Females are Friends, Not Obstacles

Sorry I've been so slack on this, I moved to Germany recently, and got really busy!

So, the last time we talked we were looking at Star Trek.  Since the most recent movies feature much more attractive actors (there may be debate about this, but I will take Chris Pine over Shatner any day), that part of the fandom has been the most active these days.

What does that mean?  Well, now we have to deal with the whole... Uhura thing. *Ugh why*

I'm sure I'm not the only person who thought there was more sexual chemistry in the scene where Spock tries to choke Kirk, than when he's kissing Uhura.  It's like some shitty rom com, and the hero now has to get rid of their disposable love interest before they can move forward with the real love story.

It's a common issue in fan works, as writers often have to 'write out' an established relationship.  Sometimes this leads to vilifying the other character, which is one of my least favorite things.  (My least favorite thing, as always, is MPreg.)  I would even go so far as to say that it is a deal breaker for me as a reader.

I've been happy to find that we, en mass, love Uhura too much to do that to her.

Below are two fics that I enjoyed that give us an Uhura that we can all love.  The first deftly deals with her relationship with Spock, the second just refuses to go there at all (they never date).

Atlas is long, and it gets a little weird at the end, but it is 100% worth your time.  The slow burn romance that we all love in a Star Trek fic, and Spock is very in character throughout the piece.  I've read it all the way through more than once.

THE SUM OF BOTH OF US is the kidfic that I think I always wanted about Kirk and Spock.  (The brief glimpse we get of them as children in the newer movies was really appealing to me.  They're such fierce little things, I always wanted them to be together sooner.)  Along with a great Uhura we get a fantastic T'Pring (who I've always really dug as a character), a really good Amanda, and an adorable sehlat.  This is also a love letter to Vulcan in the way that Observations was a love letter to New York, which I need so much.