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James Tiberius Kirk x S'chn T'gai Spock (A.K.A The Space Husbands)

Key:

❤️‍🔥 - Smut

☁️ - Fluff

💢 - Angst

🍬 - Sweet

📚 - Multi-Chapter

You and I by @krazzeeaj1701 (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Despite what they've both told themselves for years, Jayme and Spock can't actually live without each other. Or, the one where Spock left more than just Vulcan behind after that meeting.

Papers in the Roadside by @kianspo (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬

Non-Starfleet AU. Jim owns a small bar in Chicago, keeps on picking up strays and taking care of everyone no matter how hard it makes his own life. Spock is a journalist writing feature articles for the Chicago Tribune; he depicts the world with uncanny skill, but hides more than one personal drama and is possibly under surveillance from the Vulcan royal family. They meet by accident just before their lives start to spin out of control.

Veritas by theproblematique (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Captain James T. Kirk and Lieutenant Commander Spock are hereby charged with negligence and wanton misconduct due to their emotional compromise with each other.

Leave No Soul Behind by whochick (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

If you're Starfleet, you spend your whole life wishing you never see an EPAS uniform right up until the moment they become your only hope. Whether you're dying a slow, cold death in space, or a long painful one on some godforsaken planet, they're going to come for you. So count your last breaths, son, and hold on tight. They leave no soul behind.

Bluebird by @waldorph (AO3) ☁️ 💢 🍬

“Jim Kirk.” Jim whipped around so fast most of his drink ended up on Spock, who was reaching for the phaser that wasn’t there. The Enterprise crew was parting like the biblical seas before Moses, and Jim could feel the temperature dropping. “Mom,” Jim croaked.

Measure of Happiness by @writeonclara (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

When Spock chose Starfleet over the Vulcan Science Academy, he had not anticipated cohabiting with the most illogical, irrational, emotional human he ever met.

On the flip side, Jim never asked for a Vulcan chaperone, especially one as snotty as Spock, son of Sarek.

A Starfleet Academy AU in which Spock adapts to human life, Jim learns very, very quickly never to play a prank on a Vulcan, and there are far too many people after Jim Kirk's life.

AT THE SAME STARS by spicyshimmy (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

First Officer Spock of the USS Enterprise is part of the away team that discovers the survivors of Tarsus IV. Captain Pike assigns him to the curious case of James Tiberius Kirk, who steals one of Spock's sweaters. There were no sufficient Vulcan poetics to describe the emptiness of the colony as it was found on the morning of stardate 2249.43. The fully-completed residential sector was neither ugly nor beautiful but simply remote; a hollow landscape of metal alloys and sensible architecture, with determined vegetation growing alongside the support beams. They did not flower.

cast out fear by @s0mmerspr0ssen (AO3) ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Kirk saves Vulcan from Nero at high cost to himself. It falls to Spock to pick up the pieces.

Something Smart to Do by @kianspo (AO3) ☁️ 💢 🍬

In which Jim finds himself fake-married to his first officer every other month. It's not his fault. Mostly. Dowries and Klingons are involved. Starfleet is decidedly not amused.

Atlas by @distractedkat (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Between what was and what will be stands James Tiberius Kirk, in all his fractured patchwork glory. Because saving the Federation was only the beginning.

A novel-length continuation of the 2009 movie told in four parts. Cross-posted from FFN.

West of the Moon by @distractedkat (AO3) ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

They meet Jim in phases, and through him find each other. Once the layers begin to peel back, though, the future bridge crew of the Enterprise finds more than they ever could have dreamed. When the fight to keep him starts in earnest, the cadets and officers of Starfleet begin to learn that not all wars can be won.

Because long before he had friends, Jim had Family, and the Scaretta crime syndicate didn't survive to the 23rd century by letting go of its own.

Jim Kirk will always be a frustration to Spock--even when that's not his name.

a sequence that you never learned by annataylor (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

"'Spock,' Jim breathes out, completely overwhelmed by the gesture—not quite believing that Spock knows him so well, that's he's already started researching, that he trusts Jim with a member of his own endangered species."

When Jim gets it in his head to adopt an eight year old Vulcan, Spock presents a logical solution to the issue of Jim's humanity: marriage to a Vulcan citizen.

The Genetic Soap Opera (or, One of the Less Dignified Royal Weddings) by waketosleep (AO3) ☁️ 🍬

Turns out Jim Kirk's more than meets the eye, genetically speaking. There are a lot of consequences, mostly for Spock and his sanity.

