained. "I'm telling the truth." He locked eyes with the man and held out his hand. "Jim Kirk at your service." The name and the release from his chains seemed to change the man's mind. "Becky!" He said to his partner, who was looking at Jim with wide green eyes. "It's Jim Kirk! He's come to rescue us!! Can you believe it?" "Yes, dear. It's a miracle!! Thank you," she said to Jim as he unlocked her manacles. "You're the one that was missing for ten years, right?" "Yes, I was." Jim confirmed. "Where did they snatch you from?" "Regis 9" Pete answered. "It's a research station that's badly under protected. They were going to take us to auction." There was a shudder in his voice and Jim winced in sympathy. "We're working in conjunction with the USS <i>Enterprise</i> and in a few minutes, you'll be beamed aboard. Please stay calm and patient and you'll be off of this nasty scow in a jiffy, Okay?" "Alright, Mister Kirk." Once the other prisoners saw Jim and Lucas methodically freeing people, they soon understood what was going on, even without the universal translator and began to chatter excitedly and willingly hold up their hands to be freed. It was a long process, even working as fast as possible and it was a good twenty minutes before Jim contacted the ship to tell them the report. "Kirk to Enterprise." "Enterprise here," Pike answered. "What's the story, agent?" "We've got about eighty-five souls free and ready to be beamed up, Captain. "Understood. Any urgent medical needs?" "Mostly malnutrition. Some bruises, but we caught this one in time." "Thank goodness. Stand by and Scott will beam them up in groups of eight." "Aye, sir, will do. Kirk out." The explanation of the process took longer than the actual beaming, but they managed to avoid stampedes and get everyone safely beamed up. Finally, Jim and Lucas were beamed up, feeling satisfied with a job well done. They hadn't had a raid go this smoothly in months. "Nice work, Park," He complimented his partner with a grin. "Thanks, Kirk. That goes for you, too. You avoided busting your face up this time." Jim nodded and chuckled. He'd come out of the last such adventure with a broken nose after a frustrated pirate had clocked him hard. They'd face a debrief with Pike and and a much longer one with the bosses at the bureau, but Jim was confident they'd done both proud this time. He met Spock in their quarters afterwards with a triumphant kiss--fingers meeting in the Vulcan style as well as lips. "You are happy, k'diwa," Spock observed, "I assume your mission was a success?" "Very much so, love. We saved eighty-seven people from the auction block today. That's a very good feeling." "Indeed, but you are also exhausted. Come rest now, Jim. You can tell me more about your raid and I will lull you to sleep with science stories and perhaps some neuropressure." That sounded good to Jim. Spock had magic hands when it came to relieving built up tension. (Yes, that way, too). He undressed and climbed into bed beside her, letting out a content sigh. Despite his fears to the contrary, Jim had found he could enjoy bedroom activities. Spock had been very sweet to him on their honeymoon, knowing how important it was for him to take the lead. Jim almost wasn't sure how to handle himself when he wasn't being barked commands or teased until he was desperate, but he'd soon figured it out. No, they'd never be very adventurous, but they were both content, and that's what mattered. "Roll over onto your side, James." Spock whispered. "Allow me to ease the tension in your back." Jim obliged, though he hated to turn away from his beautiful wife, but he let out a groan of delight as her gentle touch undid the knots in his muscles. "I see your scars have faded since I first saw them," she observed. "Uh, yeah," Jim managed as he felt himself melt under her skilled hands. "Quite a bit. Bones had some highly sensitive dermal regenerator that he wanted to test on me, see what it could do with old scarring and I let him have at it. It really worked." "Indeed. All but the deepest marks are merely faint lines now. I shudder to think of the force with which this blow was struck." She traced a fingertip over an indented streak on his lower back. "Wasn't a conventional whip," Jim admitted. "More like a group of knotted ropes with some metal in them. They quit using it because it caused such severe injury and the master's wife did not approve. She had some decency about her compared to her husband." "I see," Spock replied, a wave of agitation passing through her at the thought of  her Jim suffering pain from such a device. "Don't stress over it, darling, it's all in the past," Jim said, turning back over to pull her close to him. "She was the one who suggested I be given to your father as a present instead of re-sold, unwittingly setting in motion my entire life turning around," Jim added between kisses. "Ended up leading me to you, my <i>adun'a</i>." "Hmmm," Spock pondered, shivering with pleasure from Jim's kisses and endearments. "I suppose I cannot loathe her for such reasons." "But now, James, please recount your adventures conquering the slave ship today, before we both succumb to sleep." "Sure," Jim smiled sleepily and began the tale, not letting go of his wife. "It was a basic cargo ship, with a false bottom to hide the illegal activity......." As Jim captivated Spock with yet another rescue story, she felt tender pride in this man, who'd battled through so much in thirty years of life. She calculated that he'd now helped save 467 beings from the fate he'd endured and sparked a revolution across the Federation. But at the end of the day, he came home to her. Spock counted herself a blessed woman. As for Jim, he still sometimes wondered what she'd seen in him, but he was glad she had. It was people like Spock, Amanda, Sarek, L'Ren, Bones, and Pike who'd changed his mindset from broken and worthless to determined survivor and activist. Every time he'd released a trembling slave from their bonds, he felt like he was taking a hammer to the whole system, and it was incredibly satisfying. Right now, however, he was quite happy simply being Spock's man.

758. [MOV] Star Trek (2009)

SCORE:

(4/5 stars)

The year is 2233 and the USS Kelvin has encountered a lightning storm near Klingon space. Coming out of said lightning storm is a massive Romulan mining vessel turned juggernaut world destroyer, the Narada. It immediately opens fire and cripples the Kelvin, demanding that Captain Robau come aboard to discuss terms of surrender with the Romulan captain Nero. Robau knows this is a one-way trip, and passes command to his first officer, George Kirk. Aboard the Narada, Robau is asked about Ambassador Spock, a name he is unfamiliar with, and then asked for the year. Once his answer is given, Nero impales him on a spear and resumes firing on the Kelvin. George Kirk has the ship evacuated while he mans the bridge. Autopilot is broken, so someone has to stay behind and manually fly the ship into the Narada to buy the shuttles time to escape. As George Kirk is flying to his death, his wife Winona gives birth aboard a shuttlecraft. In their final conversation, they pick a name for their child: James Tiberius Kirk. Jim Kirk grows up quite the troublemaker, exemplified in a moment when he steals his stepdad's antique Corvette and drives it right into a quarry.

Meanwhile, sixteen light-years distant, a young Vulcan-Human hybrid named Spock is bullied by classmates who attempt to provoke an emotional response. He's able to keep it together until they insult his mother, which will turn out to pretty much always be his berserk button. His father Sarek consoles him about his internal conflict, and while he suggests fully embracing his Vulcan heritage, tells him that it is a decision only Spock can make. As a young adult, Spock asks his mother Amanda Grayson if she will take it as a personal slight that he is choosing to pursue kolinahr, but she says she will always be proud of him. He is admitted entry into the Vulcan Science Academy, but when the minister gives him a backhanded compliment regarding his human mother as a "disadvantage" to overcome, Spock gives them the Vulcan salute all the way to San Fransisco's Starfleet Academy.

Three years later, Kirk's become a caricature of a pop cultural perception of his serial philandering as he catcalls women on campus and sleeps with an Orion cadet only to learn she's roommates with Uhura, which he uses to then immediately flirt with Uhura as she kicks him out of her dorm. Kirk is retaking the Kobayashi Maru test for the third time (one wonders why they allow retakes) but this time he's altered the program allowing him to defeat the Klingon ships and rescue the crew of the Kobayashi Maru. Kirk is called before a special inquiry where he argues with Commander Spock regarding the purpose of the test, defending himself by saying the test is a cheat because there's no way to win, and he doesn't believe in a no-win scenario. Before the hearing can rule, all cadets are ordered to report to starships as Vulcan has issued a distress call and the fleet is away.

Kirk is not issued a starship due to academic suspension, but McCoy is able to sneak him aboard the Enterprise by giving him a vaccine that will exhibit medical symptoms, allowing him to transport his patient with him. Uhura is assigned to the Farragut, and complains about this assignment to Spock, who agrees to reassign her to the Enterprise. Captain Pike orders the ship to go to warp, and his new backup pilot, Lieutenant Sulu, forgets to take off the "parking brake" (external inertial dampeners), delaying their departure with the rest of the fleet. Pike orders Ensign Chekov to announce the mission over the comm system. When Kirk hears the mission, regarding reports of a lightning storm near the Klingon neutral storm followed by seismic activity on Vulcan, he realizes it's not a natural catastrophe, but that Vulcan is being attacked by the Narada, backed up by a transmission Uhura had heard regarding the destruction of a Klingon fleet at about the time of the lightning storm. After a brief argument regarding Kirk not belonging on the ship, Spock is convinced by his argument and recommends they prepare for battle once they drop out of warp.

The Enterprise drops out of warp into a debris field comprised of the other seven ships that went before it. The Narada is in orbit of Vulcan, deploying a mining laser from a long hanging platform lowered into the atmosphere. The laser is interfering with transporters and communications. The Narada fires on the Enterprise but stops when Nero recognizes the starship. He hails the Enterprise and greets Spock as though he knows him. Like before when he attacked the Narada, he asks Pike to come aboard to negotiate terms of surrender. Both Spock and Kirk advice against it, but Pike sees a tactical advantage in going over and tells Spock he's acting captain now, with Kirk as first officer. Since transporters are not functional, Pike takes a shuttle, and has an away team of Kirk, Sulu, and Chief Engineer Redshirt Olson come along.

When Pike passes by the mining drill, the away team jettison from the shuttle and perform an orbital skydive, flying close enough to the drill to not be detected so they can deactivate the laser at the base platform. Olson is a little amped up from adrenaline and pops his parachute too late, colliding with the platform and getting sucked under the laser. Kirk and Sulu encounter a couple Romulans who pop out from a hatch and engage in ye olde Star Trek fisticuffs. Since Olson had the explosives, they have to improvise and use the Romulans' disruptor rifles to fire on the drill platform.

This shuts down the laser, enabling transport and communications again, but a tunnel has been blasted all the way to the Vulcan core, and Nero launches something called "red matter" into the planet's core. Chekov calculates that the red matter is creating a black hole that will consume Vulcan, and the planet has only minutes left. Spock orders an evacuation of the planet and wants to head down himself to find the Vulcan Council, where his parents will be, since they'll be deep inside a cavern and not receive the evacuation order.

The Narada retracts the drill before Kirk and Sulu can beam off the platform and they're forced to do a skydive, which makes a transport lock harder to do, but Chekov runs to the transporter room and is able to stabilize the transport signal just before Kirk and Sulu would have splattered on the Vulcan ground. Spock beams down and finds the Vulcan Council and his parents and they evacuate to the surface so they can be beamed up, but the ground gives way under Amanda before she can be beamed out and Spock watches her die. The Enterprise leaves orbit as Vulcan is consumed by the black hole at its center. Uhura meets Spock in the turbolift, crying as he is stoic, kissing him (revealing they are in a relationship) and asking what she can do, to which he responds he needs everyone to "continue performing admirably."

