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Rating: As it is: N/A As it was intended to be: PG-13, maybe R
Characters/Pairing/Threesome/Etc: Winona Kirk; Jim/OC, Jim/Bones
Content Advisory: Violence, angst, character death.
Summary: How Winona Kirk saved half the colonists of Tarsus IV.
Prompt/Plotbunny: Explaining where Winona wasn't by the events of the movie.
Notes: I wanted to write this to prove that Tarsus IV stories don't have to insult Winona Kirk, to explain why she's not in the main body of the movie, to put Jim on Tarsus IV because I thought it makes an interesting backstory for him, and to give Winona an adventure. However, I couldn't see her surviving the plot, and people whose opinions I respect said if I killed her I would be 'fridging her, so I ended up not writing this.
Tarsus IV story
You replied to a comment left by my sputnik sweetheart (ayalesca) in a
LiveJournal post (http://canis-takahari.livejournal.com/373769.html). The
comment you replied to was:
> One of these days I'll write the story where he was there and awesome
> and Winona is awesome and there is enough awesomeness to ameliorate all
> the awful ways people have used that canon.
> I will love you forever for that story. <33333
Winona looks at the Car Incident (and Sam's
simultaneous Running Away Incident) and says, "You know what? My sons
need to live with me right now. Reassign me to the colony on Tarsus IV
where I can both work for Starfleet and live with them." Three years
later, after not being heard when she said to her higher-ups, "Things are
going terrible places here," and while helping to organize the resistance
to Gov. Kodos and trying to get her sons back off the colony, she's
killed, [maybe along with Sam.]
I'm looking at that backwards and forwards, and I don't see how it
denigrates Winona, except that she could be seen as being 'fridged. But
it could be changed to How Winona Kirk Helped Save 5000 Colonists, too.
Characters: Winona, Jim, Sam, Jim's boyfriend-or-girlfriend (abbreviated as Jim's Sweetie), the Rileys, Kodos, Kodos's assistant, Hoshi Sato.
Story starts with Winona happily surveying her son or sons, thriving on Tarsus. Jim being melodramatic about a boy/girl who dumped him. Neighbor Hoshi Sato, neighbor Riley family. Worrisome crop blight.
Food shortages.
So-and-so offscreen character disappears.
Winona worries, is told Starfleet's been informed so she doesn't need to send reports. She packs backpacks of supplies for her son/s in a sleepless night. She disconnects her padd from the colony intranet and writes reports.
Winona talks to Kodos's assistant, figures out Starfleet is not being informed of true situation (Kodos wants to appear in control).
Many people disappear.
Winona is shouted down when she suggests calling for help.
Hoshi Sato kills herself as an act of protest (cf Yeomanrand's story Funshi)
Sam disappears, Jim's sweetie's family disappears; same day, rhe Rileys have been ordered to report to the Community Center. They bring Kev by and ask Jim to 'babysit' him. Jim promises Mr. Riley he'll take care of Kev. Winona gives Jim a backpack and tells him to go to the forested hills. [Jim says "I need to get my sweetie," Winona kisses his forehead, tells him to use back door of house, goes to detention center to rescue Sam/her protege.]
[Jim, with Kev, goes to his sweetie's house in time to see the family being dragged out and his sweetie shot to cow the rest. Because he's in the trees behind the house the soldiers/security forces/whatever they're called don't see him and Kev, so they get away.]
Winona rescues Sam, blows up part of armory as distraction/limiting resources, breaks into the room where she can send a message to Starfleet. [Sam insists on staying with her, helps her subdue soldiers on way] [or she makes Sam leave]. They send the message, she tells Sam she's proud of him/her, [if Sam -- reminds her of George], puts him in a Jeffries tube (say 'even dirtside installations have Jeffries tubes) and tells him to run, stands and waits for them to break down the door. Last line "They come in shooting."
Epilogue: Jim in bed with Bones, telling him about at least some of this.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:46:00 UT
Subject: Re: Tarsus IV / Languages / Hoshi Sato , smartJim
You replied to an anonymous comment left in a LiveJournal post
(http://community.livejournal.com/st_xi_kink/8627.html). The comment you
replied to was:
> So, Hoshi Sato (and some family of hers) died on Tarsus IV in the TOS
> universe. I've already seen fic where Jim meets her on Tarsus and even
> some where she teaches him languages. (For those who don't know, Hoshi is
> the reason newUhura has mad-language skillz! TOS Uhura was good at her
> job too, but didn't speak Klingon for example and I don't recall whether
> we ever see her speaking a foreign langage this doesn't mean that she
> didn't speak lots of them, but the character who we HAVE seen (in
> Enterprise) speak (and speak well) many many languages and who is
> talented enough to pick up completely new ones in a matter of days if not
> hours is Hoshi Sato. She also helped develop the first models of the
> universal translator.)
