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Where the Hinge Turns by SwissArmyKnife
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series
20 Dec 2025
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What if Leonard McCoy had died early in the five-year mission? How would the Enterprise’s captain and his relationships with his officers be different? A version of Jim Kirk ends up on the true Enterprise and finds out just how much his life hinged on Leonard H. McCoy.
“Where am I, Bones?” he asked, finding he was almost afraid to ask.
“That’s not an easy question to answer. You’re on the U.S.S. Enterprise, commanded by James T. Kirk. As to where, I could ask the computer for coordinates, but they wouldn’t help. All the more enlightened opinions think you were most likely transported here from another universe entirely. We’ve known it to happen.”
It was a crazy story, one Kirk shouldn’t have believed, yet there was no lie in McCoy’s eyes. Kirk took a moment to process the possibility. “Another universe. Then when I saw myself –”
“You, but not you. It really is a mind trip, isn’t it?”
Bookmarked by dkpalaska
20 Feb 2026
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Excellent story and one of the few with proper Dr. McCoy appreciation.
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In hindsight, one of Leonard’s greatest failures regarding The Incident was how completely he’d allowed Spock to fall through the cracks. Both of them had thrown themselves into recovery efforts, medical care and temporary shelter and arguing with legislators from so many different planets and Starfleet regulations and and and and… the list went on for months before everyone involved was spat out the other side, suddenly in charge of the flagship of the ‘fleet with the eyes of the galaxy on their backs. Leonard had been too busy coming to terms with the fact that technically he was a CMO without an Academy degree to realize that Spock hadn’t once spoken with anyone qualified to determine if he really wasn’t emotionally compromised until it was far too late to push the issue. He’d let it go, assuming that Uhura and Starfleet had the situation well and truly under control.
Now, looking at the man sitting hunched over on his couch, finger and thumb spinning almost fast enough to spark, Leonard wished he’d looked into it a bit more.
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18 Feb 2026
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Wonderful display of the doctor’s compassion and ability to heal.
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Primum Non Nocere by Marshmellin
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
29 Dec 2025
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Rule number one of command is that young men and women die. Rule number two is that doctors can’t change rule number one.
A routine officer exchange turns into a nightmare when the USS Solace is attacked. With the Captain dead and systems failing, McCoy becomes the ranking officer. Trapped in the dark with the Enterprise three days away, McCoy must reconcile the healer he is with the commander he has to be — even if it means breaking his oldest promise.
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- Part 6 of Star Trek: TOS Stories
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18 Feb 2026
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McCoy and the struggles of command math.
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Spock had been happy.
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14 Feb 2026
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Fantastic extra scene and meaning from TOS “This Side of Paradise.”
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for all eternity by vonnebenan
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
14 Jan 2026
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The day of farewell will come; but until then, Spock can think of nothing more important than sitting here in the sunlight next to his oldest friend.
Or: Spock and McCoy have known each other for a hundred years.
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14 Feb 2026
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The start of the end of a beautiful friendship. I was always so glad that Spock had McCoy for so long.