LINKDING

<blockquote>An attempt to work WITH the ongoing Spock/Uhura pairing.</blockquote> ➤ (the spock/uhura is background, the focus is on kirk/spock)

<blockquote>Jaylah's friends have presents for her.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Five uses for an abandoned starship</blockquote>

<blockquote>“What is taquitos,” she asks her house, carefully, in its tongue.</blockquote> ➤ this is SO GOOD

<blockquote>What Jaylah did next.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jaylah and Nyota and language.</blockquote>

<blockquote>He's Hikaru at home. On the Enterprise, at Starfleet, he's Sulu or Mr. Sulu or sir, depending on rank and degree of familiarity, but when he's home – at their dinner table, playing with Demora, in Ben's arms - he's just Hikaru. He has never felt anything more freeing than this, the feeling of loving and being loved, being part of a family, a husband, a father. He wants, helplessly, to be allowed to stay for longer than the meager eighteen months they've been given.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Within her first week at Starfleet Academy, Jaylah hacked into the environmental controls and security systems of her dorm– because she was bored and twitchy, because she didn’t know what to do with a home she had not taken apart and re-wired herself.</blockquote>

<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>Winona is called to fix the cock-up of the Yorktown's engines. She uses one of the science-bitches to help her do it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Six small stories to explain how Ensign Darwin (aka that awesome bald lady on the bridge) came to Starfleet and pursued command.</blockquote> ➤ a quote from the fic: <blockquote>Under describe your community service, Aisha types "I don't know what you mean by community service. When something needs done, you do it. That's not service. It's not a favor. It's your job." Her English teacher deducts ten points for the response. Starfleet Academy lets her in.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Aisha Darwin likes being bald. She doesn't care for other people's reaction to it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Spock Prime reads the newspaper, hijinks ensue.</blockquote> ➤ Author's note: <blockquote>Phosfate and I were pondering under what circumstances Khan's race change even made sense, and the wrongly revived soldier going "sure, I'm Khan" theory won out.</blockquote>

<blockquote>You know what they say: the more things change... (Carol stays the same.)</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>Dishonesty and subterfuge are not a good basis for a relationship -- unless you're Gaila and Jim.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Slavery does not exist in the Federation," Spocks says. "Were you given free access to information, you would know that." "Freedom," her captain sneers. "What freedom? You choose to come to my bed. He will make you his plaything. Have I not been good to you, Gaila? Have I not given you beautiful dresses and books to read and weapons to touch between your missions? I know their ways. He will not be so kind." "You have been kind to me," she says. "As much as it is possible to be kind to anyone you own."</blockquote>

<blockquote>When even your mother thinks you should just bang him, you may have a problem. Jim's not sure if he wants to take the chance of ruining one of the few good things he has.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes people say more than they mean to; sometimes little things that come out at times of stress are things you should keep hold of, remember, because they mean a lot. Nyota knows that, and Spock isn't immune. If anything, it applies more to him than anyone else she knows. So she's spent a lot of time thinking about seven words, the seven words 'I need everyone to continue performing admirably.'</blockquote>

<blockquote>In Uhura's first year at the Academy, she wrote a paper on Adhine, a minority language of Vulcan.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Submitted for publication in the Journal for Xenocoital Studies. Abstract: I present the first study of sexual relations between Vulcan and Human males, from a study of 100 sexual encounters with a single Human male. The time taken for the Human to achieve orgasm was measured under four types of contact: manual stimulation of the penis, oral stimulation of the penis, oral stimulation combined with digital contact with the anus, and anal penetration. The optimum parameters for producing orgasm are identified, and empirical relations are presented between the time taken to orgasm and the pressure of manual or oral stimulation or frequency of anal thrusts.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I set out to see if I could write an entire story in technobabble. Turns out I can.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Nhen runs into Gaila at a bar.  She isn’t pleased.</blockquote> ➤ An ace Orion! http://archiveofourown.org/works/944610

<blockquote>Gaila was one of exactly six Orion cadets in the graduating class of 2258.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A daily life snapshot: Sulu grows orchids and sleepy Orions in his greenhouse</blockquote> ➤ A happy quiet friendship fic

➤ A conversation between Jim and his awesome mother.

➤ Winona being AWESOME

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

➤ Chekov likes reading romance novels