#Security Officer Hikaru Sulu

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"My name is Nyota; Lieutenant Uhura if you're nasty!"

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Star Trek: The Animted Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review

Episode: The Survivor

Season: 1 Episode: 6 Stardate: 5143.3 Original airdate: October 13, 1973 Written by: James Schermer Directed by: Hal Sutherland Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott Studio: Filmation Associates Network: NBC Series created by: Gene Roddenberry

Cast: Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner) Mr. Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy) Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly) Lt. Uhura, Lt. Anne Nored (voices by Nichelle Nichols) Lt. Hikaru Sulu (voice by George Takei) Eng. Montgomery Scott, Gabler, Romulan Commander (voices by James Doohan) Nurse Christine Chapel, Enterprise Computer, M'Ress (voices by Majel Barrett)

Guest star: Ted Knight as Carter Winston/Vendorian

Synopsis:

During a patrol across the Romulan Neutral Zone, Captain Kirk gives orders to set a course to the encounter a small private ship to the rescue of its passenger. The ship is registed under Carter Winston, a social prominent figure who uses his fortune to help others. Winston has been lost for five years.

At the transporter room, Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Spock received Winston. McCoy gives thanks to him because he helped McCoy's daughter as one of many who survived of a famine due a crop faliure on Cerberus.Spock tells Winston that his fiancée, Security Officer, Lieutenant Anne Nored after verifying his identity tapes and a physical exam.

McCoy protest Spock's treatment to Winston but Kirk approves it telling it is a required procedure.

As Bones perform the medical examination, he notes his instruments are gaving strange readings. Like if Carter Winston is not human at all. McCoy resolves that it has to be an instruments' malfunction.

Lt. Nored makes her appearence at the medical room and had a conversation with Winston. He confesses to his former lover that he had an accidental crash on planet Vendor and he had suffered many surgeries, that he experienced many changes, so they would not going to marry her.

Then, Winston moves to Kirk's office and while the captain is busy trying to find the reports on the small starship, the Vendorian deguised as Carter Winston reveals his true self. The Vendorians are are a shape-shifter's race whose presence is forbidden in the Federation's territories.

He puts Kirk unconsious and assumes the captain's persona. Then he moves to the bridge and orders Sulu to set a course to Rator III no matter the helmsman's advice about crossing the Romulan Neutral Zone.

As he leaves the bridge, he moves to the doctor's office and does the same the he had done with Kirk. He assumes the identity of McCoy after putting the real one to sleep.

The real Captain Kirk wakes up and moves to the bridge realizing a time has passed since he get unconsious. He asks why they are crossing the Neutral Zone of the Romulans.

Spock presents the video recording of his orders and realizes this is all a trap from the Romulans. Then Kirk orders a turn away from the Netral Zone.

Kirk and Spock moves faster to the medical office guessing that the Vendorian is right there. As soon as the captain notice the presence of the spy, he ran away fast. He was intercepted by the Lt. Nored and he assumes the Carter Winston persona again and explain Anne whatever really happened to Winston and how the Vendorians absorb the memory and feelings of the subjects they stole their identity. Nored felt uncapable of firing to him with the phaser.

The Romulans make their appearence to rightfully claim the ownership of the Enterprise. Captain Kirk refuses to give the starship because he knows the presence of the Vendoiran spy is part of the Romulan's ploy to capture the his starship.

Meanwhile, the spy assumes the identity of one of the engineering perssonel and makes damage to the starship's shields. Scotty reports that the damage could take two hours to be repaired.

The Romulan Commander orders an attack to the Enterprise, but in a miraculous way, the shields are activated and stand the Romulans' attack. Spock asserts the spy has turned into the shield itself. Then the Vendoiran appears on his form to explain why he has done this mission. Kirk told him he is going to be judged by the Federation, but he is going to speak on his behalf.

Then, the captain put Anne Nored in charge of the Vendoiran spy.

Fascinating Facts:

The characterization of the Vendoiran spy who passed as Carter Winston was performed by actor Ted Knight. He was better known for his roles on TV shows like Ted Baxter in the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort. Knight also was a regular voice actor for many other animated shows from Filmation Associates.

This is the first time Dr. McCoy's daughter is mentioned. Her name is Joanna and it was planned to introduce the character in The Original Series' episode “The Way to Eden”, but it was discarded.

The character of Uhura appeared briefly on this episode but without any dialogue. Nichelle Nichols made the voice characterization of Carter Winston's fiancée, Security Officer, Lieutenant Anne Nored.

The first time of the appearence of the Catian race character Lt. M'Ress voiced by Majel Barrett.

The voice of the Romulan Commander was performed by James Doohan.

[prue84]

(Part of the Crews AUs series)  |  ISS Enterprise crew, TOS Mirror

The ISS Enterprise senior crew and additional officers by 2267.

“Where no one has conquered before”

Ship’s Name: I.S.S. Enterprise Ship’s Registry: NCC-1701 Command History: Captain Robert April (2245-2250) Captain Christopher Pike (2250-2265) Captain James T. Kirk (2265-PRESENT) Ship’s Class: Constitution Class Ship’s Type: Heavy Cruiser Ship’s Overview: The flagship and pride of the Imperial Starfleet, its mission to conquer and submit new civilizations for the dominance of the Terran Empire. Ship’s Service History, abridged: _ << unavailable data >> Status: Active (2267) Timeline Name: Mirror Universe Timeline Details: Terran Empire, repressive government, in place of United Federation of Planets. Same people as prime universe, good characteristics swapped for morally bad one (and vice versa). Annotations: This parallel universe coexists with the prime universe in the same space, but on another dimensional plane. Superiors who fail to follow the rules of the Empire can be killed by other officers looking for promotions. Torture is a common form of interrogation, discipline and punishment. Encounter date: --- Encounter location: --- Encounter cause: --- Crew complement: 418 (430) Crew manifest: _ Commanding officer: Captain James T. Kirk First officer and Chief science officer: Commander Spock Chief engineer: Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott Chief medical officer: Lieutenant Commander Leonard McCoy Chief communications officer: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura Science officer: Lieutenant Marlena Moreau Senior helmsman and Chief of security: Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu Chief Navigator: Ensign Pavel Chekov Captain's personal guard: Crewman Farrell Transporter chief: Lieutenant Winston Kyle Security guard: Crewman Wilson Security officer: Ensign Davis

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All the characters shown have appeared in the episode (duh!) but positions, on top of the names of two, aren't strictly canon.

There is no official motto for the ISS Enterprise. I decided to modify the classic intro into one that would fit for the Empire.

The tv show uses the old Stardate method. No specific stardate is offered, besides the year.

In some renderings, the Terran Empire emblem is added on the hull. On the I.S.S Enterprise, as we see it in both the original and the CGI-remade episode, the emblem is missing. I decided to stick with the canon.

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Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip) Not satisfied. Everything looks better with the AOS colors (gray background). Also, working with characters taken from screencaps is a big no-no in my house.

Credits Don't own anything on this. Some text about the Mirror Verse lifted from Memory Alpha's pages about the Mirror Verse and the Terran Empire.

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[hitchell-mope]

Karamel Star Trek au

Alrighty then. Let’s see if this works.

Kara Danvers. Kryptonian. Captain of the Starfleet Federation ship the USS Solitude. Her cousin is the captain of the USS Smallville. Adopted by the Danvers family on earth after her planet exploded. Only has her powers on earth

Mon El. Daxamite. Kara’s husband and Number One on the Solitude. He was the prince of his planet which was destroyed in the aftermath of Krypton’s explosion. He tries to make amends for his mothers crimes even though doesn’t really have to.

Winn Schott Jnr. Human. The Solitude’s Chief Engineer. Kara’s best friend. Mon El’s confidant. He knows how Mon El feels about his mother because Winn’s father was a serial killer back on earth and Winn is still trying to undo the damage it did to him.

Samantha Arias. Kryptonian. Copilot of the Solitude. Winn’s live in girlfriend. Ruby’s mother. Still trying to learn about Krypton’s history from Kara. Wishes to one day retire to Argo so she can learn more from Kara’s mother Alura In-Ze.

James Olsen. Human. Communications Officer on the Solitude. Kara’s close friend and best friend of her cousin. One of Kara’s many confidantes. Started the petition that allowed Kara to retain Alex as the Solitude’s doctor

Lucy Lane. Human. Chief of Security on board the Solitude. James’s live in girlfriend. Her older sister is Communications officer on the Smallville. Youngest daughter of a rather infamous General at Starfleet.

Nia Nal. Naltorian. Ensign on board the Solitude. Kara’s protege. One of the younger officers on the ship. Sometimes uses her dream powers to help Kelly and Alex with their respective patients. No longer talks to her transphobic sister.

Brainiac 5. Coluan. Chief Science officer on board the Solitude. Nia’s live in boyfriend. Very much the Spock on the ship. But he’s getting better at the emotional stuff with Mon El’s help. He trips up from time to time. But he’s getting there.

Alex Danvers. Human. Chief Medical Officer on board the Solitude. Trained in combat medicine. Kara’s adoptive older sister. Assigned to the ship, with James’s help, due to her unique knowledge of Kryptonian and Daxamite physiology

Kelly Olsen. Human. The Solitude’s resident psychiatrist. James’s younger sister. Alex’s live in girlfriend. Former combat officer until a personal trauma led her to retire from active duty. So she retrained to be a psychiatrist.

J’onn J’onzz. Martian. Retired Captain of the Solitude. Kara asked to him stay on in an advisory role. Sees Kara and Alex as his surrogate daughters. He also runs the Solitude’s chapel after becoming an ordained minister on earth.

William Dey. Human. Main Pilot of the Solitude. Thanks to his family’s recipes everyone’s stopped using the replicator for desserts. He’s just that good at it. Quite possibly the smoothest pilot since Hikaru Sulu himself.

Andrea Rojas. Human. Winn’s protege. May or may not have a thing going with William. There’s a betting pool on. Mon El’s winning. She, unfortunately for her, knows all of Lena’s criminal moves. As as such, she gladly helps to apprehend the psychopath.

Lena Luthor. Human. Harry Mudd. That is to say. She’s an unrepentant criminal. Repeatedly arrested. Repeatedly escapes. It’s become somewhat of a vicious circle. Especially for Andrea and Kara who view her as a completely lost cause.

[mk-writes-stuff]

Hi! I love love love love love Star Trek and am happy to answer some questions!

( @mercuryytheraven I hope you don’t mind me tagging you I’m not sure if you’ll get a notif from this reblog, idk how tumblr works)

This got super long so I’m going to put a break here. Star Trek rambling beneath :)

First things first - yeah there’s a ton of content. You DO NOT need to consume all of it to write a fic or call yourself a Star Trek fan! I’m a huge fan and I haven’t even watched half of what’s out there (and I have a huge folder of fanfic on my laptop). It’s totally fine to just go “gays of all time” and do what you can based on what you know

The ship flies using antimatter as fuel to go faster than light. The specifics are kept up in the air - there’s lots of theories! I have a favourite but I’ll keep that out of here. The engines are in the long cylinders at the back (they’re called nacelles) and the bridge (where the crew is usually doing their work stuff) is in the big circular part

In the original series (I’m assuming that’s what you’re watching because you mentioned Amok Time in another reblog), a yellow shirt means command division (specializing in being an authority figure or training to be one), blue means sciences or medical, and red means ops (operations, a general catch-all that includes engineering, communications, flight, and a lot of general ship tasks) and security (which includes tactics)

Main characters:

James Tiberius Kirk - the captain. You’ll see a lot of him :)

Spock - the first officer and science officer. Pointy ears and eyebrows (he’s half Vulcan)

Leonard “Bones” McCoy - the head doctor, but still shows up on the bridge a lot

Montgomery “Scotty” Scott - the chief engineer. Scottish accent

Nyota Uhura - comms officer. She’s really competent when she gets to be front and center

Hikaru Sulu - pilot. Really likes swords

Pavel Chekhov - ops officer. Thick Russian accent

Yeoman Rand also shows up sometimes but I don’t really remember much about her. She’s blonde

Main locations:

The bridge - the ship command center, where most of these people work. Has all the ship controls

Sickbay - where Bones works. Medical stuff :)

Engineering - where Scotty works. Engine stuff

Meeting rooms - other side rooms they’ll do meetings and stuff in. Not usually very important

Transporter room - where they beam to and from planets from

Turbolifts (fancy elevator) and corridors - they’ll put conversations in these while walking a lot. Idk why

Various crew members’ rooms - usually for personal stuff

If you want to look something up, Memory Alpha is your best choice. It can be overwhelming because it’s super big and comprehensive, so I recommend just googling “X memory alpha” to start to get directly to pages you want

I hope this helps! (And that you don’t mind me hopping onto this post). Good luck with your writing!

