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Star Trek XI (Reboot)
A, E, I, O, U, and Always Y. by
florahart
Adorable Kirk/McCoy with them being all BFF-y and encouraging the gossip about them on board the Enterprise.
At a Window by magstopia
"Your mother sounds like a wise and kind woman." His eyes fluttered shut as he nodded. "Her son is a reflection of all that is good in her." Beautiful and moving look at Uhura (and through her, Spock) after the battle of Vulcan.
delta delta vega by zarathuse
"So basically," Bones says, "it's just going to be you and a bunch of guys living together, and hanging out with each other all the time, and showering together, and getting trashed with each other every night, and then passing out next to each other." / "Yeah!" Jim beams enthusiastically behind his stupid glasses. / "Isn't that a little…homoerotic?" Kirk tries to start a frat at Starfleet Academy. Hilarity ensues. Even funnier if you've ever actually spent any time with fratboys.
Family by schweinsty
James Tiberius Kirk does not need a family. Lovely look at Kirk becoming captain and everyone else meshing to become his crew.
5 Times Kirk Didn't Spit It Out and One Time He Did by briecheesie
Exactly what it says on the tin. Lovely. Because Kirk ♥ his crew. (and Bones especially.)
Four Consequences of the Unexpected and Unlikely Friendship between James T. Kirk and Nyota Uhura by trisfic
When all else failed, Jim always came back to the Vulcan thing. Nyota didn't quite know why. She accused him of racism, which he reasonably countered with the fact that he had it on very good authority that he himself was capable of sustained emotional intimacy with her very boyfriend ("Oh really? This is the argument you're going to make, to me? He almost nervepinched you three times yesterday"). He had amply demonstrated his complete lack of discrimination when it came to his own partners, sometimes resulting in hungover mess hall discussions about his exciting new career of adventures among the stars. After a while she began to suspect Jim just found the word "Vulcan" to be really funny. Kirk and Uhura form an unlikely friendship. Uhura is awesome, Kirk is hilarious, and Scotty has a cameo that made me die with laughter.
From the Greek "xenos" by pogrebin
Nyota's favourite is a short paper written when Grayson was quite young. It is about the language of taboo and exclusion. Things unsaid, and things unsayable. Though the taboos themselves may differ, linguistic methods for dealing with them do not. Grayson postulates, rather cheekily, that euphemism and elision are universal phenomena. This is why Nyota Uhura picks xenolinguistics: the ways in which different cultures communicate might differ, but the ways in which they fail to communicate do not. She finds it strangely comforting that language makes them all alien to each other. Brilliant, sharp look at Uhura.
I Love You Like I Love Pizza by igrockspock
Gaila loves Jim Kirk the way she loves pizza: that is, more than everything else, but not to the exclusion of everything else. This is both adorable and amazingly sense-making.
In A Moment Close To Now by thistlerose
"I'm taking you out," said Jim, "if I have to sedate and drag you. Put the bourbon away. Get changed. Into something nice. Not too nice, though. Don't want anyone to think we're on a date." His sudden grin showed his teeth, almost blindingly white against his tanned skin. / "It's my birthday," McCoy said. "Shouldn't I be allowed to do whatever the hell I want?" / "You have to celebrate. Years from now - if you don't get burned to a crisp by a solar flare or sucked out of an airlock - you'll look back and wish to God you'd done something exciting for your thirtieth birthday. I know you will, because I'll be there and I'll keep reminding you." McCoy and Kirk are oblivious bffs who are really in love. Aw, boys.
in her aspect and her eyes by liviapenn
Spock and Uhura have an encounter in a bookstore. There is poetry and flirtation. Lovely.
Linguistics 101; or, Thirteen Ways To Say I Love You by loneraven
"Show them cross-cultural commonality, show them how we're all different and the same, show them how linguistic groups express themselves, in short: tell them how to proposition the galaxy. Ways To Say I Love You, 101." / Spock raised an eyebrow. "Nyota, while I fully endorse your objectives, I think this plan would be unwise." / "Not at all," she said, primly, standing up and clearing away the dishes. "All the ways to say, 'I love you'. It'll be a hit. I'll do you some research." Uhura/Linguistics=OTP! Really lovely look at Uhura and through her, the crew of the Enterprise.
A Long Way to a Terrible Joke by rawles
"Spock, seriously. You and Uhura. How did that happen?" Kirk finally asks the question. This is adorable.
The Love Boat by chaletian
"I think it's great that Starfleet doesn't have non-fraternisation rules for starships." Hee hee hee! It's almost like "La Ronde" for ST:XI, except hilarious, not depressing.
Lunch and Other Obscenities by rheanna27
Utterly wonderful look at how Uhura and Gaila became friends.
The Proper Treatment of Sexorexia by igrockspock
Gaila does not get her new roommate at all. They've been at school 3 whole weeks now, and she hasn't had sex with anyone. Not even once. She wonders if she should do something. Sex is as important as food, after all. If her roommate were anorexic, she should definitely try to help. Sex anorexia (sexorexia?) is probably just as bad and life-threatening. Plus, it seems to put her roommate in a really bad mood. The situation definitely calls for action. But what should she do? Gaila, attempting to become friends with Uhura.
Sooner or Later by
r_becca
Really lovely Kirk/McCoy, with pining.
these old walkin' blues by ignipes
There's a heart of gold beneath McCoy's curmudgeonly exterior and here are five short glimpses of it. *sniffle*
~*~
A, E, I, O, U, and Always Y. by
florahart
Adorable Kirk/McCoy with them being all BFF-y and encouraging the gossip about them on board the Enterprise.
