Uhura is Awesome - Claims Post
Welcome to the claims post for our Uhura fic fest! The rules are simple and few:
1. Fics must be at least 1,000 words.
2. You may claim one prompt now. On Thursday (August 19), you may come back for a second. Claims will close on Monday, August 23.
3. Claims are first-come, first-serve, and exclusive.
4. Up to three people may post on each day. If the posting dates fill, we will increase either the length of the fest or the number of people who can post on a given day. Posting will run from September 16 to September 30 to give everyone at least a month to finish their stories.
6. I will mark off claims as quickly as possible, but please be patient while awaiting your confirmation, and check the comments to make sure your desired claim is still free.
7. Remember, Uhura should be the focus of all your stories. We'd love to learn about her romantic relationships and/or her sex life, but make sure the story illuminates something about her character in the process.
ETA: Since posting dates are nearly full, I have made a fourth posting slot on each of the days.
Genfic prompts
1. One thing about Nyota Uhura that tends to surprise people.
2. Uhura as a teenager, maybe about how she decided to apply to the Academy.
3. Singing is just another way of communicating - that's why she loves it so much. rubynye
4. The Battle of the Insults.
5. Nyota Uhura can take apart a phaser and put it back together in 36 seconds. sternel
6. Uhura and her family -- particularly her mother worldsforgot
7. Uhura meets Uhura!Prime.
8. Uhura gets or gives advice on how to get through basic training in an unimaginably short skirt. kitausu
9. "You can yell at me after I've finished saving your life." settiai
10. Uhura is the captain of the ship's roller derby team.
11. Uhura and McCoy waiting on their men. (You can take that any way you want.) yeomanrand
12. Uhura dealing with Kirk becoming her boss. danahid
13. Trying to communicate in a language that requires an appendage she lacks. spockchick
14. Charlene Masters and Nyota Uhura, talking shop and gettin' their hair did on a Saturday night. yalegirl03
15. Friendships forged and broken, champions crowned, hearts broken, and what for? The 88th Annual Starfleet Multilingual Spelling Bee, that's what.
16. In which Nyota's graduate studies work consists primarily of traveling the earth and cataloging dialectical shift in alien expat communities.
17. Self-idulgent kidfic (either of the Nyota & offspring variety or of the Nyota as a kid variety): Anasi stories.
18. Nyota's favorite language, and why.
19. Behold the hills of tomorrow!
Behold the limitless sky!
Fling wide the gates
To a world that waits!
As our journey starts,
Behold! Our hearts
Are high!
20. If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
--Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
21. Uhura disobeys a direct order so that she can rescue Captain Kirk from certain death. jouissant
22. Gaila and Uhura discuss their religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if you prefer).
23. An energy being follows Nyota home. Said energy being? Ghostwriter, and shortly thereafter she leads a ridiculous pastiche of early 1990s public broadcast television because what else are you going to do with a convenient mystery aboard the ship and three empty weeks before you see another planet.
24. Five books Nyota will never delete from her space kindle storage allocation on ship's mainframe/personal PADD, and one she has renamed to "untitled1.txt" because no one must ever know she loves it so.
25. "The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out. " -- Ambassador Delenn, Babylon 5
Uhura translates a poem or essay or aphorism along the lines of this sentiment.
27. Uhura is leading the landing party, and things turn nasty. hellokatzchen
Uhura/Chekov
28. Uhura and Chekov are running buddies, and every now and then they have a casual roll in the hay.
Uhura/Kirk
29. Don't go too fast, don't go too slow, you've got to let your body flow
30. Stone age love and strange sounds too, Come on baby let me get to you
31. I don't know who you think you are, but before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you ninhursag
Uhura/McCoy
32. Uhura tutors McCoy in an interplanetary language. UST and/or flirtatious banter preferred, but if you want to seal the deal with sex, go ahead!
33. Uhura must perform first aid on an injured McCoy on an away mission. mariole
34. Sometimes McCoy likes getting down on his knees mardia
35. You said you'd lend me anything/I think I'll have your company
36. Knowing that McCoy likes her but will never ask her out, Uhura takes him out for a romantic Valentine's Day
37. Uhura ties McCoy to the bed, sits on his chest, and gets herself off
38. McCoy is not actually all that good at hand-to-hand combat, which means Uhura has to protect him and/or bail him out of trouble when their away team is assaulted.
