#T'Pring imagine

[ajydaardyn-jomoktoru]

Imagine meeting T'Pring for the first time...

Since I haven't seen any episode with T'Pring not in TOS nor in SNW it can be a bit OOC, but I just cannot wait, there are no one T'Pring x reader fic on the whole Tumblr! So I've decided to write it first :3 Can be read as both TOS T'Pring or SNW T'Pring!

‌Well, when you first met she was on the board with some diplomatic task.

It was a very awkward moment when you stumbled upon her and you dropped some papers and started to pick them up and she decided to help you and your hands touched accidentally.

‌You looked up and froze in embarrassment and yours eyes met.

You mumbled an apologise and quickly ran away, didn't notice how she followed you with her gaze and how she whispered "interesting…"

‌You weren't seeing her glances here and there while you were doing your daily tasks.

You were a knowledgeable xenobotanist and your knowledge was very useful to Starfleet. On one of the field missions, your ship had to visit the Vulcan Academy of Sciences to discuss the possibilities of planting Earth cacti and succulents.

‌You were going to Zargandara planet to make some researchers about new species of plants discovered there, but first your Captain had to deliver some scientists to Vulcan. So you decided to take a walk.

It was very hot and very soon you were tired, stopping right at the steps of the Vulcan Academy of Science. And then you saw her again.

‌She was calm and elegant as always. The aura of serenity seemed to cool the fluctuating air around her. You were truly in awe at her appearance.

‌"Peace and long life", you respond to her greeting, making the Vulcan salut. Little by little you started talking about your mission.

‌"So you graduated with honours in xenobotanical studies?" she asked when you told her about your line. She was noticeably impressed when you answered affirmatively, slightly embarrassed.

‌"It takes great dedication and intelligence to excel in such a specialized field. I am curious, what brought you to Vulcan?"

"I see," she responds, her eyes carefully studying your features, not loosing a single thing.

"Actually I had to go to Zargandara, and Captain Qongurzat is just about to fly there after the visit to the Vulcan Academy."

After a while you had to go to the ship and before you leave she mentioned that it'd be helpful for diplomatic relations between Earth and Vulcan, if you would agree to come here again someday to conduct research on the local flora.

"Not many xenobotanists with this level of knowledge come here," she said, her voice is even as always, her eyes never leaving yours.

When you shyly agreed, you can notice how her cheeks took on a subtle green tint and her eyes sparkled with something.

And when you stepped on the board of the ship she whispered to herself "See you later, Y/N"

This is my first "character x reader" writing ever and also remember that English isn't the first mu language so please be kind, live long and prosper! :3 Oh, and also please tell me should I write the 2nd part!

[thunderandsage]

so since we assume that vulcans don’t have their seven-year schebang synced with each other, AND we also know that vulcans have a large interplanetary presence, this leads me to believe that either a) long-term space missions are always shorter than seven years and participants are screened appropriately, but because this would involve breaking the taboo about speaking about it to an insane degree i think what’s more probable is b) vulcan ships recruit an insane amount of married couples, and everyone who’s single gets embroiled in high-stakes cut-throat matchmaking schemes that would make bridgerton look like an elementary school play

[bumblingbabooshka]

-Remembers how T’Pring looked as she watched Spock & Chapel vanish into the bathroom together after seeing them kiss on the bridge (which she knew was for a mission and didn’t hold against them but perhaps she could sense something there since they do have feelings for one another), maybe attempting to calm herself and her suspicions as she’s left alone again (and later finds she’s been left out entirely this whole time) and how she doesn’t know that Spock almost told Chapel he loved her then and there, with T’Pring in the other room waiting, and how Amanda and Sevet both think she could have more confidence in herself and how T’Pring thought that she and Spock were in this together (her holding his hand, subtly letting him know to pour slower so the tea flowers would bloom correctly, a whispered ‘well done’, the ritual is over mother) and how mere hours after she expresses to Spock how she feels: Like he doesn’t trust her, like he doesn’t care to include her in his life, how she’s trying her best to show him that she will accept him wholly, how she wants to be his partner instead of an adversary or an obstacle, after all this he’s found Chapel within the hour and is kissing her.-

[lenievi]

Amanda~

I wonder if we’ll get some scenes between Amanda and Pelia, or if Amanda will make an appearance later in the season too.

