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Ficlet: How Feeble Our Vocabulary (Uhura, gen)

Feb 17, 2011 06:38

Title: How Feeble Our Vocabulary
Character: Nyota Uhura
Rating: G
Summary: A young Nyota takes a stand on her linguistic education.
Notes: For the prompt "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning" at where_no_woman's drabble tag last week. Title from a Billy Collins poem.

( Nyota got in trouble when she was twelve for deleting several gigabytes of language texts from her padd and replacing them with several terabytes of songs in Italian, Czech, Mongol, Japanese, and Russian. )

!fic: star trek

Comments 5

secretsolitaire February 17 2011, 13:31:20 UTC

I love this vision of a young, determined Uhura. :-)

themadlurker February 17 2011, 15:44:56 UTC

I like this picture of young Nyota, already knowing what's important to her.

yeomanrand February 17 2011, 16:03:05 UTC

I loved this when you first posted it, I love it now. Just wonderful. :)

rubynye February 17 2011, 17:55:04 UTC

This fills me with delight all over again. *beams*

downjune February 17 2011, 18:18:10 UTC

Haha, this sounds exactly like me when I was a kid, except it was bargaining more time to read novels. My parents almost wouldn't let me go to camp b/c I was reading instead of doing homework.

Oh, Nyota, you were the smart one though; yours was a much more marketable skill.

This was lovely :)