Uhura/Pike
39. When Uhura needs to get laid, she doesn't mess around with the immature twenty-somethings at the academy. She likes an older man. circ_bamboo
Uhura/Spock
40. Spock and Uhura discuss their religious beliefs (or lack thereof)
41. Spock playing with Uhura's hair.
42. What can they say without talking?
43. Uhura teaching Spock that the brain is, in fact, the most sensitive sexual organ in the body.
44. Their first morning afterthistlerose
45. Lilly Allen's It's Not Fair - Spock could stand to learn a few things. Luckily, he's an excellent pupil.
46. Uhura/Spock Prime. It was both better and more terrible than anything she could have imagined. florahart
47. O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard
48. Fuck-me heels (or boots, if you prefer)
49. Their last ten minutes alone before their wedding.
50. Spock doesn't understand the concept of talking dirty. Uhura gives him some lessons. It turns out he's even better at it than she is.
51. Uhura thinks Spock is going to find her preference for talking illogical, but he reveals that Vulcans have a tradition of talking their way through intimate stuff and he's very, very good at it.
52. Reboot version of or scenes from Uhura's Song
53. Skinny Dipping (Academy era)
54. Break-up sex
55. Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone hopefuladdict
56. Starfleet office sex
57. Dear John letter. Angst fest galore.
58. Shakespeare in Love-style AU in which Starfleet is only for boys. Uhura pulls a Gwyneth Paltrow and dresses like a man to fulfill her dreams. Spock is her commanding officer and sexual tension ensues. slwmtiondaylite
59. AU - Teenage Spock visiting Africa with his father, the Ambassador, escapes his fancy embassy and meets teenage Uhura, and they spend a day together.
60. Spock and Uhura on shore leave. She sees him coming out of a pool/lake/ocean in just his bathing suit and then proceeds to drag him back to their hotel room for sex. witblogi
61. Make-up sex after a really nasty argument. aquasoulsis
62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- Spock and Uhura break up and have their relationship erased from their memories, but something still draws them together. soixante_quinze
63. It's Spock's first birthday after Vulcan's destruction. Uhura, being the awesome girlfriend she is, manages to track down an object from Vulcan (maybe related to his family) for his gift. Then they have lots of sex.
64. They're no longer a couple when Spock's pon farr hits. Uhura is conflicted because she wants to save him (she may or may not be in a new relationship too) and she also doesn't want some other woman getting her hands on Spock. He pushes her away but they end up doing it and feelings are rekindled. jlneveloff
65. On a dangerous away mission, Spock is dealing with attackers so the others can be beamed out but at the last second before beaming out, Uhura decides to stay with Spock and they kick ass together. forthisreason
66. First time forbidden!sex during the Academy time. Spock is extremely rough with her and afterwords feels bad about it, but Uhura shows him that she can handle him. Furniture breaking is always a plus.
67. Uhura/Spock a la Jane Austen's Persuasion. mariole
68. Spock wants to date Uhura, but she turns him down for whatever reason. Spock is forced to present a logical argument to change her mind. igrockspock
69. If they were being written by Nicholas Sparks (you know-- disapproving parents, long separation, tragedy)
70. Her (literal or figurative) milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
71. Uhura is incredibly turned on by Spock's super human strength, whether it's in the gym or in the bedroom.
72. here's the commonly used fanfic scenario for this couple that they run into some douchebags who provoke Spock into a fight, Spock beats the crap out of them and then Uhura is all hot and bothered (and they have sex). But I'd like to see a story in which Uhura finds Spock's violent behavior really off-putting and they have a big argument about it. But eventually make up obviously though he has to win her back. cakeordeath44
73. During sex, she curses like a sailor.
74. They're middle aged (already married and have kids who have moved out of the house) but since Spock ages slower and still looks young, Uhura starts feeling like she looks too old for Spock, but Spock reassures her that she's still the most beautiful person to him. yalegirl03
75. Uhura telling their daughter how she and Spock got together.
76. Sarek makes a visit to San Francisco but he and Spock are still not speaking. Uhura goes to Sarek and convinces him of all that he's missing out on in his son's life, and facilitates a reunion.
77. She kisses his bloody/bruised face slwmtiondaylite
78. But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
--Kahlil Gibran had no way of knowing about Vulcans.
(Quote from, "On Love")
possibly_thrice
79. We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
--Set the fire to the third bar (Snow Patrol)
80. No dawn, no day
I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
--Cosmic Love (Florence and the Machine)
81. All my life
I have dreamed of this
But I could not see your face
Don't ask why two such distant stars
Can fall right into place
--We Could Be in Love (Miss Saigon)
82. With friends I still feel
So insecure
Little darling I believe you could
Help me a lot
Just take my hand
And lead me where you will
No conversation
No wave goodnight
Just make love
With affection
--Love and Affection (Joan Armatrading)
83. Someone told me that destiny makes a fool of us,
That it gives us nothing and that it promises everything,
Seem that happiness is in hand.