[starryspeculation]

consider: t'pring coming to the academy for her erasmus exchange term

[mashmouths]

all this time i thought people were exaggerating about the titty window but no kirk is boobing as breastily as he possibly can, that bosom is Heaving

fellas is it gay to ask your beefiest guy friend to accompany you to your secret fuck or die ceremony

[star-star-space-stuff]

Amok Time from Stonn's Perspective

There is this line in the episode that many people find totally iconic:

And don't get me wrong, I agree - it is a good line. But it's also so very, very wrong in context?

Put yourself into Stonn's perspective for a moment:

He loves T'Pring, and she tells him that she loves him as well, but she is engaged to this guy.

She has not spoken to him for ages, he has all but abandoned life on Vulcan for a career in Starfleet and because he is half-human, he may never enter Pon Farr at all. Except one day he does, and you are totally expecting one of two things to happen:

a) T'Pring marries him and your affair is over.

b) She challenges and chooses you as champion - which has a 61.54% chance of ending in your death because the guy is a soldier with combat training and experience. (This is the way kal-if-fee is supposed to work, btw.)

Except neither of those things happen because your girlfriend is brilliant and awesome and loves you very much and finds a way to keep you safe and to be with you no matter what.

And then the guy says that to you.

And you realize that he understands nothing - that T'Pring does not prefer you for logical reasons but because she loves you. And that she just made you the most perfect love declaration imaginable.

But you're Vulcan, and the situation is already awkward enough, and T'pring evidently does not need you to fight for her honour, so you say nothing.

And then everyone sees you and your future wife as the villain because she did not want to sleep with a guy that apparently everyone else wants to sleep with. Not gonna lie, I'd be mad.

Except Stonn is probably too busy eating p*ssy to think about Spock.

[injustice-of-toren]

Don't get me wrong, I think it was great that they included T'pring in SNW (and the casting was perfect). But instead of her stilted romance with Spock, it would have been really hilarious if they just didn't interact at all.

Like imagine T'pring's on the Enterprise for business of some kind. And she talks to Pike and whoever, and then Spock is just cringing in the background.

And then Ortegas or someone asks, "do you know her, Spock?"

He's just like, "yes, that is my betrothed. I haven't seen her since we were 14."

"Awkward."

And then it goes on like that for most of the show, with T'pring making notable appearances from time to time, and having her own subplots completely unrelated to Spock.

[rainbowresurrection]

Still Thinking.

In TOS there was a lot of promise on fleshing out the Vulcan culture. You get phrases in Vulcan before you ever get any phrases in Klingon. Which makes it interesting that moving forward, you learn much more about the Klingon language.

As a language lover I'd be interested to know what the body of the Vulcan language would have looked like, had it been more officially explored. You know it would be filled with dichotomy, due to the ancient and ritualistic roots of the language versus the need for utmost logic, which would influence both grammatical structure and the writing system(s).

From what I've seen, the writing leans far more on the "ancient tradition" end of things. It's beautiful, yet it is lacking in terms of practicality.

I like to imagine that they would have multiple modes of writing- the loopy cursive writing for religious and cultural / ceremonial practices, and maybe a more standardized and phonetic script for daily use (likely to also be vertical and cursive, but can be written horizontally as well). Also I'm not sure how phonetic it is to begin with so I'm just making shit up here.

Well I know one thing for sure, they have at least 2 scripts, based on the writing seen on Spock's robes vs other scenarios (perhaps Old Vulcan or Ceremonial Vulcan).

Another fun thing I like to imagine is that perhaps Vulcan follows a root based system like Hebrew or Arabic. For example in the male names, the most common denominator is S----K or S--R--K.

SpocK, SaReK, SuRaK

Women, it is the letter T.

T'Pring, T'Pau

Both genders use the consonant P.

sPock, t'Pring

So, those consonants could be based on a certain shared notion, whereas the vowels change the nuance of the translation.

Arabic (Modern Standard) example, paying attention to the consonants:

KeTeBe = writing

KiTaaB = book

MeKTaB = desk

MeKTaBe = library

(sorry for the weak transliterations, it makes more sense looking at it in Arabic, you'll see the commonality in the consonants):

كتب

كتاب

مكتب

مكتبة

[whetstonefires]

Still not over the news that one of the new Star Treks has Spock/T'Pring romance. Like.

Objectively this is a terrible writing move. Not just because of the obvious--that is, what possible purpose is served by injecting normative romance into Spock's canonical loveless arranged marriage?

