#sarek/amanda origins

[tprings-hair]

the interesting thing about journey to babel is that I legitimately can't tell who's having the worst day.

spock just had his parents show up to his work and embarrass him, briefly thought his dad was a murder suspect until his dad had a heart attack, and his mom said if he didn't choose his estranged father over his job then she'd never forgive him and slapped him.

kirk is trying to be diplomatic when all he wants is to smack everyone's heads together and yell PLAY NICE, and then he gets straight up stabbed and has to make decisions in a battle situation while he's in so much pain he literally can't sit straight.

mccoy gets a good childhood story about spock, but spock and sarek manage to corner him into agreeing to perform an operation he isn't trained for, and then he has to do it while losing his balance every couple of minutes, knowing that he might kill both his friend and his friend's dad if he messes up. and then his other best friend gets stabbed and he has to manage that crisis too!

sarek just saw his estranged son for the first time in years, got into a fight with another ambassador, got accused of killing said ambassador, was forced into displaying vulnerability and admitting that he lied to his wife, and then nearly died like twice.

amanda showed up wanting everyone to get along and instead her son is upset and hiding it badly, her husband is having a health emergency and hiding it badly, and she stands in the corner watching while mccoy is operating on both of them.

and okay, uhura and chekov aren't winning the "worst day ever" competition, but they're not having the best time either. the atmosphere on the bridge would be weird when your science officer is refusing to go help his sick father and your captain is literally hunched over in pain pretending he's okay to make clear-headed decisions. uhura gets yelled at when she can't find the source of the transmission soon enough for kirk's taste, and chekov -- actually, chekov gets to fire phasers this episode, and he seemed pretty pleased about it. maybe we can remove him from the list.

journey to babel is a spy drama, a medical drama, a family drama, and a murder mystery all wrapped into one. and nobody is having a good time.

edit: vote on who you think had the worst day here!

[scherzokinn]

[spirk-trek]

imagine amanda watching how mothers on vulcan share a telepathic bond with their children and not being able to do this for spock

imagine how it would break her heart, how she might worry they'll never connect when she sees a mother touching her daughter's face or holding her son's hand with purpose, without words

imagine spock melding with her as soon as he's able, showing her he loves her because he can't say it, he'll never be able to say it

imagine her being so proud of her little boy for researching and teaching himself to meld with a non-telepath just for her, all for her

holding him after when he's so exhausted he goes boneless in her arms and she strokes his hair and thanks him

and he mumbles something about it being illogical to thank him before falling asleep and she holds his little hand and feels the tiniest sparks of love still there, so small she might've imagined them before he's snoring softly

[wwillywonka]

SPOCK: CHILD OF TWO WORLDS

[aforgottenthing]

This April Fools, I thought it was only fitting that I finally share the greatest powerpoint I ever made while working a mentally and physically draining fulltime retail job at 18. This is my pride and joy. I hope you enjoy <3

(the experience of reading this here will never live up to all of my fun little slide transitions but i included the blank slide to slightly allude to it)

[deepspacegaysex]

kirk during journey to babel: meeting my husbands parents for the first time! i think his dad fucking hates him

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

I know the headcanon/actual canon tends to be that Sarek is the hard-ass, hard-to-please parent and Amanda is the nice one, but given how her kids' day-to-day is still so heavily rigid and serious regardless of her little Alice in Wonderland bedtime stories, I also find it very funny to imagine she IS kind but also just like, the Vulcan equivalent of a weaboo

(AKA threw herself headfirst in being as Vulcan-y as a human can be while still being cute, sweet Amanda Grayson)

She has several books on First Contact. Wrote an entire thesis on Vulcan poetry. Has indulged perhaps in certain online literature about certain relations with Vulcans. Knows a *little* too much about specific crewmembers of the first Enterprise. Started wearing Vulcan fashion to work BEFORE she even met Sarek and refused to elaborate.

And either she was smart enough to keep it a little under wraps until she and Sarek married OR he's always known and is into it.

They're both little freaks to me and I love them so much.

[vaikausu0]

Ok but like, can we talk about how sarek's family it's goofy enough to be in a sitcom?

You can't see those motherfuckers and say nah, this doesn't look like an episode of modern family

[strangenewwords]

Happy Star Trek Day!!!!

To all the great writing, the awful writing, and the stuff inbetween.

To the pairings, to the fans, to the actors who give so much in the roles and after them.

To all those zany ideas which a common core of being decent to others.

And you know, technology and stuff.

[null-doesnothing]

if I said that I think Amanda was a near equally horrible parent to Spock as Sarek was but just in a different way, would I get pelted with rocks or what

[foxsfiles]

the small smile Sarek gives amanda when she says “i love you anyways”……spock i’m sorry your parents are terribly cute.

[stra-tek]

Happy Mother's Day to the Mom who puts up with the most shit in the Star Trek universe, Amanda Grayson

[endyillustration]

"At the time it seemed the logical thing to do."

A scruffy little sketch of young Amanda and Sarek on the sands of Vulcan, because I adore their little love story.

(Commissions Open!)

[kingofpeacows]

I think about them all the time.

[woman-of-many-fandoms]

Sarek discussing sex with Amanda, creating Spock, and Spock's childhood

Honestly what I like about this is how they made Vulcans seem so alien when now they are just high functioning autistics (speaking as one)

[purple-iris]

I don't exactly know what to make of it but Spock being the youngest of three kids somehow makes such sense while also being completely baffling to me.