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  1. Public Bookmark 77

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    Doctor McCoy sure as hell doesn’t compromise care, confidentiality, or his goddamn conscience for anyone. He has no problem with extracting a mind-controlling slug from Uhura's sinuses, performing a blood transfusion between a human and a sentient puddle, or administering therapy to a crew-wide hallucination of a god.

    But catching feelings for Spock?

    Now that’s just irresponsible.

    And ultimately, it's all Jim’s fault.

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    02 Aug 2025

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  2. Public Bookmark 38

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    The NSS T’Vann was going to crash.

    Thirty-one standard seconds was not enough time to launch the escape pod.

    Despite their reputation throughout the galaxy as emotionless automatons, even a Vulcan was not immune to the overbearing weight of fear. Emotion was not purged by evolution, but mastered with lifelong training. In moments of certain doom, those less disciplined would succumb to their primal nature. Years of practice would slip away – mere grains of sand racing through cracks between fingers.

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    Cast out fear. There is no room for anything else until you cast out fear.

    Spock repeated the words as a mantra in his mind. They were the original words of Surak, the sermon which had saved their species from self-annihilation. His wisdom had delivered them from fear and the destructive, untamable force of entropy.

    Yet, Spock could not cast out fear, for he was stranded on this alien world inhabited by barbarians – and he was alone.

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    18 Sep 2025

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    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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    31 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    With Sevastopol behind them, Jim had thought the worst was behind them as well. But no. Apparently his choices are jail, jail for his crew, jail for his ship, or join the Federation on a delightful pleasure cruise to Acheron. Jim's survived the impossible before, more than once, in fact, but how long can one man's luck hold out? And then, of course, there's Spock. Spock that Jim yearns for. Spock that Jim longs for. Spock that Jim will absolutely get a grip about. Yes. He will. The Mission will go fine, he will get over Spock, and he and his crew will go on their merry way.

    This time for sure.

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    30 Apr 2025

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    The abridged sexual history of James Tiberius Kirk.

    Or, Jim’s varyingly unhealthy idea of what sex is supposed to be (a it-gets-worse-before-it-gets-better story)

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    28 Oct 2025