Pike is interrogated by Nero, who wants security defense codes for Earth, while Pike demands Nero answer for committing genocide. Nero rants about exacting vengeance upon those responsible for the destruction of Romulus, but Romulus hasn't been destroyed, it's perfectly fine. Nero insists it's happened, because he watched it happen, and if Pike won't be more forthcoming with security codes, he'll shove a Centaurian slug down his throat. You might think that Centaurian slug looks and performs pretty similarly to a Ceti eel, and you'd be correct.

They speculate that the Narada must have come from the future, because its technology and firepower is beyond anything the Romulan Star Empire is known to possess, and the black holes created by the red matter could theoretically allow time travel. Spock notes that any changes made since the Narada entered this timeline in 2233 would have created an entirely new alternate timeline unhindered by TV show canon. Spock wants to take the Enterprise to regroup with the rest of the fleet, but Kirk knows the Nerada is going to Earth next and their only hope of saving Earth is if they pursue immediately. Their argument over the correct course of action leads to Spock kicking Kirk off the bridge, and then off the ship entirely, sending him in an escape pod down to the neighboring ice planet of Delta Vega.

There, Kirk has to run away from not one but two giant monsters pursuing him for a meal, eventually running into an ice cave where a humanoid figure scares the monster away with a torch. He turns around to reveal that he is Spock - the original Leonard Nimoy Spock Prime, aged and grey. In a mind meld, Spock Prime is able to explain what happened. In the future he comes from, he tried to save the galaxy from an unusual supernova that was threatening to consume everything. He was able to obtain "red matter" from Vulcan scientists in order to consume the expanding fireball, but was not quick enough to save Romulus from destruction. Nero blamed him for being too slow to act and attacked his ship, but they both were pulled into the black hole Spock Prime created. Nero arrived first, 25 years ago, while Spock Prime was spat out only a few days ago. Nero was waiting for him, and marooned him on Delta Vega so he could see Vulcan collapsing in the sky.

Spock Prime is dismayed to learn that Spock, not Kirk, is captain, and that they can't stand each other. He knows that Kirk's best destiny is in the captain's chair, and convinces him that he can have Spock relieved of command by proving he has become emotionally compromised by the events, which Spock Prime assures him he is. They head toward a nearby Starfleet outpost staffed by a small alien named Keenser, and Montgomery Scott, who claims to have been abandoned on this rock as punishment for testing transwarp beaming on Admiral Jonathan Archer's beagle, who never rematerialized. Spock Prime happens to know the completed formula to achieve transwarp beaming, which would enable Kirk to return to the Enterprise even as it warps away. Scotty tags along, happy to get off this frozen rock with no sandwiches on it. Kirk tries to get Prime to come with, but he says it's something Kirk has to do on his own, and the younger Spock must not be made aware of Spock Prime.

They get beamed into water reclamation in engineering, Kirk on the ground, and Scotty inside a pipe leading directly to a turbine. Kirk access a control panel to release Scotty before he's chopped into bits, and they're quickly set upon by security, including "Cupcake." Hauled up to the bridge, Kirk refuses to explain how he got back on the ship, and starts needling Spock to provoke an emotional response. Spock shows irritation, but it's only when Kirk says Spock must have felt nothing when his mother died and he never loved her that Spock totally loses it and beats the shit out of Kirk. Realizing his folly, he relieves himself of duty, making Kirk the captain now.

Kirk immediately orders the ship to change course for Earth to stop the Narada. Spock returns to the transporter room, where he lost his mother, and Sarek comes to console him. Spock worries that Nero has filled him with an uncontrollable rage, and Sarek advises him not to try to control it. Sarek years ago told Spock that he married Amanda because it was logical for the Vulcan ambassador to Earth to assimilate, but in truth he confesses he loved her. Spock returns to the bridge as Chekov details a plan to exit warp in the upper atmosphere of Titan to avoid detection from the Narada. Spock agrees with the plan and offers to beam aboard the Narada once they are in range so he can stop their black hole device. Kirk wants to go too to save Captain Pike. Uhura kisses Spock goodbye on the transport pad, and he calls her Nyota, the first name Kirk has been unable to get out of her for 3 years (and official confirmation for the rest of us Trekkies after decades).

Once they're beamed aboard, the Narada begins firing its mining laser at the San Fransisco bay, so all communications and transporters again cease functioning. Kirk and Spock shoot their way through Romulans. One Romulan is stunned so Spock can mind-meld with him and get the location of Pike and the black hole device. They find a small ship called the Jellyfish that chirps to recognize Spock when he comes aboard. Spock suspects Kirk knows more than he's letting on. Spock flies the Jellyfish out of the Narada and warps away to bait it away from Earth, as Nero cannot stand Spock getting away. Kirk meanwhile punches and shoots his way to finding Captain Pike.

Once Spock has gotten sufficient distance from the Earth in his ship, he drops out of warp and turns around for a collision course with the Narada. Nero's lieutenant warns him that if they fire on the Jellyfish they could ignite the red matter contained within, but Nero won't listen. As he opens fire, however, Sulu warps the Enterprise into the fray, phasers intercepting the Narada's weapons. The Jellyfish is on course to collide with the Narada when Scotty beams Spock, Kirk and Pike aboard. The plan works, the red matter igniting when the Jellyfish collides with the Narada, and a black hole opens up to consume the ship. Kirk hails Nero, offering assistance, but Nero would rather see Romulus die a thousand times than swallow his pride, so Kirk instead fires all weapons on the Narada. The Enterprise starts falling into the black hole themselves, even when flying away at warp, but Scotty saves the day by jettisoning the core and detonating it behind them, riding the blast wave to safety.

Back on Earth, Spock runs into Spock Prime, who says there are too few Vulcans left for them to ignore each other. Spock Prime says he didn't come with Kirk because he wanted them to discover their friendship organically, and he's become sentimental in his old age. He advises Spock to stay in Starfleet despite the need for the Vulcan race to rebuild and recolonize, a task Prime is willing to take up. Kirk has received a commission of Captain despite only being a third-year cadet and is granted command of the Enterprise for his actions, relieving Admiral Pike. Like, yeah, what Kirk did was commendable, but you don't just hand him the keys because he saved the day during a staffing crisis. Fast-track him, sure, but maybe let him graduate the Academy first?

NITPICKS

Why does Robau need to order the viewscreen polarized? Why hadn't the bridge crew already done this? It was bright enough to cause immediate discomfort to Robau, wouldn't it have interfered with the bridge crew's duties before this?

After a crewman on the Kelvin reports weapons offline, we see the Kelvin still firing weapons.

Why is the Enterprise being constructed on the planet's surface? It makes no sense. The ship is not built for landing and it increases energy costs exponentially to lift it up to space after completed construction.

I know there are deleted scenes explaining that the Narada was captured by Klingons and the crew held on Rura Penthe for 25 years before escaping, but since those are deleted scenes the film proper is left with a bit of a plot hole of just what it was Nero and crew did for 25 years, the only hint being that they destroyed 47 Klingon ships.

Sulu says he has fencing training, yet carries a space katana. One is a stabbing weapon, one a slashing weapon. Very different forms of combat.

Delta Vega was a planet on the galactic rim in TOS. Nero changed a lot of things when he traveled back in time, but he can't move a planet halfway across the galaxy and park it in Vulcan's backyard.

Supernovae move very slowly compared to any starship since the debris cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Unless this supernova was of Romulus' own star, they should have had years to prepare to deal with it. Also, there's no supernova in the universe that can threaten an entire galaxy. The square-cube law is in effect; as the shockwave expands linearly, its density diminishes exponentially.

The implications of transwarp beaming render the use of starships nearly obsolete. I assume that, since we did not see transwarp beaming in any of the 24th century series, the completed equation developed by Scotty was done sometime after the end of Voyager, since Scotty was still alive and well during that period. It certainly had to have been developed before the destruction of Romulus, which means that they wouldn't have needed the Jellyfish to deliver the red matter if they could just beam a capsule into the supernova to collapse it. This is, of course, assuming red matter is stable enough for teleportation; it may very well not be.

When the mining laser is deployed, we see a shot of fleeing cadets at Starfleet Academy. Where did these cadets come from if they had all deployed with the fleet to Vulcan?

While firing the laser right next to the Golden Gate Bridge makes for an impressive movie visual, wouldn't it make more sense to drill in a dry area? Water would constantly be pouring into the hole which could slow the drilling and impede the launch of red matter to the core.

FAVORITE QUOTES

Robau: You're Captain now, Mister Kirk.

Winona: We can name him after your father. George: Tiberius? Are you kidding me? No, that's the worst. Let's name him after your dad. Let's call him Jim.

Spock: You suggest that I should be completely Vulcan, and yet you married a human. Sarek: As ambassador to Earth, it is my duty to observe and understand human behavior. Marrying your mother was logical.

Minister: It is truly remarkable, Spock, that you have achieved so much, despite your disadvantage. All rise! Spock: If you would clarify, Minister. To what disadvantage are you referring? Minister: Your Human mother. Spock: Council, Ministers, I must decline. Minister: No Vulcan has ever declined admission to this academy. Spock: Then, as I am half-human, your record remains untarnished.

Kirk: So, you're a Cadet, you're studying... what's your focus? Uhura: Xenolinguistics. You have no idea what that means. Kirk: The study of alien languages, morphology, phonology, syntax. It means you've got a talented tongue. Uhura: I'm impressed. For a moment there, I thought you were just a dumb hick who only has sex with farm animals. Kirk: Well, not only.

Pike: Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives, including your mother's. And yours. I dare you to do better.

McCoy: Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence. Kirk: Well, I hate to break this to you, but Starfleet operates in space.

Barnett: In academic vernacular, you cheated. Kirk: Let me ask you something, I think we all know the answer to. The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? You programmed it to be unwinnable. Spock: Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario. Kirk: I don't believe in no-win scenarios.

Kirk: Who was that pointy-eared bastard? McCoy: I don't know, but I like him.

Uhura: And while you were well aware that I am fully qualified desires to serve on the USS Enterprise, I'm assigned to the Farragut? Spock: It was an attempt to avoid the appearance of favoritism. Uhura: No, I'm assigned to the Enterprise. Spock: Yes, I believe you are.

Pike: I'm Captain Christopher Pike. To whom am I speaking. Nero: Hi Christopher, I'm Nero.

Pike: You're blaming the Federation for something that hasn't happened. Nero: It has happened! I watched it happen! I saw it happen! Don't tell me it didn't happen!

Kirk: How do you know my name? Spock Prime: I have been, and always shall be, your friend. Kirk: Wha... oh, look... uh, I don't know you. Spock Prime: I am Spock. Kirk: Bullshit.

McCoy: Permission to speak freely, sir. Spock: I welcome it. McCoy: Do you? Okay, then. Are you out of your Vulcan mind? Are you making the logical choice, sending Kirk away? Probably, but the right one? You know, back home we got a saying, "If you're gonna ride in the Kentucky Derby, you don't leave your prize stallion in the stable." Spock: A curious metaphor, Doctor, as a stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

Scott: I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system, which is easy by the way, I could do it with a lifeform. So, I tested it on Admiral Archer's prized beagle. Kirk: Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it? Scott: I'll tell you when it reappears.

Scott: Are you from the future? Kirk: Yeah. He is, I'm not. Scott: Well that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?

Scott: The notion of transwarp beaming is like, trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse.

Spock: I feel anger for the one who took mother's life. An anger I cannot control. Sarek: I believe, as she would say, do not try to. You asked me once why I married your mother. I married her because I loved her.

Spock: It appears that you have been keeping important information from me. Kirk: You'll be able to fly this thing, right? Spock: Something tells me I already have.

Nero: I know your face, from Earth's history. James T. Kirk was considered to be a great man. He went on to captain the USS Enterprise, but that was another life. A life I will deprive you of, just like I did your father.

Spock: In the face of extinction, it is only logical I resign my Starfleet commission and help rebuild our race. Spock Prime: And yet, you can be in two places at once. I urge you to remain in Starfleet. I have already located a suitable planet on which to establish a Vulcan colony. Spock, in this case, do yourself a favor. Put aside logic. Do what feels right. Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self-serving, I shall simply say good luck.

Spock Prime: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new lifeforms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Ghost Spock au

Since people have written ghost!Jim and Ghost!McCoy stories, I decided to write a star trek au posted based around the  “what if Spock was a ghost?” idea. This will break your heart, put it back together again, break it, put it back, and break it even some more, as usual from me .

This au begins in 2264 during a shore leave on Vulcan to visit his mother.  Suddenly, there is some explosion that vaporizes every Vulcan around including human, animal, and insect into a pile of ashes. The katras of long gone Vulcans are the only remains of vulcan society except for the Vulcans who are away on federation approved colonies or in space. Spock and many Vulcans at first don’t realize they are dead carrying on their usual  activities. Spock returns to the Enterprise only to discover no one is  talking to him and someone else is at his station. Spock is confused until he attempts to touch the shoulder of a crew member and his hand slides through them  as though they are transparent. Spock then overhears  word about Vulcan. They are not transparent but he is. Spock is dead. Spock  is puzzled at first trying to wrap his head around this. He thinks about Vulcan, THEN HE ARRIVES THERE SIMPLY BY THINKING ABOUT IT. Spock goes on to meet with his mother. His father was away during his shore leave. His mother is  unaware of her death. Star Fleet officers are in radiation suits  searching for any survivors which is deeply concerning to the crowds of Vulcans seeing them entering their homes alarmingly without  ringing the doorbell. Spock informs her that she is dead and she must move on. They have a  unusual discussion where Amanda refuses to believe him and is concerned of his mental health. Amanda and  Spock see what the cities look like a battle worn scenery. Amanda laments that she did not give her son the vokaya necklace which is in the hands of Sarek. Spock informs her that he will be joining her shortly. Amanda goes into the afterlife.

Sarek is heartbroken. He is part of a endangered species. Sarek quickly begins planning for another marriage. Sarek’s grief is unique. He has felt the deaths of Vulcanians and his son and his wife. All of which were quick and painless. Sarek is in the what if stage and logic is not a good friend. Spock returns to the Enterprise to see a Andorian assigned to his station Spock decides to remain until this five year mission is up since he had signed in to remain.  Eventually, Pike leaves and is replaced by Captain Kirk.  Spock falls in love with Jim. Doctor Boyce and Jim briefly work together until the man retires leaving Star Fleet being replaced by Doctor Leonard McCoy. McCoy and Jim fall in love at first sight. Spock is pinning both Jim and McCoy. He makes himself useful by straying the halls, visiting sick bay to see how the doctor is doing, going to the rec room sometimes the observation deck, engineering, and often the bridge. Can you imagine Spock wishing to touch them and feel solid instead of nothing? How touch starved he must be. How angst he must feel standing around when he has nothing to do? Spock considers himself illogical for staying. He considers Jim and McCoy both irrational and illogical. He likes to hang around Nyota,  Christine, and Scotty.  But only in the background. Pavel and Hikaru provide some fresh, entertaining dialogue for Spock. Spock is easing himself on suppressing his emotions slowly unraveling himself into a emotional Vulcan  He watches Jim and McCoy flirt, argue, hang out together,  sleep together,  and build a loving friendship together. McCoy worries a lot about Jim. Spock doesn’t like the  Andorian because one, their math is inaccurate, and two, they  are compromised by  their desire to be right all the time and third, this Andorian is a hot mess why are they still alive in star fleet? Spock talks to McCoy and some of the crew members knowing they can’t hear him but it helps him stay sane. Christine and Nyota are pinning after each other and they are friends with benefits. Spock starts to wonder if anyone on this ship is straight because of so many officers grouping up in poly pairs. Spock does the statistics one day on the transporter and MCCOY HEARS HIM WHEN THEY ARE BEING BEAMED. ACTUALLY. HE SEES HIM. PERIOD. MCCOY IS TERRIFIED.  So did Jim but he is not afraid.

After the away mission, the two men do research about Spock by doing detective work at first to determine why there is a invincible Vulcan aboard their ship. McCoy finally realizes he is not alone in his office when he pours another glass for someone else. He feels the skin on his arms crawl up. This takes place after the salt vampire. McCoy is disturbed  and he feels stupid but he talks to thin air. Spock is sitting in a chair across from him slowly realizing the humans have realized he is there. Spock feels humbled that they noticed him.  He can't actually talk to the man as he is dead and all. McCoy leaves a padd that records his voice, carrying on a conversation. Then he goes through and has some techs analyze it for another voice. The techs are scared shitless. McCoy is given the audio of Spock's reply. And McCoy wonders to himself, hearing the deep rich voice of Spock, "Damn, I would have liked to meet this Vulcan when he was alive"  and he starts to frown at some of Spocks replies. Spock irritates McCoy from beyond the grave.  McCoy has goes to Nyota to figure out other ways of speaking to Spock without resorting to the techs because they are terrified. Nyota and Scotty make a device for Spock and McCoy to communicate. McCoy takes the device on away missions arguing with the Vulcan to come along because he needs to see other people instead of the same people every day. Spock meets other ghosts who have not yet moved on, and ends up saving the away teams life many times on the away mission except for once when he is observing animal life that he never saw before. Jim feels guilty and grief that he couldn't save this security officer. McCoy comforts his boyfriend. Jim bounces right back. Spock and McCoy share debates through the next four weeks. One day, Spock returns to Vulcan to visit his childhood home where he meets I-Chaya. It is a emotional reunion. Spock sees Vulcans in radiation suits evacuating the hall of ancient thoughts that were preserved.  Spock is delighted to see they had survived. Spock stays around, days, weeks, informing other Vulcans that they are dead. They refuse to believe him. Spock returns to the  Enterprise after a month to see how the two men were doing. McCoy is no longer talking to thin air.  Spock  notices the Andorian officer has been replaced by a vulcan officer, a male, who Spock is familiar to and insulted to see in Star Fleet since they had bullied Spock in his youth. Spock sees Jim acting OOC flirting with the vulcan officer. Spock is dumbfounded by his change in character.  Spock sees that McCoy is looking at Jim in the background with sad eyes--and it breaks Spock's heart.  When McCoy pours another glass, that's when he realize Spock is back. Spock is angry at McCoy for breaking up with "Your ashaya" and he speaks in fluent Vulcan. McCoy has Nyota translate for him over the angry, deep pissed off voice that is done calmly but the intention is assumed. McCoy explains to Spock the scenario. It's his fault, basically, and Jim decided to end a relationship that was falling apart. Spock is alarmed. From what little he has known Jim the captain would not give up that easily. Spock leaves while Nyota and McCoy are asking questions about Amanda.

Spock learns indirectly that Jim is not interested in a romantic relationship with a ghost. Spock is floored. He thinks it's a illogical accusation that he would have wanted a romantic relationship. He decides if he can not have one with the other as friends then he will have neither. Spock decides to end the relationship he has with McCoy by citing  the following reasons: 'Your personal living life',  'Doctor, I am dead', 'IT IS ILLOGICAL TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A DEAD PERSON', and 'You have a future on the land of the living. Do not put yourself in harms way to be with me. Live long and prosper'. And he leaves McCoy, but not without finding what is wrong with the captain to learn a entity is using him as a host. Spock personally launches himself into Jim's body when there is a conflict on the bridge between the bridge crew and Jim. Jim is overwhelmed and the science officer nerve pinches him. Spock fights the evil entity out of Jim. Spock retreads to Vulcan leaving a broken hearted doctor and a bewildered captain who has to make a unusual captains log.  McCoy thinks they can always start their friendship up together because that's all McCoy was interested in with him. A friendship, and also get to know him better. McCoy's Enterprise family have to put together what what was broken by this entity and repair relationships. Jim's relationship with McCoy is strained when he stands by the choice he made ending their relationship. Six months later there is a transporter incident. Spock returns when McCoy has a Near Death Experience and is outside of his body. McCoy crashes onto Spock in this bear hug--AND MCCOY LOOKS SO YOUNG. McCoy wants to go with Spock. Spock declines, informing him that his time has not come. McCoy wants to keep their friendship on. Spock informs him their friendship would be logical, even more possible, if he were a living hybrid. And he cites the relationship that was destroyed by his method of communication. And the friction that now exists between Jim and McCoy. McCoy tells him that kid can get another CMO to replace him. Spock explains McCoy is not expandable nor is the captain. McCoy pleads for Spock  to come with him. Spock explains he cannot go. He has unfinished business. Spock tells him if he wants to leave everyone behind then do it but leave him out of this. McCoy mentions how nurse chapel and doctor M'Benga can put the pieces back together after his death. McCoy doesn't want to go alone. He is terrified of dying. Spock informs him that to keep his dignity, he should welcome death as a colleague. McCoy is insulted. Spock further more informs him to stop thinking of the possibility of them as a item because it will never, ever, ever happen. McCoy wants Spock to stay. They argue about it. For several minutes as M'Benga works on resuscitating the doctor. Spock gives the examples of Jim's reaction to what is happening right now as big reasons why McCoy should not join him. Logically,  Jim will follow. He is too young for that. McCoy is pissed because then he will never see the vulcan again. Spock is being rude to McCoy for the doctors own good and telling McCoy to stop thinking of him. McCoy finally draws a cord with Spock.  If they find a way to bring back vaporized people, then Spock must be the first. Spock gives McCoy his word. McCoy catches Spock smiling as he gives the doctor the ta'al, "Live long and--" McCoy does not get to hear the end of it.