Hi hello I am getting into Star Trek and I want to write a fic because !! The gays of all time !!! But also there is so much content and so many things I don’t know about the series and the characters and it’s stressing me out. aaaa??

what do you need to know? im possibly not the most knowledgeable, but anything i dont know im sure ill know where to find it

[gender-snatched]

Hey so I want you to tell me every single thing I could possibly want to know about Star Trek

OK YEAH. under cut because. well. you know me.

So, in the 60s, Gene Roddenberry started a sci-fi series. This was Star Trek. It's about a starship named the USS Enterprise, which is part of Starfleet. Starfleet is the exploration branch of the Federation of Planets, which is basically the UN of the galaxy. The USS Enterprise is, at the time of the show, captained by James T Kirk, although it was previously captained by Christopher Pike. Kirk is an extremely traumatized nerd who is doing what he really wants to do. His First Officer (and Science Officer) is Mr. Spock, the only alien on the ship. Spock is (half) Vulcan, a species that values "logic" above all, yadda yadda. His Chief Medical Officer is his bestie, Leonard "Bones" McCoy.

He also has: Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (Communications Officer), Lt. Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (Chief Engineer), Lt Hikaru Sulu (Navigator), Nurse Christine Chapel (Nurse), Ensign Pavel Chekov (pilot [?]), and Yeoman Janice Rand (Yeoman)

All these characters are MASSIVELY important for the time. Uhura was a black woman in a major position on the ship; Chapel, Uhura, and Rand were all strong women; Chekov was Russian during the Cold War; Spock was a metaphor for xenophobia and was also Jewish; Sulu was Asian in a time where anti-Asian racism was super high (and his actor, George Takei was Japanese and was raised in internment camps).

Importantly, Star Trek was so so amazing for a show from the sixties. It had one of the first interracial kisses on TV, and had multiple episodes with all sorts of metaphors. Yes, it had problems (misogyny and a fair bit of racism), but for the sixties? It was so incredible.

And the second season started with the episode "Amok Time", which was written by a queer man and focuses on the idea of Spock going into heat and going to die if he doesn't fuck. Somehow, writhing in the sand with Kirk cures this.

And that's the start of slash culture! Almost all slash culture is the fault of either Star Trek or X Files.

So Star Trek: The Original Series got 3 seasons and became a cult classic. And then in the 80s (?) it got the movies. The Motion Picture (bad, but tolerable), Wrath of Khan (pretty damn good), Search for Spock (bad and questionable), Voyage Home (aka The One With the Whales and fucking AWESOME), and then two others I didn't care about whatsoever.

And then, after the movies, The Next Generation came out. It takes place a bit later, with better cameras and effects. The spaceship is smoother, and it's also incredible. Its cast includes: Captain Jean Luc Picard, First Officer William Riker, Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher, Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge, Lt Cmr Data (what is his role I can't remember), Security Officer Tash Yar, Worf (also can't remember his role), Dr. Pulaski (I don't like her), Guinan (bartender), and Wesley Crusher.

Terrible confession, but I only finished TOS. I still know TNG pretty well tho.

After TNG we got: Deep Space Nine (my BELOVED), Voyager (wish I had watched more), Enterprise (good if you ignore the misogyny), and then all the nuTrek I haven't been paying attention to because I can't watch it.

Deep Space Nine is the other one I never finished but know, and it focuses on a space station near the planet Bajor. Bajor just threw off the rule of Cardassia, an empire. The Federation, with questionable motives, is helping them rebuild. They send a captain there, and then a wormhole opens, making the space station super super important. Then a war happens but I didn't reach that.

It focuses on Captain Sisko, his son Jake, his first officer Major Kira Nerys, his CMO Julian Bashir, his science officer Jadzia Dax (trangender worm), his engineer Miles O'Brien, a cop Odo, a bartender Quark, a "simple tailor" (actually an exiled Cardassian spy) Garak, and later, Worf.

It's really good, because while TNG pulls a full utopia, DS9 contradicts it and also has just amazing characters. Shame I didn't finish it before Netflix lost it. It also has the first CANONICALLY bisexual character in Star Trek.

There's a LOT of Trek, and I can probably give vague overviews about all of them and also answer any and all questions about it. Please. Please have questions.

[illogicalpunkwrites]

What Water Gave Me

Hello everyone! This one is...interesting. I dunno, have fun! Thank you for reading and please let me know if you would like to be tagged!

Pairings: Leonard McCoy x Kirk!Reader

Rating: M (18+)

Warning: Sex pollen, smut, ABO dynamics, cursing, angst

Words: 4.4K

Tags: @bloodangelballerina @theweepingvulcan91

None of you found out about it until it was too late. Visiting a new planet was always exciting, especially when it was far different from Earth. None of the biologists knew what would happen when the crew drank the water until the first person started showing symptoms. That first person was none other than

your brother and the captain, Jim Kirk. He started behaving erratically, nearly pushing over other people to make sure Carol wasn’t messed with. She started to sweat and you hurried over to pull them away from each other. While you and Jim used to rough house in your younger days, you weren’t used to him actually trying to fight you. He got a couple of hits in, some of them really hurting you before you were able to gather yourself.

“Jim!” You yelped as he swung at you again, ducking just in time. You swept your leg out from under him, sending him to the ground so some members of your security team could hurriedly incapacitate him.

“No! Let him go!” Carol sobbed.

“Get Jim to his quarters and lock him in using the override!” You barked. You made a hysterical Carol sit down in the Captain’s chair and wiped her forehead. She started squirming in the seat and you kept trying to ask her questions, but she only called for Jim. Calling him…alpha?

“Uhura, call Bones and tell him what’s going on. Tell the same thing to Science Division.” You didn’t hear a response and looked over the top of the chair. “Nyota?” She was fanning herself, looking at Spock whose knuckles were blanched white as he gripped the console. “Sulu, can you leave your station for a minute and get Spock to his quarters? He might try to fight you but he seems okay right now.” He was the right person to ask. With what information you gathered, anyone who had any sort of partner was susceptible to what was going on. Luckily, his was back on Earth.

“What do you think’s going on?”

“I’m not sure, I’ll get those two back to their quarters and call medbay-”

“Sciences to Bridge.” The console beeped in and you sighed.

“This is Commander Kirk, report.” You demanded, already overwhelmed with what little you had dealt with in such a short amount of time.

“We’ve tested some samples from the planet and found something interesting. The water contains some sort of hormone that-“

“Drives people insane?”

“It establishes A/B/O dynamics within the population.”

“What the hell does that mean?” You asked incredulously.

“Alpha, Beta, and Omega dynamics, Commander.” Spock explained, his voice strained as Sulu led him to the elevator.

“No don’t take him!” Nyota got up to head towards the elevator but you jumped over to grab the back of her dress. “No! Alpha!” The doors closed and you let her go to nearly paw at them. Her dress was soaked through with sweat and a puddle of…something was forming underneath her.

“Medbay to bridge!” Leonard’s voice came through, sounding frustrated and tired.

“Bones, it’s (Y/N)! What’s going on?”

“I’ve got people trying to kill me down here on one side of the room and people crying on the other.”

“Are they all couples?”

“Most of them, their partners came and found them. I don’t think they liked me being near ‘em”

“We need to get everyone affected in their quarters, apparently the water establishes A/B/O dynamics.”

“My god.” He groaned. Normally, you would’ve laughed but you were highly stressed.

“I’ll send a security team down there to help out. Kirk out.” You explained before switching over to the ship wide intercom. “This is Security Commander Kirk, I need all personnel that drank water from Ni-bu to go to their private quarters immediately. If you do not follow orders you will be forcibly moved by security. I repeat, leave your stations and return to your quarters immediately.” You ended the call and grabbed Nyota and Carol. You got into the elevator and pulled out your communicator. “Kirk to Sciences division, please tell me there’s a cure for this thing.”

“We’ll have to go to K-7 for that, good thing is we’re not the only ones that have dealt with this. There was another planet like the one we were at that The Pegasus had to deal with.”

“Alright, I’ll tell Chek-“ You stopped and shook your head, knowing how flirtatious the Russian was. “I’ll get back up there and set the coordinates.” Pulling your friends along was like pulling two feisty Chihuahuas: they kept pulling away from you, kept yelping for their alphas, and at one point Carol actually bit you. Once that chore was done, you sprinted back up to the bridge to put in the coordinates and called for Sulu.

“Hikaru, you alright?”

“A little scraped up but I’m fine. Security’s doing a good job down here, some of your workers are affected by it though.”

“You think you can stay down there and help them out? I’m working on getting Bridge settled down.”

“You got it, but you owe me big time.”

“Next round’s on me when we get to K-7.” You chuckled before calling out. “Alright Chekov, let’s-“

“ENGINEERING TO BRIGE!” Jaylah screeched and your blood left your body. You had nearly forgotten about engineering. A large section of them went to Ni-bu to help fix some of the infrastructure and technology.

“Jaylah, are you alright?”

“Everyone down here is going crazy! Security is here but there is not nearly enough of them! I need help!”

“Where’s Scotty?”

“He went to go find Lieutenant Mira!” You groaned and grabbed Chekov by the back of his shirt while some other people from security grabbed most of the bridge.

“I’ll be down there as soon as I can, keep doing what you’re doing!”

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Hours later, the whole situation was defused with everyone who was affected locked in their rooms. Those who didn’t seem affected, the Betas, roamed around the halls like dead men walking. Sanitation swept and mopped the halls where puddles of “slick” had been left. You dragged your feet and nearly your entire body ached by the amount of times you had either been rammed into, hit, or bit by your crew mates. You saw Sulu and you gave each other a congratulatory hug.

“You owe me so much more than a round of drinks. This is not in my job description.” He mumbled, making you laugh.

“Thank you so much.” While most of your team had been okay, it had dwindled down severely by the time engineering was wrangled off. Scotty surprised you with how wily he was, giving you a run for your money. Thankfully, Jaylah helped you out and you threw him into his office.

Sulu pulled away and looked up and down at you, you had some cuts here and there and were bruised up. While it wasn’t the worst your body had faced, you’d still seen better days.

“Go to Medbay, Kirk. Your job is done for now and I’m sure McCoy could see a friendly face.” You smiled weakly and made your way down. When you came to the door it didn’t slide open so you knocked instead.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me! Lemme in!” After a few beeps on the PADD, the door slid open and you hurried in before it locked back behind you. You saw Leonard at his desk with a bottle of whiskey. His shirt was torn in some places and you could see the beginnings of a black eye. “Well, Doc, you look like you had an eventful day.” He snorted in response and poured you a glass.

“Please tell me we’ll get to K-7 soon.”

“We should be there by tomorrow morning. Sulu’s gonna get some rest before so he can get us in. I think the plan is for medbay to come to us to give us the hypospray.” You explained and took a large gulp, feeling the burn go down your throat. Leonard looked at the bruise on your jaw and you shrugged.

“It was Jim, nothing I can’t handle.”

“And the bites?”

“Carol, Scotty, and some others I can’t even remember.”

“Scotty bit you?”

“I had him in a choke hold.” You couldn’t help but laugh. “The female Alphas gave me a run for my money.”

