FIC (poetry): "Untitled. Anonymous Vulcan poet, 2258." ST:AOS.

[laurajv]

The world is gone, stolen away into space.

The watcher is gone, and its eye.

The people are all but gone, and we felt them go;

their minds left our own, and only silence remains where they were.


Where shall we find again

our deserts and our mountains?

Where shall we walk now,

sleep now,

find peace now?


What is, is.

What mountains and deserts there still are,

we shall find.


We shall drill down into the rock;

we shall delve deep into the wells;

we shall raise cities to the sky.


We carry the world, and the watcher,

the eye, and the people,

on our backs.


(Untitled. Anonymous Vulcan poet, 2258.)

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A/N: If you don't know much about the fanonical explanations for the apparent moons in Vulcan's canonically moonless sky, this may not make much sense. "The watcher" is the planet T'Khut, Vulcan's sister planet; "the eye" is T'Khut's moon, which was called "The Eye of the Watcher" because of how it looked moving across T'Khut.

If Vulcan's destruction left behind a black hole, I don't see how T'Khut and the Eye could survive -- T'Khut's orbit and Vulcan's were nearly identical.

Comments

[laurajv]

I am handwaving Delta Vega so hard. I'm pretending that humans and Romulans are totally ignorant and that secretly it was really named T'Khut but only Vulcans knew that and were always secretly rolling their eyes all "RIIIIIIGHT, Delta Vega" every time they had to say it for some reason.

I figure it's far enough from Vulcan that it didn't get immediately sucked into the black hole, but surely it can't long survive.

[ladyvyola]

So I just made said friend (av_lad) look at this and he replies:

And you're wrong... Delta Vega is the planet than Kirk tried to maroon Gary Mitchell on in "Where No Man Has Gone Before."

The writers decided to "move the planet to suit our needs."

Also, Bob Greenberger agrees that it's not just a timeline change, but already a completely alternate universe.

WOOT!

So. Damn. Geeky.

[laurajv]

No, I knew what Delta Vega originally was. This actually makes even LESS sense than the handwavery; there was a *perfectly good planet* already there for them to use.