I have a whole back story! Not a sane one, maybe, but - hmmm. Should I not have admitted I have a whole back story?
But I have been thinking about this a LOT. And I can do it two ways - I actually prefer the future universe one, so I will detail that, but rest assured, I also have a back story for this crossover in our present day.
So. We have Spock raised on earth. The rejection he experienced over being a human-Vulcan cross was more overt, and his parents decided to take him to earth; Sarek becomes the earth ambassador earlier in this world. Spock goes to a US school, and Sarek tutors him in logic and telepathic stuff. But the thing is, Spock keeps right on being excluded. He can't do sports; he's too strong and too fast to be allowed to compete with the human kids. He's excluded from academic competitions; the argument is that his telepathic abilities mean they can't be sure he isn't cheating, but really, they just get tired of the Vulcan kid always winning. And when he graduates, he finds the same thing; people are willing to use his work, but they don't want him as an employee.
So he goes into business for himself, designing custom vehicles - anything from a hot rod to a space yacht. He's the guy you go to for custom work.
Then - sorry, but in this version, Sarek has to be the traumatic parental death. Sarek gets killed by a group of protesters during the course of his ambassadorial duties. The Federation, for political reasons, buries the case - there's no formal legal proceedings. Spock is furious. And he has seen the video of his father's death, so when he sees the guy, out and around, shortly after Sarek's funeral, he loses it. Almost kills the guy. The Federation again decides that political needs dictate that he can't be prosecuted; they place drastic limitations on his business license and whatever the Federation equivalent of a passport is, so that he can't travel freely.
And Spock finds that profoundly illogical. His father dies, and they do nothing. He almost commits murder and does not get a fair trial, in which the extenuating circumstances would be heard; instead he gets a summary judgment and a punishment that is not appropriate to the crime and has no end date.
He decides that, logically, if they disregard their own rules, he can, too. And so he does. He becomes an excellent criminal, while continuing to do the work he still can. (He's not allowed in space, so he can't work on spaceships. But he can still work on classic cars.)
And that's how I get Spock to the place where he meets Jim Tiberius, an agent whose interest in classic cars and lengthy juvenile record provide the perfect in with and cover for working with Spock, the suspected (but uncatchable) criminal mastermind.
Uhura, in this version, is someone who is still brilliant with programming, languages, and machines. She wanted to go to Starfleet Academy, and lost her place to someone who had more political clout. She initially did some custom programming work for Spock, but when he turned criminal, she did, too.
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But I have been thinking about this a LOT. And I can do it two ways - I actually prefer the future universe one, so I will detail that, but rest assured, I also have a back story for this crossover in our present day.
So. We have Spock raised on earth. The rejection he experienced over being a human-Vulcan cross was more overt, and his parents decided to take him to earth; Sarek becomes the earth ambassador earlier in this world. Spock goes to a US school, and Sarek tutors him in logic and telepathic stuff. But the thing is, Spock keeps right on being excluded. He can't do sports; he's too strong and too fast to be allowed to compete with the human kids. He's excluded from academic competitions; the argument is that his telepathic abilities mean they can't be sure he isn't cheating, but really, they just get tired of the Vulcan kid always winning. And when he graduates, he finds the same thing; people are willing to use his work, but they don't want him as an employee.
So he goes into business for himself, designing custom vehicles - anything from a hot rod to a space yacht. He's the guy you go to for custom work.
Then - sorry, but in this version, Sarek has to be the traumatic parental death. Sarek gets killed by a group of protesters during the course of his ambassadorial duties. The Federation, for political reasons, buries the case - there's no formal legal proceedings. Spock is furious. And he has seen the video of his father's death, so when he sees the guy, out and around, shortly after Sarek's funeral, he loses it. Almost kills the guy. The Federation again decides that political needs dictate that he can't be prosecuted; they place drastic limitations on his business license and whatever the Federation equivalent of a passport is, so that he can't travel freely.
And Spock finds that profoundly illogical. His father dies, and they do nothing. He almost commits murder and does not get a fair trial, in which the extenuating circumstances would be heard; instead he gets a summary judgment and a punishment that is not appropriate to the crime and has no end date.
He decides that, logically, if they disregard their own rules, he can, too. And so he does. He becomes an excellent criminal, while continuing to do the work he still can. (He's not allowed in space, so he can't work on spaceships. But he can still work on classic cars.)
And that's how I get Spock to the place where he meets Jim Tiberius, an agent whose interest in classic cars and lengthy juvenile record provide the perfect in with and cover for working with Spock, the suspected (but uncatchable) criminal mastermind.
Uhura, in this version, is someone who is still brilliant with programming, languages, and machines. She wanted to go to Starfleet Academy, and lost her place to someone who had more political clout. She initially did some custom programming work for Spock, but when he turned criminal, she did, too.