Kinkmeme for Peace and Long Life

[zvi]

As a part of three_weeks_for_dw, welcome to the first ever Vulcan Reforged kinkmeme.

How This Works

1) Comment anonymously with a prompt featuring either Vulcans or consequences from the destruction of Vulcan in the Star Trek: Reboot Universe. This can be gen or shippy, serious or funny. (Examples: A day in the life on the new Vulcan colony, the Vulcan people become space pirates, lots of Vulcans go into pon farr early since there's a population crisis, an Andorian cook stumbles on something that tastes almost exactly like plomeek soup and makes a fortune!)

2) Read other people's requests, and make them something to fulfill it: icons, fic, vids, art, filk, anonymous post card, whatever you got. Post it as a reply to the prompt which inspired you, anonymously or as yourself, your choice.

3) Wait three weeks from the time you fulfilled the prompt before you post it outside of Dreamwidth, but if you want to post it on your Dreamwidth journal sooner, that's fine.

4) Repeat until satisfied.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The Romulans offer compassionate aid to the Vulcans, and the Vulcans have to figure out how to react

[(Anonymous)]

Vulcan treasures from offworld are sent to the new colony.

[(Anonymous)]

A large number of Vulcan infants are conceived by in vitro fertilization and offered for adoption, in order to insure the species does not die out. What efforts are made to insure they are culturally Vulcan as well.

[(Anonymous)]

an Andorian cook stumbles on something that tastes almost exactly like plomeek soup and makes a fortune

[(Anonymous)]

We know from TNG there are Vulcan dissidents among the Romulan population (Romulans who regret leaving and have carefully handed down Vulcan training and ideals over the centuries) so what happens when they (perhaps led by a familiar lady Commander from TOS) escape the Empire to the colony?

Fill: Reach For Rejection

[senmut]

Spock listened, watching as the newest emissary bearing offers of aid spoke eloquently. In another world, he had betrayed this woman. In another time, he might even have felt the first stirrings of love, only to bow to duty.

Now the woman he knew as Commander argues passionately about their mutual heritage, the need for reunification of their species. Beyond her, Tal, still a Sub-Commander, watches impassively as her honor guard. Some of the words the Commander uses are familiar to Spock in other ways, as he recalls his own defection to Romulus in hopes of finding just what is offered here and now.

Vulcans, he knows from personal experience, are as proud and haughty as those Romulans he once tried to convince. Despite their conquest of their emotions, the troubled era of Surak still haunts the primitive mind lurking beneath the logic, and they seek the logic to avoid acceptance of the offer being made to them in the form of this woman's words.

"Honored council." His voice breaks out from the silence ringing after she ceases to speak, before T'Pau can bring her weight to bear on the matter. She will resist, he knows, because her memory is longest, hearkening back to the troubles that had come by accepting the humans into an alliance. She does not care for the wild emotions evoked by the Romulan presence. "I do not see that we have the leeway to refuse to entertain the offer of our long-separated kin," he said, his aged voice as eloquent as Sarek's. "There are, to my knowledge, many orphans within the Romulan Empire. There can be cultural exchanges, as we learn one another's ways once again. This tragedy, wrought by misunderstanding and personal vengeance by one, should not stand in the way of pure logic. The offer must be considered as it stands, an outreach of compassion that can further both our races' needs," he argued, seeing how the Commander's eyes came to rest on him, the attentive pose of her body.

T'Pau frowned slightly, to any who knew how to read it, and Spock was one such. He waited, but, as with his demand for the presence of his friends at his first pon farr's madness, she acquiesced. "Thee has spoken well, Commander; we shall take the matter into consideration."

"I shall await in the chambers you have provided, Honored One," the Commander said, but her eyes strayed back to Spock, curious as to his open endorsement of her ideas.

She would have to learn more of the enigmatic elder whom all the Council listened to, despite his apparent outsider role.

`~`~`~`~`

"Selek," came the call of a woman's voice, one that had haunted more than one play of events in Spock's mind. He turned to see the Commander, noting Tal nor her Vulcan escort were in sight.

"Commander." //Di'on Charvon, later Liviana Charvanek,// his mind whispered, but those names were not meant to be said aloud.

"Tell me how it is you know of the orphans?" she invited. "It is true their placement was something we were interested in obtaining with our offer of assistance."

Spock merely steepled his fingers and looked at her with an arched eyebrow. "Orphans, Commander, are a given in any society that practices the warfare and subterfuge that Romulus has been rumored to foster. Your words tell me my logic is sound." He would not think about another orphan, one that would need his influence in the near future. Or would she? Did Saavik exist? That was yet another of his quandaries in navigating the new field he played upon.

The woman before him appraised him intently, then nodded slowly. "You have depths I am unaccustomed to in even my race," she said, reminding him that she was not so far removed from the telepathy of their shared heritage, with her uncanny, near empathic ability to read people.

"And you, Commander, are a being ahead of your time." He bowed his head just slightly. "The decision will be reached soon."

"And you feel..." she prompted.

"I am Vulcan. We do not," he allowed himself to reply, the prevarication coming as easily as if he were sparring with McCoy on his Enterprise. "Until the Council resumes session, be at peace."

"And you, Selek."