(Who thinks this is a good direction to take a character about whom my main lingering question has always been to what extent her decision to have Spock killed to get out of being married to him was racially motivated?)

But because. The fantastic opportunity for humor opened up by Spock's longstanding policy of never discussing his personal affairs with his coworkers, even when this is a completely unhinged thing to not do.

Can you imagine if they'd put T'Pring in the show. Traveling for her job, maybe, and they put her on the Enterprise for whatever reason? (Possibly a computer algorithm making assignments was like 'oh her husband is on this vessel that's good' and preferenced that option lmao.) So then the entire rest of the crew sees Spock being painfully formal even for Spock with this lady Vulcan passenger, and her cutting him dead, and they're split at first between 'they hate each other' and 'this is just how vulcans are like.'

And then, after everyone is accustomed to that, circumstances conspire to get us a 'my wife.' Instant pandemonium. 😂

Just I cannot accept that there is anything they could build into this relationship that is of more value to the franchise than a super-extended version of the Journey to Babel introduction gag.

[muchadoaboutstartrek]

Sooo....

Christine dumps Spock in the coldest way possible after willingly participating in his effort to cheat on T'Pring only to get cold feet the second Spock asks her "hey, how about we tell the starfleet about us?" before he even terminated the bond with T'Pring. She liked the challenge but apparently didn't feel like sticking around. Talk about shitty moves - both her's and Spock's (the Vulcan idiot doesn't get a pass after being a dick). She will now proceed to go get engaged to Korby while Spock presumably shuts himself off and accepts that he's either better alone or reestablishes his relationship with T'Pring (if she were smart she'd dump him too) and then when she comes back she's suddenly pining over him again because Spock is once again unavailable and is posing a challenge. That's just.... wow.

Jim Kirk is apparently just as trash as Sam Kirk because the bitch flirts with La'an the whole time while gazing deep into her eyes and waxing poetics about how he's not forgotten about that drink she still owes him - only to shut her down in a rather cold way by telling her he's in a relationship (an 'on and off' relationship like that somehow makes it miraculously better) and is going to be a dad🙃 after poor La'an bared her entire soul out to him (and broke a law by telling him about what she's been through in an alternative reality) and imagined herself pregnant with his child. With the show insisting on dumping trauma on La'an - I wouldn't put it past them to make her witness the reunion with jim and carol after the next epsidoe and encounter with gorn.

That being said:

Am I unhappy these relationships crashed and burned like I predicted it weeks ago - No!

Am I happy with the execution of it - also No!

The episode was amazing though but I thought there could have been a better way to make both Spock and Chapel as well as Kirk and La'an go their separate ways without breaking hearts and subsequently mine as well.

Klingon rap was just... An icing on the cake and I loved it - it was almost enough to make up for everything else🤣

[renthebarbarian]

As stupid as this Spapel story line is, I have to admit that it is funny to imagine that T'Pring finding out about Spock fooling around with this human hussy is what made her decide to go scorched Earth in "Amok Time" and try and get him murdered via kalifee. Go off queen, his "we were on a break" headass deserves it.

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think it's actually so delicious that in 'Amok Time' Stonn is dressed similarly to all the guards that follow T'Pau into the ritual grounds. It's said by Spock that "by tradition, the male is accompanied by his closest friends" (sidenote: Hey Spock why are you feeling shame for the 'friendship' you feel for Kirk if Vulcans are established to have friendships with one another?) there's no mention of the female doing the same thing EX: "The bride and groom are accompanied by their closest friends" and T'Pring doesn't bring anyone aside from Stonn, where the word 'friends' implies you should bring more than one person. T'Pau also doesn't question T'Pring's companion, asking how she pledges his behavior like she does with Spock. We can assume one of two things: That T'Pau only does this because Mccoy & Kirk are humans "Thee names these outworlders friends" OR that she doesn't know that Stonn is a companion to T'Pring. Here's what I'm getting at: Could you IMAGINE the added drama of Stonn legitimately being one of T'Pau's guards? I mean, in my head I feel like T'Pring bringing some random guy (friend or not) dressed in armor (which I assume the costuming is supposed to represent) would raise some questions and concerns but no one seems to think it's odd. Like, it's already SO shocking for T'Pring to choose challenge. THEN she names a HUMAN her champion AND THEN one of the guards assigned to T'Pau suddenly leaps up and shouts that he and T'Pring made an agreement that HE'D be her champion? God, I would never stop talking about it.

