#jim why

A sensitivity reader I hope existed: Hmmm, maybe making the only Jewish character in the book into a Jesus knight isn't a great idea.

Skin Game: I know! I'll introduce a new Jewish character, make her a Denarian, and then kill her!

*I don't know his actual motivation and this is for comedic purposes. I don't think he's actually antisemetic, just very insensitive and did not think this through. At least in Twelve Months we get something

[Open Roleplay Prompt!]

It probably went without saying, but this time, it genuinely wasn’t his fault that things had gone down the gutter. Seriously, how was Jim supposed to know that Xelayans thought high-fives were a declaration of war? The whole point of discovering new, uncharted worlds and pursuing diplomacy with alien civilizations was weaving through the vast mazes of xenocultural quirks and the like, right? So, really, Jim wasn’t sorry. After all, whose first reaction to a perceived slight was to poison someone’s food and kidnap them?

Fault or no fault, though, was sorta’ besides the point- the heart of the issue was that Jim wasn’t exactly sure what was going on. There’d been vague talks, mostly in Xelayan (which was damn near impossible to decipher on his own once they’d snatched his universal translator), a couple of skeptical looks tossed his way, and cold, scaly fingers pressed against the center of his forehead before just--

Silence.    Darkness.

            Nothing.

--- “Leave to Jim Kirk to piss off a race of fucking mind-warpers,” Leonard McCoy’s gruff voice vibrated off of the acoustic, white walls of his office. Without looking, he reached for his tumbler of scotch (’Don’t worry, bastard, it’s synthenol.’) and his hand curled around it like embracing an old friend. It was a trick, really; he just didn’t want Spock of all people to realize that there was a slight tremor in his fingers. Nothing shook Leonard to his core more than seeing Jim’s body lying, unresponsive, on one of his biobeds. It was too close, even if he could be revived. Jim may have made a name for himself by cheating death, but no one could predict when his luck would run out. Not even McCoy.

“I’ve done everything I can to try and shake him outta’ it,” Bones finally spoke up again, his free hand slipping up to massage a temple; he could feel a headache coming on under the surface, “M’Benga even tried some weird, smelling salt voodoo and-- we’re out of options. Now, look,” Lifting his head, Leonard forced himself to look Spock in the eyes. Maybe they didn’t always get along, but they both cared about their Captain. At least that was one thing they could agree on.

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