As we reach out, we find ourselves crazy.
Yet someone told me
that you still love me...
84. Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there.
Just like a muse to me, you are a mystery.
Just like a dream, you are not what you seem.
85. The light that rises from your feet to your hair,
the strength enfolding your delicate form,
are not mother of pearl, not chilly silver:
you are made of bread, a bread the fire adores.
(Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XIII)
86. When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
-- "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
87. My heart stops
When you look at me
Just one touch
Now baby I believe
This is real
So take a chance
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back
88. There is this transcendental, on another level
Boy, you're my lucky star
I wanna walk on your wave length
And be there when you vibrate
For you I risk it all… all
Uhura/Sulu
89. Bonding over obscenely spicy food, or: both of them can damned well cook, but they mostly only use the original heat-level in any given recipe for each other. katmarajade
90. Morass and quagmire and the plant that Sulu gave her that is taking over her room. When it becomes too much, they undertake pruning, and also hot sex when they are done.
91. "Such a pale light
Such a long night
Pick up that key
Don't drop your gaze in your coffee
Is it me?
Do I look beautiful in the half light?"
djkiwi2576
92. "Life on the moon
Couldn't be any stranger
Life on the moon
Wouldn't feel as far away
The life that I knew, it's through
And I'm gonna need you more than ever"
Unspecified Het Ships
93. Hand sex (or, five times they kissed, only once on the lips? (OP was thinking Spock/Uhura, but could be any ship) hopefuladdict
94. Pretty please Uhura teaching/showing Spock something for the first time. It could be another crew member if that is how you ship, but a first time encounter please.
95. Uhura/Spock (or Uhura/other male character of author's choice)
The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
-- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
stexgirl2000
96. A Very Long Engagement (Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles) - Uhura as either Audrey Tatou or Marion Cotillard's character.
Uhura/Amanda
97. (Either as an Inception crossover or Talos IV fic) She knows it never really happened, but all the same, it was a summer she'll never forget.
Uhura/Chapel
98. The language of anatomy and an anatomy of language.
99. Chapel, and Uhura are sent to the planet Lesbos for an away mission, which is governed by Amelia Earhart.
Uhura/Gaila
100. I believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure, babe. kitausu
101. Gaila teaching Uhura the Orion "women's language" (as in: There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and that the old men are too wise to learn. And in that version of the tale perhaps things happened differently. But then, that is a women's tale, and it is never told to men. [Gaiman]) joyeuses
102. Mind unzipping me? deadcarpets
103. Gaila shows Uhura something she's never done before, then Uhura shows Gaila something that she's never done before, repeat as needed to make a whole day of activities.
104. "You smell good." wunnerwmn
105. Sonic shower
Uhura/Number One
106. Uhura hasn't been with a woman before, but after completing a difficult mission with Number One, she can't deny the attraction.
Uhura/Rand
107. Playing Rapunzel
Uhura/Winona
108. I like the way you move... merisunshine36
Other femslash prompts
109. Uhura/Cindy Mayweather (aka Janelle Monae) - Each year on her birthday, Cindy gives Nyota a few more languages.
110. Yolanda-Saffron-Bridget (of Firefly) meets Uhura.
Threesomes & Moresomes
111. Uhura/Kirk/Spock - a breakdown in communication
112. Uhura/Kirk/Spock - "Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated." -Marquis de Sade in the movie Quills
113. Uhura/Spock/McCoy - How do Spock, Uhura, and McCoy navigate their relationships, especially when none of them have been in a threesome before? shighola
114. Uhura/Spock/Gaila - If you can't take the heat.
115. Uhura/Spock/Gaila - Diplomatic mission mishap: something that results in widespread intoxication leading to Gaila/Spock/Uhura threesome. About which they have no regrets later, naturally. Away mission mishaps = fact of life in Starfleet, no?
116. Kirk/Spock/Uhura or Gaila/Spock/Uhura
I who am dead a thousand years,
And wrote this sweet archaic song,
Send you my words for messengers
The way I shall not pass along.
-"To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence", James Elroy Flecker
Uhura and two lovers in bed, conversing about a poem she read along these lines, or another culture's love poem to two or more people (an Andorian love poem to the author's three spouses?) or so on.
marymac
117. Uhura/Gaila/McCoy - away-mission mishap
118. Uhura/Kirk/McCoy: When Spock takes a leave of absence to take a new bond-mate on New Vulcan, Kirk and McCoy offer Nyota a place to heal her heart; and then offer her a place in theirs. (And how does everyone, most importantly Spock, react when they find out?)