[alexprime]

“The truth, he recalled viciously, was that the sight of Spock wrapped around that girl had been one of the most perverse, revolting things he'd seen in years.”

This line from your fic has been sticking in my mind recently. It’s so funny to me and it shouldn’t be. I don’t know if you’re Spock is bi or gay but it sends me that Jim is so viscerally disgusted by Spock with a woman. Does Jim know what he is?

Okay, so I had such a fun time writing that line. Because Jim, of course, can seduce each and every single half-naked alien he comes across and that's just right and dandy, but Spock, who is quite literally under the influence of mind-altering drugs, is absolutely Not Allowed to so much as glance at someone else without Jim being upset about it. I would say that Spock doesn't really identify as anything. I've always imagined that, for him, the concept of sexuality is heavily associated with those of romance and partnership and mating, all highly emotionally-driven ideas, that it's always been something of an internalized taboo to explore in himself. He was intended for T'Pring, which was, in his mind, logical, as well as arranged, and he was content enough to let that be the end of it. Until Jim, of course. Jim tossed pretty much every known factor in Spock's life on its head and then crushed it beneath his boot for good measure. Long story short, to hopefully answer your question: Jim is fully aware that he's in love with Spock. Jim is also fully aware that Spock is in love with Jim. Spock is fully aware that he's in love with Jim. Spock is not fully aware, or even slightly aware, that Jim is also in love with Spock.

[leohtttbriar]

disappointing that uhura is never shown with a genuine romantic interest, even for a one-off episode. because like snw established, in my favorite bit of dialogue of the show, she stays up late translating sonnets so much that everyone knows that about her. and anyway now i'm thinking of a dead poets society, headed by uhura, and also hemmer is there bc she asked him very politely (also he's alive) and chapel is there bc she has a whole Thing for whitman she doesn't want to admit to anyone else. and uhura always brings the wildest poems that absolutely no one can understand but that's why she likes them so much, the translating is never over, it's in flux and it's dynamic--and then chapel tries to convince her to give a reading one time and she's like "absolutely not" bc she's young and still a little shy but one night their secluded "cave" (im imagining an immaculately constructed fort that hemmer takes a lot of pride in) of a meeting place doesn't work so they end up in the corner of a common-area and uhura does what she does, getting caught up in the stars and romance and ships and so on, and accidentally delivers a vulcan poem she read that week, about like pared down reality in the shape of spherical celestial orb and the way sucking marrow is logical so as to honor life, and it's, like, a little too good and makes chapel tear up and a bunch of adventurers briefly long for home but also hey t'pring is there with spock (who cares not for the poem), listening to an adventurer understand what it is t'pring understands, an adventurer with a combination of the dreaminess and humility that we see mostly in older uhura, and it suddenly means something, that she's there listening to a practical stranger recite a verse, in which the verse isn't large but small and thus worth it, and so the translation continues. and she's charmed. and uhura is charming. and there should be more of that in space.

[flippyspoon]

This might be a hot take but

So like in early TOS when you have Spock saying things like "Irritation? Ah yes, one of your...earth emotions" and it's like

well eventually we learn no actually Vulcans have even stronger emotions!

So the SNW Spock track where presumably Spock is going to go full throttle reverse with emotions whereas right now he's experimenting with them makes lines like that work BETTER.

Because I just imagine anyone around who was on the Enterprise before Kirk just rolling their eyes.

Like Spock now kinda puts on this act of "Me?? Emotions? I would never." And he's ALWAYS like that in TOS. So it makes as much sense that he was much more deliberately not surpressing emotions when he was younger and a few years later like "Hmm? What me? That was a different Spock. I do not now of what you speak. Also, Vulcans never lie."

Also hotter take that sometimes I imagine SNW Spock scenes with Nimoy instead of Peck (keeping in mind IT'S A YOUNGER SPOCK WHO CHANGES LATER) and most of the time it actually works.

Even like Spock making out with Chapel so quick after breaking up with T'Pring EH I DON'T CARE? What does Spock know about some kind of "waiting a polite length of time?" He's been betrothed since he was 7? He might be like "I do not understand. What is the difference between engaging in a romantic relationship within hours of ending my relationship with T'Pring and engaging in a romantic relationship three weeks later? No circumstances have changed?"