Sarek has been making sure the ashes of the Vulcans and Sehlats killed are put into vases. They found only one pile of ashes in his home. Sarek is hoping that it is Amanda. Sarek has bonded with a elder who lost her betrothed to natural causes. Sarek is caring for her while making sure the pregnancy does not harm her. Sarek feels Spock's presence is around and he hopes that Spock understands his wish. Spock understands, completely. Spock looks at the vases with hope that his race can be restored one way or another. He has hope that the ash found in the S'Chn T'Gai Household is Amanda's. He rather that it was her.  He does not feel worthy to be brought back to life. Spock performs meditation then attends the Vulcan Science Academy as a visitor. He can see the dead students in the rounded holes taking quizzes. Spock experiences nostalgia. Spock allows himself to visit Mount Sela to stay there for  awhile. Spock misses his mother. The events of journey to babel happen. McCoy decides to speak with Sarek. Sarek has a heart attack. Then random out of thin air there is a transport malfunction but a different version of his son, younger, different, and he looks nothing like Sarek in a different version of the blue and black uniform. Blood transfusion saves Sarek's life. Other Spock inquires if they lost their  Spock due to the destruction of Vulcan. There is silence in the room. McCoy gently explains to Other Spock the story and he never knew the Vulcan but he knew his ghost.  Other Spock shows them a family photograph of another version of their Spock alive and well and--McCoy gets emotional looking at it. Other Spock  reveals his mentor died of natural causes. They send other Spock back through the transporter with the photograph. The conference goes on as scheduled.  Eventually, it comes around to the time that  Spock should have his Pon Farr. He decides to see how the doctor is doing after spending months on Vulcan. McCoy and Jim's relationship has healed. They are on a planet that has people who make synthetic androids for free. McCoy is making sure that one synthetic android looks exactly like Spock.  Spock attempts to enter it and use it but he cannot. These people's mines are being used to get dilithium crystals for star fleet vessels. McCoy finally gives up after days of it being hid in his quarters. McCoy spends an hour talking to the inactive synthetic updating him about his life.  Spock is there listening in. The synthetic android is disassembled afterwards. Spock sees that Nyot and Christine are married. T'Pring currently being courted as she is a science officer. Spock is pleased by how this is turning out. T'Pring experiences Pon Farr. Nyota and Christine are off duty for three days signed off by the  Captain.  Spock sees the women happy together, sitting on the couch, in a cuddle, and-- it painfully reminds Spock of what he can never have.

It's been five years and Spock should have moved on into the afterlife but he hasn't.  Christine, Nyota, and T'Pring are on their second five year mission together in deep space  under the command of James T. Kirk and Commander McCoy.  Nyota  has been promoted to  Lt Cmnder. T'Pring is Lt Cmnder. The last mission McCoy had in the first five year mission involved a break through that brings ashes to life. They try it on the  Vulcans first. Spock is up for the last. Sarek, McCoy, and Jim. The radiation has died down since the initial explosion that has been blamed on some Romulans plotting. Spock has watched Vulcans come back. The machine activates. Amanda is back, oddly enough. Sarek's previous mate died a few days ago due to old age in her late one hundred nineties. McCoy's heart is broken, again. Amanda and Sarek have the vulcan equivalent of a intimate embrace. McCoy feels like the Vulcan broke his word.  He grieves but with Jim being there for him this time around Spock has dropped in and out of the two's lives, but notably when Jim's lives are on the line. Spock has kept Jim company. Jim knows Spock intimately. The machines are working on the Sehlats. Spock is confused on why he hasn't moved on. He decides to watch over them. He feels hurt that he can't talk to them. Jim decides to take out the device McCoy had put away years ago. They have been married for a few years. Amanda likes Jim and McCoy.  McCoy and Jim turn on the device.  McCoy’s eyes light up when he hears Spock's voice for the first time again in years. Jim negotiates with Spock when they can talk. T'Pring is the first officer. The crew adapts to having devices that detect when Mr Spock is around  and can carry his voice. Spock finds out he can move things by his emotions  when he shoves McCoy out of  fear from being shot at. Spock goes on away missions and they don't even know because he stays afar a safe distance to stay professional. Spock and McCoy have become good colleague. Slowly, but surely, their relationship turns romantic. Spock arouses McCoy in the least convenient times and uses his ability to touch things due to his emotions to his advantage.

Jim completes his second five year mission.  

Then allows William Decker to take command while Jim and McCoy go help people along with Spock following behind them. Most of the command crew is kept. The tight kept family keeps messages together. Spock watches Jim and McCoy grow old together. New wrinkles appearing on their faces. Getting a year older.  Losing their hearing, eyesight, and most importantly Jim is losing his hair. Spock does not look a day old. Spock leaves them alone when it comes to shut eye. They miss him even though he is still there. He is dead and can communicate but they can't touch him. Jim is a touchy man. That frustrates Jim. More so it does to Spock. But they make it work. Christine, Nyota, and T'Pring remind Spock of what he could have. What he could be experiencing. And there are days where he wants to know which Romulans were responsible for his death. He is a ghost who does not know who the person killed him is. Jim and McCoy have adopted a Romulan/Vulcan Hybrid named Saavik. He is called, Spock the ghost, within star fleet. He watches Jim grow older. McCoy's age beginning to show. Saavik lighting them up in a way that makes Spock  feel like she fills a void in the men. A favor that he cannot repay. Vulcan society has recovered and the buildings are rebuilt. Sehlats roaming in the environment that he once lived in. Vulcanian plants have been returned including the insects. Saavik is introduced to Spock through his voice and he watches over her sometimes, if not, helping her with being bullied by Vulcanians who have entered the academy when she is old enough. Saavik, Jim, McCoy, and Spock are one inconvenient family.

The Enterprise becomes a training vessel commanded by Captain T'Pring with Commander Uhura and Commander Chapel as her support. Jim and McCoy attending to see how Cadet  Saavik did, since they raised her, congratulating her for failing the kobyashi maru. Jim gives Saavik the tale of two cities. Spock understands why he is here. He is visiting his mother when he senses something wrong has happened. He teleports to  engineering---and Jim is dead. Laid  on the floor. Jim is actually standing above his body looking down upon it. Spock goes in after the captain placing a hand on his shoulder and for once he is solid! He can touch his shoulders. Jim is relieved to see someone like Spock. Jim grows a wide, supernova smile. Spock is almost in disbelief and nearly in tears, bittersweet as it is, as McCoy is grieving.  Spock explains the ground rules to being dead and that he should move on. Jim has no idea to move on. So these two dorks are trying every method to help Jim to move on. Transporter, letting his heart out, talking his heart out, and making admissions. Spock is annoyed that it is not working since it has worked on crew members who have yet to pass on that he encountered on the Enterprise and off. Jim's body is jetted out into space. Jim and Spock finally get to have a few hours to themselves and they spend it making out while Jim looks the age he first met McCoy. T'Pring is feeling anguish that she could not help save the ship. Nyota is telling her that there is nothing she could have done. She could not have known. T'Pring gives a list of reasons that she should have known to prevent the captain's death.  Christine comes in as the two women are holding each other with one of them crying against the others chest. Christine puts her hands on their shoulders with tears in their eyes and joins the tearful embrace. Doctor McCoy had to perform the autospy with help from her.

McCoy comforts David. They talk about Jim, extensively. McCoy tells him if things were different, David could have been part of their family. And he still can be. McCoy calls Carol and Saavik in. They have to talk over this loss, together, as a family or risk not having one because of losing Jim. Saavik agrees. Jim begins fade before Spock's eyes as they rest on a bed together no longer shackled by being alive and dead. Spock realizes Jim's not dead. Not anymore, to be exact. Spock strokes the man's cheeks and tells him that his husband needs him. Spock will see Jim again. Spock approaches McCoy when the man is in his bed, crying, alone hours after the autospy had been conducted and the little family comfort. Spock sadly touches the human's shoulder noting that his device is damaged.  Spock cannot inform McCoy of the sudden recovery. Spock rubs his fingers in a circle on the man's shoulder. McCoy is a walking shell of himself. It becomes apparent afterwards including when they get to Star Base 1. T'Pring's ship is about to be decommissioned and will be destroyed after decades in space. Spock informs T'Pring through a urgent, feely mind meld of Jim's resurrection. T'Pring takes a shuttle craft to Genesis with her wives in tow. Spock opts to watch over Saavik and David to see how they are doing. Scotty is not in a good shape himself after seeing his relative, Peter, die before his eyes. Spock watches the crew be separated into new assignments.

Spock waits until he sees McCoy going past him quite livid, "I NEED A SHUTTLE CRAFT TO VULCAN!" And it is confusing. Why go to Vulcan of all places? Spock arrives at Vulcan to find healers over a sleeping figure with brown curly hair confused on his resurrection. He overhears them mention amnesia. He finds T'Pring with her wives waiting outside to hear word regarding the captain. McCoy arrives later with the crew behind him desperate to see if what they heard was right. T'Pau approaches them and informs  McCoy of the shocking news. McCoy faints into Scotty, Pavel, and Hikaru's arms. Saavik is among them with David who is apparently shocked. McCoy waits for the healers to be finished with Jim. Jim recognizes Bones, asking, "I know your face." "I know yours better than our ghost." "Why do you look so old?" rubbing the side of the man's cheek. McCoy smiles, feeling like the world has been lifted. Genesis is still thriving. Three months later, Jim and McCoy opt to return to Earth to act as character witnesses for the three women. Spock attends sitting in a empty seat. They succeed. Spock finds David and Saavik are bonded while living on Vulcan together, happily in bliss. Spock finds out who killed him by a fleet captain talking it over with another officer. Spock heads on a roaring rampage of revenge on Romulus that is costly in lives and in starships. He is furious as he knows the exact reason why this Romulan had done it. When he is done, Spock feels a lot better and leaves the Romulan air space for them to put the pieces back together. He has screwed them up royally. And may have invaded in the mind of the Romulan who orchestrated his and countless other Vulcan's deaths then really screwed them up. He comes across a woman named Jaylah who still looks quite young for her age for joining star fleet being ferried to starbase one on the USS Hood A.

Spock watches Jim get rounder, losing his hair, and adopt a tribble toupee. He doesn't mind the purring because it is quite soothing for his age  and it's comfortable. Sometimes he doesn't even notice the low purring nor does the people he talk to. Jim's eyesight is failing, McCoy's arthritis is terrible, and Spock does make regular contact with them. McCoy considers this  a great thing. They celebrate hannukah together as a family by watching some cheesey romantic christmas movies. They cuddle, a lot, and garden together. Spock looks at the aged men in longing while looking younger than them. Jim's hearing is bound to come next. They are aging gracefully when T'Pring suggests them in 2293 for the Khitomer Treaty.  They decline, respectfully, except when Spock agrees that they should go out by making their farewell to space not to their youth because they are always so young by the inside. By the end, Spock is a guilty party. Valeris, Saavik's friend,  betrayed them. Sent Jim and McCoy to a arctic planet framing them for a Klingon murder. They save the day then retire three months later with the Enterprise A. The Enterprise A has been under T'Pring's command for roughly a decade or less.  McCoy and Jim enjoy their retirement while helping out the nearby community and Spock feels so left out because he is not alive. He doesn’t have a vessel to love them with. He has provided them with garden advice and how to cook some vulcan meals. The men take advantage of Spock's lack of being touched by letting him do the touching on them. Sometimes he startles them but in reality, they expected it the entire time, and enjoy it more than they actually should. Spock can find Jim and McCoy at night sleeping together with McCoy's head on his chest and their legs entangled. One day,  in 2364,  for the first time, in over several decades and after several instances of McKirk convincing him that even without a body he still matters to their relationship, Spock feels like he can go. Marking his first anniversary as a ghost. He feels happy for the first time in his life being assimilated into their little family. And he sees the light. Spock bids them farewell, "Live long and prosper." But he will not take them without him. If he can not have one with the other then he will have neither. The McKirk's are sad, but so adorably sweet and cute together that they manage it ten happy, beautiful, glorious years without Spock. They feel a void inside their domestic life without Spock until the end. There is a emotional reunion in the afterlife with the crew as a family.

THE. END.

