Archive of Our Own ^beta

...the god may speak in the forms of geometry as well as in the shapes of dreams; in the harmony of pure thought as well as in the harmony of sounds; in numbers as well as in words.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin

The View from T'Khut

Part I: The Absent World. The planet vanishes, but her people go on.
Part II: An Archaeology of Loss. The world-death left a scar in spacetime, and a void in the heart of the Federation.
Part III: Time and Darkness. In which Ambassador Spock fires unexpected shots.

Summon the Future

One man can change the present. -- James T. Kirk

Appendix: Vulcan vocabulary

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I am interested in the lacunae of the destruction of Vulcan, and the shape of its future, post-Nero. This story does not explore all of my ideas about that, but it explores some of them. At one point I said to Beatrice, "am I secretly writing a post-apocalyptic story about utopia as praxis?"

This series uses Kelvin/AOS style stardates.

The series + first story title comes from a post I saw shortly after Star Trek (2009) came out, where someone pointed out that the view Ambassador Spock has of Vulcan's destruction, supposedly from Delta Vega is, in fact, the view from T'Khut. I believe this post was on tumblr, but I have not been able to locate it. If anyone has a link, I would appreciate it so that I can credit the author, because I have never forgotten it.

JJ Abrams destroyed Vulcan partly because he did not understand what Vulcan was. He reduced a world he knew nothing about to a death to a cheap plot point: a fridged planet. He knew nothing about her and her people, or about all of us who love her. 

He did not know her sister's name.