"Do you think Spock...?" Nyota asks one day as she shucks her skirt and jewelry (but not her knives) in the physical privacy of Gaila's cabin -- no one wants to violate an Orion woman's lair, not and wind up another slave on Gaila's chemical string -- and wonders what insult the captain will use to make her pay for her latest, bloody refusal of his attentions, and how long before she has him at her mercy
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This is fantastic. I love how ruthless and powerful you've written them both here, and Spock as an idealist while they're unapologetically out for power, and that last line - brilliant.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it! IIRC, Spock ended up at least some flavor of idealist in the TOS mirror universe, so it seemed logical (ha) to carry that over to an AOS setting... but here Uhura has an ally and she and Gaila know exactly what they want and how to get it. :-)
I kept trying and trying to get the thing to work in three sentences, but eventually I admitted that last line needed to stand on its own. Oh well, so it goes.
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I kept trying and trying to get the thing to work in three sentences, but eventually I admitted that last line needed to stand on its own. Oh well, so it goes.
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