Imagine if Spock and Scotty were best friends and roommates at the academy

Scotty walks into his room on the first day at Starfleet academy and finds a Vulcan meditating on one of the beds. He stands there awkwardly for a few minutes until the Vulcan opens one of his eyes and says "I hope you do not mind that I chose one of the beds. My name is Spock, I will keep my half of the room clean and I cook." (I picture starfleet academy dorms having little kitchenettes or something) Scotty is just like "uh. Okay." The first few weeks would probably be pretty awkward while they got used to one another- Scotty is messy and snores and Spock is just so damn quiet. But one night Scotty strikes up a conversation about one of their classes and the friendship just BLOSSOMS. Like, they spend the next several hours talking about classes and quantum physics and warp physics and eventually Scotty gets talking about Scotland and the next night he produces some alcohol from somewhere and he demands that Spock try some. The first time someone at the academy picks on Spock, Scotty hunts them down and punches them in the face for this sweet ass Vulcan who refused to punch him because he's a pacifist who refused to punch someone even if they deserved it. The guy punches him back and Spock has to end up treating Scotty for his wounds that night, lecturing him the whole time but there's something there in his voice, some little itty bitty inkling of gratitude. Spock patching Scotty up probably becomes a thing like bar fights fist fights lab accidents anything, Spock is there with alcohol and bandaids. Scotty becomes Spock's fricking gaurd dog like you mess with Spock Scotty will attack you even tho Spock doesn't want him too. And Scotty tries to set Spock up on dates, and Spock politely declines and doesn't mind if Scotty brings a date home he quietly goes to the library until Scotty texts him saying he can come back. And they totally study together and help eachother in their classes And they graduate together and both end up on the enterprise under pike (In AOS, when Scotty goes to delta vega Spock worries about him and when Scotty beams aboard the enterprise with Jim after Nero is dead Scotty hunts Spock down, finds him in his room and is just like "you let me in or so help me God" and then Scotty hugs him even if Spock claims he doesn't need it he just hugs him tight and they spend the next three hours talking about everything that's been happening. Later, Scotty punches Jim in the face for what he said about Spock and his Mom, comforts Spock after khan happens, freaks out just as bad as Bones when Spock gets hurt in beyond, comforts him when ambassador Spock dies, and if/when Nyota breaks up with him he gets Spock's permission before asking her out) And when Kirk comes to the enterprise, Scotty watches him grow a friendship with Kirk and is so damn pleased for his friend but he's scared to so one day he goes to Kirk's quarters and asks if he can speak freely and he very calmly, almost quietly explains that Spock means a lot to him and that Spock doesn't care about others easy and makes it very clear that is Kirk fucks up Spock's heart- because Spock /trusts/ Kirk now dammit don't you dare think that isn't important- not only will Kirk lose the best engineer in the fleet Scotty will personally make sure Kirk loses at least three of those pretty teeth. (If/when Kirk starts dating spock he gives Kirk a similar talk but this one is even more threatening) In amok time, he goes down to the surface with them, When Sarek comes on board in journey to Babel he corners him and says it's bullshit that the ambassador is a dick to his son and Amanda totally thanks him for being a good friend to her son. At Spock's wedding (whoever it may be to nudge nudge wink wink) he gives Spock away and is maybe his best man. When Spock goes to do kolinahr before TMP, Scotty says goodbye to him with tears in his eyes, and when TWOK happens, Scotty grieves something horrible because he was there dammit, he should have stopped him When Jim died, Scotty apologized to Spock. When Nyota died, Spock was there (Spock was the best man at his wedding to Nyota). When Scotty died, Spock was at his side. He grieved for him. Tl;dr, I've always felt that Scotty and Spock would be bros and now the idea that they were roomies is embedded in my head and I love them so much their my brotp

Exploring a New World (4/30)

Pairing: James T. Kirk x Reader

A/N: Please give me your thoughts on this. I would really love to hear all the things you like about this story no matter how small. If you want to be tagged, just leave a comment down below or send me a message!

This series is based off the Star Trek: Alternate Original Series with actual scenes from the films.

Warning: Mention/brief description of killing Romulans.

Upon arrival at Vulcan, pieces of starships were scattered all around. Your father immediately yelled, “emergency evasive.”  The ship got hit by some of the debris and you had to brace yourself at every hit. Once we passed under a starship that was partially intact, you saw the ginormous ship. The ship fired torpedoes at us to which your father then said, “Sulu, status report.”

“Shields at 32%. Their weapons are powerful, sir. We can’t take another hit like that,” Sulu responded.

“Get me Starfleet command.”

Spock informed, “Captain. The Romulan ship has lowered some kind of high energy pulse device into the Vulcan atmosphere. Its signal appears to be blocking our communications and transporter abilities.”

“All power to forward shields. Prepare to fire all weapons,” your father ordered.

Nyota stood from her post as she announced, “Captain we’re being hailed.”

A Romulan appeared on the screen and said, “hello.”

“I’m Captain Christopher Pike, to whom am I speaking?”

“Hi Christopher, I’m Nero,” the Romulan spoke calmly.

“You’ve declared war on the federation. Withdraw, I’ll agree to arrange a conference with Romulan leadership at a neutral location.”

“I do not speak for the Empire. We stand apart. As does your Vulcan crew member, isn’t that right, Spock?”

You watched as Spock stood up from his seat and made his way to the centre of the bridge, “pardon me. I do not believe we are acquainted.”

“No, we’re not. Not yet. Spock, there is something I would like you to see. Captain Pike, your transporter has been disabled. As you can see by the rest of your armada, you have no choice. You will man a shuttle come aboard the Narada for negotiations. That is all,” then ended the transmission.

Your father rose from him chair and slowly started to make his way to the exit. You walked over to him and grabbed his arm turning him to face you, “You can’t be serious about this.”

“He’ll kill you, you know that,” Kirk added.

Spock chimed in, “your survival is unlikely.”

“Captain, we gain nothing by diplomacy,” Kirk continued.

“Dad, please, don’t do this,” you pleaded hoping that he wouldn’t follow through with his decision. “Going over to that ship is a mistake.”

“I too agree, you should rethink your strategy,” Spock concurred.

“I understand that,” Your father stated. “I need officers who have been trained in advanced hand-to-hand combat.”

Sulu raised his hand as he announced, “I have training, sir.”

You looked around the room to see if anyone else would volunteer. With the lack of responses, you shrugged, “I’ll come.”

Your father nodded then stated, “come with me. Kirk, you too. You’re not supposed to be here anyway.” He started to make his way to the exit followed by you and the others. “Chekov, you have the con.”

“Aye-aye, Captain,” Chekov replied.

“Without transporters, we can’t beam off the ship. We can’t assist Vulcan, we can’t do our job. Mr. Kirk, Mr. Sulu, Engineer Olson and Dr. Y/n will space-jump from the shuttle. You will land on that machine they’ve lowered into the atmosphere that’s scrambling our gear. You’ll get inside, you’ll disable it, then you’ll beam back to the ship. Mr. Spock, I’m leaving you in command of the Enterprise. Once we have transport capability and communications back up, you’ll contact Starfleet and report what the hell’s going on here.” You all arrived to an elevator as your father turned around and continued, “And if all else fails, fall back, and rendezvous with the fleet in the Laurentian system.” He then looked over to the blond, “Kirk I’m promoting you to first officer.”

“What,” you and Kirk said simultaneously. You shook your head in disbelief.

Spock approached your father as he said, “Captain? Please, I apologize, the complexities of human pranks escape me.”

“It’s not a prank, Spock. And I’m not the Captain, you are.” Your father looked at everyone and said, “let’s go.”

Everyone entered the elevator except for Spock. You looked at your father as you asked, “dad, after we knock out that drill, what happens to you?”

“Well, I guess you’ll have to come and get me.” Pike responded then looked at Spock and said, “careful with the ship, Spock, she’s brand new.” The elevator doors closed shut.

~

You entered the shuttle and sat down on the remaining seat beside Sulu. Kirk turned his head to Olsen and asked, “You brought the charges, right?”

“Oh yeah, can’t wait to kick some Romulan ass, right,” Olsen said causing you to raise a brow unimpressed.

“Yeah,” Kirk hesitated.

As the shuttle took off towards Vulcan, Kirk looked over to Sulu and curiously asked, “So what kind of combat training do you have?”

“Fencing,” Sulu simply replied.

“What about you Little Pike,” the blonde questioned you with a smirk plastered on his face. “What moves haven’t you shown me yet?”

You just smiled and pulled out two blades and shook them slightly. His smirk got replaced with a look of surprise. Sulu leaned towards Kirk and whispered, “I heard she had all kinds of training: martial arts, weaponry, you name it.”

Kirk glanced over to you before he said, “really? She never mentioned that to me before.”

“Pre-jump,” your father’s voice echoed through the ship over the com. You along with the three men put on your helmet and got ready. “Gentlemen, and Y/n. We are approaching the drop zone. You have one shot to land on that platform. They may have defences so pull your chute as late as possible. Three, two, one.” The four of you got pulled back facing the doors. “Remember the Enterprise won’t be able to beam you back until you’ve turned off that drill. Good luck.” Pike

The doors opened launching the four of you towards the planet. As you dove, all you could hear was the heavy breathing of those around you and your own. “Kirk to Enterprise. Distance to target 5000 metres.”

“4500 metres to target,” Sulu added.

“4000 metres,” you stated.

“3000,” Olsen said.

“Pulling the chute,” you declared. Everyone pulled the chute except for Olsen who kept diving towards the platform.

“2000 metres,” Olsen yelled.

Kirk advised, “come on. Pull your chute, Olsen.” A chorus of Kirk, Sulu and you yelling at Olsen to pull his chute, but the man only laughed. Once he finally pulled his chute, he hit the platform. He screamed as the wind pulled him towards the drill that killed him instantly.

“Oh my god,” you breathed.

As Kirk landed, he got pulled by his chute to the edge of the platform, but he was able to retract it in time. He pulled his helmet off and looked up only to see a Romulan appeared on the platform. Kirk yelled as he charged at him.

The Romulan pulled out a disruptor, but Kirk fought against him. The weapon was being fired up which hit Sulu’s chute. Kirk got the upper hand and started to throw punches. He pulled out his phaser, but the Romulan knocked it off the platform only leaving the blonde with his helmet.

Another Romulan appeared as you retracted your chute just before you landed and rolled onto the platform. You ran towards the Romulan that was about to hit Kirk from behind. You threw your helmet at the Romulan’s head and you jumped on his back then snapped his neck.

You took a step towards Kirk, but heard a hatch close. You turned to look, but got hit across the face by the newly appeared Romulan. He knocked you to the floor and made his way to Sulu who just landed.

You noticed the hatch starting to open. You carried yourself up towards it and stood over the door as you pulled out your twin blades. Once the hatch fully opened revealing the Romulan, he looked up at you in shock and you quickly planted the two blades in his eyes. You kicked him back inside the platform and closed the hatch.

You turned your attention towards your two crew mates as you heard Kirk yell. You noticed Sulu pierce the Romulan through the chest who stood over the blonde who was hanging off the platform. You ran over to the two to help Sulu pull Kirk backup.

“Olsen had the charged,” Sulu yelled.

“I know,” Kirk stated.

“What do we do now,” you asked.

Kirk grabbed a disruptor and said, “this.” You and Sulu grabbed yourselves each a disruptor. You all fired at the drill until it stopped. The Romulans fired a device towards Vulcan. Kirk turned on his communicator and said, “Kirk to Enterprise. They just launched something at the planet through the hole they just drilled. Do you copy, Enterprise?”

