Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: James T. Kirk/Spock
Length: 13,709 words
Author on LJ: rhaegal
Author Website: on AO3
Why this must be read:
Admiral James T. Kirk is desperately in love with Spock, and has been for many years. This story is set after the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, so we have a Spock newly in touch with his ( Read more... )

Fandom: STAR TREK: ALTERNATE ORIGINAL SERIES (also, THE ORIGINAL SERIES)
Pairing: Spock/Leonard McCoy, Spock/Alternate Leonard McCoy, Alternate Spock/Alternate Nyota Uhura
Length: 20,355 words
Author on LJ: (unknown)
Author Website: on AO3
Why this must be read:Because this fic gets that the universes are DIFFERENT. Just because the original Spock ( Read more... )

Title: Ni'Var by WerewolvesAreReal
Pairing: Spock/Jim Kirk
Length: 11,318 words
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: on AO3
Why this must be read:
I am a sucker for fusions with the concept of daemons from His Dark Materials. In this universe, humans have daemons while Vulcans have katras. However, Spock, as a Human/Vulcan hybrid, has neither ( Read more... )

Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Vidder: Reese
Musical Artist: Carbon Leaf
Length: 3:47
Vidder on LJ: dreamrequiem
Vidder’s Website: The Right Side or YouTube

Why this vid must be viewed: This is actually my favorite vid ever. It's everything I love about TOS (and the movies) summed up with a great song. The editing is fantastic (as is true of all Reese ( Read more... )

Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Kirk/OC
Length: 63,675 words
Author Website: Syl (fanfiction.net)
Summary: 14 year old Jimmy Kirk must fight against the forces of Kodos the Executioner!

Why this must be read: This fic is 100% my headcannon for the events on Tarsus IV, which is brought up in the TOS episode The Conscience of the ( Read more... )

Well, folks, here’s my last rec for Star Trek Reboot for May, and I saved one of the best for last. I hope you’ve had as much fun discovering these works as I have had reccing them!

Fandom: STAR TREK REBOOT/STAR TREK ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Length: 45k
Author on LJ: bigmamag
Author Website: On LJ and On AO3
Why this must be read:With my now- ( Read more... )

Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Length: 14,680
Author on LJ: sans_pertinence
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:

The characterization. For having amazingly in character voices that it feels like an extension of TOS.

The fic deals with the aftermath of the TOS episode "Plato's Stepchildren". It's an excellent, introspective and perhaps a ( Read more... )

Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Pairing: Scotty/Uhura, Spock
Length: 1555
Author on LJ: thistlerose
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:

One of the things that I love about Star Trek is that while we do get to see the characters at their prime going on deep space missions and being heroic and diplomatic across the galaxy ( Read more... )

Fandom: STAR TREK:THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Gen
Length: ~18,000
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: UKJess's Omnium-Gatherum
Why this must be read:

For her Kirk voice.  He is an extension of who he is in The Original Series.  Very few people are able to navigate between the various contradictions that is Captain James T. Kirk, and UKJess really captures ( Read more... )

Hi crack_van! Sorry I'm a bit late! I'm unbidden_truth and I'll be steering the Trek van for the month. I read mostly TOS and Reboot fics (gen or otherwise) so expect a variety of stories. The first fic I want to rec is an amazing short Pike/Number One story from the old TOS kink thread.
Fandom: STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Christopher Pike/Number One
Length: ~416
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