Archived fic rec - The Desert Between

Title: The Desert Between

Author: beatrice-otter

Fandom: Star Trek (film, 2009)

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Spock/Uhura

Warnings: arranged marriages, cross-cultural (mis)understandings, pon farr talk

Other notes: strong female characters, discussion of culture and assimilation

Length: 14k

Summary: “All Vulcans are constrained. By our biology, by our clans, by our whole society. But women more so than men, and offworlder women married to Vulcan men most of all.” Nyota loves Spock. But she can’t have him without taking Vulcan culture, too.

 

 

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