#bartkon star trek au

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Hiii!! I love your KonBart content ♥️ Any thoughts about Bart and Kon in a Stark Trek AU?

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Yes. Yes I have.

So.

I haven't seen a whole lot of Star Trek AUs for them (and I get it) but how I would approach it personally is two different ways;

One is where Kon and Bart both join Starfleet and more or less have their canon backstories (Kon is a clone, he broke out etc and Bart is from 1000 in the future). The world is more or less a hybrid of modern continuity DC comics and Star Trek during TOS era.

Kon joins in engineering - his TTK is extremely helpful. People look at his arms and think he should be in security. This annoys him greatly.

Bart is in the science division, and engineering, and communications, and navigation, and medical (once). Every time he shows up he's wearing a different uniform. This is purely a gag. There's a lot of whispers about what Bart is actually primarily focused in - everyone can just look it up of course but that just defeats the fun. Starfleet allows this because of his unique abilities and eidetic memory allowing him to perform multiple stations and fill in where needed.

The other iteration take both Bart and Kon in a more Star Trek-weird direction while being faithful to DC and I am more attached to this one as it feels more like a Star Trek AU rather than a Star Trek meets DC AU (we have those in canon actually, read them!).

In this Kon is a clone, but he's a relic of Krypton and is the Last Son instead of Kal-El. A ship found him in cryostasis and dated him as being over 200 years old. Doing DNA analysis they discovered that he was in fact half human but the other half of his DNA was a mystery entirely. The writing on his capsule was eventually deciphered, but the technology housing him is completely unknown.

There are a lot of mysteries about Kon that they slowly piece together, like his name, and about Kryptonians having made contact with 20th century Earth enough to obtain DNA samples to mix with theirs. Why he exists, what his purpose was, the soul crushing truth that Krypton no longer exists and all of its people are gone, extinct, all of these are slowly answered.

He does have his TTK in this, and one of the more hilarious things is Kon did not even know that being away from a yellow sun impacted his powers that much because he used his TTK for nearly everything. He just thought he had 'space sickness' when he was away from 'a planet' too long. The connection wasn't discovered until his TTK 'went weird' due to Romulan flu and while on a planet with a yellow sun he perked up amazingly fast and was still strong. It was a whole thing.

In this I'm leaning more towards him being in communications - because it gives him the best chances of finding out more about himself. He wants to study as much about other people as possible for anything he might be able to use to answer questions about himself.

Also, he was sent to Earth when he was found and he spent a little bit of time among the officers who found him in the first place. Commanders Jonathan and Martha Kent. They give him the name Conner and essentially adopt him, and it doesn't take him long to join Starfleet Academy himself.

Bart in this true to weird-Trek lore was a space anomaly. He appeared one day on Kon's ship and people thought they were at first just seeing things. Then they thought the damned holodeck was acting up. Because people would see him very often in holodeck programs over anything else. It's how Kon and him first met - but Kon of course thought he was an NPC that was just malfunctioning. It happens! But then he started appearing in other places of the ship as a bright yellow glowing sprite.

Bart has very little memories of who he was or what he's supposed to be doing, but he has a feeling he should be 'in the real world' but everything just is going either too fast, or too slow and he just... can't... stabilize.

Eventually, Kon is able to use his TTK to 'trap him' because he is the only one FAST enough to do this. Through shenanigans involving the transporter, science and Kon they are able to stabilize him and he is no longer in that strange speedforce entity state.

Bart sort of wavers in this between being physical and a speedforce being - is much less human and more fey. In fact, even when he does give them physical samples to analyze it is unlike anything they have ever seen and nothing in the known galaxy comes close to him.

Q doesn't fuck with him.

I just think it would be funny if he showed up, saw him, and turned around while saying "Nope!"

It's one of those mysteries that frustrate Starfleet High Command.

Because Bart is in this awkward state they had a plan to take him to earth for study and asylum, and even Vulcan was interested as well, but Bart despite wanting answers about himself and what he was supposed to do wanted to stay aboard the ship because of Kon.

Captain Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark fights for his case and Starfleet higher command approves it - she has a way of getting what she wants.

Kon and Bart bond because Kon knows what it is like to be confused about the world and who he is, so he acts as an anchor for him and reminds him that 'it doesn't matter who you were, it's who you are now and who you want to be that's important' .... He says it for Bart but he also says it a lot for him too.

I might write a little more on this odd AU but I have like 30 other projects.

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“This is Communications Officer Lieutenant Conner Kent from Cyclone Shuttle #2 to Red Tornado, Stardate [whatever] 05:18 Pacific Standard Earth Time. Status update: This is the third day we have been stranded in orbit above Hogarth 3. All warp capabilities are still inoperable due to what Helmsman Allen has now discovered to be a defective dilithium drive. We are unable to replicate the parts needed for the repair, not that either of us know how to repair the drive as it is, sorry Captain Irons from Engineering 103 at the Academy - I really did deserve that D hah! Annnyway. We’re limited to the shuttle’s propulsion systems which is not a viable option unless we wanted to spend the next ah, 10 years in the shuttle traveling at sub-light speeds to the nearest outpost. Which isn’t viable either because Helmsman Allen has calculated that life support is also failing and we’re likely to run out of oxygen within 24 standard hours. Because of these two catastrophic failures and analyzing our options, and that we have yet to have any of our messages responded to, Allen is going to attempt a manual landing on Hogarth 3. We know the planet is an M-Class type with no known sentient species. We’re going to attempt a landing around the planetary coordinates 19° N, 133° W which Allen has determined to be the most favorable location for an emergency landing and is currently in mid Spring. Thank you Commander Harper at the academy for the A in Survival Strategies, but a bigger thank you to Ma and Pa for the camping lessons in Appalachia. If we make it I’ll send another status update, if not, well… …You all were amazing and I loved every moment serving on Reddy. Thanks for the party. This is Communications Officer Lieutenant Conner Kent, signing off, hopefully just for now.” 

