copperbadge:

wandererriha:

momfriendmccoy:

momfriendmccoy:

I can’t explain how much I want a 21st century Star Trek au where Kirk still lives in Iowa and it’s like “holy shit aliens just literally landed in my cornfield I can’t believe my life became a bad episode of x-files”

ok but. hear me out like…

• kirk as just this genius 21yr old in Iowa building hi-tech shit in his basement; like radios and shit that manage to pick up sub-space frequencies that he helps code w/ the help of Uhura
• kirk thinking it’d be a funny prank to make some crop circles in his family’s cornfield
• kirk making intricate crop circles that read as some rudimentary script of Vulcan
• spock responding to the images that seem to be an SOS from his father; beams down to earth only to find out some humans managed to accidentally learn the vulcan language
• “oh so you’re an alien” “indeed” “And…you’re looking for your dad.” “affirmative” “well, you know what this means?” “….” “…roadtrip.”
• spock learns the meaning of friendship as he roadtrips across america with a pack of humans that kirk picks up along the way in search of his father: mccoy, the doctor they met in georgia that let them sleep in his basement; scotty the auto repair guy they meet in some backwater town; sulu in new york that is much better at driving than kirk is; nobody really knows how chekov ended up with them, but it’s probably illegal
• these are the voyages of the 1970 Volkswagen bus Enterprise

@copperbadge, sounds pertinent to your interests

I have to admit my Star Trek background is mostly TNG with a smattering of DS9. I’ve only seen about one and a half of the reboots, and until like…a year ago I thought “TOS” stood for “The Old Startrek”. I did see a LOT of the old movies (Star Trek IV was a favorite in our household) but I don’t really have the grounding for it. 

Though I do love the idea of Spock still being half-human, like, his mother somehow ran into Sarek ages ago and they fell in love and she had a baby (perhaps Sarek crashed, ala J’son in the Guardians canon). But she decided she wanted to stay on Earth and that Sarek could give Spock a better life on Vulcan, so she sent him off with his father as a baby. 

(Alternately, I don’t know Vulcan physiology, maybe she knocked up Sarek and he bolted before she found out.) 

Anyway I like the idea that he’s not there for his dad – he’s there for his mom. 

Also I think to make the joke really sing, they need to steal the car they go roadtripping in from Enterprise Rental Cars. Like, Kirk knows that the cars have lo-jacks but the Enterprise shuttles that take you from the airport to the rental place – the ones that have ENTERPRISE written in HUGE LETTERS across the side? – those have no tracking and are laughably easy to borrow-for-an-extended-period-of-time.