“I think I can add this to the list of reasons why I hate space.” He finished up his drink and went to go grab a med kit to sterilize the wounds. You’d have to wait a couple of days to get the scars removed.

“Because it makes people unbelievably horny?” He laughed at that one, making you smile. “I’m glad that it wasn’t a free for all though, people were focused on either their partners or the people they’ve had a crush on.”

“My god I don’t even want to imagine what it would’ve been like if it’d been a free for all.”

“But I’m surprised, Len. You struck me as an Alpha.” You joked.

“I thought you’d be an Alpha.” He retorted. “You’re the one the one that fights everything.”

“I do not! I only fight when it’s needed!”

“Which is why you’re in here so often.” You finished off the whiskey and held out your left arm where one of the bites was. “You need to be more careful.”

“Hey, I didn’t know Carol would bite me!” You replied with a smile.

“I wonder why though? No one tried to bite me.”

“I’m the hotter one of the Kirk siblings?”

“Okay, I’m with you there.”

“I have to say, I like you a little roughed up. You look like an action hero.” He chuckled and knelt on the ground in front of you, antiseptic in hand.

You felt something when he touched you, something stirring within you. You tried to shake it off but you couldn’t as it grew. As he cleaned your wounds you could feel your body temperature rising and you became incredibly uncomfortable. As you looked at him you could see him tense up with his brows furrowing even more than they usually did and his grip on you tightening. You started squirming in your seat, your inner thighs becoming coated with something as you looked at Leonard. Oh god, was that slick? Once he was done with all of the open wounds he put his kit to the side shakily. You realized, even in your foggy state, he was trying to maintain composure. Your slick dripped down to the floor, making it hard for both of you to ignore. Now you realized what you both were and why neither of you had experienced symptoms all day. He was an Alpha, and you were his Omega.

“Leonard.” You whispered, nearly whined. He looked back at you and then to the bruise on your jaw. He brought his fingers to it and pressed on it gently, making you wince.

“You’re burning up.” He stated softly, his breathing picking up and voice gravelly. “You need to leave.”

When he said that, everything in your system freaked out. You leapt on him from the chair, wrapping your arms around his neck and straddling him. He caught you with his fingers against your ribs.

“Leonard, please.” You started kissing his neck, making his fingertips dig into you. He smelled so good, like something homey and warm with a splash of whiskey,  and you couldn’t help but grind yourself against his hard cock. He let out a stuttered moan, his composure melting away as he felt your unbelievably wet pussy against him. “Alpha!” You cried softly.

That’s when it snapped away, Leonard picked you up and you wrapped your legs around him. He hurried over to his private office and you two fell onto his little cot, his lips smashing into yours. You moaned and arched your body into his, wanting as much contact as possible. His tongue slid into your mouth as you kicked your boots off and worked on his shirt.

“Off.” You whimpered. He sat back away from you and pulled down the zipper on your dress before sliding it off of you. You pulled his shirt off and pulled him back to you as he worked on the clasp of your bra.

“Such a pretty little ‘mega.” He slurred before laving his tongue down your bruised jaw, pain not even resonating with you at this point. He dropped your bra to the side, kissing and nipping down your neck and collarbone. His tongue circled around your nipple before sucking it into his mouth, kneading the other one with his hand. He was rougher than you thought he would be, teething at your pebbled nipple. You wondered if he was like this all the time. You rocked your hips up against him, wanting more than just that.

“Alpha, please!” You whined, making him chuckle. His hands drifted down the sides of your body to grip the elastic of your panties and pull them down your legs. He started pressing wet kisses down your stomach as his hands spread your legs to slot himself between them. You felt his breath against your pussy and you squirmed towards him, thighs enclosing around his head.

“God, you look-“ He didn’t even finish his sentence before burying his head in between your legs, his tongue circling your clit and tasting your slick. You arched your back and wove your fingers into his hair as an unruly moan escaped you. You felt your pussy growing even wetter and he groaned against you, the vibrations sending ripples through you. He sucked your clit into his mouth, flicking his tongue against it.

“Fuck! Alpha!” He looked up at you as you pulled his hair. “Please, need your cock, need your cock!”

You’d never begged like this before and you were sure you wouldn’t have if you weren’t in this state. He crawled back up your body and you pulled his head down to yours to kiss him, tasting yourself. Your hands shot down to his work pants and you palmed his straining cock, making him gasp into your mouth. You shakily undid the button and zipper before pulling them down and seeing his erection bob against his stomach. Your breathing got even heavier as he helped pull his pants off the rest of the way, his shoes thudding as they hit the ground. You leaned up to kiss and nip at his neck as you stroked his cock, trying to lead him to your pussy.

“Shit darlin’, Omega-“ He cut himself off with a grown and pulled your hand away, taking his cock in his hand and rubbing it against your pussy to coat it in slick. You needed more. You locked your legs around his waist and pulled him as close to you as you possibly could. “You ready, my Omega?”

“Please, Alpha.” You whispered as he kissed your forehead. Then you felt his cock enter you slowly, stretching you perfectly and making you keen against him. He breathed out loudly and slowly as he seated himself fully inside of you, your fingernails digging into his back. The both of you stayed just like that for a moment or two, foreheads against each other and breathing heavily. He leaned down to kiss you and you swore you had never felt so loved and protected. You started rocking your hips against his and he took the hint, rolling his hips back so that he was almost completely out of you before rutting back in. “Yes!”

“Feel so good, ‘mega” He slurred against you, starting a slow rhythm. But still you needed more. Your head lolled to the side, exposing your neck to him and he leaned down to suck your pulse point into his mouth. He started thrusting faster into you, hitting that spot inside of you that made you let out high pitched noises into his ear. His pubic bone rubbed against your clit deliciously and you knew you wouldn’t last much longer. You felt like you couldn’t even speak anymore as your pussy started tightening even more around him, making him quiver a little. He looked down at you and you brought your hands to his face and neck to caress him more as your body bounced with his thrusts.

“Close, Alpha.” You warned and he leaned down to kiss you. The coil in your lower belly tightened even more and one more perfectly angled thrust did you in, a puddle of slick soaking into the sheets as you felt tingling flood your body. You cried out into Leonard’s mouth as your entire body stiffened with the intensity of your orgasm. Leonard’s thrusts started becoming sloppy and his grip on your body tightened. As you rode your high, something in the back of your mind still wanted more.

“Cum inside me” His eyes widened before gripping your thighs to put your legs over his shoulder, leaning towards you so you were folded. You shrieked out and threw your head back at him suddenly being so unbelievably deep. His arms wrapped around you as you bit his tanned shoulder, making him gasp into your ear and his hips stuttered against yours. With one final deep thrust, you felt his hot cum coat your walls. You whimpered at your oversensitivity but finally felt satiated, almost complete in a way. His body went limp against yours but you didn’t loosen your grip, neither did he. Your fever went away and the slick seemed to have stopped, but you wanting him didn’t.

“Stay.”

XXXXXX

You knew it was early when you woke up, but you weren’t sure how much longer you had before you docked at K-7. You felt sore all over, sticky, and still beyond tired. However, your head was fairly clear and you weren’t feeling feverish. You looked behind you and saw Leonard still asleep with his arm around you. You felt your heart drop as you realized that the night before really did happen, it wasn’t some hormone ridden dream.

You’d always been attracted to Leonard, even if he was a bit neurotic (something you still adored about him). However, you wanted to respect Leonard as a friend, coworker, and best friend of Jim’s. You couldn’t imagine how Jim would feel if you and Leonard started dating. There was also always the dreaded what ifs. What if you two broke up? How would your friends and Jim deal with that? You were also in a high stakes job. What if you seriously got injured, or worse? What if he never even felt the same way?

Also, being completely overrun by foreign hormones was not how you want you two to get together anyway.

So, as you Kirks do, you decided to get out before more awkwardness could come or having to face the difficult consequences of your actions. Luckily, Leonard seemed to be a heavy sleeper but you could feel a fever beginning to creep on you again as his arm tried to tighten on you. You felt your heart ache as even the non-Omega part of you wanted to stay. But if you did, what happened wouldn’t be just between the two of you. Someone would walk in and know what had happened. You didn’t even bother putting on your underwear or shoes, just your red dress before unlocking the doors with his PADD and sneaking back to your quarters to lock yourself in. You were breathing harshly, the fever hitting you pretty hard, and you slid down your door to the ground.

“Computer, air conditioning at full capacity.” The fans whirred around you as you tried not to think of Leonard.

XXXXXX

Leonard woke up with a groan and stretched against his cot. He felt around his bed for you, but shot up when he didn’t find you. He looked around the room and saw that your underwear and boots were still in his room. He kind of wanted to laugh, thinking about how you probably bolted out of there. He thought you were probably embarrassed about the whole thing. A nagging part of his brain said it was probably because you regretted it entirely. He had always liked you, but for the sake of Jim he kept it more friendly and professional. Perhaps it was best to just forget about it. Better that than a repeat of another failed relationship.

“Dr. McCoy? This is Nurse Chapel from the K-7 research lab. We’re here to give you the hypospray.” He hurriedly put on his clothes and kicked your things under the cot before letting the nurse in.

XXXXXX

A couple of days later, you hurried to the bridge to return some reports of the events to Jim. You had avoided medbay like the plague and unbeknownst to you, a couple of friends took notice. As you handed the PADD to Jim, he looked at your healing jaw and cringed once again.

“I’m sorry.”

“I know, asshole, you say it every time you see me.” You chided playfully. He looked at the rest of the scars left on your body from the others and raised an eyebrow at you.

“You can probably get those taken care of, y’know?”

“I know, I just haven’t found the time with writing this shit up.” You replied and he chuckled, waving you away. You smoothed out your skirt and went to the elevator, but Sulu slid in before the doors closed.

“Oh hey! What’s up?”

“What’s up with you? You always get your scars fixed up and Uhura knows for a fact that you’ve had enough time.”

“Are you two gossiping behind my back?” You replied and he crossed his arms at his chest. “Maybe I want to keep the scars.”

“You want to keep scars in the shape of bite marks?” He replied flatly and you shrugged. The doors opened again and He grabbed your arm. “That’s it, I’m taking you to medbay.”

“No!” You panicked and pulled away from him.

“What in the world’s going on?” He asked incredulously, and you looked around. “Did something happen the day we went to Ni-bu?” You opened your mouth but quickly shut it.

“I’ll tell you what happened, just not here.”

“C’mon!” He pulled you into a nearby closet and locked the door behind him. You paced what little you could in the space and he sighed. “Would you just tell me?”

“I thought I was okay. I didn’t have any of the symptoms so I thought I was a Beta. After everything settled down I went to medbay like you told me to get my cuts cleaned up.” Sulu quickly put two and two together, especially after days of suspicion.

“You weren’t a Beta and neither was he.” You shook your head. “And, lemme guess, you left in the morning?”

“I didn’t know what else to do.” You nearly whispered. “I fucked up.”

“Yeah, you did. Kirk, you gotta fix this. You have to talk to him. You can’t avoid medbay forever.”

“I can try.”

“Kirk.”

“I know you’re right! I just don’t know what to do.” He wrapped an arm around you and you leaned into him.

“Just go in there.”

XXXXXX

Leonard was reading from his PADD in his quarters when he heard a knock on the door. He put it down on his bedside table before letting it open and saw you. His black eye was healing nicely, but he winced when he widened them in surprise.

“Uh, hey.” You started, already wanting to punch yourself.

“Hey.”

Fuck, this was awkward.

“Can I come in?” He stood to the side and you stepped in, the door closing behind you.

“If you’re here for your clothes and boots there under my cot in my office.”

Ouch.

“Thanks but that’s not why I’m here.” You stood there, trying to keep from fidgeting. “I wanted to talk about what happened, and before you say anything I know I shoulda stayed. I wanted to stay but-“ You broke off and sat down in his arm chair. You felt like if you kept standing then you’d pass out.