`~`~`~`~`

T'Pau stood and delivered the word of the Council. "It is the finding that thee has made a logical suggestion, and New Vulcan will allow the cultural exchange to occur, with provisions for preserving both ways of life. It is also our wish that Selek, for his intercession, be the Minister attached to overseeing the program and its consequences."

"We accept this, and the Praetor will accept your choice," she told T'Pau with certainty.

Spock, under the guise of his new life, met the gaze of the Commander, and wondered if the game of cat and mouse would be as stimulating this time as before, given the frank expression of interest written in her eyes.

Life was never boring, even in new universal timelines, when this woman was involved.

Re: Fill: Reach For Rejection

[cesy]

Oh, I like it :)

Re: Fill: Reach For Rejection

[senmut]

It's plaguing me with thoughts of more, but I have so much on my plate!

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Romulans, who are facing the backlash of Nero's actions, are finding it increasingly appealing to pass as Vulcan. What happens when a young Romulan girl is arrested for trying to falsify her identity in order to gain citizenship in the new colony?

Re: Fill: Reach For Rejection

[pantswarrior]

Love you for this. :D

Seriously, I'm always going off about how much I love Spock Prime's position in this timeline, where he gets to see all the people he's left behind once more, but I never thought of him seeing her again. That's awesome.

(And now I'm getting some new ideas of my own regarding other women-of-the-episode...)

Re: Fill: Reach For Rejection

[senmut]

+squee+ I like seeing different takes on the various bit parts of the classic series in a rebooted light...

Thank you, and UGH I see I left in tense shifts...time to go edit this one at my journal.

Re: Fill: Reach For Rejection

[zvi]

Yay! This is just what I was hoping the meme would get us

Re: Fill: Reach For Rejection

[senmut]

You have a lovely community here, and I look forward to more of the prompts being written.

[(Anonymous)]

Spock!Prime and T'Pau are both widowed, now. In the interests of being An Example and preserving their clan, they get married.

[(Anonymous)]

Many Vulcans who survived are the only survivors from their clan/house/whatever. They have to marry soon for both Pon Farr and repopulation. Since Vulcan fertile periods are so long, they try and restart both clans/houses by having one batch of kids raised as one clan, and then later another group of kids raised as the other. What's it like growing up in this kind of family?

[(Anonymous)]

The Vulcan people become space pirates.

[(Anonymous)]

Corrigan, Sorel, and T'Zan from The Vulcan Academy Murders were offworld at a medical conference when Vulcan was destroyed. (Or maybe just two of the three, you choose which.) What happens next?

[(Anonymous)]

Something about young Tuvok, and colonial Vulcans in general, set in reboot-verse.

I can't write fic, but I can give inspiration!

[majoline]

Plomeek soup

- 1 cup onions, finely chopped
- 1 cup butter
- 4 cups carrots, peeled and chopped
- 5 cups celery, chopped
- 4 cups vegetable stock
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- salt

1. Melt ½ cup butter in a saucepan and sauté the onions over low heat until transparent.
2. Add the remaining butter, melt, and add the carrots – cooking over low heat until browned, about 30 minutes.
3. Add the celery and cook 10 more minutes on low heat. Pour in the stock, salt, and pepper, bring to a boil, then reduce heat and let soup simmer for about an hour.
4. Serve!

Alternatively, get the replicator to do it.

Pike/Sarek

[(Anonymous)]

Sarek's work as ambassador to Earth and the federation has never been more important, but he finds that life without Amanda's human influence makes him not just unemotional, but also uncaring and harsh.

Pike is learning to readjust to losing his ship, his mobility, and many of his closest friends.

Both men are mourning, and they work together to overcome their pain and rebuild the Federation and Vulcan.

Can be slashy or friendship at the author's discretion but lots and lots of h/c, please.

[(Anonymous)]

With the loss of the VSA, large numbers of surviving Vulcans are joining Starfleet. How does this effect later generations of starships, as more and more officers are Vulcan? Alternately, how does serving on ships with humans affect Vulcans?

Sybok

[(Anonymous)]

Sybok helps to rebuild the Vulcan colony, despite having been banished from Vulcan.

[(Anonymous)]

Away team beams down to a planet, locals don't like Spock because of his brother, and Spock's all, I don't have a brother, but what's Sybok done? And it turns out that he had forced a telepathic marriage bond on one of the women in town and raped her during his Pon Farr, and now she's pregnant, and Spock has to deal with figuring out how to help her and track down his brother to bring him to justice (which traditionally would be putting him to death, but so many Vulcans have died already, but on the other hand Vulcan doesn't have the resources to deal with a prisoner and most other Federation worlds don't have prisons designed to hold such powerful telepaths as Sybok). Also, Spock has to deal with his friends and crewmates now that part of the story about Pon Farr has come out in the worst possible way.

[(Anonymous)]

Sarek is going trough his first Pon Farr since he lost Amanda. He feels like forging another bond would be to betray her and is ready to die. But duty (and maybe the thought of Spock losing another parent so soon) keeps him from letting go. Paring up to anon, but I'm partial to Sarek/Gaila or Sarek/Pike.

[(Anonymous)]

Spock prime is on the new vulcan colony, helping to rebuild, but he feels disconnected from this timeline. He's just about convinced himself that it's just as well he'll never find either love or friendship again. Does something or someone change his mind? (This anon would offer the Internet for a Spock prime/reboot Kirk pairing, but feel free to go where it takes you!)