Treasures by @yeaka (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 🍬 📚

Sometimes the other Vulcans wonder how Spock managed to obtain such an exotic bondmate, and sometimes Spock wonders himself.

Helloooo, Nurse! by @lalazeewrites (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬

Jim Kirk is the only male nurse on the Enterprise. He’s also the only one with any experience with Vulcan biology. You can guess who he’s been assigned to.

Antigravity by sinestrated (AO3) ☁️ 💢 🍬

Five times Spock was surprised by the brilliance of Kirk's mind, and one time he totally saw it coming.

Please don't touch the Vulcans by @museaway (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬

The "yes" is out of Jim's mouth before he can think about it.

master of a nothing place by strzyga (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬

Jim wakes as the birds fall silent. Beside him, Spock is still asleep, eyes twitching beneath the lids. His eyelashes are thick and dark against his cheekbones, and there is the faintest green flush to his skin, delicate like the flesh of a melon. Jim's breath hitches. Heat washes over his skin. He'd always noticed, academically, that Spock was attractive. This is different. He knows what Spock's dick feels like, knows how the blanket of dark fur on his chest feels when it scrapes against Jim's back.

Things will never be the same. He has already been irrevocably transformed.

Miscommunication by sinestrated (AO3) ☁️ 🍬

Jim's brain gets scrambled during an away mission gone wrong, with interesting results.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) by @kianspo (AO3) ☁️ 🍬

In which Spock contemplates the laws of attraction and realizes what a slippery slope that is only after he has already fallen. There's no help for him now.

Though My Soul May Set In Darkness by @pastmydancingdays (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Six months into the Five Year Mission, the Enterprise has reached the outskirts of the known galaxy, and its Captain has fallen ill. With a growing sense of unease, and increasing desperation, Spock takes it upon himself to manage both the ship, and Jim’s failing health, determined to save them both.

Because Khan’s blood was never going to be a permanent solution.

Entering Orbit by @museaway (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Jim escapes to Iowa to avoid the media frenzy following the Narada incident, but a late-night miscommunication results in Spock turning up on his front porch.

K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk by @branwyn-says (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Jim wrote a romance novel just to prove he could. Then someone leaked it on the public Starfleet server, and suddenly his embarrassingly smutty and sentimental Human/Vulcan love story is all over campus. Luckily for Jim, no one knows that he’s the author. Unluckily for Jim, someone forwarded the novel to the staff of the Vulcan embassy. Now, every Vulcan in San Francisco is reassessing the logical merits of taking Human bondmates.

Spock reads a Human/Vulcan romance novel because he can hardly avoid it. Suddenly, he is consumed by the need to locate the author, ascertain their wellbeing, and instruct them in the way of Vulcan mating bonds. Luckily for Spock, it doesn't take long to identify the author as Jim Kirk. Unluckily for Spock, Jim is unconscious and surrounded by interested Vulcans who also read the book.

Echolocation by Darksknight (AO3) ☁️ 💢 🍬

Kirk and Spock don’t realize that they’ve bonded right away. The rest of the crew is a different story.

So Wise We Grow by @youhideastar (AO3) ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

"Commander Spock, we have located your son," the Vulcan lady on the screen says, which would be great, except Jim can tell by the look on Spock's face that he's never heard of this kid before in his life. "If it is expedient, the child will be sent to join you on the Enterprise within the week."

The Trouble With Vulcan-Human Hybrids by quantumgirl (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

A story in which Spock and Kirk meet their future children when accidental time travel happens. Future Spock and Kirk have twin children, a son and daughter, who each take after their parents in unique ways. After a bit of an accident, the two children are thrown into an Enterprise where Dad and Father are still only coworkers, learning how to get along with each other. ......

“He’s got hobgoblin blood, too.” McCoy shook a vial of green blood for them to see.

Kirk had finally set the PADD down, at the foot of Spock’s hospital bed. “So he’s half me and half Vulcan?” Kirk’s eyes flicked over Spock’s face. “Is this a joke?”

“I was going to ask you that,” McCoy shrugged at Jim. “You have yourself here a Vulcan-Human hybrid...a Vulcan-Kirk hybrid.”

THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS by spicyshimmy (AO3) ❤️‍🔥 ☁️ 💢 🍬 📚

Prince S'chn T'gai Spock of Vulcan, engaged to Prince James Tiberius Kirk of Earth through an arrangement made by their parents many years ago, writes to his intended on the day of his birth in the interest of diplomacy. Jim is not interested in diplomacy. Though there is no precedent set for the commencement of a written correspondence begun due to these specific parameters, I will strive to maintain, to the best of my abilities and with ample preparatory research previously conducted, the appropriate level of formality between us, based on a number of factors, primarily examples of a similar nature.

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Hi so sorry to randomly show up in your tumblr; I am desperate for TOS and SNW friends and have been trying to find people to talk about it rather too frantically. I love your tumblr and you said you welcomed comments so I hope you don't mind me submitting this question!

I really loved your post about nerd!Kirk, because he is super close to my heart. I would even add that a significant backstory for him is his delay in firing on an alien entity when he was aboard the Farragut--no one blamed him, but he at least felt that he had been overly cautious, if I remember correctly.

That said, the Kirk in the season finale of SNW is not young!Kirk--it's Kirk in 2066, which is the year S1 of TOS takes place. Do you think that Kirk only becomes flirty and charming if he captains the Enterprise with the specific crew from TOS?

I will say that *I* didn't find Wesley's Kirk to be overly serious; Kirk is extremely serious throughout Balance of Terror. I actually found him too swashbuckle-y, myself. I feel like in Balance of Terror we see a lot more evidence that Kirk's decision to pursue the Romulan Bird of Prey is a carefully considered action to prevent war, whereas in SNW, it felt a bit more like Kirk was going on gut instinct.

The Kirk we will get in S2 will presumably be 7 years younger. Personally, I am hoping so hard for a quiet, overly conscientious Kirk who is not himself yet at all, and Pike is shocked--like are you even the same guy I saw 7 years in the future??? I doubt it will happen but it's a way to at least respond to the Kirk Drift in popular culture that saddens me so.

Ugh thank you for writing me, holy relatable! That desperation resonates. I am rabid here with feels and enthusiasm. I feel like I'm going to climb the walls and my poor partner can only take so much! XD No need to apologize, I loved everything about this. You've come to the right place, this is what I come here to do! <3 Without further ado, let’s get into it! (long ass post fam you’ve been warned)

You made such a fantastic allusion to "Obsession" (TOS 02x13) in which young Kirk's pension to overthink and/or hesitate haunted him throughout his command career. As you said nobody blamed him, but he never let it go. Kirk is hard on himself, and he has always held himself to another standard (he sends his crew on Shore Leave and yet has to be strong armed into resting himself by either Spock, Bones or both at every opportunity.)

I have to agree 100% with what you said about the SNW being "swashbuckle-y"; I think most folks were expecting our flirty, confident Jim, so they were shook by the seriousness of even this incarnation. But like yourself, I was expecting a serious Jim. In fact I felt Jim was a bit hot-headed in SNW compared to his TOS prime self during Balance of Terror. It was a deadly serious situation. It's not the time for flirting, jokes and playful banter; people are about to die. They are on the cusp of war. And people expect Jim to be frivolous and flirty on the eve of possible Interstellar War? REALLY?! Hahaha yeah, no . . .

TOS Jim was grim and VERY serious in Balance of Terror, because it WAS grim and serious. Like you, I hope we get to see more of serious, nerdy Jim. Like I am already fantasizing about him being such an extra diva arriving in shuttlecraft because he refused to have his father's precious handed down book collection transferred via beaming or anyone else because THEY'RE ANTIQUES and family hand me downs. There are officers coming and going from a shuttlecraft with stacks of books going down the hall. And Spock is waiting to greet Jim as the new Captain and instead nearly gets run down by a pair of legs and a giant stack of books teetering past. And one is about to fall off the top and the guy buried alive behind them goes "CATCH IT" and it is this BUSTED, rotted, destroyed copy of A Tale of Two Cities and Jim barks "CAREFUL that one's my favourite!-" And Spock is like "who tf holds on to something once it looks like this?" And later finds out it looks like this because it's Jim's favourite, of course it has been used into the dirt -- he needs a new og print of it AND TWOK BOOK *FLAILING* OK time to reel it back before I write a fanfic. XD

I think Kirk Drift has eroded so much of what is truly good and respectable about Jim as a character, I couldn’t agree with you more. Due to this, people forget how serious about the fleet and his studies that Jim used to be. He was a nerd. A real Boimler at the Academy. And that didn’t just disappear in TOS.

