LINKDING

Summary: At the end of the 5-year mission Spock is 'offered' a promotion. He resigns instead, and Kirk spends months regretting his insistence. Then Spock reappears on Earth. Everything improves... but oddly, some people in Starfleet Command take exception to Spock's changes. Hopefully talks with the Klingons go well – Spock has been very helpful. ➤ very funny star trek tos fic about admiral kirk, and spock deciding "fuck it all" and leaving starfleet to become kirk's secretary ➤ tbh I think these two tags on the fic capture everything you need to know: Kirk thinks Spock is having some sort of identity crisis, Spock already had the crisis and he's just embraced his slut phase ➤ kirk is so bewildered and spock is so serenely confident in everything he's doing and it's amazing to watch ➤ also there's a plot about ship sabotage and klingon ambassadors and stuff ➤ 50k words in length

<blockquote>James Kirk was the rudest student Professor Heleine ever taught. He stomped out of the middle of the professor's lecture like he wasn't a mere cadet. Well, the professor was done putting up with him. If he couldn't sit through an expert lecture, then he should give the lecture about Tarsus. That would teach him some respect.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The thing people always forget is that it was a Vulcan ship that reached Tarsus IV first.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Academy fic. Dr. Leonard McCoy thinks he has nothing in common with command-track cadet Jim Kirk, until a series of events forces them together. When a simple training mission is derailed into a seemingly hopeless situation, both have to learn to trust one another, and they’ll need all their wits and survival skills to stay alive.</blockquote> ➤ reminds me a lot of the kinds of things sholio writes - h/c wilderness survival gen (with complications beyond wilderness survival) and this author does it well too

<blockquote>It's hard to know what you're looking for when you don't realize it's missing.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Advancing a relationship with Leonard McCoy only seems logical, particularly after Spock hears that the good doctor carried his katra in another life.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I'm here to ask for help - not in any official capacity, just from one person who's a shitty dancer to someone who's actually kind of terrific at it."</blockquote>

<blockquote>This is just a little thing--see, raphaela667 wrote this really lovely story, Five Times James T Kirk Didn't Get Married (And One Time He Did), and I was so very intrigued by the ideas in the first one that I just had to poke around a bit. Besides, it was only a matter of time before he found out he had a kid.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jim Kirk is on a trip to Vulcan with his sixth grade class, at a time when tension between Vulcan and the Federation is high. There is talk of Vulcan withdrawing from the Federation, so naturally, the school children have been told to be on their absolute best behavior...</blockquote>

<blockquote>Fanvid about Jim Kirk; youngest captain in fleet, full of greatness and not an ounce of humility, and rapidly flying towards an early grave. “Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight, For the greatest tragedy of them all is never to feel the burning light.” [Icarus - Bastille]</blockquote>

<blockquote>The reporters are looking for a story about Tarsus IV, but Jim doesn't have one he wants to tell.</blockquote>

<blockquote>After Khan, Jim has a few residual issues. Spock helps him. Naturally, there's a strange Vulcan practice for everything.</blockquote> ➤ writing on the body and also hugs!

<blockquote>More than one friendship was derailed by the Narada’s arrival.</blockquote> ➤ (on the spock-bones friendship)

<blockquote>Uhura’s eyes go wide and alarmed as soon as she sees him. “Captain. You have a baby. Who gave you a baby?” “Her parents. The Ambassadors.” Honestly, there is no need for this level of dismay. Jim’s totally on top of this. He brandishes the arm with the baby attached to it show exactly how on top of this he is. The baby’s rock-solid grip doesn’t falter at all; she just gurgles and continues to mouth at Jim’s elbow. “Actually, I was hoping you could help me out with some language stuff. Do you think this bronze color on her cheeks means happy?”</blockquote>

<blockquote>If it had been her who died in the destruction of Vulcan. She thinks about it, sometimes, when she can’t sleep at night. * AU: If Sarek had died in the destruction of Vulcan, but Amanda survived.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Probably needles and sutures. All the pain. They used to hand-cut and sew people like garments. Needles and sutures.</blockquote>

written for the prompt: <blockquote>the Starfleet Medical cafeteria serves the worst coffee. She knows because she drinks it every day for the two weeks Jim is unconscious.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jim does his best to take this recovery thing seriously. That's what he says, anyway, not that anyone believes a word of it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>They're not friends yet. That takes time, more than a few really disastrous missions, two anniversaries, and quite a lot of bloodshed. Jim's never been the patient type. Pre Kirk/Spock, background Spock/Uhura, but mostly the story of James T Kirk's first year in command of the Enterprise.</blockquote> ➤ Series consists of: Taking the Slower Path (we'll get there in the end) We'll Finish With Bruises (we hit all of the bumps) But We'll Ignore the Last Exit (it was light-years ago)

<blockquote>"IF YOU ARE TIRED OF OF BOLDLY GOING WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE, BOLDLY COME WITH US!"</blockquote> ➤ or, Kirk and friends decide to create a wiki of the sexual practices of known species

<blockquote>Christopher Pike and the Kirks have been circling each other for twenty-five years.</blockquote> ➤ tags include: starfleet as a real paramilitary organization, Pike as hero and historian, winona kirk is the starfleet madonna

<blockquote>I decided it would be a branching-from-canon AU set before the first movie, and Admiral Kirk is so very bored by his desk job that he starts hanging around and donig most of his work in the Starfleet coffee bar in his headquarters building, and one of the poor yeomen who run it gets brave enough to tell him that if he's going to be down there all the time scaring the customers he should at least do some work, and he totally does.</blockquote>

<blockquote>a tendency to flirt shamelessly with anything that moves is making it really hard to convince people that he is asexual, but he's not going to stop.</blockquote> ➤ The listy bits at the beginning of the fic are the best part and can be seen as a fic in its own right

<blockquote>I knew what story I wanted to tell (Kirk has trouble with Starfleet because of trans stuff), but then I realized that story didn’t make sense of tell, because presumably that wouldn’t be such a huge deal that far in the future? So mostly it’s a story about some minor falsified documentation annoying some people. YOU’RE WELCOME.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Love doesn't have to be difficult: all you need to do is reach out to your friends. A story in three parts and many knitting projects.</blockquote>

➤ In which Kirk is hurt but not broken by his Tarsus IV past, and he's got a damn awesome crew to back him up when reporters come wanting.

<blockquote>genre: ack the mindmeld gave me feeeeeelings</blockquote> ➤ Yeah, that.

➤ awesome xover in which John Sheppard is Vulcan!

➤ Spock and Spock!Prime talk about Kirk.

➤ Kirk being awesome, surprise!competence, and fun with languages https://archiveofourown.org/works/17969