> So basically I want Jim to meet Hoshi on Tarsus. He arrives after the car
> incident in kind of bad shape (sent to live with relatives) and she (is a
> neighbour?) realizes that he's smart and teaches him languages (many
> different ones, I've also seen a fic where she taught him Xindi, which
> wans't in any official databases at that point). Then the bad things
> happen, but because of differences in the timeline (faster ships, Jim
> might be damaged from living with Frank, but it also makes him more able
> to deal with Kodos (I have this version in my head where he becomes
> Kodos's pet kind of, but sees through him and kills him, which TOS Jim
> wouldn't have been able to do), other reasons) Hoshi survives.
> Cue movie-time, where Uhura of course admires Hoshi (if Archer is still
> alive, Hoshi is too) but doesn't know that Jim knows her (Jim doesn't
> like to bring it up because of the Tarsus connection). Nyota knows that
> Jim is good with languages from the Xenolinguistics club, but she doesn't
> know how many he actually speaks (he tends not to reveal this fact,
> especially some of the more obscure ones). Somehow she finds out (maybe
> she sees them together somewhere). Jim introduces them, cue language
> geekery, Tarsus angst, other things.
> If (probably non existent, I know this is a long shot, but I wanted to
> put it down anyways) author wants it can go AU after Tarsus and Hoshi
> stays in contact with Jim and gets him educational opportunities (cause
> he's SMART) through her Starfleet friends.
> If there are pairings I'd ask it to be K/S or K/S/U (here with the
> possibility for preexisting S/U, but I'd prefer not to see this pairing
> alone)
> Bonus points for including Amanda (perhaps she survived in an AU or she's
> mentioned) and her worl on Vulcan (the language) and Vulcan-Standard
> translation.
Your reply was:
Subject: Re: Tarsus IV / Languages / Hoshi Sato , smartJim
Oh, this is an epic, epic prompt.
From here, you can:
> I'm of the opinion that he was shipped to Tarsus right after driving the
> car after the cliff. A colony with some hard work and some family would
> be the perfect place to straighten out a boy having some discipline
> issues (which is how I think Winona would have seen it).
Your reply was:
In a nutshell: this is what I think too.
If I ever decide to write a Story of Angst, I might write teenage Jim's
first romance on Tarsus IV. In my intended story, his sweetheart doesn't
make it.
Subject: Springtime on Tarsus IV
http://amine-eyes.livejournal.com/25835.html
http://emiliglia.livejournal.com/400410.html
http://linelenagain.livejournal.com/6331.html
http://happy-trekmas.livejournal.com/16015.html
http://community.livejournal.com/tarsus_iv_fic/17897.html
Rating: As it is: N/A As it was intended to be: PG-13, maybe R
Characters/Pairing/Threesome/Etc: Winona Kirk; Jim/OC, Jim/Bones
Content Advisory: Violence, angst, character death.
Summary: How Winona Kirk saved half the colonists of Tarsus IV.
Prompt/Plotbunny: Explaining where Winona wasn't by the events of the movie.
Notes: I wanted to write this to prove that Tarsus IV stories don't have to insult Winona Kirk, to explain why she's not in the main body of the movie, to put Jim on Tarsus IV because I thought it makes an interesting backstory for him, and to give Winona an adventure. However, I couldn't see her surviving the plot, and people whose opinions I respect said if I killed her I would be 'fridging her, so I ended up not writing this.
Tarsus IV story
You replied to a comment left by my sputnik sweetheart (ayalesca) in a
LiveJournal post (http://canis-takahari.livejournal.com/373769.html). The
comment you replied to was:
> One of these days I'll write the story where he was there and awesome
> and Winona is awesome and there is enough awesomeness to ameliorate all
> the awful ways people have used that canon.
> I will love you forever for that story. <33333
Winona looks at the Car Incident (and Sam's
simultaneous Running Away Incident) and says, "You know what? My sons
need to live with me right now. Reassign me to the colony on Tarsus IV
where I can both work for Starfleet and live with them." Three years
later, after not being heard when she said to her higher-ups, "Things are
going terrible places here," and while helping to organize the resistance
to Gov. Kodos and trying to get her sons back off the colony, she's
killed, [maybe along with Sam.]
I'm looking at that backwards and forwards, and I don't see how it
denigrates Winona, except that she could be seen as being 'fridged. But
it could be changed to How Winona Kirk Helped Save 5000 Colonists, too.
Characters: Winona, Jim, Sam, Jim's boyfriend-or-girlfriend (abbreviated as Jim's Sweetie), the Rileys, Kodos, Kodos's assistant, Hoshi Sato.
Story starts with Winona happily surveying her son or sons, thriving on Tarsus. Jim being melodramatic about a boy/girl who dumped him. Neighbor Hoshi Sato, neighbor Riley family. Worrisome crop blight.
Food shortages.
So-and-so offscreen character disappears.
Winona worries, is told Starfleet's been informed so she doesn't need to send reports. She packs backpacks of supplies for her son/s in a sleepless night. She disconnects her padd from the colony intranet and writes reports.