For example, Picard was the wild one in his younger years who had a rude awakening that made him stoic. Conversely, Jim is deadly serious at the academy and learns how to loosen up via his field work and camaraderie with the Enterprise crew as he gets comfortable and confident in his own skin as a commander. Kirk Drift eliminates the Kirk who ruminates and frets over each choice he makes in the aftermath. He is always vigilant and fearful of making the wrong choices that could get people hurt or killed. He is CONSTANTLY under pressure as the youngest Starfleet Captain promoted. You hear him ranting about it to Bones and Spock in TOS, hands wringing, mulling over huge decisions and feeling agony over ones that he begins questioning himself over and over thinking. What if I made the wrong choice? That’s when Bones and Spock step in to temper him. What if Jim didn’t have that support system there to turn to with all the inherited stressors and pressures of becoming a new Captain, the youngest in the fleet?

SNW Jim loses his ship and crew in that AU, and it wasn't even the ship and crew he had wanted to be assigned to in the first place. Who is out here feeling flirty and fun after that, right? That AU Jim really got the raw deal; I'm glad we were all spared that future. <3

Regarding Kirk in 2265, I do genuinely believe that becoming the youngest Captain of the flagship, that crew, and the scenarios he is put into through that incarnation definitely help to shape how comfortable and expressive he is as a Captain. Do I believe it solely comes from that? No, but I do believe that if he was assigned the Farragut over the Enterprise it would be a blow to the ego and his confidence. He worked so hard in Starfleet. He was top of his class. He did everything right. He was gunning for that flagship command because it is the vessel that is first to be assigned first contact missions, the first sent to deal with any major political, diplomatic or military interceptions; to answer any unknown distress calls or beacons. Comparatively, his life on the Farragut would be quite dull.

I’ll get further into why I think the Farragut is a poor commission choice for Jim further below, but for now let’s talk the repercussions of Jim not having the Triumvirate, the Trek Trinity, THE TURBO TEAM:

I think my sentiments are best summed up with my addition to the OG post (I am not sure if you got to see it as it was a reblog) where @s-is-for-spock asked this excellent question about the SNW Jim:

"Where is the glint in his eye?"

I'm going to post my OG response to it below:

"OOF! That's good. And true.

This is such a fantastic way of putting it!

I feel like we get a hint of why that is when Jim comes aboard the Enterprise; Sam promptly makes a comment about Jim being jealous about the ship.

It's no secret: Jim wanted the Enterprise. That was his dream. And in that incarnation, he didn't get it and was assigned the Farragut instead of the flagship for his Captaincy.

And on the Farragut, he doesn't have Spock. That team that comes up with inventive ideas and creates that spark that makes the job exciting. Mentally, Spock and Jim are a good pairing that brings out the best in each other. They're a great team that challenges and elevates one another. Also the lack of McCoy for one or both would also have a profound impact on both of them; would Bones and Spock have ever become friends, without Jim refereeing their bickering? Would Jim have survived a captaincy as long as he did without McCoy's care, talent and ingenuity? Without Spock's protectiveness and loyalty? Perhaps, but he would not have been the same person. Gene Roddenberry himself said he had intended Kirk and Spock to be two parts of the same whole who complete each other; I don't believe either would reach their absolute full potential without that. I guess this AU is when we get to see a glimpse of what it would be like when Jim doesn't have that.

It is kind of sad when you think about it, but Sam sums it up pretty well: Jim is jealous. He wanted the Enterprise. And he's also down his chess buddy and drinking buddy, aka his partners in crime. The primary relationships that actually give Jim's life with work aside meaning aren't there. The SNW AU Jim isn't living the dream that Kirk Prime got to have and I guess it shows; this is Jim without ever connecting with "the noblest part" of himself.

It makes a world of sense the longer I wend on it; of course he doesn't have that spark. He doesn't have the Enterprise. He doesn't have the finest crew in the fleet. And he doesn't have Spock.”

That was my OG take on the Triumvirate, now let’s get into the Farragut commission for Jim.

I think that yes, Jim would not be the same Jim if he did not get made Captain of the flagship at age 32; he was destined to be that time period’s first contact Captain. He was not meant to be the Captain of the Farragut, and that would be a weird choice to appoint a command track genius who just graduated at the top of their class.

Here’s my theory on why: The Farragut’s primary function is as a scientific research vessel. It would be a dream ship for a Medical Officer or Science Officer, but not a command track commission for one of Starfleet’s most distinguished graduates; one who already had impressive field accolades and firsthand diplomatic experience under their belt.