“But what? I’ve been wonderin’ why you didn’t stay, myself.” He said and you nodded.

“And I shouldn’t have done that to you.” You looked down at your clasped hands and tried to swallow the nervousness radiating in your body. “Leonard, I’ve always liked you. I’ve always been attracted to you.” You didn’t see the surprised look that crossed his face. “But I was always afraid of what would happen. I mean, you know me and Jim: we’re both terrified of relationships and I know that you’re wary of them after how things went in your marriage. I’ve always wanted to respect that.” You didn’t realize you had started to ramble. “And Jim is another thing! That ass is always so protective over me and you’re his best friend! That’s a conundrum just for him! Does he kick your ass or lock me in my cabin or both?! Not to mention we’re in space and it’s probably one of the most dangerous places ever!” You finally looked at him and saw him chuckling, hiding his face behind his hand. “Why the hell are you laughing? I’m pouring my heart out here!”

“Because you sound like me, dammit!” He smiled and you stared at him incredulously. “Go on, finish up. I gotta talk some time.” You shook your head at him and stood up.

“Fine, you want me to finish? I didn’t want to wake up and hear you talk about how it was a mistake because just thinking about that fucking kills me. I wanted it to happen, maybe not like that but I wanted…something like that to happen. There, I’m done.” You stood there and waited for him to say something, but he didn’t. “Well you said you had to talk.” You looked back up at him expectantly and his eyes had softened, he wasn’t smiling anymore.

“I didn’t know you felt that way and...as much as I didn’t think that this is the way things would happen, I don’t regret that it did. I’ve wanted to be with you for so long but everything’s complicated. But I wanna give it a shot because I can’t imagine not being with you.” Tears welled in your eyes at his confession and you threw yourself at him, taking in his warmth.

“I want to be with you, Len.” 

“As long as you promise you won’t run away again, darlin’.” You smiled up at him and kissed him softly.

“I promise…Alpha.” He stiffened against you and you laughed. He smiled and captured your lips in his, holding you tightly against him. “You think you could get rid of my scars first?” You squealed as he picked you up and you wrapped your legs around him.

You two would just have to deal with everything else later.

[thelordofdarkreunion]

List of Characters- The Scoundrels

So, here we have all of the Scoundrel characters and their crews.  For clarification.  I might add more characters from other groups and factions later.  They’re human unless I say otherwise.  

UNSC:

Master Chief John-117- Spartan super soldier and Scoundrel

Cortanta- A.I. and Chief’s assistant.  Currently residing in Chief’s armor

Omen:

Adam Vir- Captain of the Omen, Admiral of the Galactic Assembly, and Scoundrel

Simone- Executive Officer of the Omen and Vir’s assistant. 

Sunny/Chalan- The Omen’s Drev Chief Weapon’s Officer and Vir’s girlfriend/lover

Dr. Kril- Vrul Chief doctor aboard the Omen

Dr. Katie- Doctor aboard the Omen and Kril’s assistant

Ramirez- Marine aboard the Omen and Vir’s friend

Maverick- Marine and head chaplain aboard the Omen, and Vir’s friend

Cannon (sometimes spelled with a “c” sometimes with a “k”)- Sunny’s brother and head of the Drev aboard the Omen

Conn- Starborn and mind reader

Doctor Adric (can’t find his first name)- Omen’s psychologist  

Nairobi- Chief engineer

Valhallan 597th:

Commissar Ciaphas Cain- Commissar (morale and disciplinary officer) of the regiment and Scoundrel

Colonel Regina Kasteen- Commander of the regiment

Major Rupurt Broklaw- Kasteen’s Executive Officer and second-in-command of the regiment

Gunner (First Class) Ferik Jurgen- Cain’s aide and psychic blank

Captain Detoi- Commander of Second Company 

Captain Federer- Commander of the Engineers and Sappers, explosives expert and enthusiast

Captain Jenit Sulla- Commander of Third Company

Lieutenant Lustig- Commander of unknown platoon in Second or Third Company

Sargent Penlan- Accident-prone commander of Lustig’s old squad in unknown Comany

Sargent Grifen- Commander of unknown squad in Second Company.  Corporal Magot’s lover

Corporal Karta- Assistant squad leader in Sgt. Grifen’s squad

Corporal Mari Magot- Assistant squad leader in Sgt. Grifen’s squad, regimental unarmed combat champion, and Grifen’s lover

Apocalypse:

Thomas Drake- Captain of the Apocalypse and head of the Apocalypse Mercenaries

Eric Richter- Drake’s Executive Officer

Sarah Ordelphine- Pilot and Chief Navigator of the Apocalypse

Derrick Saul- Commander of First Squad of the armsmen

Jean Garang- Commander of the Second Squad of armsmen

Rilgaldis- Dracus Commander of the Third Squad of armsmen

Tor Herald- In charge of the midshipmen and internal repairs crews

Mark Danis-Holden- Armorer and heavy weapons specialist.  Married to Oliver Danis-Holden

Oliver Danis-Holden- Armorer and specialized engineer.  Married to Mark Danis-Holden

Jennifer Muelka- Explosives expert

Engineers Bailey, Boweman, Khatri, and K’rik Vhle’krik- Engineers and in charge of the Apocalypse’s engines, hydraulics, and machinery

Johanass Kraiker- Medical officer and combat medic 

Millennium Falcon:

Han Solo- Smuggler, New Republic General, Captain of the Falcon and Scoundrel

Chewbacca- Wookie First Mate of the Falcon and Han’s friend

Milano/Guardians of the galaxy:

Peter Quill- Scoundrel and Captain of the Milano

Gamora- Quill’s First Mate any girlfriend/lover

Drax- Kylosian close combat specialist

Rocket- Genetic tailoring on a lower life form made rocket sentient.  Weapons expert 

Groot- Flora colossus (a.k.a. sentient tree).  Friend of Rocket

Mantis- Unknown species.  Telepath.

Enterprise:

James Kirk- Commanding officer of the Enterprise, Starfleet Captain and Scoundrel

Spock- Vulcan/Human hybrid.  First Officer, Science officer, and Kirk’s friend.

Montgomery Scott “Scotty”- Chief Engineer, Second Officer, and Kirk’s friend

Leonard McCoy- Chief medical officer

Hikaru Sulu- Helmsman

Nyota Uhura- Communications officer and Operations officer

Pavel Chekov- Navigator and Security Chief

Normandy:

Shepard- Commander of the Normandy and Scoundrel

Miranda Lawson- Cerberus-aligned Executive Officer of the Normandy 

Garrus Vakarian- Turian sniper and weapons officer

Tali’Zorah- Quarian Chief Engineer

Doctor Karin Chakwas- The Normandy’s doctor and chief medical officer

Doctor Mordin Solus- Samaritan scientist and technological expert

EDI- The Normandy’s A.I.

Jeff “Joker” Moreau- Helmsman/Pilot

Jacob Taylor- Armory Chief

Grunt- Krogan ground team member

Subject Zero/Jack- Most powerful human biotic and ground team member

Thane Krios- Drell assassin and ground team member

Zaeed Massani- Mercenary and ground team member

Kasumi Goto- Thief and ground team member

Kelly Chambers- Yeoman

Rupert Gardner- Mess Sargent and repairman

Gabriella Daniels- Propulsion engineer

Kenneth Donnelly- Power engineer 

Frontier Militia:

Jack Cooper- Militia Pilot and Scoundrel

BT-7274- Cooper’s Titan

[starfleetimagines]

Received Requests

These are the requests that I've gotten for the "characters that don't see the light of day" thing! If you sent in a request but don't see it here, that means your ask did not go through. Please resend it if that's the case! Ones that are crossed-out are those that I have written and posted.

1) Beverly Crusher - Heart Break (Platonic; parent-child)

Could I request a Beverly Crusher x daughter reader where the reader goes through her first heart break, and goes to her mother Beverly Crusher for comfort, please?

2) Hugh Culber - Overworked (Platonic or romantic)

Imagine Hugh Culber chastising you when you overwork yourself?

3) Paul Stamets - Saviour (might rename idk)

Could you maybe please do something with a Male reader trying to impress Stamets because he has a crush on him? Maybe it culminates in the reader getting hurt to save Stamets

4) Travis Mayweather - Childhood Memories (platonic)

Imagine bonding with Travis over both growing up on cargo ships (or alternatively, imagine being best friends with Travis because you both grew up on the Horizon?)

5) Dating Tasha Yar Would Include...

Could you a "Dating Tasha Would Include"? Preferentially overlooking her death in canon (Also anon you are not stupid for not realizing I write for her. My list has been changed and updated a few times, so it's possible at one point I did not write for her)

6) Culber & Samets - Stress (platonic; child/child figure reader)

I would love to request a culber/stamets with a child/child figure reader? Female/gn reader pls. Perhaps the reader is in their late teens and is feeling the stress of starfleet academy weigh on them and hugh and/or paul are there to comfort them?

7) Reginald Barclay - Dream Date

something involving the holodeck would be pretty in character for barclay! maybe like. it’s a date or reader walks in on something they’re not supposed to see?

8) Hikaru Sulu - A Rose By Any Other Name

Could you d something about Sulu showing the reader (male) the botany room or whatever its called? Like he' s giving a tour and maybe a kiss or something?

9) Chris Rios - My One and Only

Aye a fluffy Chris Rios one would be super cool ❤️

10) Working in Engineering With B'Elanna Torres Would Include...

could you do platonicaly working in engineering with B'Elanna Torres?

11) Tasha Yar - Date Night

May I request a romantic (and not sexual) visit to the holosuite with Tasha Yar?

12) Being Friends With Tuvok Would Include...

May I get a plutonic relationship with Tuvok?

13) Soji Asha - Puppy Therapy

could you do read and Soji (platonic) find and play with a dog?

14) Hoshi Sato - Repaying a Favour

Maybe something where Hoshi helps out a GN or male reader when their universal translater malfunctions and they offer to thank her by taking her to dinner?

15) Ezri Dax - First Kiss

Can I request your first kiss with Ezri Dax for a female or gender neutral reader please?

16) Tasha Yar - Complementary Skills (platonic)

I would love Engineer!reader and Tasha Yar go on an away mission and have to use their respective skills to get the job done

17) B'Elanna Torres - Stargazing

Imagine taking an evening hike with your friend B'Elanna Torres when Voyager stops at an uninhabited planet for shore leave. You hike to a good spot above the tree line so that you can stargaze.

18) Dating Vorik Would Include...

May I just get Vorik relationship headcanons?

19) B'Elanna Torres - Admiration (Platonic)

Could you write something with a reader who really looks up to B'lana for being straigh forward and a skilled engineer. Perhaps they developed a sister dynamic and now the reader tries to get better at engineering even though she is a security officer?

20) Paul Stamets & Hugh Culber - Watchful Eye (Platonic)

May I request a Paul Stamets (DISCO) imagine? With the reader being his new assistant and always so on top of things that everyone is wondering how they do it. Paul soon realizes that it's by working far too much. So he and Hugh decide to intervene: And from that moment on the annoying 'loving' work police is around every corner driving the reader insane.

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Terran Empire I.S.S. Enterprise's crew from the iconic episode "Mirror, Mirror” includes Captain James Kirk, First Officer Spock, Dr. Leonard McCoy, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Security Chief Hikaru Sulu, Nurse Christine Chapel, Yeoman Janice Rand, and Lieutenant Marlena Moreau.

[kosmos2999]

Star Trek: The Animated Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review

Episode: Albatross

Season: 2

Episode: 20 (4 of season 2)

Stardate: 5275.6 – 5276.8

Original airdate: September 28, 1974

Written by: Dario Finelli

Directed by: Bill Reed

Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels

Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott

Studio: Filmation Associates

Network: NBC

Series created by: Gene Roddenberry

Cast:

Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner)

Mr. Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy)

Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly)

Lt. Uhura (voice by Nichelle Nichols)

Lt. Hikaru Sulu (voice by George Takei)

Eng. Montgomery Scott, Dramen Supreme Prefect, Kol-Tai (voices by James Doohan)

Nurse Christine Chapel (voice by Majel Barrett)

Guest star:

Dramen Guard, Demos (voices by Lou Scheimer)

Plot summary:

The USS Enterprise is located in the planet Dramia in the remote Dramen star system. As the crew finished their mission of delivery of medical supplies. Captain Kirk, First Officer Spock an Doctor Leonard McCoy are in the surface waiting to be beamed up by Engineer Montgomery Scott.