At a Window by magstopia
"Your mother sounds like a wise and kind woman." His eyes fluttered shut as he nodded. "Her son is a reflection of all that is good in her." Beautiful and moving look at Uhura (and through her, Spock) after the battle of Vulcan.
delta delta vega by zarathuse
"So basically," Bones says, "it's just going to be you and a bunch of guys living together, and hanging out with each other all the time, and showering together, and getting trashed with each other every night, and then passing out next to each other." / "Yeah!" Jim beams enthusiastically behind his stupid glasses. / "Isn't that a little…homoerotic?" Kirk tries to start a frat at Starfleet Academy. Hilarity ensues. Even funnier if you've ever actually spent any time with fratboys.
Family by schweinsty
James Tiberius Kirk does not need a family. Lovely look at Kirk becoming captain and everyone else meshing to become his crew.
5 Times Kirk Didn't Spit It Out and One Time He Did by briecheesie
Exactly what it says on the tin. Lovely. Because Kirk ♥ his crew. (and Bones especially.)
Four Consequences of the Unexpected and Unlikely Friendship between James T. Kirk and Nyota Uhura by trisfic
When all else failed, Jim always came back to the Vulcan thing. Nyota didn't quite know why. She accused him of racism, which he reasonably countered with the fact that he had it on very good authority that he himself was capable of sustained emotional intimacy with her very boyfriend ("Oh really? This is the argument you're going to make, to me? He almost nervepinched you three times yesterday"). He had amply demonstrated his complete lack of discrimination when it came to his own partners, sometimes resulting in hungover mess hall discussions about his exciting new career of adventures among the stars. After a while she began to suspect Jim just found the word "Vulcan" to be really funny. Kirk and Uhura form an unlikely friendship. Uhura is awesome, Kirk is hilarious, and Scotty has a cameo that made me die with laughter.
From the Greek "xenos" by pogrebin
Nyota's favourite is a short paper written when Grayson was quite young. It is about the language of taboo and exclusion. Things unsaid, and things unsayable. Though the taboos themselves may differ, linguistic methods for dealing with them do not. Grayson postulates, rather cheekily, that euphemism and elision are universal phenomena. This is why Nyota Uhura picks xenolinguistics: the ways in which different cultures communicate might differ, but the ways in which they fail to communicate do not. She finds it strangely comforting that language makes them all alien to each other. Brilliant, sharp look at Uhura.
I Love You Like I Love Pizza by igrockspock
Gaila loves Jim Kirk the way she loves pizza: that is, more than everything else, but not to the exclusion of everything else. This is both adorable and amazingly sense-making.
In A Moment Close To Now by thistlerose
"I'm taking you out," said Jim, "if I have to sedate and drag you. Put the bourbon away. Get changed. Into something nice. Not too nice, though. Don't want anyone to think we're on a date." His sudden grin showed his teeth, almost blindingly white against his tanned skin. / "It's my birthday," McCoy said. "Shouldn't I be allowed to do whatever the hell I want?" / "You have to celebrate. Years from now - if you don't get burned to a crisp by a solar flare or sucked out of an airlock - you'll look back and wish to God you'd done something exciting for your thirtieth birthday. I know you will, because I'll be there and I'll keep reminding you." McCoy and Kirk are oblivious bffs who are really in love. Aw, boys.
in her aspect and her eyes by liviapenn
Spock and Uhura have an encounter in a bookstore. There is poetry and flirtation. Lovely.
Linguistics 101; or, Thirteen Ways To Say I Love You by loneraven
"Show them cross-cultural commonality, show them how we're all different and the same, show them how linguistic groups express themselves, in short: tell them how to proposition the galaxy. Ways To Say I Love You, 101." / Spock raised an eyebrow. "Nyota, while I fully endorse your objectives, I think this plan would be unwise." / "Not at all," she said, primly, standing up and clearing away the dishes. "All the ways to say, 'I love you'. It'll be a hit. I'll do you some research." Uhura/Linguistics=OTP! Really lovely look at Uhura and through her, the crew of the Enterprise.
A Long Way to a Terrible Joke by rawles
"Spock, seriously. You and Uhura. How did that happen?" Kirk finally asks the question. This is adorable.
The Love Boat by chaletian
"I think it's great that Starfleet doesn't have non-fraternisation rules for starships." Hee hee hee! It's almost like "La Ronde" for ST:XI, except hilarious, not depressing.
Lunch and Other Obscenities by rheanna27
Utterly wonderful look at how Uhura and Gaila became friends.
The Proper Treatment of Sexorexia by igrockspock
Gaila does not get her new roommate at all. They've been at school 3 whole weeks now, and she hasn't had sex with anyone. Not even once. She wonders if she should do something. Sex is as important as food, after all. If her roommate were anorexic, she should definitely try to help. Sex anorexia (sexorexia?) is probably just as bad and life-threatening. Plus, it seems to put her roommate in a really bad mood. The situation definitely calls for action. But what should she do? Gaila, attempting to become friends with Uhura.
Sooner or Later by
r_becca
Really lovely Kirk/McCoy, with pining.
these old walkin' blues by ignipes
There's a heart of gold beneath McCoy's curmudgeonly exterior and here are five short glimpses of it. *sniffle*
~*~