some Star Trek AU questions from the quote blog!
Star Trek AU: [GoM] [Seirin] [Touou] [Himuro+Takao+Mibuchi] [Kasamatsu] [AU tag]
in my own personal opinion, any AU where Aomine and Momoi aren’t childhood friends is a sad AU indeed. in star trek AU they’re absolutely still childhood friends!! Momoi and Aomine grew up in a boring Earth suburb and even though they didn’t go to all the same schools (Momoi went to an all-girls high school and Aomine went to a Starfleet prep school) they’ve been friends for as long as they remember. they moved out to attend the academy together and Momoi spent more time in Aomine and his roommate Kuroko’s dorm that first year than she did with her own roommate (a nice girl, but her mandibles gave her a little bit of a lisp and Momoi was too embarrassed to keep asking her to repeat herself so she had to guess what she was saying for the first three months). she and Aomine and Kuroko have all been friends since the academy, and even after the boys had their awkward falling out she made sure to keep a close eye on both of their well-being.
Aomine’s an adult and he can pretty much take care of himself, but she keeps him from getting into serious trouble with disciplinary officers through strategic scheduling suggestions and by blackmailing giving him incentive to behave (it can be a tough universe when your best friend of 20+ years has an incredible memory and absolutely no qualms about announcing your embarrassing childhood secrets and misadventures over the ship’s PA system). conversely, he always stops by her room to make sure she’s awake for breakfast because she’s been known to forget alarms and it’s better for everyone if she’s been given time to wake up before going on shift. the two of them make a formidable pair when they’re sent on away missions together.
Midorima and Takao didn’t meet at the academy like a lot of the other kids did, they actually met for the first time at the christening ceremony for the ship everyone is assigned to. Midorima was still ridiculously jet-lagged from the ride over from Vulcan (where he’d been finishing part of his medical degree in one of their universities) and Takao had definitely partied a little too hard about getting his first assignment the night before, so neither of them actually realized that they were standing next to each other in the commemorative photo taken of the inaugural crew until much, much later.
the first time they remember meeting each other is when Takao is sent to medical to get what his supervisor is pretty sure is a concussion checked out. Takao touches all of the equipment, tells Midorima about the rumor going around that he’s secretly a Vulcan or half Vulcan or something, asks a million questions about weird, non-humanoid biology, and then barfs all over him. Midorima diagnoses him with a grade 2 concussion and tells him not to work for three days and then goes back into the refresher to change his pants and mutter nasty, horrible things about irresponsible crew members who don’t know when to ask for a bucket. Takao is escorted out by a nurse and says lots of mean things about the rudest doctor on the ship to his friends later when they come to make fun of him for giving himself a concussion by slipping in the dining hall.
there are a lot of comical and serendipitous meetings later that eventually lead to friendship, but that’s the first time they interact!