While Federation officers are receiving an expression of gratitude from the people of Dramia thru their Supreme Prefect, the head of the Dramian security, Commander Demos interrupts to deliver of a warrant to the Captain of the Enterprise to proceed to arrest its Chief Medical Officer, McCoy.

The purpose of the order is imprison Bones to face a trial under an allegation of a commiting a mass murder nineteen years earlier. Then, McCoy headed a mass inoculation program for a Saurian virus on Dramia II. The Dramians blame the Doctor for a plague that wiped out of the entire population of the planet.

Kirk refuses to let McCoy to be judged by the Dramian justice system calling it “a kangaroo court”. Spock advices the Captain to be aware of his emotions. Jim insist in the innocence of Bones. Back at the starship, the First Officer initiates an investigation on the plague of Dramia II. It states that the plague has an unknown origin and is characterized by the change of skin's color, weakening and eventually, the death. Vulcans and some other species developed a natural immunity.

Being to far to communicate with the Starfleet, Captain Kirk took a decision on his own authority: to move to Dramia II to investigate. While they are making a travel with an estimate of four hours, Lieutenant Sulu detects a one-man shuttlecraft approaching them. Kirk assumes it is the ship from the Dramian Commander who try to stop them from seeking the truth. The Captain devised a strategy to stop Demos. He orders Sulu to make the hangar doors open like they left them carelessly open. So, the Commander can sneak aboard the Enterprise like a stowaway. A reason to keep him detained and his ship confiscated.

As they get closed to the second Dramian planet, the starship has to cross an aurora with intense but non-lethal radiation level. Kirk, Spock and Demos are beamed down to the planet's surface. It is desolated, ravaged with most of its buildings destroyed. Demos advice this is a hostile place for outsiders including himself. The only difference there is between the living and the walking dead.

They had an encounter with a Dramian who was not there when the plague stroke the planet. He seems to be mentally affected. The Commander told the Captain and his First Officer that he advice him not to return to the planet. As Demos declares that there is no survivors from the plague, a figure emerges from the shadows. A Dramian whose name is Kol-Tai. He told to the trio that he had the disease and survived. He also told about the color of skin changes and affirmed he was saved by Doctor McCoy and he could not be an assassin.

Kirk, Spock, Demos and Kol-Tai are beamed up to the Enterprise and orders to move fast, at warp six to Dramia before McCoy's trial began. Spock makes sure that the witness is clean, fed, in good health and resting. Suddenly Kol-Tai's skin color change to blue, Kirk orders a quarantine.

The Captain is interested in saving the humble alien's life but the Commander thinks Kirk's interest is in saving his friend's life. Jim rebukes him telling all life is important for the members of the Federation. Demos was surprised, but not for Kirk's words. It is because the Captain's skin is turning blue too. Jim gave the command of the starship to Spock, ordered a general quarantine and to activate the General Order 6. To self-destruct the Enterprise in case everybody aboard dies.

In orbit of planet Dramia, Spock tries to persuade the Supreme Prefect of the importance to release McCoy from jail to help both the ship's crew and the Commander Demos. But his efforts were fruitless. Spock decided to do a jailbreak. He transports to the Doctor's cell and convinces him of the need to be in the Enterprise.

Right at the Sickbay, McCoy realize the cause of the Saurian virus is the aurora. He decided to take a sample from Kol-Tai's blood to isolate and use its antibodies to cure everybody at the Enterprise.

After everyone was healed from the infection, Doctor Leonard McCoy received a honoring ceremony for his significant achievements in the field of interstellar medicine from the Dramians at the planet's surface. The Supreme Prefect and the other Dramian authorities decided to forget about McCoy's prison break and Captain Kirk to forget about Commander Demos' stowaway.

Back at the Transporter Room, Spock arguments about the putting of too much vitamins on the food by the Doctor's orders. McCoy tells Kirk if he gets caught in prison again, never let a Vulcan to release him. Jim has a big laugh.

Fascinating Facts:

Dario Finelli wrote this episode for The Animated Series. Only two writing works are known from Finelli, this and the 1970 film, Scorpio '70.

The story in this episode contradicts the Writers/Directors Guide for The Original Series. In the episode, Doctor Leonard McCoy worked at young age at Dramia II. The Guide clearly describes McCoy began his service when he was 45 years old. See page 12 of the guide:

One of Filmation's top executives lend his voice for the characters of the Dramen Guard and Demos.

[hailbop1701]

25 Days of FicMas

December 19th prompt: The Magical Adventures of the Santa hat

Word count: 1,581

A Kirkian Christmas Set Up

Sort but cuuuute. Read it, love it, write songs about it. It would have been longer if I didn't feel the strong need for sleep. Remember to drink water and love yourself. Cause I love you. I need you so...now you can't leave me. No returns.

-H❤🖖

No one knew where it came from. The damn thing just showed up a few days before Christmas, and of course Captain James. T Kirk had to wear it. The crew snickered and grinned at the little decoration, “Nice hat sir!” one ensign called out when Jim entered one of the rec rooms with Spock following behind; it was a Tuesday night and Tuesdays were always chess days. Kirk grinned at the young ensign, “It’s in the spirit of the holiday,” he bowed his head a tad letting the ball of the Santa hat sway over his shoulder. You sat in a large comfy chair in the corner with an old fashioned book in your hands, you watched as The Captain and The Commander set up at a table right next to you, “Hey Lieutenant, good read?” Kirk asked casually sending you a kind smile. You shrugged glancing at the front of the book, seeing the title was faded somewhat, “Just some Dickens sir. Like you said the spirit in the holiday and all that,” 

Kirk gave you a look, “Jim, (Y/N). Call me Jim when we’re off duty,” he ordered. You rolled your eyes good-naturedly, “of course sir,” you said almost teasingly making Jim groan annoyed. “We’ll get there,” he muttered moving a piece on the chessboard, “Which ghost are you at?” he asked not taking his eyes off of the Commander’s movements. “Present,” you answered absentmindedly as you read; Jim smirked making another move, “Most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom unless the writing be erased,” he quoted like he was reading over your shoulder. Raising a single eyebrow you breathed out a laugh, “I’m impressed sir,” you said honestly and Kirk shrugged. “Gotta love the classics, isn’t that right Mr. Spock?” 

The Commander looked up from the game in front of him toward his superior, “Yes Captain. I too enjoy old Earth literature. I find the works of George Orwell and Oscar Wilde fascinating,” he said as he moved a rook to the next level of the board. Jim narrowed his eyes in thought, “I love Tolkien personally,” he murmured. You chuckled and nodded, “I knew it! I totally pegged you as a Lord of The Rings fan. Ginly owes me fifty credits,” you grinned at the prospect. Kirk barked out a laugh, “Well I’m glad I could help you out. Let me know if I can do anything else for you,” he winked. You huffed mildly amused but not exactly surprised; Kirk was a known flirt so you didn’t think anything of it. You certainly didn't notice him check the time. 

The conversation lapsed into a comfortable silence until Sulu and Chekov collapsed into the chairs by you to watch the ‘exciting’ game going on between The Captain and Commander. “Nice hat sir,” Sulu complimented flicking the white puffball so it swung and smacked Kirk in the face, the man scrunched up his nose in response. He took off the Santa hat and threw it in Sulu’s face with a huff, he moved another piece on the board calling “Check,” 

Sulu pulled the hat from his face and secured it on his head with a snicker, “Checkmate,” Spock announced making Kirk curse under his breath. Spock raised a single eyebrow but otherwise said nothing and began to reset the board. Glancing up from your book you saw that Kirk was whispering lowly to Sulu who was grinning madly, ‘Oh this is going to end badly,’ you thought with a snort. Shifting in your chair so your legs were now over the arm you looked up again when the rec room door swished open. Scotty and Uhura were walking through talking about upgrades for the comms relay, Kirk jerked his head toward the CE smirking. Sulu bounced up and whispered hurriedly into Scotty’s ear, “What are you planning Jim?” Uhura asked dryly walking to Spock’s side, arms crossed over her chest she leaned against her boyfriend. You gave her a little wave in greeting before getting back to Dickens. 

Scotty grinned at the little plan Kirk had cooked up and gave Sulu a little salute. Hikaru deposited the Santa hat on Scott’s head and watched him scurry out the door. You didn’t notice Sulu casually get close to your chair before it was too late, the helmsman snatched the aged book from your hands and raced out the rec room doors like a bat out of hell. “Damnit Hikaru!” you shouted floundering in your chair. You flipped out of the thing landing on your hands and knees, jeans getting dirty on the floor and mild stinging on your palms didn’t stop you from chasing the man out the door. Uhura stood there shocked and wide-eyed for a moment, “Okay Jim seriously what have you cooked up!” she scolded. She stopped abruptly noticing Spock hadn’t said a word or did his customary eyebrow raise, “you’re in on it,” she accused looking between the Captain and his second in command. “Let’s just say we know a couple of people who need...a little push,” Jim explained moving a knight on the chessboard. He looked up at Uhura with a cheeky grin and nodded at Pavel who pulled out a PADD with Enterprises schematics. It took a moment for the comms officer to catch on but when she did she couldn’t help but grin, “I can’t believe I’m saying this but damn Kirk you’re a genius,’ she said gracefully plopping down in your vacant chair. Jim grinned and held out his arms in a “Ta-da” motion. 

()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()

Scotty dashed through the corridors of the Enterprise like his life depended on it; mostly because it did. He poked a bear and now he was running from said bear; that metaphorical bear was the ship’s CMO Leonard McCoy. “Damnit Scotty come back here!” McCoy shouted eyes blazing. Montgomery Scott refused to say that he was afraid of anything but at that moment he practically screamed like a “Wee lass,” as he ran through his lady. Glancing over his shoulder he saw McCoy gaining on him, yelping Scotty picked up the pace hoping to get to the drop-off point in time. 

