American Idol/Star Trek XI crossover - YES I WENT THERE
I'm not sure what possessed me to think I should have written this in Uhura's POV because my god, I can't write Uhura for crap, but uh, here's my attempt? And I don't actually feel that I nailed any of the characters or that it actually well, ends, but what the hell. I'll have to rewrite this again when my brain's working. >_>
“I don’t know dawg,” Randy said apologetically. “It was good but I’m not feelin’ it, man. You know what I mean?”
Kirk shrugged as if to say, ‘different strokes; different folks.’
From backstage, Uhura could see Spock resist the impulse to ask her why Kirk was a ‘dawg.’ She was amused; Spock was pretty transparent after you knew him for a while.
“Why did he choose such a provocative song?” He murmured.
“It’s Kirk,” she said, as if that explained everything. Since it was Jim Kirk, it kind of did.
Paula said something sweet and positive and useless. Uhura liked Paula - everyone did, but Paula said lovely things that soothed the ego, but did little else.
Simon, everyone recognized, was the real litmus test. If he liked it, then so did most of America. What he said, when it made sense and was not motivated by personal dislike - Uhura amended, was important.
“I don’t like you,” Simon said to Kirk, which was no surprise because Kirk was obnoxious even while he was extremely talented and Simon never liked those people (if Uhura was a bitchier person, she’d say they were too similar to get along).
“But the way you swaggered through it like you were Mick Jagger, turning Lady Gaga into a stomping rock song: against all odds and that hideous outfit, it… worked,” looking as if he would prefer to choke than admit that Kirk could pull it off, Simon added sourly, “It was a good performance.”
Kirk didn’t beam, but he came pretty close to it as he nearly twirled off stage.
“I still don’t understand how he got away with that,” muttered Sulu, who had unfortunately let his nerves get to him this week and missed the cue to his song, “he basically had sex with the microphone on national television.”
“What is a ‘disco stick?’” asked Chekov, who was sweet but still hadn’t got the hang of the more bizarre idioms.
“I’ll tell you when you’re not jail bait,” Kirk said placidly, patting Chekov on the head and thumping a grumbling McCoy on the shoulder, who insisted that Kirk could not sing “stuff like that. Dammit Jim, kids watch this show!”
“He is illogical,” Spock said, frowning a little. “To sing a provocative song simply because he can… I do not comprehend his logic.”
“Yeah,” agreed Uhura, bumping shoulders with him. “But he’s Kirk. He wouldn’t be him if he didn’t.”
The edge of Spock’s mouth curved up faintly. “Perhaps.”
In my head, I see Kirk as David Cook-like. Good, but totally underrated by Simon for most of his run on American Idol. And okay, Spock was Archie because you know Spock would be pitch perfect but lack that emotional quality in his songs like Archie, but Spock for me, would nail that one emotional heart wrenching performance that Archie never managed. YES, I THINK UP STUPID CROSSOVERS IN MY SPARE TIME >:
“I don’t know dawg,” Randy said apologetically. “It was good but I’m not feelin’ it, man. You know what I mean?”
Kirk shrugged as if to say, ‘different strokes; different folks.’
From backstage, Uhura could see Spock resist the impulse to ask her why Kirk was a ‘dawg.’ She was amused; Spock was pretty transparent after you knew him for a while.
“Why did he choose such a provocative song?” He murmured.
“It’s Kirk,” she said, as if that explained everything. Since it was Jim Kirk, it kind of did.
Paula said something sweet and positive and useless. Uhura liked Paula - everyone did, but Paula said lovely things that soothed the ego, but did little else.
Simon, everyone recognized, was the real litmus test. If he liked it, then so did most of America. What he said, when it made sense and was not motivated by personal dislike - Uhura amended, was important.
“I don’t like you,” Simon said to Kirk, which was no surprise because Kirk was obnoxious even while he was extremely talented and Simon never liked those people (if Uhura was a bitchier person, she’d say they were too similar to get along).
“But the way you swaggered through it like you were Mick Jagger, turning Lady Gaga into a stomping rock song: against all odds and that hideous outfit, it… worked,” looking as if he would prefer to choke than admit that Kirk could pull it off, Simon added sourly, “It was a good performance.”
Kirk didn’t beam, but he came pretty close to it as he nearly twirled off stage.
“I still don’t understand how he got away with that,” muttered Sulu, who had unfortunately let his nerves get to him this week and missed the cue to his song, “he basically had sex with the microphone on national television.”
“What is a ‘disco stick?’” asked Chekov, who was sweet but still hadn’t got the hang of the more bizarre idioms.
“I’ll tell you when you’re not jail bait,” Kirk said placidly, patting Chekov on the head and thumping a grumbling McCoy on the shoulder, who insisted that Kirk could not sing “stuff like that. Dammit Jim, kids watch this show!”
“He is illogical,” Spock said, frowning a little. “To sing a provocative song simply because he can… I do not comprehend his logic.”
“Yeah,” agreed Uhura, bumping shoulders with him. “But he’s Kirk. He wouldn’t be him if he didn’t.”
The edge of Spock’s mouth curved up faintly. “Perhaps.”
In my head, I see Kirk as David Cook-like. Good, but totally underrated by Simon for most of his run on American Idol. And okay, Spock was Archie because you know Spock would be pitch perfect but lack that emotional quality in his songs like Archie, but Spock for me, would nail that one emotional heart wrenching performance that Archie never managed. YES, I THINK UP STUPID CROSSOVERS IN MY SPARE TIME >: