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    ...the god may speak in the forms of geometry as well as in the shapes of dreams; in the harmony of pure thought as well as in the harmony of sounds; in numbers as well as in words.
    -- Ursula K. LeGuin

    The View from T'Khut

      Part I: The Absent World. The planet vanishes, but her people go on.
      Part II: An Archaeology of Loss. The world-death left a scar in spacetime, and a void in the heart of the Federation.
      Part III: Time and Darkness. In which Ambassador Spock fires unexpected shots.

    Summon the Future

    One man can change the present. -- James T. Kirk

    Appendix: Vulcan vocabulary


    I am interested in the lacunae of the destruction of Vulcan, and the shape of its future, post-Nero. This story does not explore all of my ideas about that, but it explores some of them. At one point I said to Beatrice, "am I secretly writing a post-apocalyptic story about utopia as praxis?"

    This series uses Kelvin/AOS style stardates.

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    Ilya asked Shane’s father while Shane and his mother were talking outside: “Is boyfriends correct? Lovers is incorrect, but I am not sure what is correct.”

    “Well,” Mr. Hollander said. “‘Lovers’ is usually used for, hm, a mistress or an affair. Something kind of sordid. Though--you would say Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers,” he said. He paused his knife on the chopping board. “Somehow that’s right and using it for real people isn’t right. English is a damn funny language, Ilya."

    “Yes,” Ilya said from the bottom of his heart.

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    18 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    even if there was no name on it this story is incredibly style-stamped as belonging to bas

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    Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find themselves transported to 1951 Korea, just outside Uijeongbu and the 4077th MASH unit. Directly on top of a land mine.

    Matters escalate from there.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    interesting premise

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    The Enterprise is preparing for a 2-year refit between missions. Kirk has a proposal.

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    09 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    delightful. i love all the sensory details

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    The fal-tor-pan does not go to plan, and Spock faces a long recovery.

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    06 Feb 2026

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    well

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    Jim Kirk falls into a rip in space and time and pops out somewhere else entirely. This has... consequences.

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    27 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    i'm a sucker for kirk prime turning up in the kelvinverse