Scotty whooped when he saw Sulu at the end of the corridor running toward him with you hot on his heels. “Drop it, Scotty!” Sulu shouted passing by the man dropping the book he was holding on the floor before continuing like hell itself was after him. Scotty bent down and gently dropped the object he was holding before sprinting past you. Santa hat flying off his head he dove into an empty turbo lift laughing hysterically as the doors closed him in. You skidded to a stop before you tripped over the object Scotty dropped on the floor, panting you picked up the hat and what looked to be a holo frame. Looking down you saw a smiling little girl with a missing front tooth, “I think this belongs to you,” you said holding up the picture. McCoy huffed and picked up your book from the ground, “Dickens?” he asked impressed. You blushed and held out the picture frame, “ I like the classics,” you mumbled nervously. Leonard smirked as you traded items, “My daughter just finished To Kill A Mockingbird,” he said weighing the frame in his hands. You grinned, “I loved that one when I was little,” you said excitedly. “How did she like it?” you couldn’t help but ask. McCoy chuckled and ran a hand through his hair, “She loved it if I could guess by the video message she sent me,” 

You were walking back down the corridor with Doctor McCoy when suddenly the lights dimmed and Christmas lights sprung to life lining the walls with holiday cheer. You laughed nervously, “Is it me or are we being set up?” you asked rubbing the back of your neck. Leonard raised an eyebrow, “now darlin’ whatever gave you that idea?” he asked dryly making you giggle. “So this is what he was up to,” you murmur with a shake of your head, “I’m not sure if I’m gonna kill him or…” McCoy trailed off muttering curses under his breath. You bit your lip to keep from smiling, “Well better make the most of it, “ you said and placed the Santa hat on your head. Leonard laughed a wide smile breaking across his face; you couldn’t help but follow suit. Your smile caused Leonard to pause his walking, his heart thudded in his chest and his breath caught. He had to admit he had always thought you were beautiful, smart, funny, and genuinely kind but he never dared to ask you out or even if he should. The divorce was such a messy painful thing he didn’t want to experience something like that again.  You cocked your head to the side curiously, Leonard cleared his throat nervously. “I uh I’m running out of book titles to recommend to Jo, I was wonderin’ if you could help me make a list…” he trailed off clutching the holo frame in his hands tightly. You beamed, “Of course I’ll help! Does she have a favorite genre?” and with that, you were both off again. You and Leonard talked for a good portion of the night, neither minding waking up tired for shift the next day. For the future was bright and full of new stories to tell. Like the one, Joanna McCoy would ask for every Christmases to come: “The Magical Adventures of the Santa Hat,” 

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aos!star trek sense8 au

okay so. i had a thought as I was watching star trek 2009.  mainly, i was pissed that we got jim being a fucked up troublemaker and spock being an ostracized genius, but we didn’t get:

uhura growing up with her huge family devouring information about alien cultures, or bby!sulu learning how to fence or bby!checkov doing spiraling math equations on the wall of his bedroom or little scotty running around with an outrageous brogue and a penchant for taking apart the replicator, or bones being adorably, earnestly caring

fuck that noise.  I want baby-faced versions of the whole bridge crew.

thus, the sense8 AU. I’ve never watched sense8 but I’m 90% sure they’re all supposed to be the same age, which is alright.  i can do that.  it just means that they know each other a little differently; some things happen earlier or different, but that’s fine.

oh my god this is going to be ridiculous.  okay. again, never seen sense8, never will, so i’m pulling this out of thin air

                                                          —

clusters are so rare no one knows about them at this point; there are myths and legends from the eugenics wars—the very wars which essentially wiped them out, actually—but for the most part, everyone has forgotten.

very rarely will someone from a cluster speak about their experiences, but whenever they do, it’s written off as part and parcel of mingling with telepathic alien races.

(little do they know it’s the one form of telepathy completely indigenous to Earth)

—

Spock is the most powerful telepath of his generation because of his uniquely human experience fielding the emotions of six other people.

—

nyota is five when she decides she wants to learn to speak all the other languages, because then she can talk to pavel and spock with their words.  she learns to speak swahili with her mother and father and aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents at home, and standard at school.  having to translate things in her mind because people don’t know her language, her words, is hard.  and if she can keep pavel and spock from having to do that, she will.

—

nyota is the reason they all join starfleet, in the end.  she meets a recruiter at school when they’re seven years old.  when the woman starts to talk about experiencing alien cultures and first contacts and languages she excitedly pulls everyone to her.  they all sit bunched up at this woman’s feet and learn about starfleet for the first time, together.  maybe they don’t all know what they want to do yet, or even that this is what they want.

but nyota wins out, in the end.  she always does.

—

when Jim breaks the security on Frank’s car, ribs still aching from the night before, Hikaru slips into the passenger seat.  they don’t—none of them really know how to respond when things like this happen to jim, when jim pulls these stunts

(sometimes, Spock can get through to him, speak to his anger.  but spock is...having his own problems today)

but when Jim frantically pulls out of their driveway and down the dusty half-road, only thinking awayawayaway Hikaru grins at him and whoops as they push sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety

then the cop pulls up alongside them and he gets nervous.  jim throws him a wild grin and yanks the wheel to the side, crashing through the gates and heading straight for a ravine.

“Jim,” Hikaru says in a panic.  “Jim, jim ,jim stop the car!  Stop the car!  JIM!”

they’re 20 feet away from the edge when sulu makes a desperate, useless grab for the wheel and Jim finally gives in.  everyone steps onto the edge of the cliff as he frantically grabs at sand and dust, living only because his friends family cluster are screaming at him.

they huddle around him in shock as he pushes to his feet and mouths off to the police officer; scotty giggles at his nonchalance and nyota thwaps him on the back of his head and leo wraps him in a hug, careful of his ribs.

—

everyone piles into pavel’s room the nights his uncle tells stories.  exciting adventures with spies and snipers and assassins.

—

nyota spends quiet afternoons with spock on his balcony under the hot vulcan sun, pouring over whatever data has drawn Spock’s attention this week.  he helps her with her pronunciation and lets her practice golic scripture on his pads.  vulcan is her third language she ever learns.

—

Hikaru goes on hikes with Scotty through the still-preserved highlands, stopping every five minutes to pester him for the names of the plants.  when they first start out, there are a lot of “i don’t knows,” or asking of scotty’s mother, but eventually Scotty starts learning them ahead of time, just to see Hikaru’s grin as they discuss foliage patterns and pollination.

—

Jim, Spock and Pavel will spend hours debating mathematical theories, wearing out the wrist of whoever’s room they’re in.  every once in a while pavel will say something that gets and eyebrow raise out of spock and a look of utter shock from Jim, because he proven them completely wrong in an effortless manner

—

Tarsus—

when Jim understands what’s happening, what Governor Kodos means, it’s—fuck.  he just.  he just shuts down, starts grabbing as many people as he can, other kids, mainly.

and everyone else freezes right where they are.  in the middle of class and fencing practice and church and after bolting upright in the middle of the night.

Spock initiates an emergency shutdown of his pod and rushes up the stairs, politely requesting (demanding) that the instructor contact his father immediately.

Pavel jumps out of bed and bangs on his Uncle’s door, begging him to open up, please open up, you still have friends on the federation council, yes?

Nyota pulls the...enhanced radio transmitter Scotty helped her build out and immediately breaks into contacts starfleet command’s private frequency to begin relaying everything she has so far, as Jim gets it, and Scotty sits right next to her, helping find new ways to break in every time starfleet shuts them out until they have to listen, please listen, this is not a joke!

Leo and Hikaru...they stay with Jim, as he scrambles through the facility where Kodos penned them in to be slaughtered; grabbing a phaser off of a corpse and shooting the guards who chase after them; kicking the legs out from under one who gets too close; keeping track of little Kevin who’s screaming and crying for his mother.

(instead of waiting six months until their scheduled check-in to find the remains of the Tarsus IV colony, Starfleet finds out about the massacre of 4,000 federation citizens almost as it’s happening; finds out from, oddly enough, the Vulcan ambassador to Earth, a former incredibly classified russian special ops agent for the United Earth, and one very persistent child in the African Confederacy with a souped-up radio communicator.

it still take three weeks for the nearest ship to warp to Tarsus, near the edge of uncharted space, and rescue the remaining colonists)

Hikaru advises Jim on whether they can eat what few plants they find; Leo uses his rudimentary medical knowledge to help patch up the injured children.  Nyota and Spock take turns helping Jim translate for the young Vulcan among them, young enough that her Standard is not yet perfected.

Spock demands that his father demand information on the rescue mission, so that he may coordinate with Jim on how long they have and where to meet the survivors that Jim is slowly, carefully, gathering.

—

the minute Jim is settled in the med-bay of the starfleet vessel carrying him and the other 73 survivors of Kodos’ condemned colonists, he breaks.  break in half, breaks down sobbing, curls up into a ball and just lets himself feel, again.

all six of the others pile around him on the biobed, surrounding him, until all he can see are other parts of himself.

—

Jim is fourteen years old.  There are six other people living in his head.  He has survived a massacre and a genocide and his mother is—

His mother is—

Not coming.  She’s not coming.  She’s sending him back to Frank, who chased Sam away and let Jim go to Tarsus.  She barely even looks at him when she sentences him to another six years of terror.

Before, he might have panicked.  Now he just...shuts down again, steals a datapad, and hacks into starfleet’s communications with his mother and frank.  Jim-as-Frank says he’s beaming to Risa to pick Jim up as soon as possible, and Jim-as-Winona signs off on it.

With Leo yelling at him and Nyota reminding him he can just come stay with her family and Pavel saying my uncle would be happy to—, Jim steps onto the transporter pad and beams down to Risa, hastily making his way out of the starfleet outpost and into the crushing crowds of the pleasure planet, and disappears.

—

They all worry about Jim, and keep tabs on him, but they have their own lives to live, too.  Even if they never give up on pulling him to one of them before he gets himself killed.

—

Pavel gets admitted to starfleet academy when they’re fifteen and Nyota is not jealous!  No, no, she’s not jealous, shut up, Hikaru.  And it’s fine, anyway, because they all know the reason half of them are planning on joining starfleet (at least, right then) is because of her. So there.

And when he gets homesick his second week there, Nyota plops herself down on his bed and babbles with him in Russian (her fourth language) until the ache in his chest recedes.

—

Hikaru and Pavel are the first of them to meet in person, because Hikaru lives in San Francisco.  Whenever Pavel is granted leave from the Academy, Hikaru shows up to drag him surfing, or to his favorite restaurant, or to meet his parents.

—

Six months after Pavel starts at Starfleet, Leo is needling Spock about the Kohlinar so much that he actually seeks out his mother to ensure Leo is wrong, that he is not needlessly repressing his “humanity” at the expense of a real part of himself.

Leo stands there in shock, glee and utter disbelief as Spock tells the old racist bastards at the Vulcan Science Academy where to put it; just claps him on the shoulder on his way out.

(Jim quietly grins to himself as he listens in)

(Nyota high-fives Pavel, Hikaru and Scotty; five down, two to go)

—

Given the nature of Vulcan secondary education and Spock’s desire to be a science officer, he tests out of basically the first two years of classes.  Then he does such an exemplary job that he earns an officer’s commission right after graduation under fucking Pike, are you kidding me?? Nyota screeches and jumps up and down and generally makes an emotional scene while Spock suffers. 

—

When they are seventeen, Leo gets his girlfriend Jocelyn pregnant. 

What.

—

After Tarsus, the times that they all get together are few and far between; but when Joanna is born they all stop what they’re doing to gather around Jocelyn’s biobed and coo, or congratulate, or tease Leo for being the one to have a kid, come on, I really had money on Jim.

He smiles at Jocelyn and stares in awe at Joanna and feels how much they all love him, how much they already love his daughter (not their daughter; not yet).

—

When they’re eighteen, Scotty and Hikaru and Nyota are finally (!!!! Nyota is so excited) going to Starfleet Academy, to join Pavel in his third year and catch Spock in passing whenever he’s on leave.

Before they leave, Nyota stands in the center of her sisters and cousins and aunts and nieces and sobs, happy to be one step closer to starfleet but unashamedly grieving for the stage of her life that she’s leaving behind.  And she decides then that she’s going to start going by Uhura, her family name, so that she can take them with her into the stars.

—

Jim is, oddly enough, the one to sit up with Leo on those long nights when Joanna just. won’t. sleep.  He quietly chats him up and stares in awe at this baby girl who came into the world peacefully and wanted, if not fully expected.  This baby girl whose parents will never raise a hand to her and has a dozen people willing to lay down their lives for her and, more importantly, take her in if god forbid it becomes necessary.

He whispers sweet nothings she can’t hear to her and Leo throws an arm over his shoulders, grateful and missing him even though he right there.

—

His feet hit the ground on Earth for the first time in four years two weeks later, after doing a few things he shut the others out for (he and spock are the only ones who bothered to learn how to do that) to get onto a shuttle headed straight back...home.

Not home because he lived there Before, but home because that’s where all the other pieces of him are living.

Because he a masochist (shut up, Leo) he acquires a hover bike and zips over to Iowa, and starts haunting Riverside, Iowa.  He lets the corn and small-town bullshit crawl under his skin and takes it out on anyone stupid enough to provoke him when he’s drunk.

He’s completely smashed when Leo finally admits he’s going to be a doctor and tries to call him sawbones; only, the first part doesn’t quite make it out of his mouth.

Leo—Bones—groans because the others are never gonna let this go.

