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The Starfleet Corps of Engineers
Sep. 18th, 2010 10:38 amShould I be worried that my brain is trying to get into new pairings without my permission? I mean, the Kirk/Pike dream last night was pleasant, but I'm pretty sure I don't actually ship that.
(It was a really precious dream though. Kirk and Pike were in an established relationship and had a daughter, but she was being cared for by someone else and at the start of the dream Kirk and Pike were separated because Pike was on a mission and Kirk was on several months of administrative leave, possibly because he'd been injured. He was supposed to be assigned to something like temporarily working on reforms in Starfleet's military prison, but he successfully argued to them that he couldn't deal with that because he already felt so trapped being earthside and away from Pike, so they put him on a big engineering project, fixing a dam or something. And everyone he worked with was really weirded out because they'd heard all of these crazy stories about Captain Kirk but instead they got this quiet, serious guy who was really conscientious about finishing his paperwork. He knew a lot about engineering though, and came up with some good innovations for improving the dam.
Towards the end of the dream, he got a vid-call from Pike that they'd got permission to have their daughter with them on their next long-term mission, so he was really happy, but also sadface because Pike would see her before he did. And then the dream ended with Pike on his ship, also pining for Kirk, but he was all excited because they'd completed their mission early and he was going to get back to earth and go to Kirk's office to surprise him. I guess my subconscious just really likes pining and domestic fluff together.)
...That's coherent enough that I might actually consider adding it to my should-be-writing list. If, you know, I wanted to write Kirk/Pike. WHICH I DON'T. STOP IT BRAIN.
(It was a really precious dream though. Kirk and Pike were in an established relationship and had a daughter, but she was being cared for by someone else and at the start of the dream Kirk and Pike were separated because Pike was on a mission and Kirk was on several months of administrative leave, possibly because he'd been injured. He was supposed to be assigned to something like temporarily working on reforms in Starfleet's military prison, but he successfully argued to them that he couldn't deal with that because he already felt so trapped being earthside and away from Pike, so they put him on a big engineering project, fixing a dam or something. And everyone he worked with was really weirded out because they'd heard all of these crazy stories about Captain Kirk but instead they got this quiet, serious guy who was really conscientious about finishing his paperwork. He knew a lot about engineering though, and came up with some good innovations for improving the dam.
Towards the end of the dream, he got a vid-call from Pike that they'd got permission to have their daughter with them on their next long-term mission, so he was really happy, but also sadface because Pike would see her before he did. And then the dream ended with Pike on his ship, also pining for Kirk, but he was all excited because they'd completed their mission early and he was going to get back to earth and go to Kirk's office to surprise him. I guess my subconscious just really likes pining and domestic fluff together.)
...That's coherent enough that I might actually consider adding it to my should-be-writing list. If, you know, I wanted to write Kirk/Pike. WHICH I DON'T. STOP IT BRAIN.