“Y/n to Enterprise. Beam us out of here,” you yelled.

“Stand by. Locking on your signal,” an officer said.

The drill started to get pulled up causing the three of you to lose your balance. Sulu started to fall off the platform causing Kirk to yell, “Sulu!” You started to run after Sulu, Kirk exclaimed, “no, don’t move. You stay there!” He ran to the edge of the platform and jumped off.

You got beamed back into the Transporter Room of the Enterprise. You quickly made your way towards the transmission controls. Chekov soon arrived in the room and took over the controls. “Hold on, hold. Compensating gravitational pull and… Gotcha!”

Kirk and Sulu landed onto the transporter. You let out a breath you didn’t realize you were holding. Kirk slowly got up and you charged at him entrapping him in a hug. He stood frozen for a moment then hugged you back tightly.

You realized what you were doing and stepped back from him. You cleared your throat and looked down shyly and chuckled, “I should get going, I’m probably needed in med bay.” You started to turn around and leave, but you looked back to Kirk and said, “I’m glad you’re okay, James.”

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759. [MOV] Star Trek Into Darkness

SCORE:

(3/5 stars)

The Enterprise, in surveying the planet Nibiru, has discovered that a volcano is due to erupt that will likely wipe out most life on the planet, Yellowstone caldera style. There is a primitive village at the base of the volcano, and Kirk lures them away from the initial blast zone by stealing one of their sacred scrolls, causing them all to chase him and McCoy until they jump off a cliff and swim to the Enterprise, stupidly hidden underwater. Meanwhile, Sulu, Uhura and Spock are flying inside the caldera to lower Spock down on a line to deploy a device that will freeze the eruption in its tracks. The ash intake is damaging the shuttle's engines and when Spock's tether accidentally severs, Sulu is forced to leave him behind on a small rock surrounded by lava or the shuttle will crash. The only way to get Spock out of there is with a direct line of sight transport, but they'd need to come out of the ocean to do that, exposing the ship to the view of the natives and violating the Prime Directive. Spock tells them to leave him behind, but Kirk ignores his protest and does it anyway, beaming Spock aboard just before the bomb goes off and freezes the eruption. He shrugs off the Prime Directive implications even as the natives begin drawing silhouettes of the Enterprise in the sand.

Back at Earth, Kirk and Spock have been called to report to Admiral Pike, who asks about the Nibiru survey mission. Kirk calls it uneventful, which doesn't mesh with the report Spock filed regarding their violation of the Prime Directive. Kirk is angry that Spock went behind his back to tell on him for saving his life, and Pike dismisses Spock from the room to dress Kirk down for filing a false report, violating the Prime Directive, and furthermore failing to even understand what he did wrong. He says that there was already a hearing convened and they've decided to strip Kirk of his command and boot him all the way down to cadet.

Pike finds Kirk at a bar and cockblocks him to share a drink. He tells Kirk that they gave the Enterprise back to him, and he was able to lessen Kirk's punishment. He'll serve as Pike's first officer with Spock transferred to the Bradbury. They're called in to an emergency meeting at Starfleet Headquarters, where Admiral "Robocop" Marcus informs them he got an email from Mickey before he 9-11'd Section 31 that he was coerced into doing it by Michaelvick Dogfightmatch. Admiral Marcus is declaring a manhunt for the dude, but it doesn't add up to Kirk, especially because he doesn't know it was a Section 31 facility and on its face appears to just be a library. He realizes that once said terror attack would happen, all the captains and first officers would convene in this very room.

Sure enough, Obamadict Cumbarack shows up in a small craft to Godfather 3 the room, killing pretty much everyone except Marcus, Spock and Kirk. Pike gets hit in the chest and Spock melds with him as he passes. Kirk ties a rifle to a wall-mounted firehose and throws it through a broken window into the engine of the shuttle, crippling it. He sees Wimbledon Tennismatch beam out as his craft breaks apart around him. Scotty is able to locate the transwarp beaming device he had aboard and has found its coordinates: "Not Khan" beamed himself to Qo'noS, the one place they can't go.

Kirk requests Marcus reinstate him as Captain of the Enterprise and reassign Spock back as his first officer so he can enter Klingon space and pursue Frumious Bandersnatch to bring him to justice. Marcus grants him his request with specific orders. He'll arm the Enterprise with experimental torpedoes that can be fired from long range and will be undetectable by the Klingons. They'll warp in to the edge of Klingon space and fire on Buttonwillow McKittrick's location. Along with the torpedoes comes a weapons expert, Dr. Carol Wallace, which everyone going into the film already knew was actually Carol Marcus, but the filmmakers sure know how to insult their fans by pretending they pulled one over on them. Spock is also suspicious of her and looks into it. Scotty has a serious problem allowing the torpedoes on board because he doesn't know their composition or how they might interfere with the Enterprise engines, and when Kirk orders him to approve them despite his objections, he resigns. Kirk assigns Chekov to replace him as Chief Engineer, saying "Go put on a red shirt," which is a little less funny now considering Anton Yelchin died shortly after filming Star Trek Beyond.

Before Scotty leaves the Enterprise, he implores Kirk not to use the torpedoes, advice that Kirk takes to heart. As they warp to Qo'noS, he announces that they will be seeking to arrest "John Harrison" and only use the torpedoes as a last resort. Spock discovers that Carol Wallace is Carol Marcus, the daughter of Admiral Marcus, and she forged her transfer papers to get aboard. Before she can explain what she's doing here, the Enterprise violently drops out of warp in the Klingon neutral zone due to a coolant leak Chekov discovers. Kirk, Spock, Uhura and two redshirts take a ship confiscated from Harry Mudd and dress in civilian clothes so as not to tie their mission to Starfleet, while Sulu is given the conn and sends a transmission to "Khan't" warning him to surrender or get BTFO. Chekov will try to get the engines up and running before they return.

It looks like the Klingons overmined Praxis a little earlier in this timeline, as Qo'noS has a moon that's breaking apart. The transporter coordinates lead to an uninhabited section of Qo'noS, and en route to its location, Uhura decides to start up an argument with Spock over his rash actions on Nibiru, his seeming lack of care for her feelings when he chose to die, and she tries to bring Kirk into the argument. Spock counters that he's felt grief and despair before, when he melded with Pike, and knew it was the same feeling he felt magnified when Vulcan died, and so he chooses not to feel it again, but it does not affect his feelings for Uhura.

Even though it's an abandoned area of Qo'noS, they have the luck to encounter a random patrol and despite putting on a good chase are completely surrounded. Kirk is ready for a fight, but Uhura opts to use her Klingon to attempt to negotiate instead. She meets face to face with the patrol leader and tells him they are here to hunt down a human criminal with no honor. The Klingon is not moved by her calls to his sensibility, and begins throttling her. But of course, Trenchadict Matrixbatch shows up in a long coat and a bunch of guns to blow up the Klingons. Once the patrol is eradicated, he demands to know the number of torpedoes the Enterprise is armed with. Spock says they have 72, and "Harrison" immediately surrenders. Kirk accepts his surrender, then punches him a bunch. It doesn't seem to phase his prisoner one bit.

On the Enterprise brig, "Harrison" notes they haven't gone to warp yet, suggesting he suspects sabotage. He gives Kirk coordinates to investigate, saying there will be answers to his war on Starfleet there, and he suggests they open a torpedo to see what's inside. Spock warns that he's trying to get into Kirk's head, but Kirk listens anyway because something doesn't add up. He calls Scotty back on Earth and asks him to do him a favor and investigate the coordinates, which take Scotty to a secret shipyard orbiting Jupiter. Speaking with Carol Marcus, she explains that she forged her credentials because she had full access to Section 31's weapons programs except for these torpedoes which disappeared off the books, and she wanted to investigate. They take the ship to a nearby planetoid where Doctors McCoy and Marcus perform surgery on a torpedo and discover it's housing a cryotube with a 300-year-old man inside.

Kirk returns to the brig to find out what's going on, where Bunchacrunch Creamsicle hams it up to reveal that his name... is... KHAN. As if that means anything to Kirk, but maybe Khan was playing it up for the fourth wall. I should point out that Khan was previously played by a Mexican actor portraying an Indian man and now he's suddenly Whitey McLondon. The only thing I can think is that in this timeline, Khan, being of South Asian descent, was likely engineered with the British colonialism gene, turning him into the Englishest Englishman who ever Britted. He explains that Admiral Marcus has a goal of a militarized Starfleet, particularly after the Narada incident, and went and found the Botany Bay to get insight from genetic augments on building new weapons and ships. He held Khan's crew hostage to force him to do the work. Khan hid his crew's cryotubes in the torpedoes he was developing, but apparently Marcus found them. Khan assumed they had been killed, which is why he started waging war on Starfleet. He believes Marcus sabotaged the Enterprise so that it would be found when it launched the torpedoes, sparking a war against the Klingons that Marcus wants.

Proving his point, Admiral Marcus warps in on a big scary new Dreadnought-class vessel called the USS Vengeance. (Who calls it that? The script, apparently. It's never mentioned in the film.) Marcus and Kirk briefly pretend like they don't know that the other person knows that they know, but Khan was pretty much right. Marcus demands Khan be killed and asks him handed over. Kirk lies and says their transporters are down, and then tells Marcus Khan is in Engineering and they'll lower shields to let the Vengeance beam him over. He's really just buying time to make sure that Chekov has warp back online. Shields are never dropped, and they warp back to Earth.

Kirk figures they're safe, doubting the Vengeance can catch up to them, but Carol says the Vengeance has an advanced warp drive and will definitely catch up to them, which it does, firing weapons on the Enterprise and knocking it out of warp in orbit of the Moon. Marcus beams Carol over to the Vengeance and declares the Enterprise crew in league with Khan. He'll execute them all as traitors, even as Kirk begs to be solely held responsible. But before the Vengeance can fire again, all systems reboot. Scotty snuck aboard the Vengeance when he found it in the Jupiter shipyard, and is actively sabotaging it as he can.

Since it will take some time for the Vengeance to restore systems, Kirk sees an opportunity despite the Enterprise's own weapons being offline. Khan knows the Vengeance inside and out, being one of its developers. They turn the ship to align with a cargo bay airlock port on the Vengeance, and Kirk and Khan launch themselves out of an Enterprise airlock in EVA suits to traverse the gap in space. Scotty is accosted by a security officer while manning the airlock port and tries to stall for time, apologizing to him right before he opens the airlock and the guard is blown out into space as Kirk and Khan fly in. Kirk gives Khan a phaser locked to stun, and they head for the bridge.

Spock, meanwhile, gives his old buddy Spock Prime a call and asks him about Khan. Spock Prime warns him that Khan Noonien Singh was one of their most formidable foes and was only defeated at great cost. This scene really didn't need to be in here as it added nothing other than giving Spock Prime another scene when we got a wonderful sendoff for him last film. We all already know Khan is bad, he's the bad guy in the trailers. And since this situation is completely different from Wrath of Khan other than Khan is the bad guy, any advice Spock Prime gives is going to be generic at best and ultimately no payoff comes from it other than to remind people about Wrath of Khan, a much better movie.