(he is correct on that front)

—

The others are trying to give him space, he knows, but they’re also not at all subtle about their excitement at his being so close for the first time.

Hikaru, Scotty, Pavel, and Uhura orbit each other in San Fran, with Spock the occasional comet passing through their system, together in person, for real, and so eager to share that with the last two of them who’ve never met any of them in person.

They descend on they newly-christened Bones for winter break that first semester (well, actually, it’s Pavel’s seventh semester—i swear to god Chekov i’m gonna knock that smirk off your face) to meet Jocelyn and Joanna. 

And god, they spoil that girl.  Almost a year old, toddling around and bumping into everything and so curious about everything.

Spock couldn’t quite swing leave time to go with them, but they video comm him a few times so Joanna can see him, too.

Jocelyn is quietly unnerved by these people her partner is so close with, who he talks about all the time but has apparently never...met in person before?  Who call him Bones, of all things. And they all take the time to talk to her, get to know her and try and connect, but it’s overwhelming.

And then Uhura sits Bones down in person and lays out all the reasons he should transfer to the Starfleet Academy to finish out his med degree; they have a track laid out to get your doctorate and become an officer, you’re majoring in xenobiology anyway and there’s no better place for that, the opportunities for residencies will be so much better, the trauma surgeons at the academy are unmatched, and—

and we’ll be there.  Joanna can grow up with all of us around to help.

Six down, one to go.

—

The first time Hikaru sits at the helm of a shuttle, he doesn’t stop grinning the rest of the day.  Botany is his first and best love, but by god he’s going to qualify to be a pilot, too.  Maybe someday he’ll get to fly something like the Enterprise.

—

Scotty has taken engineering by storm.  All his professors have an opinion on him, and it’s always love ‘em or hate ‘em.  He’s absolutely brilliant or completely mad, should be given the flagship at the earliest opportunity or marooned somewhere he can’t do any real damage.

—

Uhura comes in knowing eight languages: Swahili, Standard, Vulcan, Russian, French, one of the Rhiannsu (Romulan) dialects, Tellaran, and rudimentary Andoran.  She knows exactly what she’s going to do and has been preparing for it her whole life.

The rest of them grin to each other when they start hearing about Uhura’s exploits in astounding the communications track time and time again.

—

Spock lets them know before anyone else that Captain Pike has been re-assigned to Starfleet Academy for a round of teaching...and that Spock himself will also finally be accepting the Science track’s increasingly desperate demands that he teach.

He’ll also be offering courses in communications; ones Uhura will have to take before graduation.  A clear conflict of interest.

(Uhura is ecstatic; Spock is concerned, but will only volunteer the incredibly personal information when it becomes relevant)

—

When Uhura sees the sign-up for a summer tour of the shipyards in Riverside, she smirks to herself and signs the fuck up, then goes directly to Jim to needle him about it.

Jim sighs and orders another drink, but...finally getting to see one of them in person after all these years...something settles in his chest that hasn’t sat right since he was just a kid.

—

Uhura is practically vibrating as she bursts into the club.  Practically half their class is stuffed around chair and in booths, and she makes a brief stop by some of her friends, but she’s on a mission now.

She can feel a subtle itch under her skin that means Jim is so close.  So close, after so long. After being so alone for so long.

He doesn’t quite understand how unwilling she’s going to be to let him go, once she has him in her clutches.

They practically run into each other next to the stools by the bar and she fights the urge to throw her arms around him.  He looks breathless and a little disbelieving, even though he knew this was coming for months, until a bright and easy smile breaks out on his face.  The one she hasn’t seen since they were still kids.

“Jim,” she laughs, giddy, and he laughs back at her, leaning onto the bar.  She sidles up next to him, as close as his current general aura of “don’t touch me” will allow, and just...breathes, for a second. 

He’s definitely drunk (although, when isn’t he, these days) but still lucid.  “I’m glad you’re here,” he says softly, so low she almost can’t hear it over the throbbing music.

“I’m glad you’re here,” she shoots back, still unable to let go of her smile.

They’re still just basking in each other’s physical presence (after all these years, she still sometimes has no idea what to do with Jim Kirk, except be there with him), when asshole security track cadet Hendorff and his pals make their way up to the bar behind the pair of them.

She can feel the way Jim perks up at the tension in their figures and sighs internally.

“This townie isn’t bothering you, right?” He asks with a smirk, like, what, he has the authority to protect her?

“Oh, beyond belief, but it’s nothing I can’t handle,”  Uhura turns toward Jim and tries to make it clear that he has no business interrupting their conversation, but Jim...

“You can handle me, that’s an invitation,” He smirks at her and knows exactly what he’s doing.

And she has half a mind to let him do it; if he wants to get his ass beat that’s his business.

“Hey, farmboy,” but then Hendorff lays his hands on Jim.  “Maybe you can’t count, but there are four of us and one of you.”

He lays his hands on Jim.  He’s interrupted their first meeting in person after nineteen years living in each other’s minds, and laid his hands on her cluster-mate.

Jim lets his gaze flit to her for half a second and then steps into Hendorff’s space, clapping him on the cheek.  “So go get some more guys and then it’ll be an even fight.”

Uhura rolls her eyes and her shoulders and knows from Jim’s experience the exact moment the tension will spill over into violence.

Hendorff draws back and decks Jim, who falls into the bar; as he makes his next move, before Jim can fully turn around, Uhura draws her heeled boot up and buries it in Hendorff’s stomach, flinging him back into the crowd.

The other three look at her in shock before Jim draws their attention again and they start—god, brawling is the only word for it.  Flinging wild punches and bottles and chairs.

When one of them gets Jim in a lock Uhura swings behind him and pinches the nerve on his shoulder, just like Spock taught them, and he goes down like a light.

But the other two still get four good hits in while she’s doing it, and between the alcohol and the concussion one of them manages to fling him onto a table while Uhura goes for the other one.

Unfortunately a whistle pierces the din before she can kick his ass.

Captain Pike is standing at the entrance to the club, staring in disbelief at the mess they’ve made of the place, and of Jim.  “Outside, all of you,” he orders.

Uhura seethes at the lost time; she didn’t even have the chance to make her annual pitch for him to join starfleet.  But she also doesn’t make her way out with the others, instead grabbing some napkins from a nearby table and hurrying over to Jim, who’s in that fun in-between state between conscious and unconscious he’s so very familiar with.

“I can feel you judging me from over here,” he mumbles, then lolls his head back to say something about whistling to Captain Pike.

She dunks one of the napkins in a glass of water and starts wiping at his face automatically, until Captain Pike clears his throat.

“Cadet, you know this man?”  He asks pointedly.  God, she’s going to get court-martialed for this, but she looks down at Jim before she answers.  He’s been off Starfleet’s radar since he was fourteen, and has never been keen to get back on it.

But he sort of shrugs at her, so she looks back up.  Pike is giving her a bemused eyebrow raise she’s pretty sure he got from Spock as she says, “Yes, sir.  This is Jim Kirk, my...” she doesn’t even know the word for it.  Cluster-mate?  Bonded?  There’s no true word for it in Standard, or even Vulcan.

“Boyfriend?” Captain Pike finishes dryly, but then watches as they both gag.  Uh, no.

“No, sir, Jim is one of my...bond-mates.”  She grimaces.  “I don’t know the exact term for it, but that’s close enough, sir.”

“Well, Cadet Uhura, if you don’t know the word than it the word must not exist,” Captain Pike says, and she fights the urge to flush. 

Decides to raise her chin instead.  “Thank you, sir.”  Deeming his face clean enough for now, she hauls Jim off the table and hands him the rest of the napkins.  She draws the line at stuffing things up his nose for him. 

“Why don’t we all sit down for a minute and discuss what the hell just happened here,” he suggest-orders.

—

Spock has a very interesting comm message from Captain Pike the next morning, and fights the very human urge to rub his temples in exasperation.  Uhura is supposed to be his partner in sensibility, not Jim's back-up in bar fights.

Perhaps they all bring out different sides of one another.

—

Uhura screeches at Jim when he shows up at the shipyard the next morning.

“Are you kidding me?  All I had to do, all this time, was dare you to join Starfleet?  Are you six fucking years old?!?”

Jim grins at her, and is incredibly lucky they’re lifting off so she can’t get up and strangle him.

—

Of course Jim joined for Them.  But it’s funnier to let Uhura think Pike could just dare him into it.

[sshbpodcast]

Ideal Bridge Crews

by Ames

First thing, hats off to everyone here at A Star to Steer Her By for hitting our 200th episode milestone! It's been a hell of an adventure trekking this far, and our journey promises to continue to be as fun, enlightening, and bawdy as when we started. Even moreso? Especially moreso.

In our 200th Episode Holiday Spectacular (listen to all the festivities here!), we peppered our celebratory program with introspection into the minds of your hosts and our special contestants Carl, Liz, and James. Specifically, we asked "Who would comprise your ideal bridge crew?" and the answers were as varied as our tastes in episodes. Let's see who's crewing everyone's ship through the stars.

[images © CBS/Paramount; icons © Star Trek Timelines]

Carl – The Expert Bridge

Captain: Worf (TNG/DS9) Chief Medical Officer: Phil Boyce (TOS) Science Officer: Saru (DIS) Chief of Security: Kira Nerys (DS9) Chief Engineer: Montgomery Scott (TOS) Helmsperson: Miles O'Brien (TNG) Free Space: Communications: M'Ress (TAS) Pet: M'Ress (TAS)

The bridge officers on Carl's ship all have a ton of experience under their belts, and have proven themselves time and again in their duties. Nowhere else will you see a group so professional or with so much liquor in their ready room.

—

Caitlin – The Scrappy Bridge

Captain: Benjamin Sisko (DS9) Chief Medical Officer: Katherine Pulaski (TNG) Science Officer: Spock (TOS) Chief of Security: Odo (DS9) Chief Engineer: Montgomery Scott (TOS) Helmsperson: Hikaru Sulu (TOS) Free Space: Ambassador: Lwaxana Troi (TNG/DS9) Pet: Miles O'Brien (TNG/DS9)

Caitlin's bridge crew officers take exactly zero guffs. These crew members aren't here to make friends when there's a job to do. They'll find the most risky, unpredictable, lethal, sexy ways to accomplish their goals, and that's just for the fun of it!

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Liz – The Diplomatic Bridge

Captain: Benjamin Sisko (DS9) Chief Medical Officer: Alyssa Ogawa (TNG) Science Officer: Saru (DIS) Chief of Security: Shaxs (LD) Chief Engineer: Sylvia Tilly (DIS) Helmsperson: Cristóbal Rios (PIC) Free Space: Diplomat: K'ehleyr (TNG) Pet: Grudge (DIS)

Liz very deliberately constructed a crew that demonstrates a quality all-too-often mishandled in Starfleet: diplomacy. And she's got a group of crew members who can handle sticky situations rife with tension and still look damn good doing it.

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Ames – The Sassy Bridge

Captain: William Riker (TNG) Chief Medical Officer: Emergency Medical Hologram (VOY) Science Officer: Data (TNG) Chief of Security: Michael Eddington (DS9) Chief Engineer: Jett Reno (DIS) Helmsperson: Cristóbal Rios (PIC) Free Space: "Tailor": Elim Garak (DS9) Pet: Grudge (DIS)

Put on your sassy pants: Ames's crew members are as snarky as they are competent. They always have a zippy one-liner ready at the same time they are entirely professionally doing their jobs, duct taping the galaxy together, and whipping up a tasty pizza.

*Addenda: Ames assembled her list including characters in series after where we are currently on the podcast and neglected to make this clear to the other hosts, so here are some answers to swap in for just what we've already covered, still prioritizing sass: Chief Medical Officer: Katherine Pulaski (TNG) Chief Engineer: Leah Brahms (TNG) Helmsperson: Hikaru Sulu (TOS) Pet: Spot's kittens (TNG)

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James – The Unsung Bridge

Captain: Janice Lester (TOS) Chief Medical Officer: Elizabeth Lense (DS9) Science Officer: Melora Pazlar (DS9) Chief of Security: Tosk (DS9) Chief Engineer: Michael Argyle (TNG) Helmsperson: Clare Raymond (TNG) Free Space: Lawyer: Ch'Pok (DS9) Pet: Exocomp (TNG)

True to his contrarian nature, James put together a bridge crew of one-off characters who deserved more than the one or two episodes they had the opportunity for us to explore. Whom do you recognize from his crew of obscure references?