109. Uhura/Spock/T'Pring - pick me, choose me, love me ejectingthecore
119. Uhura/Spock/Chapel - teardrops on my guitar
120. F/M/M of your choice - Uhura enjoys double penetration.
121. Uhura/Gaila/Kirk/Spock - 'A Beginner's Guide to the Care and Pleasuring of Nyota Uhura' by Gaila and Spock, foreword by James T. Kirk. jouissant
122. Uhura/Kirk/Spock/McCoy - In which she is the glue that holds the group together. djkiwi2576
123. Uhura/Kirk/Spock/McCoy: they're on a planet (Risa?) that allows for people to marry multiple partners, and Uhura's the one to suggest they all take the plunge together.
Genre Unspecified
124. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Mandela)
125. Uhura spent a year working as a dominatrix before entering the Academy. (Command: It comes naturally to her. Also leather.) linstock
126. A tale of many drafts, or: Uhura's memo to the rest of the crew, on appropriate and inappropriate uses for the ship's comm system, from first realization that this is an Issue to final form. (Uhura/Documentation?) cakeordeath44
127. Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. (Emerson)
128. Now success is like lust, she's good to the touch
She's good for the moment but she's never enough
129. I was driven because I wanted to be like others.
I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.
130. She handed me a mouth guard and said "here, you're going to need this."
131. I sink way too high, man,
I soar way too low.
132. McCoy and Uhura sort through the baggage of their past relationships together. Het or friendship fic. abigail89
133. A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting next to you in the cell, going "Damn, that was fun."
134. Nobody's princess. ejectingthecore
135. Secret agent!Uhura, AU or Trekverse
136. Nyota starts the monthly Enterprise poetry slam.
137. "Nyota Uhura, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
138. The Enterprise is thrust back in time to the 1960s, where Uhura goes undercover as the frontwoman for a Motown girl group because the head of a major record label is an evil alien implanting mind-control messages into every album his company produces.
139. I am carrying this scrap of paper
That can crack the darkest sky wide open
-- 'Half Acre, Dan Messe
Uhura is carrying a secret that can start or end a war, or utterly change life on a planet, or cause or ameliorate some other cataclysm. Possibly a romantic partner aids her as she works to get this information to the right people and/or keep it from the wrong ones. leftarrow
140. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." -- Rudyard Kipling.
Nyota Uhura of the Mirrorverse. old_blueeyes
141. Does a fic in which Uhura prefers and routinely wears a pants uniform have to be an AU? Pants uniform required, AU optional. boosette
142. Let me go
Far Away
Where the world is mine
and you are not my world
143. I'm working a sweat, but it's all good
I'm breaking my back but it's all good
'Cause I know I'll get it back
Yeah, I know your hands will clap
And I'm working,
Yeah, I'm working
To make butter for my piece of bun
(Lyrics from "I'm Good, I'm Gone" by Lykke Li)
144. His face opens and you see the sun.
(Peonies, fizzy wine, fanfares, gongs.)
You would do anything for him;
you scarcely think of yourself.
But you will not die for him.
The boundless thing, Romance,
known for the first time, and at once
its limit. Or yours: You will not die.
(April Bernard)
145. The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer
I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my
inheritance and destiny, so be it. If it is my mission
to go in at exits and come out at entrances, so be it.
I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts,
and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing,
and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven’s favor,
in spite of the best advice. If I have been caught
so often laughing at funerals, that was because
I knew the dead were already slipping away,
preparing a comeback, and can I help it?
(Wendell Berry)
146. Sometimes I feel so happy,
Sometimes I feel so sad.
Sometimes I feel so happy,
But mostly you just make me mad.
