[Fic: Star Trek] "Flashback"

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Title: Flashback
Author: Brittany
Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Words: ~2000
Summary: Jim has a lot less fun when he tries the Kobayashi Maru for the first time.
Author’s Notes: Pre-movie, with only a few spoilers, though they’re obviously gonna be there. Also, this is making me all nostalgic, because the first fanfiction I ever wrote almost ten years

Comments

[liviapenn]

Oh, I liked this a lot, especially Jim *not* taking it seriously at first. It totally adds a layer of awesome to his totally *deliberate* not-taking-it-seriously in the film. :D

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Thanks! :D Yeah, his attitude in the film seemed to me to be a bit over the top and maybe even slightly forced, even for him.

[zephyrprince]

yay. i love the focus on mccoy. haven't heard him called leonard much yet. ill have to get used to that i guess.

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That's actually still bugging me, I've gone back and changed it to McCoy and gone back again and changed it back to Leonard. In the end I figured that he probably wouldn't think think of himself as his last name and it's written from his point of view, but I can't quite get used to it, after I've been calling him McCoy for years and years.

Heh, sorry for rambling. Thanks for your comment!

[zephyrprince]

that's interesting. i'm writing one that's him slashed with kirk and now i'm trying to think through the names i'm using too...

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It's hard for me with the new movie, because what everyone would call each other in the old canon is obvious, in this there wasn't time for a lot of characters to address each other. Spock is Spock no matter who's talking, McCoy says Jim and Jim says Bones pretty much every time I'm pretty sure, but as for everyone else... I have no idea what new!Spock would call Kirk in casual conversation, though Spock Prime is obviously going to call him Jim - and there's probably a lot more I'm not even thinking of.

Kirk/McCoy is a pairing I'll look forward to! I have no idea how much it happened in the fandom before, but with the new movie it seems even more obvious to me than Kirk/Spock.

[saavikam77]

Oh, ouch! O_O Poor Kirk... I hadn't really thought much about how his experience with the Kobayashi Maru might have been affected by his father's death yet, but it just makes so much sense!

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Thank you so much!

[notexotic]

This was a great piece of gen but then you just delivered one hell of a sucker punch with the bit about Kirk wanting to understand his father's death. Loved it. :D

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Thank you!

[the_dala]

This fits perfectly with movie canon. Loved Kirk's realization that it wasn't just a game, and McCoy's concern for him.

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McCoy being concerned is like my favorite thing. Thank you!