Plants Don't Need You To
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Plants Don't Need You To Smile by positronic-crisis (positroniccrisis)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation
30 Nov 2025
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You’re a botanist on the Enterprise.
You know how to care for foreign plants — but not for yourself.
And you definitely can’t tell when you’re falling in love with an android.Series
- Part 1 of Plants Don't Need You To
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Plants Don't Need You To Pretend by positronic-crisis (positroniccrisis)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation
15 Dec 2025
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Sequel to "Plants Don't Need You To Smile"
You didn’t plan to fall for Data—and you definitely didn’t plan for anyone to notice.
But word travels fast on the Enterprise, and even faster outside it.
Now you have to protect a connection that’s changing you both in ways you never expected.Series
- Part 2 of Plants Don't Need You To
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Plants Don't Need You To Change by positronic-crisis (positroniccrisis)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation
01 Jan 2026
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Sequel to "Plants Don't Need You To Pretend"
You’re dating an android.
He’s the second officer of the Enterprise.
You’re still an ensign — and somehow this is supposed to be a normal relationship.While you’re figuring out how to love someone who doesn’t sleep, doesn’t panic, and follows Starfleet protocol to the letter, you lose the one thing that always grounded you: your work as a botanist.
Forced out of your comfort zone, away from plants that never asked you to change, you have to learn who you are without them — and whether you can grow somewhere unfamiliar, too.
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- Part 3 of Plants Don't Need You To
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Plants Don't Need You To Explain by positronic-crisis (positroniccrisis)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation
14 Jan 2026
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Sequel to "Plants Don't Need You To Change"
You’re still dating an android.
He’s still the second officer of the Enterprise.
You’re still an ensign — and this is still supposed to work.Turns out, relationships feel different when one of you brings random ensigns to the table, and the other brings the bridge crew.
Power isn’t just about rank — it’s about space, visibility, and whose world you’re expected to step into.Still unable to return to botany, you’re left to figure out who you are without the one thing that ever made things simple — and whether you can exist without constantly having to explain yourself.
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- Part 4 of Plants Don't Need You To
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Plants Don't Need You To Understand by positronic-crisis (positroniccrisis)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation
27 Jan 2026
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Sequel to "Plants Don't Need You To Explain"
You’re still dating an android.
He’s still the second officer of the Enterprise.
You’re still an ensign — and now you have to figure out how to build a life that isn’t just made of stolen moments and overwhelmed bodies.With botany calling you back and engineering opening new doors, your future splits into possibilities you never planned for.
Intimacy isn’t just about closeness anymore — it’s about safety, boundaries, and learning how to exist together without losing yourselves in each other.Series
- Part 5 of Plants Don't Need You To
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Plants Don't Need You To Adjust by positronic-crisis (positroniccrisis)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation
11 Feb 2026
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Sequel to "Plants Don't Need You To Understand"
You’re still in love with an android.
He is being examined.
You are being challenged.When “malfunction” and “emotion” begin to blur, the question is no longer what is wrong with him — but what it means to feel at all, and who gets to decide.
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- Part 6 of Plants Don't Need You To
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Plants Don't Need You To Return by positronic-crisis (positroniccrisis)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager
14 Feb 2026
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Sequel to "Plants Don't Need You To Adjust"
You’re still in love with an android.
He is in the Alpha Quadrant.
You have been in the Delta Quadrant for seven years.Home comes in rationed minutes.
You survive on fragments.When a wormhole stabilizes within range, the distance stops being abstract.
The question is no longer how long you can endure it —
but what it will cost to cross it.Series
- Part 7 of Plants Don't Need You To