September 16: (1) igrockspock (2) mariole (3) cakeordeath44 (4)
September 17: (1) thistlerose (2) slwmtiondaylite(3) (4)
September 18: (1) djkiwi2576 (2) abigail89 (3) aquasoulsis (4)
September 19: (1) kitausu (2) mariole (3) yalegirl03 (4)
September 20: (1) leftarrow (2) jouissant (3) hopefuladdict (4) florahart
September 21: (1) possibly_thrice (2) sternel (3)danahid (4)
September 22: (1) shighola (2) ejectingthecore (3) cakeordeath44 (4)
September 23: (1) hellokatzchen (2) wunnerwmn (3) kitausu (4) spockchick
September 24: (1) hopefuladdict (2) ninhursag (3) merisunshine36 (4)
September 25: (1) djkiwi2576 (2) boosette (3) deadcarpets (4)
September 26: (1) witblogi (2) jouissant (3) theworldsforgot (4) soixante_quinze
September 27: (1) circ_bamboo (2) yalegirl03 (3) joyeuses (4) settiai
September 28: (1) marymac (2) ejectingthecore (3)forthisreason (4) katmarajade
September 29: (1) stexgirl2000 (2)mardia (3)old_blueeyes (4) rubynye
September 30: (1) yeomanrand (2) jlneveloff (3) slwmtiondaylite (4) linstock
1. Fics must be at least 1,000 words.
2. You may claim one prompt now. On Thursday (August 19), you may come back for a second. Claims will close on Monday, August 23.
3. Claims are first-come, first-serve, and exclusive.
4. Up to three people may post on each day. If the posting dates fill, we will increase either the length of the fest or the number of people who can post on a given day. Posting will run from September 16 to September 30 to give everyone at least a month to finish their stories.
6. I will mark off claims as quickly as possible, but please be patient while awaiting your confirmation, and check the comments to make sure your desired claim is still free.
7. Remember, Uhura should be the focus of all your stories. We'd love to learn about her romantic relationships and/or her sex life, but make sure the story illuminates something about her character in the process.
ETA: Since posting dates are nearly full, I have made a fourth posting slot on each of the days.
Genfic prompts
1. One thing about Nyota Uhura that tends to surprise people.
2. Uhura as a teenager, maybe about how she decided to apply to the Academy.
3. Singing is just another way of communicating - that's why she loves it so much. rubynye
4. The Battle of the Insults.
5. Nyota Uhura can take apart a phaser and put it back together in 36 seconds. sternel
6. Uhura and her family -- particularly her mother worldsforgot
7. Uhura meets Uhura!Prime.
8. Uhura gets or gives advice on how to get through basic training in an unimaginably short skirt. kitausu
9. "You can yell at me after I've finished saving your life." settiai
10. Uhura is the captain of the ship's roller derby team.
11. Uhura and McCoy waiting on their men. (You can take that any way you want.) yeomanrand
12. Uhura dealing with Kirk becoming her boss. danahid
13. Trying to communicate in a language that requires an appendage she lacks. spockchick
14. Charlene Masters and Nyota Uhura, talking shop and gettin' their hair did on a Saturday night. yalegirl03
15. Friendships forged and broken, champions crowned, hearts broken, and what for? The 88th Annual Starfleet Multilingual Spelling Bee, that's what.
16. In which Nyota's graduate studies work consists primarily of traveling the earth and cataloging dialectical shift in alien expat communities.
17. Self-idulgent kidfic (either of the Nyota & offspring variety or of the Nyota as a kid variety): Anasi stories.
18. Nyota's favorite language, and why.
19. Behold the hills of tomorrow!
Behold the limitless sky!
Fling wide the gates
To a world that waits!
As our journey starts,
Behold! Our hearts
Are high!
20. If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
--Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
21. Uhura disobeys a direct order so that she can rescue Captain Kirk from certain death. jouissant
22. Gaila and Uhura discuss their religious beliefs (or lack thereof, if you prefer).
23. An energy being follows Nyota home. Said energy being? Ghostwriter, and shortly thereafter she leads a ridiculous pastiche of early 1990s public broadcast television because what else are you going to do with a convenient mystery aboard the ship and three empty weeks before you see another planet.
24. Five books Nyota will never delete from her space kindle storage allocation on ship's mainframe/personal PADD, and one she has renamed to "untitled1.txt" because no one must ever know she loves it so.
25. "The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out. " -- Ambassador Delenn, Babylon 5
Uhura translates a poem or essay or aphorism along the lines of this sentiment.
27. Uhura is leading the landing party, and things turn nasty. hellokatzchen
Uhura/Chekov
28. Uhura and Chekov are running buddies, and every now and then they have a casual roll in the hay.
Uhura/Kirk
29. Don't go too fast, don't go too slow, you've got to let your body flow
30. Stone age love and strange sounds too, Come on baby let me get to you
31. I don't know who you think you are, but before the night is through, I wanna do bad things with you ninhursag
Uhura/McCoy
32. Uhura tutors McCoy in an interplanetary language. UST and/or flirtatious banter preferred, but if you want to seal the deal with sex, go ahead!
