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[burn-to-emerge.livejournal.com]

1. Any Number One fics, gen, Spock/Number One, or Pike/Spock/Number One. TOS or Reboot.

2. Any backstory fics, Reboot or TOS, about any characters. I've read a ton about Reboot Kirk, and a few about Reboot Spock, but not so much about anyone else. I'm especially interested in Chekov, Amanda Grayson, and TOS Kirk, especially if they're not solely about Tarsus IV. The fics can be fully gen, or contain het or slash.

3. Any fics that explore the differences in alien cultures.

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

boosette has written some lovely Number One backstory, including:
The Potatoes of Defiance (http://boosette.livejournal.com/820614.html)
Ad Astra (http://boosette.livejournal.com/768749.html)
Alis Volat Propriis (http://boosette.livejournal.com/781862.html)

and And People You Love (http://boosette.livejournal.com/851214.html?format=light), a Winter Holiday Memories story about Spock and Uhura.

Also, have you checked out where_no_woman? As part of exploring the lives of female characters, there are many backstory stories about everyone from Gaila to Winona Kirk, at the Monthly Drabble Challenges (really short stories) and otherwise.

[burn-to-emerge.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the recs. I'll be sure to check them out.

Thanks also for the link. I do know and love that community, but I keep forgetting to check it out at regular intervals. :)

[jenna_marianne]

I recommend waldorph's √π233/hy7 series
http://waldorph.livejournal.com/tag/series:+%E2%88%9A%CF%80233/hy7

The first few in the series, starting with A Beautiful(ly Illogical) Mind are definitely Kirk/Spock centric, but she's done a bunch of shorter stories that focus on various characters, including George & Amanda, Sarek & Amanda, T'Pring and Frank. I'd recommend reading them in order, at least the ones focused on Kirk & Spock, but some of the backstory ones could be read out of order.

Punch It (the 17th story in the series) is Pike centric, with a really interesting version of Number One (Pike/Number One)
http://waldorph.livejournal.com/134778.html

Her T'Pring story, The Wanting and the Having, is very good (12th story in the series)
http://waldorph.livejournal.com/119922.html

[davyjonesing.livejournal.com]

I definitely second this recommendation.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

I love boosette's Number One genfic like an insane person. You can find it in her journal (http://boosette.livejournal.com/tag/!fic), or at the pike_numberone Masterlist (http://community.livejournal.com/pike_numberone/351.html).

Also, there's some Spock/Number One in there as well. Past Acquaintances (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4012730/1/Past_Acquaintances) is adorable, and Vulcan's Don't Share (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5587018/1/Vulcans_Dont_Share) is very very silly gen but slightly adorable.

ETA: also, Sing Me The Ages (http://tassosss.livejournal.com/131257.html) by tassosss has an AMAZING Uhura backstory.

Alas, I have yet to find Pike/Spock/Number One, tho I sort of have a clichefic idea lurking in the back of my mind (never let it be said I could ever pass up "Let's get you out of those wet clothes..." as a story prompt).

[sl_walker]

Fire and Ice by Karracaz is Amanda/Sarek backstory.

Learning to Be by Anna Amuse - TOS Spock backstory, and an excellent fic.

Expanding the Oecumene by Anna Amuse - TOS Pike, Number One, Spock and Jim and family do make an appearance in it.

Not Too Soon by SLWatson - Sarek and Amanda and toddler-Spock

Mothers by SLWatson - Amanda and Winona meet; has a wee little Jimmy.

China by SLWatson - TOS McCoy backstory; mine, yes. ::chuckles::

Dad by SLWatson - more TOS McCoy backstory

First... by SLWatson - Yet more TOS McCoy.

And finally, TOS Scotty... or, more than anyone ever wanted to know about the history of Montgomery Scott. ::laughs:: :

Arc of the Wolf: Distant Horizons
Arc of the Wolf: On the Nature of Wind
Arc of the Wolf: True Bearings

There's more than that, but it's not filled in.

::coughs:: A lot of self-pimping there, but I adore writing backstory.