not only farm animals

Today I said to my roommate, "I have officially lost all respect for myself," and she said, "Does it have anything to do with Klingons?" And when I had to answer that yes, it did, I lost even that tiny last bit of respect I did not know I had in reserve.

But but but. The linguistics of Klingon are really INTERESTING, okay. I'm a total linguistics nerd; this is not news! I should just probably . . . think about directing that interest toward something else. That is not Klingon.

Epic sigh. Here, cunningly I distract you with a rec:

How to Avoid Kicking Puppies and Other Valuable Lessons in Leadership by sparky77
gen with lots of UST all around | R | ~2,000 words
I was amusing myself by imagining Kirk attempting to be an authority figure and this is what happened.

I'd been forlornly trolling the LJ waters for days in search of fic that hit on the way the movie does truly hilarious banter, and this is that fic. It's gen, but a) it's short, and b) everyone wants to bang each other, you can tell.

Also, it is one of very few fics I've seen that has approached the kind of characterization of Kirk that I loved so much from the movie, which is to say, a Kirk who has hints of truly awesome leadership skills down there somewhere, but is also like:

KIRK: You know what my favorite thing is?
MCCOY: Boobies?
KIRK: I was going to say pissing Spock off, but yes! Boobies.

Read it, it's awesome.