33. Uhura must perform first aid on an injured McCoy on an away mission. mariole
34. Sometimes McCoy likes getting down on his knees mardia
35. You said you'd lend me anything/I think I'll have your company
36. Knowing that McCoy likes her but will never ask her out, Uhura takes him out for a romantic Valentine's Day
37. Uhura ties McCoy to the bed, sits on his chest, and gets herself off
38. McCoy is not actually all that good at hand-to-hand combat, which means Uhura has to protect him and/or bail him out of trouble when their away team is assaulted.
Uhura/Pike
39. When Uhura needs to get laid, she doesn't mess around with the immature twenty-somethings at the academy. She likes an older man. circ_bamboo
Uhura/Spock
40. Spock and Uhura discuss their religious beliefs (or lack thereof)
41. Spock playing with Uhura's hair.
42. What can they say without talking?
43. Uhura teaching Spock that the brain is, in fact, the most sensitive sexual organ in the body.
44. Their first morning afterthistlerose
45. Lilly Allen's It's Not Fair - Spock could stand to learn a few things. Luckily, he's an excellent pupil.
46. Uhura/Spock Prime. It was both better and more terrible than anything she could have imagined. florahart
47. O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard
48. Fuck-me heels (or boots, if you prefer)
49. Their last ten minutes alone before their wedding.
50. Spock doesn't understand the concept of talking dirty. Uhura gives him some lessons. It turns out he's even better at it than she is.
51. Uhura thinks Spock is going to find her preference for talking illogical, but he reveals that Vulcans have a tradition of talking their way through intimate stuff and he's very, very good at it.
52. Reboot version of or scenes from Uhura's Song
53. Skinny Dipping (Academy era)
54. Break-up sex
55. Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone hopefuladdict
56. Starfleet office sex
57. Dear John letter. Angst fest galore.
58. Shakespeare in Love-style AU in which Starfleet is only for boys. Uhura pulls a Gwyneth Paltrow and dresses like a man to fulfill her dreams. Spock is her commanding officer and sexual tension ensues. slwmtiondaylite
59. AU - Teenage Spock visiting Africa with his father, the Ambassador, escapes his fancy embassy and meets teenage Uhura, and they spend a day together.
60. Spock and Uhura on shore leave. She sees him coming out of a pool/lake/ocean in just his bathing suit and then proceeds to drag him back to their hotel room for sex. witblogi
61. Make-up sex after a really nasty argument. aquasoulsis
62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- Spock and Uhura break up and have their relationship erased from their memories, but something still draws them together. soixante_quinze
63. It's Spock's first birthday after Vulcan's destruction. Uhura, being the awesome girlfriend she is, manages to track down an object from Vulcan (maybe related to his family) for his gift. Then they have lots of sex.
64. They're no longer a couple when Spock's pon farr hits. Uhura is conflicted because she wants to save him (she may or may not be in a new relationship too) and she also doesn't want some other woman getting her hands on Spock. He pushes her away but they end up doing it and feelings are rekindled. jlneveloff
65. On a dangerous away mission, Spock is dealing with attackers so the others can be beamed out but at the last second before beaming out, Uhura decides to stay with Spock and they kick ass together. forthisreason
66. First time forbidden!sex during the Academy time. Spock is extremely rough with her and afterwords feels bad about it, but Uhura shows him that she can handle him. Furniture breaking is always a plus.
67. Uhura/Spock a la Jane Austen's Persuasion. mariole
68. Spock wants to date Uhura, but she turns him down for whatever reason. Spock is forced to present a logical argument to change her mind. igrockspock
69. If they were being written by Nicholas Sparks (you know-- disapproving parents, long separation, tragedy)
70. Her (literal or figurative) milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
71. Uhura is incredibly turned on by Spock's super human strength, whether it's in the gym or in the bedroom.
72. here's the commonly used fanfic scenario for this couple that they run into some douchebags who provoke Spock into a fight, Spock beats the crap out of them and then Uhura is all hot and bothered (and they have sex). But I'd like to see a story in which Uhura finds Spock's violent behavior really off-putting and they have a big argument about it. But eventually make up obviously though he has to win her back. cakeordeath44
73. During sex, she curses like a sailor.
74. They're middle aged (already married and have kids who have moved out of the house) but since Spock ages slower and still looks young, Uhura starts feeling like she looks too old for Spock, but Spock reassures her that she's still the most beautiful person to him. yalegirl03
75. Uhura telling their daughter how she and Spock got together.
76. Sarek makes a visit to San Francisco but he and Spock are still not speaking. Uhura goes to Sarek and convinces him of all that he's missing out on in his son's life, and facilitates a reunion.