Conner took a long slow breath as he finished his recording and saved the message before broadcasting into the cold cosmos. When he was done he turned to Bart at the front of their shuttle, he was drawing a scale on the window in a coral pink lipstick. 

“You forgot to tell ‘em the navigation equipment was completely down,” said Bart as he capped the lipstick and tucked it back where he found it in the side pocket of the pilot’s chair. Conner walked the length of the narrow long shuttle to the copilot seat and sat down, buckling in. 

“I also didn’t tell them we think this is sabotage,” Conner revealed cautiously. “Three major systems all failing one after the other; we’ve been in some dire situations before but this feels targeted.” 

“Section 31?” Bart suggested as he started to input the commands to the shuttle and they began to glide in position above Hogarth 3 and its beautiful blue and green glory. “Do you think Section 31 is trying to get rid of you again? Er, of us?” 

“I really don’t know,” admitted Kon and he frowned. “Tim says they no longer consider me to be a threat to the Federation and are convinced of my ‘integrity’ and loyalty to not go AWOL. And you well…” he trailed off and Bart smiled tiredly, impishly. 

“Nothing quite like me around either but I guess I haven’t proven myself as trustworthy yet.”  

Conner’s hand moved to cover one of Bart’s. “They’re idiots. I trust you.”

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“When was the last status update, Bart?” 

Bart blinked and looked at Conner sitting across from him across the fire. He was wearing only his pants and undershirt, having ditched his red jacket entirely, and his chin was rugged with dark scruffy hair. To Bart he was stunning like that, even though his shirt was stained and his hair lost a lot of its curl and laid frizzy on his head, but it was his eyes that remained ever wild. 

Before he could get too lost in his staring, Bart answered. “One week ago, it’s your turn. I’m no good at ‘em anyway.” 

Conner smirked and got up to grab the tricorder to record their status report. “No prob. You’re only the best pilot in all of Starfleet, had to trade something for all that talent.” 

“Hah!” Bart tossed a dry branch into the fire when it was getting low. The sun was also getting low, and with it the warmth and light of the Spring day. When Kon returned he sat down and leaned over himself. 

“What the fuck has even happened since the last update?” 

“We had that uh, bear-wolf-cougar-thing show up at our camp and you fed it chicken fried rice.” Bart tossed another branch in and orange embers flew up, it reminded Bart of his speed and he almost gave into the impulse to run but he remained seated. “Then we got a lotta rain, and I found that worm that was as big as you writhing through our camp.” 

“Yeah that’s all personal log stuff, you know what they want to hear. Did we find any sentients, what have we done to help ourselves-” 

“Did we violate the Prime Directive,” Bart interrupted. “I get it, I know. They just want a neat little report to have just in case they find our bodies, they wanna know what damage we might have done to any ‘primitive’ species. Starfleet isn’t interested in how we lived down here.” 

“Woah,” Conner looked at Bart and for the first time he was actually concerned. “That was cynical. Starfleet and The Federation  isn’t a perfect institution, but humans have come a damn long way from what they used to be! Their society would not be what it is now if they didn’t care about each other, or people like us.” 

“Pft, yeah they are a lot better than they used to be. Max has been watching them since maybe forever. He's a Lanthanite you know, he lives forever. He’s seen almost everything. Humans might have overcome a lotta things, and maybe they are the best they have ever been, but they still need things like Section 31 to do the things it does. Like investigating us like we were some sort of weapon or hostile intruder when we were just kids! And Starfleet still wants a nice little report so they don’t have to worry if someone valued compassion over regulations during a crisis.” 

Conner couldn’t argue against it and he wasn’t going to try, but he refused to embrace such apathy. “I’m not going to dispute any of that, but there are good people who will hear these, and I know Captain Sandsmark is one of them, and even if it is all just data and mission logs, she will care about us. Max too, he was your guardian, right? If we somehow die down here, he will listen to your logs, and he will care about you and everything you felt like saying. Even if they are rambling and not Starfleet standard.” 

The thought of Max listening to his fumbling logs did make Bart smile as he nodded in agreement. “Yeah, he’d be rolling his eyes at me because they are so bad. But you know what? I know that’s why he cares so much about me. Because he’s never had to deal with someone like me before in his entire life. Well, except for one horse that he had to shoot. He never told me why he had to shoot her though.” 

“You remind him of a horse he had to shoot?!”  Kon couldn’t tell if he wanted to laugh or be horrified that Bart reminded his father-figure of a dead horse but he couldn’t help but laugh when Bart started snickering. “Come on! You’re not that bad. You talk like you have no impulse control.” 

“I used to not have any, trust me. If you met me when I was new, you would have hated me.” 

“I cannot ever imagine hating you, Bart.” The way Conner said it made Bart’s throat tighten and his chest feel as hot as the flames between them. His eyes smoldered something, and then he quickly looked away. 

“You really, really don’t know how I was. I barely passed at the Academy.”  Conner shrugged. “A ‘D’ is still passing and I don’t care. I like you now. You get what it’s like to be, well, alone.”