First stop on the road to forever (Star Trek/ Star Trek: Disovery Fanfiction)

Revealtime for the StarTrekHolidays ficathon: I wrote a TOS/Discovery crossover in which Michael Burnham gets to meet Uhura, which had been the prompt. Naturally, there‘s time travel involved, and once I had refreshed my canon TOS knowledge and remembered Uhura was among the people who went with Kirk and Spock to the Guardian of Forever, I knew which story I wanted to tell...


First Stop on the Road to Forever (8015 words) by Selena
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Discovery
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Michael Burnham & Nyota Uhura, Michael Burnham & Spock, Spock & Nyota Uhura, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott & Nyota Uhura
Characters: Nyota Uhura, Michael Burnham, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Spock (Star Trek), Galloway (Star Trek), Redshirts (Star Trek), Guardian of Forever
Additional Tags: Crossover, Missing Scene, Episode: s01e28 The City on the Edge of Forever, Episode: s02e13-14 Such Sweet Sorrow Parts 1-2, Time Travel
Summary:

When the Enterprise crew inadvertently changes history through the Guardian of Forever, Michael Burnham's journey is abruptly cut short. To Uhura, the new arrival is a mystery. To Scotty, she's a threat. And more than one timeline might be at stake....

Yuletide Recs 2

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea:

The Vast Unknown: in which Professor Arronax decides to stay on board the Nautilus. Really does feel like a possible alternate ending of the original novel, witch both Arronax' and Nemo's voices spot-on.

Versailles:

I never got around to writing a review of the third season, which I didn't enjoy nearly as much as the first two, not even on a crack soap opera history level, but one of the hands down undiminished bright spots was the show creating a credible OT3 out of its versions of Philippe d'Orleans, the Chevalier de Lorraine and Liselotte of the Palatinate. Not surprisingly, I loved the immensely enjoyable takes this year's Yuletide delivered on the golden trio:

Letters from Liselotte: If Versailles had ever done a Christmas special, this would have been it.

I prefer a pleasant vice: another great take on the trio from Liselotte's pov, this one with Louis.

The Seven Swans (the fairy tale):

Swan Song: the younger brother with the swan wing, after.

The Favourite:

Lady of the Bedchamber: Sarah and Abigail, sparring. Gloriously in the spirit of the movie.

The Goldfinch (the book, I haven't seen the movie):

How do you celebrate:

Boris and Theo, as intense and as messed up as ever.

James Asher mystery series - Barbara Hambly:

Unfortunate son: delivers all one loves this book series for - the three main characters rescuing each other, intense emotions between all three, minor vampire murder mystery, political scheming - and writes Lydia, James and Don Simon very very well indeed.

19th Century RPF:

Cor Cordium: Mary Shelley pov, covering the time between the Haunted Summer and the aftermath of Shelley's death. Among other things, it delivers a credible threesome with Byron, which I'm not that easy to sell on to because the relationship between Mary and Byron was always somewhat prickly (though they respected each other a lot), but this works for me. Though it's actually just one part of a greater story, covering Mary's development during those years, and it presents a very convincing version of her that doesn't ignore the edges (or the way her marriage was falling apart near the end).