77. She kisses his bloody/bruised face slwmtiondaylite
78. But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
--Kahlil Gibran had no way of knowing about Vulcans.
(Quote from, "On Love")
possibly_thrice
79. We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
--Set the fire to the third bar (Snow Patrol)
80. No dawn, no day
I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart
--Cosmic Love (Florence and the Machine)
81. All my life
I have dreamed of this
But I could not see your face
Don't ask why two such distant stars
Can fall right into place
--We Could Be in Love (Miss Saigon)
82. With friends I still feel
So insecure
Little darling I believe you could
Help me a lot
Just take my hand
And lead me where you will
No conversation
No wave goodnight
Just make love
With affection
--Love and Affection (Joan Armatrading)
83. Someone told me that destiny makes a fool of us,
That it gives us nothing and that it promises everything,
Seem that happiness is in hand.
As we reach out, we find ourselves crazy.
Yet someone told me
that you still love me...
84. Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there.
Just like a muse to me, you are a mystery.
Just like a dream, you are not what you seem.
85. The light that rises from your feet to your hair,
the strength enfolding your delicate form,
are not mother of pearl, not chilly silver:
you are made of bread, a bread the fire adores.
(Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XIII)
86. When you're down and out
When you're on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I'll take your part
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
-- "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
87. My heart stops
When you look at me
Just one touch
Now baby I believe
This is real
So take a chance
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back
88. There is this transcendental, on another level
Boy, you're my lucky star
I wanna walk on your wave length
And be there when you vibrate
For you I risk it all… all
Uhura/Sulu
89. Bonding over obscenely spicy food, or: both of them can damned well cook, but they mostly only use the original heat-level in any given recipe for each other. katmarajade
90. Morass and quagmire and the plant that Sulu gave her that is taking over her room. When it becomes too much, they undertake pruning, and also hot sex when they are done.
91. "Such a pale light
Such a long night
Pick up that key
Don't drop your gaze in your coffee
Is it me?
Do I look beautiful in the half light?"
djkiwi2576
92. "Life on the moon
Couldn't be any stranger
Life on the moon
Wouldn't feel as far away
The life that I knew, it's through
And I'm gonna need you more than ever"
Unspecified Het Ships
93. Hand sex (or, five times they kissed, only once on the lips? (OP was thinking Spock/Uhura, but could be any ship) hopefuladdict
94. Pretty please Uhura teaching/showing Spock something for the first time. It could be another crew member if that is how you ship, but a first time encounter please.
95. Uhura/Spock (or Uhura/other male character of author's choice)
The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
-- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
stexgirl2000
96. A Very Long Engagement (Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles) - Uhura as either Audrey Tatou or Marion Cotillard's character.
Uhura/Amanda
97. (Either as an Inception crossover or Talos IV fic) She knows it never really happened, but all the same, it was a summer she'll never forget.
Uhura/Chapel
98. The language of anatomy and an anatomy of language.
99. Chapel, and Uhura are sent to the planet Lesbos for an away mission, which is governed by Amelia Earhart.
Uhura/Gaila
100. I believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure, babe. kitausu
101. Gaila teaching Uhura the Orion "women's language" (as in: There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and that the old men are too wise to learn. And in that version of the tale perhaps things happened differently. But then, that is a women's tale, and it is never told to men. [Gaiman]) joyeuses
102. Mind unzipping me? deadcarpets
103. Gaila shows Uhura something she's never done before, then Uhura shows Gaila something that she's never done before, repeat as needed to make a whole day of activities.
104. "You smell good." wunnerwmn
105. Sonic shower
Uhura/Number One
106. Uhura hasn't been with a woman before, but after completing a difficult mission with Number One, she can't deny the attraction.
Uhura/Rand
107. Playing Rapunzel
Uhura/Winona
108. I like the way you move... merisunshine36
Other femslash prompts
109. Uhura/Cindy Mayweather (aka Janelle Monae) - Each year on her birthday, Cindy gives Nyota a few more languages.
110. Yolanda-Saffron-Bridget (of Firefly) meets Uhura.
Threesomes & Moresomes
111. Uhura/Kirk/Spock - a breakdown in communication
112. Uhura/Kirk/Spock - "Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated." -Marquis de Sade in the movie Quills
113. Uhura/Spock/McCoy - How do Spock, Uhura, and McCoy navigate their relationships, especially when none of them have been in a threesome before? shighola
114. Uhura/Spock/Gaila - If you can't take the heat.
115. Uhura/Spock/Gaila - Diplomatic mission mishap: something that results in widespread intoxication leading to Gaila/Spock/Uhura threesome. About which they have no regrets later, naturally. Away mission mishaps = fact of life in Starfleet, no?