Kirk also doesn't trust Khan and tells Scotty to drop him as soon as they hit the bridge. They take the bridge and Scotty stuns Khan, but his superior genetics let him shrug off the stun early and he starts kicking everyone's ass before going full Mountain vs Oberyn, crushing Admiral Marcus's skull between his bare hands. He demands Spock beam the torpedoes to the Vengeance, pointing out that if he doesn't comply, he'll just knock out their life support system since his crew will be unaffected in their cryotubes. Spock beams them over and beams back Kirk, Scotty and Carol. Khan resumes firing on the Enterprise anyway, but Spock had set the torpedoes for timed detonation, and the Vengeance gets fucked up. Kirk worries that they killed Khan's crew, but they removed the tubes beforehand and have them stored in sickbay.

But the damage the Enterprise suffered causes main power to go down and despite it being in orbit of the Moon five minutes ago it starts falling into the Earth's atmosphere. Kirk and Scotty head to Engineering in an Inception-inspired gravity tumbling scene. They can't reinitialize the warp core because an injector is misaligned, and there's no time to clear the chamber of radiation to fix it. Gee, that sounds a little familiar. Kirk is going to go in to do it anyway, and knocks Scotty out to stop his protestations. He manages to kick the injector back in place, and the ship restores power, rising out of the clouds.

In the most offensively derivative scene, Scotty calls Spock down to Engineering as they steal half the lines from Wrath of Khan while Spock and Kirk have a tearful conversation through a pane of glass. Kirk succumbs to his radiation exposure and dies. But, c'mon, we know it's not going to take, because Kirk's only weakness is shoddy bridge construction. Spock, in sadness and anger, yells "KHAAAAAN!" and I, in anger, yell "ABRAAAMS!!!!"

This brings me to a recurring point of contention with the JJverse films. There are plenty of human characters with emotions in these movies that don't cry, yet the stoic Spock has to be made compelling once a film by turning into a blubbering mess. Look, we get it, we all saw "The Naked Time" (or I did) and remembered him crying that he couldn't confess his love for his mother. It was a great moment. And it was made possible because he was intoxicated, not because he was in an emotional situation, and it was an incredibly rare moment in the series. Spock can be somber without resorting to tears. To be clear, I am not hating on characters crying in movies. I think that is perfectly fine. I am hating on the choice to rob Spock of his primary characteristic every movie to service lazy storytelling.

Khan and the Vengeance are not quite dead yet, and he decides to take his ship on a collision course for San Fransisco, first smashing into Alcatraz (what is this, a Roland Emmerich film?) then colliding with several skyscrapers. Khan survives this crash. They can't beam Khan up, but they can beam Spock down, who chases Khan through the panicked streets of San Fran, ending up on a flying car-top battle. Meanwhile, McCoy discovers that Khan's blood injected into a dead tribble restored it to life, and realizes that death no longer holds meaning in the Star Trek universe because they can just harvest Khan's platelets forever. Uhura beams down to stop Spock from killing Khan (though, as just established, wouldn't his superblood prevent that anyway?) and Spock just delivers a no-holds-barred beatdown instead.

Kirk wakes up in the hospital a few weeks later, neutering his heroic sacrifice for the Enterprise. Khan has been stuck back in a cryotube with the rest of the Botany Bay crew. A year passes and San Franscisco and the Enterprise have been fixed up. Kirk gives a speech about not letting enemies of the Federation pull Starfleet into militarization and they should focus instead on exploration. Boy, that sure would have been a nice message to tell Paramount at the start of this project. The crew boards the Enterprise and prepares to embark on a 5-year deep space mission. About time. It's only taken them two movies to get to a point where they can do the movies they should have been doing all along.

NITPICKS

Hey you know what would be better than lowering yourself into an active volcano to place a suitcase bomb then waiting for a starship to leave an ocean and expose itself to the natives so it can line-of-sight beam you? Staying in fucking orbit where nobody can see you and beaming the suitcase bomb down.

They could have called that bomb anything. They chose to call it a cold fusion bomb. That is not at all what cold fusion means.

What really bugs me about the violation of the Prime Directive is that Kirk never actually learns his lesson. He's only thrust back into the captain's chair out of necessity. At no point does he express regret for how he handled the Nibiru mission, nor does he even seem to comprehend the purpose of Starfleet's number 1 rule.

They make a big deal about giving Sulu the bridge like it's never happened. Sulu has, in fact, commanded the Enterprise before, last film, when Kirk and Spock were aboard the Narada.

The on-screen text identifies the Klingon homeworld as Kronos. It is, in fact, Qo'noS.

The Enterprise is in orbit of the Moon when it starts to careen towards the Earth. A quarter million miles is, in fact, pretty dang far, and the Moon would have had the stronger local gravity well.

Between two cuts of Kirk and Spock's hands against the window, in the first cut they are both making the Vulcan salute, and the next they are both holding their hands normally, with no transition out of said salute.

Why didn't McCoy test the blood of any of the other 72 augments to see if maybe they had the same magical superblood? They might not have needed Khan at all.

FAVORITE QUOTES

Spock: Had the mission had gone according to plan, Admiral, the indigenous species would never have been aware of our interference. Pike: That's a technicality. Spock: I am Vulcan, sir. We embrace technicality. Pike: Are you giving me attitude, Spock? Spock: I am expressing multiple attitudes simultaneously, sir.

Kirk: Why the archive? All that information is public record, and if he really wanted to damage Starfleet, this could just be the beginning. Marcus: The beginning of what, Mister Kirk? Kirk: Sir, in the event of an attack, protocol mandates that senior command gather captains and first officers at Starfleet HQ, right here. In this room.

Spock: Regulations aside, this action is morally wrong. Kirk: Regulations aside, pulling your ass out of a volcano was morally right. And I didn't win any points for that.

Kirk: We have our orders, Scotty. Scott: That's what scares me. This is clearly a military operation. ls that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers.

Kirk: Are you guys fighting? Uhura: I'd rather not talk about it, sir. Kirk: Oh, my God. What is that even like?

Kirk: This isn't going to be a problem, is it, you two working together? Uhura: Absolutely not. Spock: Unclear.

McCoy: You just sat that man down at a high stakes poker game with no cards and told him to bluff. Now Sulu's a good man, but he is no captain. Kirk: For the next two hours, he is. And enough with the metaphors, all right? That's an order.

Uhura: At that volcano, you didn't give a thought to us. What it would do to me if you died, Spock. You didn't feel anything. You didn't care. And I'm not the only one who's upset with you. The Captain is too. Kirk: No. No, no. Don't drag me into this. ...She is right.

Spock: It is true I chose not to feel anything upon realizing that my own life was ending. As Admiral Pike was dying, I joined with his consciousness and experienced what he felt at the moment of his passing. Anger. Confusion. Loneliness. Fear. I had experienced those feelings before, multiplied exponentially on the day my planet was destroyed. Such a feeling is something I choose never to experience again. Nyota, you mistake my choice not to feel as a reflection of my not caring. Well, I assure you, the truth is precisely the opposite.

McCoy: You know, when I dreamt about being stuck on a deserted planet with a gorgeous woman, there was no torpedo.

Khan: Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mister Spock. You, you can't even break a rule. How would you be expected to break bone?

Kirk: I'm not aligning with him, I'm using him. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Spock: An Arabic proverb attributed to a prince who was betrayed and decapitated by his own subjects.

sleeper ship AOS McCoy au

This is long. Kelvin version of sleeper ship McCoy au.

The year is 2230. SS Kelvin is returning to Earth from a failed colony and it is going to be rerouted on Mars that needs a new colony. A sudden anomaly appears letting out a gigantic ship. The Narada comes through and attacks the Kelvin immediately. Eighty thousand pod’s are ejected. George Samuel Kirk a synthetic android and Winona is a human who goes into labor early due to the stasis pod ejecting and a malfunction occurring. A synthetic medical officer’s escape pod clutches it and boards it. George and Winona share one last conversation. The conversation is cut short with the naming of James T. Kirk. Our scene pans over with a doctor’s three year old watching the news after the survivors are taken to Mars. The tale of a pointy eared alien with eyebrows causing this tragedy. Winona goes to Riverside, Iowa. This is when humans are then aware they are not alone. Klingons take the Narada and it’s crew captive.

The media jumps at the chance to profit over the Romulan attack by rebooting Galaxy Quest. Galaxy Quest takes a sharp turn from a hopeful, bright well recognizable show with a non-military group into a gritty,dark tv show regarding space travel and abiding the prime directive and the Meechan’s are replaced by a new antagonist. This alienates potential viewers and star fleet officers, but the original and previous versions of Galaxy Quest are preferred over the new reboot including spin offs, movies,books and so on. McCoy is in Georgia for most of his life until Jocelyn and Joanna. Then David dies and along comes a divorce. He goes to Riverside, gets drunk,and is recruited by Captain Pike to join star fleet. McCoy meets Jim. They are assigned room mates. Three years later, there is a kobyashi maru and Jim passes it. Jim and McCoy are in a relationship. This passing enrages Star Fleet and he has a panel. McCoy is annoyed and knows Jim is going to be tossed out of Star Fleet. Jim gives a reasonable answer on why he did what he did. Unbeknowst to them and Nero, rements of the original timeline have arrived close by Earth and coming for a crash landing.  As a result Nero never launches the attack on Vulcan and keeps waiting.  Jim passes the panel. McCoy gives Jim the gibb slap. Winona is visited by a man who resembles George along with two men. Winona does not call the authorities on them as a result and embraces her son despite how different he is from her  little boy. The man introduces her to his husband. They both don’t know if their other husband is still alive as he had dejected the shuttle craft in order to preserve their lives because the main hull is larger than the other half. They both have felt the bond severed. They help around the house and actively encourage her to return into space as a engineer. Christmas rolls around and Winona introduces her son and his boyfriend to their other selves ad announces she is returning to space but on Starbase 1. Kirk Prime and Jim share the same feeling of ‘THAT’S STILL NOT IN OPEN SPACE,MOM!’ The McCoy’s get along with each other sharing notes to each other about their respective Jim. McCoy Prime and Winona embarrass Kirk Prime by showing Jim’s baby pictures to McCoy with hazel eyes. The Kirk’s sulk away to the porch and talk about their father, the stars, and responsibility. McCoy Prime learns more of this Jim’s allergies. McCoy Prime writes a number of planet civilizations and descriptions that he may need a hypo for and what to be prepared for. McCoy Prime lures his other self to a clinic and vaccinates him for xenopolycythemia. McCoy Prime and Kirk Prime both warn the two that the world is going to be darker and different including trusting aliens, separately, at the same time. McCoy Prime and Kirk Prime wistfully watch the three leave and so McCoy decides to make a sehlat. No one knows what he created but he apparently created ten others for familys around town for protection. Star  Fleet gets involved and they get crushed by Kirk Prime talking their way out of the scenario. And promise them that they are sterile.

Apparently, they are not sterile.

Cue clans of Sehlat adapting to Earh.