Winona talks to Kodos's assistant, figures out Starfleet is not being informed of true situation (Kodos wants to appear in control).
Many people disappear.
Winona is shouted down when she suggests calling for help.
Hoshi Sato kills herself as an act of protest (cf Yeomanrand's story Funshi)
Sam disappears, Jim's sweetie's family disappears; same day, rhe Rileys have been ordered to report to the Community Center. They bring Kev by and ask Jim to 'babysit' him. Jim promises Mr. Riley he'll take care of Kev. Winona gives Jim a backpack and tells him to go to the forested hills. [Jim says "I need to get my sweetie," Winona kisses his forehead, tells him to use back door of house, goes to detention center to rescue Sam/her protege.]
[Jim, with Kev, goes to his sweetie's house in time to see the family being dragged out and his sweetie shot to cow the rest. Because he's in the trees behind the house the soldiers/security forces/whatever they're called don't see him and Kev, so they get away.]
Winona rescues Sam, blows up part of armory as distraction/limiting resources, breaks into the room where she can send a message to Starfleet. [Sam insists on staying with her, helps her subdue soldiers on way] [or she makes Sam leave]. They send the message, she tells Sam she's proud of him/her, [if Sam -- reminds her of George], puts him in a Jeffries tube (say 'even dirtside installations have Jeffries tubes) and tells him to run, stands and waits for them to break down the door. Last line "They come in shooting."
Epilogue: Jim in bed with Bones, telling him about at least some of this.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:46:00 UT
Subject: Re: Tarsus IV / Languages / Hoshi Sato , smartJim
You replied to an anonymous comment left in a LiveJournal post
(http://community.livejournal.com/st_xi_kink/8627.html). The comment you
replied to was:
> So, Hoshi Sato (and some family of hers) died on Tarsus IV in the TOS
> universe. I've already seen fic where Jim meets her on Tarsus and even
> some where she teaches him languages. (For those who don't know, Hoshi is
> the reason newUhura has mad-language skillz! TOS Uhura was good at her
> job too, but didn't speak Klingon for example and I don't recall whether
> we ever see her speaking a foreign langage this doesn't mean that she
> didn't speak lots of them, but the character who we HAVE seen (in
> Enterprise) speak (and speak well) many many languages and who is
> talented enough to pick up completely new ones in a matter of days if not
> hours is Hoshi Sato. She also helped develop the first models of the
> universal translator.)
> So basically I want Jim to meet Hoshi on Tarsus. He arrives after the car
> incident in kind of bad shape (sent to live with relatives) and she (is a
> neighbour?) realizes that he's smart and teaches him languages (many
> different ones, I've also seen a fic where she taught him Xindi, which
> wans't in any official databases at that point). Then the bad things
> happen, but because of differences in the timeline (faster ships, Jim
> might be damaged from living with Frank, but it also makes him more able
> to deal with Kodos (I have this version in my head where he becomes
> Kodos's pet kind of, but sees through him and kills him, which TOS Jim
> wouldn't have been able to do), other reasons) Hoshi survives.
> Cue movie-time, where Uhura of course admires Hoshi (if Archer is still
> alive, Hoshi is too) but doesn't know that Jim knows her (Jim doesn't
> like to bring it up because of the Tarsus connection). Nyota knows that
> Jim is good with languages from the Xenolinguistics club, but she doesn't
> know how many he actually speaks (he tends not to reveal this fact,
> especially some of the more obscure ones). Somehow she finds out (maybe
> she sees them together somewhere). Jim introduces them, cue language
> geekery, Tarsus angst, other things.
> If (probably non existent, I know this is a long shot, but I wanted to
> put it down anyways) author wants it can go AU after Tarsus and Hoshi
> stays in contact with Jim and gets him educational opportunities (cause
> he's SMART) through her Starfleet friends.
> If there are pairings I'd ask it to be K/S or K/S/U (here with the
> possibility for preexisting S/U, but I'd prefer not to see this pairing
> alone)
> Bonus points for including Amanda (perhaps she survived in an AU or she's
> mentioned) and her worl on Vulcan (the language) and Vulcan-Standard
> translation.
Your reply was:
Subject: Re: Tarsus IV / Languages / Hoshi Sato , smartJim
Oh, this is an epic, epic prompt.
From here, you can:
> I'm of the opinion that he was shipped to Tarsus right after driving the
> car after the cliff. A colony with some hard work and some family would
> be the perfect place to straighten out a boy having some discipline
> issues (which is how I think Winona would have seen it).
Your reply was:
In a nutshell: this is what I think too.
If I ever decide to write a Story of Angst, I might write teenage Jim's
first romance on Tarsus IV. In my intended story, his sweetheart doesn't
make it.
Subject: Springtime on Tarsus IV
http://amine-eyes.livejournal.com/25835.html
http://emiliglia.livejournal.com/400410.html
http://linelenagain.livejournal.com/6331.html
http://happy-trekmas.livejournal.com/16015.html
http://community.livejournal.com/tarsus_iv_fic/17897.html
