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Added some folks from the Star Trek 2009 Friending Meme. Hello!

In even less exciting news, I'm back at university to take my final two ... finals. Some of my grades are already coming back; this semester came out okay, and probably better than could've been expected, considering I spent almost the entire goddamn time with strep throat—I ended up missing like two weeks of classes, if you add up all the times I had to miss because I was too sick. College is still soul crushingly difficult for me, but I'm actually sort of confident that I can do this just three more times. That's it! Three more times.

It's like a chant. It has replaced my old motto, which was, "I'm the best, I'm good at everything, and nobody hates me."

Actually, I think I'll keep the old motto, too.


McCoy got between Jim and a flying fist only once. And when he woke up about five minutes later—lying on the floor, his shirt soaked in cheap liquor, his young friend nowhere in sight—he only had one thing to say: "I'm never doing that again."


Dude, what was Nero up to for twenty-five years? Besides, y'know, the obvious: plotting.


Chekov, where the fuck did you come from? You being "sewenteen" and all.


James T. Kirk was the worst teenager of all time. Obviously. But Starfleet's apparently cool with letting former felons captain starships, assuming his stepfather pressed charges for stealing that car and driving off a cliff, so I guess this isn't going to affect his future career any. ... Do they even have giant cliffs like that in Iowa? I thought the midwest was mostly flat and stuff.


Doesn't McCoy have a kid with his ex-wife?


How depressing is the rest of Spock Prime's life going to be? Really really depressing. And he's got no one, really, because even if his best friends in the world are alive and kicking it somewhere in the galaxy once again, they aren't his versions. And he can't have much to do with them anyway. That's gotta sting!


Speaking of which, I somehow doubt that young!McCoy would really take any kind of tone with Spock Prime, considering Spock's matured beyond most of the traits that pissed McCoy off to begin with, plus he's so old and dignified and stuff. But considering that the bickering was like the foundation of their friendship, I bet old Spock would miss that.


Okay, Kirk's earned a lot of trust from his crew, but he hasn't nearly gotten the absolute faith he's commanding by the time the television series rolls around. Therefore, the ships not going to run quite as smoothly as we all remember. Or maybe not smoothly at all.

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MORE PRESSINGLY: DOES HE STILL ATTRIBUTE EVERY INWENTION ON EARTH TO A LITTLE OLD LADY IN LENINGRAD? But yeah, making him a kid was necessary for believability, since everyone knows he was the kid of the crew, but now that they've done it we must PONDER THE IMPLICATIONS/

Well, presumably old Spock or someone else is going to warn the Romulans that their planet has a ticking clock, MAYBE THEY COULD WORK TOGETHER? VULCANS AND ROMULANS? HELP EACH OTHER OUT? I doubt that'd go smoothly like at all but I can't imagine that they wouldn't try.

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I kinda love the idea of Spock being an instructor in an informal program for prodigiously gifted youth in Star Trek. And that's how he met Uhura and Chekov, but hadn't met Jim (that Jim could remember) because Jim was too old for the program, and that's how so many geniuses end up on the Enterprise.

*ponders happily*

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Dude, I'd totally buy that -- he might enjoy that sort of thing, being a super genius himself and also pretty young. Of course, most of the kids he's teaching aren't going to identify with him, since to your average teenager Professor Spock is going to be creepy, a brutal critic, and off putting, but that wouldn't stop him from identifying with them! The more awkward the better, man.

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Yeah, I don't think the average kid would be identifying with him very much. Or liking his classes very much, either. But for those couple of kids, maybe two or three every other semester -- the way that I read Spock as a teacher is my attempt to extrapolate out from the way that Uhura had obviously memorized every word of praise that Spock had given her and how she wouldn't fall in love with somebody/give the time of day to anybody who doesn't respect her. Yeah, she's craaaaazy about him, but my takeaway is that Spock is a tough teacher who rarely, rarely praises, but when he does, it lights up your life and makes you glow from the inside because you have goddamn earned it.

And for a lot of these kids, I imagine that he's the first person they've ever met who is both smarter than them (or very nearly) and definitely knows more about what he's teaching. Throw in the fact that Spock is pretty keenly aware of what it means to feel like an outsider inside your own skin, fundamentally different even when you're wildly successful by every objective metric, and.

So yeah, I can see Spock getting a couple prodigiously gifted super-young kids ever other semester or something, and these kids remember him for years and write back to him every now and then with things they think Lieutenant Spock would like (and oh God, I wonder how many of them are dead now, as you pointed out re: Gaila).

But you're right. I think that a lot of the regular kids, even as bright as the ones in Star Trek, would think of him as Snape, part Vulcan.

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Oh god, probably most of them are dead, now. The younger they are the MORE LIKELY they are to be dead and they even died trying to defend his home planet which just makes it worse, crap. EVERYTHING EMO IN SPOCK'S LIFE GOES BACK TO THE SAME FREAKING HOUR OF HIS LIFE.

Crap, man, I'm going to be coming back to this entry for fic and characterization ideas until the end of time, now, I'm pretty sure.

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THE YOUNGER THEY ARE

THE MORE LIKELY THEY ARE TO BE DEAD

SPOCK TRIED TO PUT THEM ON SAFE SHIPS, LIKE HE TRIED TO WITH UHURA.

OH SWEET BLOODY GOD.

Manpain, we have found it.

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HOLY CRAP

I MEAN

HE PROBABLY DID, DIDN'T HE?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

AND HE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT AT THE TIME BUT NOW THAT IT'S ALL OVER AND THEY'RE JUST EXPLORING AND CRAP AND HE'S CONSTANTLY AROUND ALL THE PEOPLE HE GOT TO KNOW SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS OF THAT DAY

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It's stuff like that that makes me really love Spock. Underneath that stiff, frigid manner, he really cares. He does. He does his damndest to try and do right by the people he cares so desperately for. And just. Oh God.

When Kirk goaded him, it wasn't just the death of his mother and a more-or-less successful attempt to commit genocide against his people. It was also the death of all those brilliant, brilliant children who. had. trusted. Spock.

Read this way and if you read Uhura as having been one of the early members of that group, it makes a lot more sense why she's so, like. Physically THERE and stuff for Spock. Because she knows.

*CLUTCHES HEAD*

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOB

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Oh god, oh god, Starfleet CTY, yes, yes, YES. I kind of want this to a ridiculous degree now.

Also, allegations of Chekov and his parents being part of the Eugenics movement. Because I hate all that is good and just.

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DO YOU ALSO EAT PUPPIES. CHRIST.