Two years later, the larger part of the craft crash lands on Delta Vega Kirk Prime and McCoy Prime have spoiled their sehlat,ashaya, rotten. And he loves them dearly. He’s like a overgrown german sheperd with a heart of gold. Jim and McCoy are assigned to the SS republic with forty-three thousand in stasis colonists. Jim and McCoy are married and they were given away by their counterparts while Winona went deeper into space and her starship went missing. USS Mayflower with four hundred fifty people aboard going to a medical conference. However, the SS Enterprise is completed sooner than expected and they are transferred to the SS Enterprise as back up officers. Jim is a red shirt. McCoy is a medical officer. The SS Enterprise is manned by two hundred thirty synthetic star fleet officers including Montgomery Scott. The Narada attacks one month into their voyage. Captain Pike registers what this means. They quickly get rid of the Narada via tricking it into the sun and it is destroyed instantly. Star Fleet is notified of the threat being eliminated and there’s a huge celebration. Captain Pike is paralyzed for the time being. Number One relieves herself of command. The starship is put into autopilot since everything is in limbo because Mr Scott, Scotty, refuses to take command. Scotty takes another option. Instead ,he sends all the synthetics into hibernation mode until the end.

A anomaly awakes Leonard McCoy one week later. McCoy sees messages their counterparts had been sending. McCoy is comforted that despite his husband being a red shirt, they are going to be living long enough to be old and wrinkly. McCoy lives in the starship for a year and refuses to awake the others because this is a damn 100 year mission that should be captained by robots for 95 years then replaced by the human crew toward the end. And it is going to lack one extra medical professional. And his pod is broken. The halls are lined in pods. McCoy takes the time to wipe the fog off Jim’s pod to see his face and some days he breaks down and cries  hitting the pod at how unfair it is. Because when Jim awakes, McCoy might as well be dead. Or being near the verge of death. He sends messages back to his counterpart and it takes a week for the messages to return as they get further and further. McCoy Prime’s last reply as they are out of star fleets known boundary between deep space and federation is: It’s going to be okay. Don’t lose him this time like we did. Live long and prosper. And McCoy is left confused on who he exactly means. Joanna has got lots of voice mails from her father but not visual mails because who wants to see their father grow themselves a beard out? He refuses to let her see how being isolated has made him. He feels he is hallucinating and he probably is seeing people walk down the hall. He catches himself talking to a hallucination and chiding them out near the end of the year. He looks ridiclious talking to thin air on the security cameras.

The next year. On the first day of the year, a group of Vulcans arrive. McCoy cracks and hunts them down one by one getting them into the brig. Because he’s pretty sure they are his hallucinations that drive him nuts. Lieutenant Commander Spock accidentally opens Jim’s pod and he has his phaser aimed in the direction of Jim when the man comes stumbling out. Jim sees Spock and is absolutely smitten finding him adorable. "Like come on, that’s one adorable bowl hair cut. AND THE EYEBROWS, OMG I LOVE YOUR eyebrows how do you grow them out. You are so tall. I like your eyes. YOUR EARS ARE SO ADORABLE." Spock finds Jim irrational and illogical.  Spock opens his communicator and requests to be beamed off. Jim inadventurely joins Spock. McCoy discovers Jim is gone and he has a B S. O. D. in a really bad way being unsure if anything is real. He puts himself in the isolation ward for the safety of the ship and himself. He also locked himself in. McCoy grumble how this year started and how terrible it is going to be. Jim is nerve pinched by Spock. Spock intends to return for the captain and has Jim be beamed to the nearest planet that is arctic. There Jim meets (well, more like rescued by) Spock Prime who mistakes him for Kirk Prime and thinks he’s going home but it is not. Spock Prime has been alive, barely, with a severed link.

Jim and Spock Prime share a mind meld with a lot of emotional transference and memories being exchanged. Jim allows himself to have a temporary link with the vulcan on the way to the deserted warehouse to keep the old man alive in the freezing cold. Jim initiates the mind meld after the vulcan collapses to the snow. Spock Prime helps Jim to  the warehouse and explains that is other self is likely going to make a foolish mistake by attacking the starship when there is no reply. Jim realizes someone is aboard the  Enterprise, alive, alone without a companion.  And that’s why Spock was where he was and reacted the way he was, Spock Prime replies it was only logical his counterpart is attempting to retrieve his crewmates. Spock Prime beams Jim to the USS Archer and beams himself to the SS Enterprise to give himself a tour. It’s, different, that he can give credit for. He comes to the isolation ward to find McCoy in the corner, door locked, to see the doctor in a patient’s uniform. Spock Prime lures McCoy out by sweet talking him out talking about his husbands and how loving they are and how ddomestic they are--McCoy finally says, “How can this man I was told not to lose be in the brig?”  McCoy explains about the ordeal and he sees the Vulcan cry. Tears of happiness. Spock Prime convinces McCoy that he is real via a mind meld. McCoy cries into Spock Prime once convinced and shown that Jim is out. Spock Prime stays by the man’s side. Spock Prime takes  McCoy to Sick Bay and socializes with him talking about the differences in sick bay. He also does the standard procedure of using the medical tricorder on McCoy to check for any injury, internal, or covered injury. He uses the appropriate material to repair the doctor. Minutes later,Jim comes into sick bay. And they both sink to the floor. Spock Prime sees his younger self come in with a phaser.

Apparently Nero had attacked the Vulcan and claimed to be from the future. He left after severely damaging the Vulcanian landscape and buildings and there were injured Vulcans a few casualties, Amanda Grayson and Sarek were not among them nor was the ancient hall of thought. Spock is suspicious of his supposedly older self because who would be working with humans who had a part in Nero’s arrival. His brother, Sybok,a well known Healer, killed by the attack. McCoy gets in the way, “If you are goin’ to kill him then you might as well kill me first.” Spock reveals himself to be the elder but younger. McCoy refuses to budge even when the shock sank in. Spock falls to the ground and behind him is Pavel Chekov who appears to be unsure, “Did I not kill him? I didn’t mean to!” Spock Prime takes the communicator and requests the othership be prepared to beam up it’s officers in five minutes. Spock Prime’s red matter is collected and he informs  the captain of the Vulcan ship that he wishes to go home. Home was Earth. To reunite with his t’hy’lara but he needs his temporary link to be dissolved in order to go home and repair that link. Spock Prime shares one final mind meld with Jim and carefully shreds the bond. Spock Prime uses the jellyfish to quickly go to Earth after informing the captain and the crew when it should be used. Jim and McCoy stay awake. McCoy bypasses several regulations and cheats by making Jim captain instead of the long way as much as he does not like it.

There’s a convenient stasis pod malfunction and synthetic pod malfunction. Four hundred thirty synthetics awake. Christine Chapel,Hikaru Sulu,Nyota Uhura, Elizabeth Dehner, Kevin Riley,Gary Mitchell, and Janice Rand are awakened. Scotty, several engineer synthetics, several nurse synthetics,several science synthetics,and several communication officers, and a spare doctor synthetic named Geoffrey M’Benga and several security synthetics are awakened. McCoy recovers from his year long isolation with  people around him. They discover the contact to Earth has been intensified. Jim begins his captaincy trying to find his way to keep his crew alive while exploring new worlds and finding ones that are safe to visit or not. Jim starts out all right but he stumbles. The humans get to see messages from their families. Scotty is quite fine with Jim being captain. No replies from the primes.  It takes a few days but Spock Prime reaches Earth and has a emotional tearful reunion with his husbands at  the house.  They repair the severed link afterwards. Spock Prime wears a beanie when he goes to town with his Jim and McCoy. Spock Prime loves the sehlat. Back on the Enterprise, McCoy is fixing up Jim’s injuries when he introduces a new uniform with a black collar to Jim and a gray star on the chest. It’s a yellow shirt. The machines are hard at work making others like it. Everyone loves the colors: yellow and blue and red. It looks better than the blue suits. McCoy complains about how unsure Jim is about his command decisions and whines that he needs to assign a synthetic as a first officer that relies on logic. The USS Archer comes by with a battered Mayflower with a intact crew but the synthetics are dead. Winona is a engineer who gets to reunite with her son. The USS Archer tells Jim they are escorting the Winona to Earth  and will be joined shortly by NX Enterprise. Jm and Winona share a heartfelt reunion. Jim is shown a holoprogram of the refit starship and it makes his heart soar. He is a sucker for seeing old starships back in action. Eventually he is told that the Federation has decided to induct the Enterprise and oh, the planet they are headed to has some native population but they’ll get along as they are long, long,long lost ancestors in the 19th century., Around sixty-six thousand people populate the planet but their population is going on a decline due to some eugenic program and will be ready to repopulate by the time the Enterprise arrives. With that, T’Pau has arranged for a Vulcan hybrid to be dispatched to the Enterprise. S’Chn T’Gai Spock, after their designated first officer is destroyed and Scotty can’t put him together. Jim lays some ground rules.

1. Do not shoot at Bones.

2. Do not shoot at Jim.

3. Do not shot at Bones if he asks. He is joking.

4. Trust us.

4.5.  DO NOT SHOOT AT GARY. HE'S JUST THAT WAY.

4.9. YOU CANNOT FIRE AT ANYONE WITHOUT A LOGICAL REASON.

5. YOU CANNOT FIRE AT A FELLOW OFFICER. EXCEPT IF THEY ARE MIND CONTROLLED OR ANY OUTSIDE FACTORS OR BRAINWASHED. YOU CAN ONLY STUNN THEM. DO NOT VAPORIZE THEM.  OR NERVE PINCH THEM.

6. YOU MAY ONLY KILL US WHEN WE ARE RATIONAL AND IN OUR DAMN MIND.

7. Go home at the end of the 100 year mission.

3 YEARS LATER (SEASONS 1 - 3 HAPPENS), KRALL happens, but the synthetics get killed minus Scotty and Dorian. The stasis pods, the outer ring with all of them, spirals out and heads to the starbase yorktown. The Enterprise crew are seperated. Ben and Demora, part of Hikari's family were sent to the USS Yorktown during the beginning of the safe voyage with Spock aboard. Krall feeds off the synthetics life energy. At least the ones that remained which was close to four hundred. He comes across  Captain Pike and Number One who vigerously protects him. The SS Franklin is referred to Jaylah as her house. Nyota and Hikaru are terrified to those humans aboard the starbase with all types of aliens. Jim was contemplating becoming a vice admiral of the Yorktown when the attack had started and had sent in his form. Spock had been contemplating returning to Vulcan for his upcoming Pon-Farr. McCoy has made his decision. He is going after Jim once the mission is over. Krall is killed. Everyone is saved. At least what everyone is left save for the main large group that was left behind in the beginning. Jim changes his mind. Spock, however, does not, as he learns that T'Pring has a friend who is very close to her. And she has shown interest in Nyota Uhura who appears to be in a relationship with Christine Chapel. Spock weighs his conflict. The Enterprise A is unvieled 12 months later. Pavel is reassigned to the USS Reliant during the time as a security officer. Everyone is sad to go but they are happy that he is going somewhere. Pavel cries during their party and they welcome in a new ensign, a muslim navigator with a hijab, and Jim implies he will find a way for her to do her daily prayers. Spock decides to not resign from Star Fleet and decides, "why not?" He plans for Jim and McCoy to be his lek noy. His men of honor. And he prays to Surak that if he fails to go to Vulcan that he die alone. Spock is honestly terrified of dying. Jim promotes everyone. Every single member who is still around from the Battle of Altamid. Spock refuses his promotion. Jim argues but Spock's glare makes him give up. McCoy tries, he fails, getting the same glare. Their Prime counterparts are living with their aged sehlat and are happily married and retired. Jaylah goes to star fleet academy and will become a engineer and gets to be assigned to her new house. In 2286, the wrath of Khan will begin.

End  AU.