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Something Rich and Strange by jouissant
Fandoms: Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
27 Oct 2010
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In another universe, captaining a starship is Jim Kirk's first, best destiny. In this one, he's just been laid off from a soulless office job, he's struggling to make ends meet in New York City, and the closest thing he has to a love life is a strange fixation on a Shirley Temple-drinking regular at his new bartending gig. But when he forges a connection with this compelling stranger and begins unraveling the mystery of his father's death, Jim stumbles onto a secret that will change his life forever.
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23 Jan 2026
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In which shit goes down in no particular order: Jim almost starts a war, Spock gets tortured, Jim gets kidnapped, Jim gets tortured, Spock gets not-quite-kidnapped, Jim takes the Enterprise joyriding, and mysterious Vulcans with their even more mysterious leader hop a ride for a few weeks. But that’s not what the story’s about. It’s about this: Jim was always going to fall in love with Spock – boldly, recklessly. He just didn’t expect to stay that way. A story about getting over all that.
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11 Jan 2026
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an exercise in command team building by onlyafterhours
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
03 Dec 2022
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Pretty sure this one isn't in the handbook on how to improve your working relationship with your first officer that hates you.
Not that Jim's ever really used the handbook.
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10 Jan 2026
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Weekend Lover by ValiantBarnes (Cimila)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
01 Jul 2020
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The one night stand Jim Kirk has with the Vulcan passing through Riverside is a welcome break from the monotony. It's good, very good, but so fucking weird Jim's sure he's never gonna forget it. He's not quite expecting to run into Spock again in San Francisco. A second one night stand turns into a weekend, turns into a lot of weekends, turns into Bones joking that he's living half his week at Spock's apartment.
But! But, and this is very important: they're not dating.
What also turns out to be important is Spock's job, which Jim never bothered getting the details of. Starfleet Officer and a bartender-slash-bouncer? That's fine. Starfleet Academy Instructor and cadet? ...Less fine.
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10 Jan 2026
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With My Feet Toward the Stars (let me remember you as you were when you existed) by kariye
Fandoms: Star Trek (2009)
04 May 2012
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At age five, Spock informs his mother that it is illogical to wish him “sweet dreams” at bedtime because Vulcans do not dream. “Oh, Spock,” she says.
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09 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
this is one of that kind of fic that burrows into that little quiet vulnerable place and pokes at it for a few dozen thousand words until it stops aching so badly for a minute or two