This one won’t make AOS Uhura fans very happy
Spock hadn’t seen her in a while. Their time serving aboard the same ship had ended when Jim had decided to quit and raise a child with Spock. Retire, Spock supposed, though Jim hadn’t been retirement age, Starfleet allowed it because of who Jim was.
Anyway, Spock had left too, because Jim was his husband and they planned to raise a family together.
It had been a few years since he’d seen Nyota in person. And so when they ended up being in the same city, it seemed natural to meet.
Oddly enough there was nothing terribly natural about their relationship these days. The end of their relationship had been fraught with drama to put it mildly. Spock had given up pretending he didn’t love Jim and Nyota had given up pretending it didn’t piss her off.
Still they’d had an uneasy peace. A peace that allowed her to accept his invitation to dinner.
They had been at a vegetarian restaurant they used to eat at a lot back in their Academy days and things had been going all right until Spock noticed her make a face when he mentioned his husband.
“Would you rather I not mention Jim?”
Nyota snorted. “No. I mean he is what he is to you. I maybe would rather you hadn’t mention him twenty times since we sat down.”
“I apologize.” Spock was starting to realize that this was perhaps a mistake.
She sighed, shook her head. “How is he?”
“He is well. Thank you for inquiring. He sends his best to you.”
“Sure he does.” She grimaced. “That was uncalled for. I’m sorry, Spock. He doesn’t deserve that and neither do you. I’m just…bitterly jealous to be honest.”
This surprised Spock. It had been a number of years since they’d seen each other as romantic partners.
“Of?”
“Everything. The joyous way you conduct your relationship with him being number one. You never showed that depth of feeling and contentment with me. Not the entire time. That you two are happy and have a family with this perfect life.”
“It is hardly perfect—”
“It is as far as I am concerned. You have the love of your life, Spock, and I have…work.” She sighed again and put her chin on her hand. “There’s no one special in my life. I’m not even dating. I doubt I’ll ever find what you have with Jim. But I’d like something. I just don’t know what.”
“I apol—”
“Don’t say your sorry, Spock. It’s nothing you’ve done. If Jim Kirk hadn’t come into our lives, I honestly don’t think you and I would have lasted anyway. Part of me thinks we lasted as long as we did because of your absolute stubbornness about denying that love for him. Whatever. I want what you have and I don’t have it. So yeah, I’m jealous. Not proud of that but I am.”
“I could say that you will find it someday, but I know that you don’t appreciate those sorts of platitudes.”
She smirked and lifted her glass of wine to her lips. “Yeah, I don’t. And believe it or not, even though I’m super envious, I’m also really glad you have what you have.”
“I am sorry for my part in hurting you.”
“Never mind. That’s old news. Go ahead. Mention Jim and your family twenty more times.” She grinned. “I’m listening.”
Spock arched a brow, but he did launch into his life since leaving Starfleet. At the end of the night, he decided it had been a pleasant evening between old friends after all.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
November 15, 2021 at 4:07 am
Yeah but I love her honesty. She’s not trying to pretend or sugarcoat or fake it. And that’s the kind of the thing you can only do with a real friend. Whatever else has gone on between them.
Loved it!
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November 15, 2021 at 7:16 am
thanks 🙂
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November 15, 2021 at 7:56 am
Oh, you just know how that wound me up. And I love this.
And based on everything in both – oops, all 3 movies, I think this is EXACTLY who Nyota is. And yeah, she’s jealous of a relationship, not really Jim per se. And in ST 2009, her first scene, there’s nothing there to give us any idea that she and Spock are in a relationship yet. I’m not sure she would have even met him yet, since they’re all on the shuttle the next day as newbies.
I mean, think back and consider the transporter scene as if it were real life and you’re Jim.
You and a colleague are leaving to go on a work trip. Your colleague’s girlfriend gives him a face sniffing, face smoldering kiss right there beside you. It doesn’t even matter the circumstances, whether selling wrenches or going on a mission that might get you both and everyone around you killed. It’s a trip for work. And then she turns and gives you that patented Nyota look. It’s not a look of, you guys have a successful trip. Sell a lot. Or, you guys be careful, or Jim take care that Spock doesn’t die, I love him.
It’s a NASTY, jealous, he’s MINE look. There’s no way to miss how Zoe and JJ played that look. It’s not concern for lives. It’s a look of unhealthy possessiveness. (I watched it twice last week so it’s fresh on my mind.)
It’s “he should be captain, not YOU.” It’s at least that professional jealousy for her boyfriend. All the way to, “hands off, bitch, he’s mine. Don’t even THINK of trying to get closer to him.” I don’t exactly know. I just know from 2009, the first time I saw that look she gave Jim in the transporter room, it sent a million red alerts that – uh, that’s not right. That’s not natural. That’s NOT the look you give your boyfriend’s colleague as they leave to go on a mission. Something is up. There’s a bunch of things in that look and not one is “I’m scared for his life” or “I love him don’t want to lose him TO THE MISSION.” Those kinds of good-byes are always deep hugs, holding on, knowing it might be the last time you hug him. You’re so upset your breathing and heartrate are elevated. You are NOT all sexy, soft, warm, slow, oooo ooooo like she and Spock were. Your body is in fight or flight mode. You’re edge of frantic SCARED of losing the person you love that way. But that’s not the way Nyota was acting. Spock could control emotions, breathing and heartrate. Not her.
That patented Nyota look is of WARNING. And NOT about the mission. It just can’t be. That’s not the way humans look/act in a crisis. Or at least, I’ve never seen it.
So – yeah, I think you nailed it! And there’s a reason she’s alone and only has work. From the second she entered her first scene in 2009, prissing into the bar, like everybody look at me/don’t look at me you don’t deserve to look at me, and her snippy self-centered attitude, yeah, that’s who she is. As though she just expects men to be half beaten to death because she’s just so dam beautiful and everyone wants her. Of course they do. She deserves it.
Which is exactly what TOS Uhura NEVER was. AOS Nyota may have the character’s name and duty station, but she was NEVER actually the Uhura character. IMO.
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November 15, 2021 at 8:13 am
I gotta agree that’s definitely the look she gives Jim in the transporter room, back off bitch, he’s mine. it’s also unprofessional in front of the acting captain, but yeah besides that, she’s definitely sending a clear warning that she owns Spock. So I think she would exactly be this way if Spock ended up with Jim.
Now, according to the idea, her upbringing in the Kelvin universe could have changed her character/personality. We don’t actually know much about her background in either universe really. But I do agree she isn’t like TOS Uhura at all. Especially older Uhura when she got together with older Scotty, they were so sweet together
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November 15, 2021 at 8:39 am
Yeah, TOS Uhura was sweet, saucy singing, flirty (only not sweet when she jumped on Spock and told him “Jim was the “closest” thing he had to a friend. That was nasty. Which meant she wasn’t his friend either, after just flirting her backside off with him – ON THE BRIDGE DURING SHIFT.)
But AOS Nyota was just ….I’ll be nice and just say the exact opposite of TOS Uhura. Except they were both geniuses at their work and both beautiful.
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November 15, 2021 at 12:58 pm
I appreciate her honesty. I guess that shows that she’s friends with Spock. She’s not pussy-footing around. Just straight up tells him how she feels. I feel sad for her that she has never found that someone for her.
She really is different from TOS Uhura though. TOS Uhura didn’t have the prima-donna vibes that Kelvin Uhura gives off. I like TOS Uhura’s character better, if I had to choose!
You nailed it with the jealousy theme here. ❤️💚😘🖖
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November 15, 2021 at 8:24 pm
Yep Kelvin Uhura is without a doubt a prima donna and a diva
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