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Jake – The BAMF Bridge

Captain: Benjamin Sisko (DS9) Chief Medical Officer: Emergency Medical Hologram (VOY) Science Officer: Data (TNG) Chief of Security: Kira Nerys (DS9) Chief Engineer: Montgomery Scott (TOS) Helmsperson: Jadzia Dax (DS9) Free Space: Counselor: Guinan (TNG) Pet: Unicorn dog (TOS)

Clear a path, we've got a badass over here. A whole crew of them, in fact! Assembled together, Jake's bridge crew is a force to be reckoned with. You don't want to meet up with this group in a darkened alley unless you brought your spiciest jambalaya.

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Chris – The Logical Bridge

Captain: Spock (TOS) Chief Medical Officer: Leonard McCoy (TOS) Science Officer: Data (TNG) Chief of Security: Ryan Leslie (TOS) Chief Engineer: Miles O'Brien (DS9) Helmsperson: Jean-Luc Picard (TNG) Free Space: Bartender: Elim Garak (DS9) Pet: Grudge (DIS)

Chris may be out of his Vulcan mind to give that green-blooded, emotions-shunning Spock another shot at the captain's chair, but what he's come up with overall is a crew that adheres to logic, intelligence, diplomacy, and a good bottle of bourbon from its new bartender!

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Solo Para: Identity In a New World

The Romulan war won, their universe returned, the Orville crew has been through a lot in the past several months.

With all the initial chaos finally aside, Claire was looking forward to telling Marcus and Ty the truth of her relationship with Isaac. But just as the boys are finding out and responding, Isaac’s eyes vanish and he collapses, shutting down without warning and leaving the three in shock.

When no ascertainable reason can be found for Isaac’s sudden failure, the crew goes to Kaylon, discovering Isaac was shut down but getting him brought back online, only to discover he was planning on returning to Kaylon full-time. Unfortunately, they dig a little too deep and discover the Kaylon’s true intentions, to wipe out all Union organic life and then moving on to the Federation, before the Kaylon storm their ship and take command.

The crew is trapped in the shuttlebay deciding what to do when a Federation starship finds the Orville on scanners and goes to check in on them. The Kaylon originally intend to take Captain Mercer and Commander Grayson when...

“Wait a minute. What’s the ship, exactly?” Dakota’s head pops up as an idea runs through her head and she goes through with it without thinking, stepping forward. “Please, this might be important to your cover.”

“The USS Excelsior,” the Kaylon answers, and she prays to god Sammy keeps her mouth shut.

“Oh, I have a cousin on that ship. My whole extended family knows this week I’m supposed to be doing a command training exercise-- I’m filling in for Commander Grayson this week, isn’t that right, captain?” Dakota’s head turns to Ed with a plea in her eyes for him to go with it.

“Uh, exactly, that’s right,” Ed agrees momentarily, confused but going with it. Relieved, Dakota turns back to the Kaylon.

“If you take Commander Grayson up there, they’ll think something’s wrong. I wouldn’t miss a command training exercise for anything. They all know that. You’ll have to bring me instead.”

There’s a pause, she assumes as they confirm the, actual truth about her cousin and that she’s on the command path. Once both are confirmed, Kaylon Primary instead instructs her to follow with Ed to the bridge.

Ed leans in and mutters to her, “I hope you know what you’re doing, lieutenant.”

So does she.

Taking respective seats on the bridge, Ed swallows a lump in his throat when Captain Sulu answers. “Captain Sulu, I hope you don’t mind if the lieutenant conducts this interaction as a part of her command training,” He gestures kindly to Dakota.

Hikaru nods with a smile. “Of course. Lieutenant, that’s quite an entourage you have there.”

“Yes, sir, the Kaylon are looking to join the Union, so as to be present for peace talks with the Federation,” Dakota answers with a smile. “It seems they make a very big deal out of their ambassador.”

“I see. Are you in need of any assistance? I know my bosses would approve if we had Federation representation present for this monumental occasion.”

She sees a subtle headshake from one of the Kaylon out of the corner of her eye, not that she needs it. “No, that’s all right. Having a number of Federation lieutenants, including the children of the Federation’s fleet admiral himself, will be more than enough. Thank you, though!”

Captain Sulu nods. “If that’s all--”

Now or never!

“Oh, captain, before I forget. This is a bit less professional but your trajectory puts you guys on that path-- can you tell my dad on the USS Kelvin that I love him and I’ll see him later? We were going to meet up but with the Kaylon thing takes precedence, I’m sure you can imagine. He’ll have to meet me for lunch, maybe we should go visit the Union’s version of Earth or something. Sorry to ask this of you, and I know it’s not my place, but with everything going on around here I don’t know if I’ll have time to get the message out.”

The captain doesn’t even flinch. “Of course, lieutenant. Tell my daughter that she owes me a huge hug when our paths cross again.”

“Absolutely, sir,” Dakota answers with a smile, and then the channel cuts off. She turns back to see the horribly confused look on the captain’s face and then braces her explanation.

“Have you attempted to deceive us? Your Federation’s starships do not use the name Kelvin in memorial of the one destroyed many years ago,” the Primary says warningly, and Dakota holds up her hand, willing herself to keep herself contained.

“Congrats on getting into our records, but not everything is ever officially recorded in Starfleet. We have recorded security, but we don’t trust our enemies to not hack that. So we have word of mouth security too. Only captains and the families of crew of some ships even have clearance to know that those ships exist. One such ship is the Kelvin, rebuilt following the disaster with the Narada as a training ship to prepare for enemies such as Nero should the need arise again.” Dakota crosses her arms. “There’s no computerized file of it. Officially, it doesn’t exist, and the name Kelvin was never used again in memorial, but in actuality the Kelvin’s in deep space training. My dad got assigned there after an off-the-charts aptitude test for security.”

“She’s telling the truth,” Ed pipes in quickly, though he definitely has no idea what’s going on. “I was surprised the lieutenant knew the name but it’s the truth, I was briefed on it when I was reinstated to captain by the Federation admiralty. The Kelvin and the Shenzhou are still in operation for a deep chapter of security that has no records for the exact reason of running the risk of someone searching records for them and locating them.”

“You can ask any of the other crew, they’ll tell you the Kelvin was destroyed and its name is not present on any ships because that’s all they know. I’m the only one with family on the ship. I don’t know who all is on the crew, but my dad went over the manifest once and confirmed no other crewman on the Orville has family there.” Dakota keeps herself together, refusing to let them see through her.

And it works. The Primary takes a very long minute before returning the two to the shuttlebay with the rest of the crew.

Once they’re on their own with the rest of the senior officers, Ed turns to her, keeping his voice low. “What the hell was that?”

“I believe your guys’ equivalent is a 13-button salute,” Dakota explains, in an equally low tone, “The Kelvin is a code for danger. But ours isn’t shared with just anyone, and it’s only shared by word of mouth. None of the Union officers on this ship were to know about it unless it became necessary for its use to come up, Admiral Kirk didn’t approve but he was severely outvoted. And ours is versatile, it’s all in the messages you pass on and the way you phrase it. Saying to tell my dad I loved him said to tell the admiralty we were held by hostiles, telling him to meet me for lunch meant they’d launch an attack, telling him we should meet at the Union’s Earth for it tells them where.”

Ed pauses and shakes his head, awestruck. “That was some incredible bullshitting.”

“We’re also taught how to lie convincingly to the hostiles in question when they ask about the Kelvin being named,” Dakota answers with a shrug. “But we don’t know how fast Captain Sulu can reach out to Federation admiralty or how fast the Federation can get the message to the Union. And even combined I’m not sure it’ll be enough, we just got out of a war.”

“So, we need to get some more backup,” Kelly agrees. “We need to take a shuttle out to find the Krill.”

“The Krill? Kelly, are you NUTS?” Ed whips around to face her, but as the argument continues, Dakota tunes them out, turning to John.

“Commander, suppose they go get the Krill and convince them to go along. We still have to get the message to the Union, we may be much faster than the Federation.”

John nods, waving for her to follow him quietly, leading her to a small conduit that Yaphit is waiting by. “This should do that. Yaphit can get out through here and send a message to the admirals, but there’s a problem. We can’t mask the message and the Kaylon could kill it before it gets out if we don’t.”

“So until we’ve got that figure out, we’re stuck,” Yaphit agrees, and Dakota nods, thinking.

She’s not the engineer, though. “What are our options, sir?” Dakota looks at him and he thinks the question over.

“If someone could go out with him and change the frequencies randomly, the Kaylon might think that it’s just subspace noise.”

“Yeah, but no one can fit through there but me,” Yaphit points out. “This conduit is tiny, like half-a-meter wide.”

“I could fit,” comes a small voice behind them and Dakota turns in surprise to Ty, seeing the rest of the senior staff must have worked out their argument about the Krill and had come to check on what they were doing.

“Absolutely not,” Dr. Finn says, while the others look at each other uncertainly.

Dakota sighs. “Doctor, we don’t have a lot of choice. If we do nothing, a lot of people are going to die. If Yaphit does this without that kind of backup, nobody’s going to know what’s going on in time.”

“You’re not sending my son--!” Claire insists, but Ty is the one to convince her he’ll be okay and talk her down, and the two are off in moments during the chaos of the shuttle’s escape at the same time.

Dakota approaches Sammy as they’re waiting. “Hey. Your dad’s okay. He said he loves you.”

Sammy looks up at her and nods, shivering slightly but not from cold. The redhead is scared... they all are.

The next thing Dakota knows is some kind of... pulse, over the speakers of the ship, and the Kaylon watching them collapse, seemingly dead. When the shuttlebay doors open, it’s Ty, talking about how Isaac saved them.

Lily and John send out another covered message to hide it from the Kaylon vessels informing Federation and Union admiralty that the Orville is back in control and not a moment too soon as they find themselves at the other Earth-- with two entire fleets waiting to defend it.

The battle is hell. Things look grim until the Krill show up, with a short and sweet hail from the ship in the lead, revealing Kelly and Gordon, safe and sound. Finally, though, the Kaylon are forced into retreat.

Yaphit successfully revives Isaac as soon as things have finally settled. Then, the crew is invited to the most important meeting of their careers: the meeting between the Union and Federation to finally unite the two forces as one, officially, creating the United Planetary Federation.

They don’t quite know how easy things will be moving forward. But they know they’re ready to fight back. And they’re going to do it side by side. The way it needed to be when two worlds collided.

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7, 39 and 48 for Voyager ;)

Star Trek ask meme!

7. Who would make up your crew dream team?

Captain - Jean-Luc Picard

First Officer - Spock

Chief Medical Officer - Voyager’s EMH

Head Nurse - Alyssa Ogawa

Chief Engineer - Reg Barclay (shhhhhh)

Chief of Security - Alara Kitan (SHHHHHHHH)

Science Officer - Sylvia Tilly

Helmsman - Hikaru Sulu

39. You have to relocate to a planet other than Earth, which do you choose?

I want to say Cait, cause in fanon it’s just the planet of the Cat People and it’s full of soft friendly aliens and very beautiful :D

48. Sort the crew of *insert show here* into Hogwarts houses.

Kathryn Janeway - Ravenclaw

Chakotay - Hufflepuff

B’Elanna Torres - Gryffindor

Tom Paris - Gryffindor

Neelix - Hufflepuff

The Doctor - Ravenclaw

Tuvok - Slytherin

Harry Kim - Gryffindor (maybe Ravenclaw?)

Seven of Nine - Slytherin

Kes - Hufflepuff