The Farragut is a Nebula class ship; it does not get the same exciting missions that would challenge Jim's intelligence, ingenuity and creativity to it's maximum potential as the flagship would.

The Nebula-class starship was primarily used for deep space scientific research missions; on occasion, it was also employed as an escort or to try out new technologies. I imagine that a scientific research vessel would be better suited to Sam Kirk than Jim Kirk. Sam would love a ship that is stable, consistent, lower risk, a fairly standard and consistent daily routine that focused more on study and less on exploration of the unknown firsthand.

While Sam Kirk would thrive on a Scientific study vessel like the Farragut, I feel that Jim Kirk’s command commission is wasted there with untapped potential. Scientific research is not Jim’s forte or his background of study; he’s capable, but it isn’t his passion - which makes it such a weird choice to appoint him there. I can imagine Jim having a full on Evil!Kirk tantrum back in his quarters once he got his assignment like: ARE YOU F***KING KIDDING ME?

I WANT TO MEET ALIEUMS NOT STUDY MICROBES AHHHH-

Ahem.👁️👄👁️ Excuse me, pardon me.

I think they make a strong effort of really pushing that this universe is “off”.

For the SNW fans, their hint that this was not the right timeline was dropped with La’an acting super OOC before we learn of Spock’s fate (of course the biggest neon “this shit ain’t right” sign).

For us TOS fans, they also pushed that something is “off” about this timeline by assigning Jim Kirk to a scientific research field commission captaincy. Just . . . what the what now? That was such a WTF moment for me when I heard that.

It gave me AOS Uhura vibes: They assigned Jim Kirk to the FARRAGUT? *frothing, getting held back* HOW DARE THEY!

I kid, I kid, but I digress. In my mind, Jim is destined to be on the flagship vessel at that time; initiating first contact, grappling complex interplanetary missions, diplomatic situations, and bouncing off of Spock and Bones to help problem solve challenging missions that they are meant to overcome as a team. Jim is needed there, and now we know his Captaincy is essential to the fate of the Prime Universe. Just as Pike was always destined to be Captain of the Enterprise for his timeline, he was destined to later pass that torch on to Jim Kirk when he felt he was ready.

I think the episode of SNW supports that assertion perfectly when Pike says as much standing in front of that screen of Jim Kirk while addressing Spock: "Let's just say I . . . think the universe is telling me that some fates are inescapable".

This is further solidified by the Pike and Kirk scene before the timeline was restored (and I completely FREAKED OUT BECAUSE PIKE! KIRK! IN THE SAME ROOM! TALKING! I'M OK I SWEAR AHHHH-) Pike: "You know, I don't think I can explain it, but I think I was supposed to meet you."

Kirk: "I get that feeling, too . . . did it ever occur to you that sometimes you can't avoid a fight? If you had just chased that Romulan ship from the get-go and taken it out, maybe none of this would have happened.”

Pike: "You're a good captain, Jim Kirk. Enterprise would be lucky to have you."

This is followed by Pike's "tell me about yourself" impromptu interview session with Jim, plus him researching Jim when he returns to his own timeline. I think it is the first time that Pike has encountered someone that he would actually trust with the life of his crew and would feel confident passing the torch to when the time came. It hammers home the concept that Kirk is eventually destined to take the baton from Pike and take care of his crew with that same love, protectiveness, rapport and enthusiasm. Jim piqued his interest, clearly; and Pike is now both convinced and assured that it is the correct destiny.

That also destroys me, knowing what is coming for Pike. I am so insanely attached and enamored by Mount's take on the character. I can't even talk about this man I'm getting choked up. Let's save that for another scroll, shall we? :D I just hope they don’t rush things, give us more time with Pike as Captain, and possibly let us explore a little more of that lesser known serious “stack of book with legs” early Jim Kirk. In my delulu fantasy I’d also love for Pike to seek Kirk as a commission, bringing him aboard the enterprise to help mentor and guide him. It would make sense, if Pike had a hand in mentoring Kirk, considering how very much alike they are in their command style. I think they would get along swimmingly. (And maybe ride horsies because they both love to. OK I’ll seriously stop now.)

Anyway, thanks so much for reaching out and sorry it took so long for me to print the bible out here! I love hearing from you guys and talking with you, so thanks for the opportunity to chat and spill some Trek tea! Fingers crossed for the return of nerdy!Kirk in S2.

Take care and LLAP! 🖖

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