Art: Star Trek, Diplomatic Relations, Uhura, Kirk etc. [G]

[ileliberte]

Title: Diplomatic Relations
Rating: G
I have no clue what the premise for this is meant to be, please make up your own awesome story for why the hell this picture would even happen. I mainly just wanted to put Uhura and Kirk in Indian clothes.





ETA: I can haz fic snippet \o/ Courtesy of the lovely leupagus, there is now a possible explanation of what on earth might be going on here :D

ETA2: Now with title thanks to miss_porcupine, who also had this to add (with Uhura quoting Will Rogers):
"There is more to diplomacy than saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock, Captain."
"There's a MONKEY IN MY HAIR, Lieutenant."
"Now you know how the rest of us feel, sir."

Comments

[muccamukk]

DWAAAAAAW! Baby monkey is so cute!

Uhura has a great smile, and I love Kirk's expression.

The texture in the clothes turned out really well.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

This is so beautiful, not least the textures! I can almost feel the velvet and transparent silk.

Also, MONKEY!

[summertea.livejournal.com]

reason smeason. the baby monkey is fucking cute as hell.

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

BABY MONKEY!

*ahem* I know I should be giving meaningful and serious commentary about how gorgeous the whole picture is, with Uhura's smile and Kirk's dubious look, and the lovely texture of their clothes and stuff, but all I can really say is:

BABY MONKEY!

Which clearly senses a kindred spirit in Kirk. Heh.

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

Lovely. My favorite part is the lighting in Nyota's eyes.

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

Love it. Every bit.

[leyna55.livejournal.com]

Uhura looks stunning - the red top with the filmy wrap is gorgeous (& looks great on her) and I love her expression. She has such a beautiful smile.

The baby monkey is so cute *g*.

[dreamlittleyo.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! And the little fuzzy thing, it is SO CUTE!!! *adores*

[ratcreature]

This is very cool. It has to be one of those oldskool episodes where they meet some aliens who are bizarrely like humans from some other time period and they end up in their clothes. I mean, if they can be 1930 Chicago gangster or wearing togas, Indian costumes really aren't any stretch...

[tielan]

Just wanting to put them in Indian clothes sounds fine to me!

And they look very fine in Indian clothes! *glees*

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

UHURA. ♥_♥

[mirageofmae.livejournal.com]

this is lovely! The facial expressions are wonderful and the clothes are awesome!

[bratfarrar]

To echo everyone else: baby monkey! And the clothes are gorgeous. But I think my favorite bit, oddly enough, is Spock and whoever walking together in the background. For some reason that just finishes off the picture for me.

The Indian costumes are gorgeous--at that filigree (or whatever the proper term is) detail.

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful--Uhura especially. Thanks for sharing!

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

That is so fantastic! The realism of the foreground and the simplicity of the background; the expressions; the CUTENESS; and the clothes -- gorgeous, gorgeous clothes.

[marthawells.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love it, that's gorgeous!

[goss.livejournal.com]

You are SO GOOD at the clothing! I love the sheer textures and the filigree best. :D

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And lots of thanks for the midway critiquing, it's always nice to have a fresh pair of eyes looking over things :D

This was my idea

[leupagus.livejournal.com]

"Uhura, can you *please* get the baby monkey away--" Captain Kirk tried ducking out of the way, but the marsoap - which really did look like an Earth primate - chittered pitifully, and in the end Kirk simply sighed and leaned against the tree trunk. "This is officially the most annoying mission we've ever been on," he told her. The marsoap made a little humming sound as it stroked through his hair.

"It's not so bad," she responded, gazing out over the view. Spock was still talking with Helia - or rather, she was talking to him, deeply excited about something that even she couldn't hear at this distance. He looked different in his new clothes, even though he'd chosen ones that most closely resembled his uniform. It had taken all of her and Kirk's powers of persuasion to even get him to change; they'd all been dripping wet and shivering, standing in the chambers of the Great Magistrate with the natives looking worried about their chances of hypothermia. Spock had been worst off, hair plastered to his head and uniform clinging to him, shivering, but he'd only reluctantly changed clothes.

"Not bad - okay, recap here," Kirk said, although he was smiling. "We beam down into a flood basin just as the famous floods are starting, we get all soaked, the natives haven't actually stopped laughing at us since we got here -"

"They were impressed with our transport technology," Uhura pointed out. The marsoap, bored with playing with the Captain's hair (which now looked like he'd been electrocuted) clambered off its branch and into her lap. "Hello, there," she said, stroking its back. It was incredibly soft.

"Yeah, including the part where it couldn't beam us *out*," Kirk grumbled. "I'm firing Scotty once we can get back." He squinted at Spock and Helia. "Are they still talking? I swear, I don't know how he does it." The comment made him blush, and Uhura frowned before realizing why.

"Maybe you should ask him what his secret is," she said, grinning. "I'm sure he could give you lessons on how to treat women as if they *weren't*... what was the phrase I remember?" It was just out of reach, the memory slipping away from her. "The first time I saw you after we went to the Academy, at that party. You called me a--what *was* it?"

"Is that the time when you punched me?"

"Yeah!"

"I don't remember," he lied. "All right, so we've got a few more hours until Scotty does his job and gets the transporters working again. We've talked to the grand poobah--"

"Great Magistrate," Uhura corrected absently. The marsoap was tugging gently on her hair, spinning strands around its tiny fingers and braiding them together.

"Whatever. The trade negotiations will progress once the Reliant gets here, and Spock and Helia, in addition to maybe running away together, are working on the warpfield containment issue their scientists have been having trouble with." He took a deep breath. "All in a day's work. Even if that day did start with almost drowning."

Uhura laughed, and the marsoap touched her lips with one curious hand. "It's a beautiful day now, Captain," she said, picking up the original topic. "Let's just enjoy it."

Kirk rolled his eyes, relaxed against the tree, and followed orders.

*

I love, love, love this picture - it's making me greedy for more!

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I always love drawing/coloring pretty clothes, i'm really glad you like these :D And the monkey was an afterthought, but now I'm really glad I did put it in.

Re: This was my idea

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

Oh man, oh man, this was awesome, just like you! :D And it makes perfect sense. I swear I really had no clue why they would be there dressed in the clothes they're dressed in, but this just makes everything click. THANK YOU!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

You love drawing pretty clothes?

I have two questions, then:

1) Have you heard of the Minoans?
2) Do you take commissions?

Because there's a picture I've always dreamed of... but be that as it may.

The monkey continues in adorability, as does Jim's expression. *giggle* I find myself contemplating all sorts of time travel shenanigans...

Re: This was my idea

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I'm SO glad I came back to this entry. That's a wonderful story!

Re: This was my idea

[leupagus.livejournal.com]

No, no, no - thank YOU!

I was seriously sitting here thinking, "Well, Kirk would wear anything, because he'd be like, 'New duds, awes,' and Uhura would wear native garb or whatever because it's a cultural-exchange type of thing, but the only way to get Spock to change out of his uniform would be to, like, vaporize it or something."

Also BABY MONKEY FTW.

Re: This was my idea

[leupagus.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love your icon, btw!