#keeps.

JIM KIRK --> House Targaryen.  Be it in Dany’s shoes or Jon’s, although I like it from Dany’s POV more at the moment.  I already mentioned a few parallels between Dany and Jim that make this fit really, really well, but point blank, Jim is a major player.  He’s the captain, the guy who rallies the troops for the cause.  There’s been a lot of things around lately about whether you could do a Trek movie ( with the original crew ) without Kirk.  And honestly, you could do it, but would you?  Yes, Trek is about the group as a whole, this disparate group of people coming together because one person’s strength is another weakness.  But that doesn’t work as well without a rallying point.

LEONARD McCOY --> House Mormont.  Mormonts are stubborn and incredibly, deeply loyal, and Bones is also the Most Stubborn and incredibly, deeply loyal -- there are so many examples of that okay.  Also, Mormonts aren’t one of the Great Houses, they’re more on the periphery of things.  They serve the Great Houses ( their alliance with the Starks. ) –  in a lot of ways, the secondary Houses are the backbone of the Great Houses and that just. really fits Bones.  He’s a major player, but more so on the periphery of things.  He doesn’t need all the pomp and circumstance when he’s just doing his job as a doctor, and he prefers it that way.

SCHN T’GAI SPOCK --> House Greyjoy.  But sent off as a ward of House Stark.  I originally wanted to say he was a Baratheon bastard ( ah-la Gendry ), but thought the idea of being born one house and sent off to be raised under another better exemplified Spock’s struggles in balancing his Vulcan-ness with his humanity.  Jon ends up telling Theon that he doesn’t need to choose between being a Greyjoy and a Stark, that he can be both.  If I got anything out of ST:B it was a sense of peace in Spock due to the realization that just because he’s one thing, doesn’t mean he can’t be the other.  Now, I don’t think Spock would make the same decisions that Theon’s Greyjoy characteristics led him to make.  Spock, like all the goodies in Trek, isn’t cruel like a Greyjoy.  Nor is he overconfident like Aeron, Balon, and Euron, but he is intense, adventurous, proud.

NYOTA UHURA --> House Martell.  Ahem, warrior women who take shit from no one?  All hail Queen Nymeria.  And, okay sure.  The Sand Snakes are one extreme when compared to Doran’s patience, and, yes, Oberyn is dangerous, aggressive, and insulting in all the ways Ny isn’t, but Ny’s a good balance between the two.  She’s intense, doesn’t take shit from anyone, is brave as hell and is a woman of action, but she’s tactful about it.  She’s a professional.  And, also, relating this back to Jim’s ID as a Targaryen -- the Martells are the only house that didn’t fall to the Targaryens the first go around, much like Ny was all ‘cute try, but boy bye’ the first time she met Jim in XI.

HIKARU SULU --> House Tarly.  TBH, I really struggled with Sulu.  I originally stuck him as a Baratheon, but it didn’t feel quite right.  Tarly doesn’t feel quite right either, but I think he’s somewhere between the two and closer to Tarly on the scale.  And he’s for sure more Sam than Dickon, but I don’t see a universe where Hikaru Sulu would turn down Heartsbane if it was offered.  It wouldn’t be because he’s ruthless, but because he wants to be prepared.  And, okay, the fencing thing influences that too.

PAVEL CHEKOV --> House Tyrell.  I may have based this one on looks more than anything and I’m not even sorry about it?  But, in all seriousness, Chekov sure as hell isn’t as innocent as a lot of people make him out to be just because he’s so much younger than his crewmates.  Reading this ( scroll to #3 for Tyrell. ) just screamed Chekov to me.  I’m 90% sure Olenna Tyrell would adopt Pavel Chekov in 0 seconds flat.  If you can’t see him sitting around, throwing shade with Margaery and Olenna, and then being fighty with Loras then that’s really just on you.  Chekov’s ambitious just like Margaery, licentious, and boasts about Russia just as much as the Tyrells brag about Highgarden.

MONTGOMERY SCOTT --> House Tully.  Another one I kind of struggled with.  Tully doesn’t feel 100%, but nothing else did either.  Ultimately, I went with Tully for similar reasons to why Bones is a Mormont: the Tullys aren’t in the spotlight, and Scotty, if left to his own devices, would probably 100% like to only ever stay down in his own world in engineering.  It’s not because he doesn’t care because he does and we know he does.  He cares a lot, but, in his own words, ‘I’d rather not take sides’ unless absolutely needed.  Tully’s #7 on this list, and that all, imo, fits Scotty.

CHRISTOPHER PIKE --> House Stark.  Do I need to explain this one?  He’s Ned, but like at least 109842934% more Done.  Like, he’s Boromir ‘One Does Not Simply’ level done compared to Ned Stark on the Sean Bean character scale.  But, he’s good, honest, and loyal.  In AOS, he’s stern with Jim and isn’t afraid to let Jim know when’s he’s disappointed as all get out, but he still sticks his neck out for Jim in the way Starks do whatever and stick up for their family.

CAROL MARCUS --> House Lannister.  Honestly, I think this one comes more from the action’s taken by her father in ST:ID than her own, which isn’t exactly fair, but Tyrion and Jaime haven’t turned out half-bad.  But, Carol’s cunning and got the head for strategy given that she forged her transfer onto enterprise and then, when needed, revealed her presence to her dad in an effort to save the enterprise and her crew from his wrath.