116. Kirk/Spock/Uhura or Gaila/Spock/Uhura
I who am dead a thousand years,
And wrote this sweet archaic song,
Send you my words for messengers
The way I shall not pass along.
-"To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence", James Elroy Flecker
Uhura and two lovers in bed, conversing about a poem she read along these lines, or another culture's love poem to two or more people (an Andorian love poem to the author's three spouses?) or so on.
marymac
117. Uhura/Gaila/McCoy - away-mission mishap
118. Uhura/Kirk/McCoy: When Spock takes a leave of absence to take a new bond-mate on New Vulcan, Kirk and McCoy offer Nyota a place to heal her heart; and then offer her a place in theirs. (And how does everyone, most importantly Spock, react when they find out?)
109. Uhura/Spock/T'Pring - pick me, choose me, love me ejectingthecore
119. Uhura/Spock/Chapel - teardrops on my guitar
120. F/M/M of your choice - Uhura enjoys double penetration.
121. Uhura/Gaila/Kirk/Spock - 'A Beginner's Guide to the Care and Pleasuring of Nyota Uhura' by Gaila and Spock, foreword by James T. Kirk. jouissant
122. Uhura/Kirk/Spock/McCoy - In which she is the glue that holds the group together. djkiwi2576
123. Uhura/Kirk/Spock/McCoy: they're on a planet (Risa?) that allows for people to marry multiple partners, and Uhura's the one to suggest they all take the plunge together.
Genre Unspecified
124. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Mandela)
125. Uhura spent a year working as a dominatrix before entering the Academy. (Command: It comes naturally to her. Also leather.) linstock
126. A tale of many drafts, or: Uhura's memo to the rest of the crew, on appropriate and inappropriate uses for the ship's comm system, from first realization that this is an Issue to final form. (Uhura/Documentation?) cakeordeath44
127. Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. (Emerson)
128. Now success is like lust, she's good to the touch
She's good for the moment but she's never enough
129. I was driven because I wanted to be like others.
I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.
130. She handed me a mouth guard and said "here, you're going to need this."
131. I sink way too high, man,
I soar way too low.
132. McCoy and Uhura sort through the baggage of their past relationships together. Het or friendship fic. abigail89
133. A good friend will bail you out of jail. A great friend will be sitting next to you in the cell, going "Damn, that was fun."
134. Nobody's princess. ejectingthecore
135. Secret agent!Uhura, AU or Trekverse
136. Nyota starts the monthly Enterprise poetry slam.
137. "Nyota Uhura, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
138. The Enterprise is thrust back in time to the 1960s, where Uhura goes undercover as the frontwoman for a Motown girl group because the head of a major record label is an evil alien implanting mind-control messages into every album his company produces.
139. I am carrying this scrap of paper
That can crack the darkest sky wide open
-- 'Half Acre, Dan Messe
Uhura is carrying a secret that can start or end a war, or utterly change life on a planet, or cause or ameliorate some other cataclysm. Possibly a romantic partner aids her as she works to get this information to the right people and/or keep it from the wrong ones. leftarrow
140. "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." -- Rudyard Kipling.
Nyota Uhura of the Mirrorverse. old_blueeyes
141. Does a fic in which Uhura prefers and routinely wears a pants uniform have to be an AU? Pants uniform required, AU optional. boosette
142. Let me go
Far Away
Where the world is mine
and you are not my world
143. I'm working a sweat, but it's all good
I'm breaking my back but it's all good
'Cause I know I'll get it back
Yeah, I know your hands will clap
And I'm working,
Yeah, I'm working
To make butter for my piece of bun
(Lyrics from "I'm Good, I'm Gone" by Lykke Li)
144. His face opens and you see the sun.
(Peonies, fizzy wine, fanfares, gongs.)
You would do anything for him;
you scarcely think of yourself.
But you will not die for him.
The boundless thing, Romance,
known for the first time, and at once
its limit. Or yours: You will not die.
(April Bernard)
145. The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer
I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my
inheritance and destiny, so be it. If it is my mission
to go in at exits and come out at entrances, so be it.
I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts,
and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing,
and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven’s favor,
in spite of the best advice. If I have been caught
so often laughing at funerals, that was because
I knew the dead were already slipping away,
preparing a comeback, and can I help it?
(Wendell Berry)
146. Sometimes I feel so happy,
Sometimes I feel so sad.
Sometimes I feel so happy,
But mostly you just make me mad.
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