As he watched the Vulcan gracefully cross the lounge towards the main exit, his breath hitched, the adrenaline coursed and there was a stirring. Now that,he acknowledged with a wry smile, was exotic.
Adult, pre-TOS. Before assuming command of the Enterprise, Kirk is enjoying some incognito downtime – and so is Spock. This is fun and sexy.
Spock hesitated, and continued in a very small and nervous voice. “Please, do not mistake me. There is a definite pleasurable experience connected with touching you.”It took years of practice bluffing a dozen species for Jim to keep the manic grin off his face. He wanted to convey appreciation and support, not the aspect of a madman about to pounce.
Mature, post-TMP. Kirk and Spock taking their relationship into a different direction – very, very carefully. This has a great Kirk POV and an enchantingly hesitant-yet-eager Spock.
Spock says something and it’s the same voice, but also very fucking different. Everything and nothing is the same, and his thoughts are spinning. He’d recognize that voice anywhere. He knows what it sounds like screaming in anger, and how it sounds, hushed and whispering to him with barely disguised lust.
Mature, angst. Oh holy hells, right in the feels! Reboot Kirk and Spock are fated – but sometimes that’s just not enough.
“We’re just… skipping ahead,” Jim said. “That’s cheating,” Spock said weakly. “Well.” Jim moved suddenly, flipping Spock over on his back and rolling over to straddle him. “I’m comfortable with that. You?”
Adult, post-2009 movie.Spock is feeling the after-effects of the events of the movie. Kirk, equipped with information from the mind-meld with Spock Prime, is not about to leave him alone. *happy sigh*
“I couldn’t bear to think of what might be happening to you. And then I… thought you were dead.” An astonishing wall of grief and loss hit Kirk – submerged him completely – then as abruptly passed. He looked down, suddenly aware that Spock had clasped both of his hands – a looser, gentler grasp than the desperate way Spock had clutched at him in that mountain cabin when Kirk had first found him – and somehow more astonishing.
Adult, post-TOS novel “Ishmael”. I used to read a lot of TOS novels, and “Ishmael”, in which Spock loses his memory and is stranded in Earth’s past, was a favourite. This fic doesn’t require foreknowledge. It deals beautifully with Kirk and Spock having to face certain home truths about their feelings for one another.
Janeway/everyone. Because who wouldn’t love to, ahem, serve Kathryn Janeway in every which way? 🙂 Music: I’d Love to Take Orders from You, by Mildred Bailey & Her Swing Band.
“All you got to do is swing.” AKA Uhura can dance circles around those silly boys. :p Music by Club de Belugas.
ETA: Sadly the link is dead. However, I’ve saved the vid if you want it.
Oh wow. This starts as a Kirk-centric vid (both TOS and nu!Trek), but then it goes so, so much wider and deeper. Music: The Boxer, by Simon & Garfunkel, plus some additional material.
“The hero’s journey.” In which nu!Kirk is Simba. This is wonderfully cracktastic. Music from Disney’s The Lion King (duh!). *g*
some_stars | VID: “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” (Star Trek 2009)
Aww, Janeway and Chakotay… I stopped watching Voyager long before the Chakotay/Seven debacle, but I got some nostalgia for those two, as they were the first pairing I looked up when I dove headfirst into online fandom. Bittersweet look at their doomed romance. Music by One Cell In The Sea.
