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how the light gets in by spaceisgay (ChancellorGriffin)
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), Star Trek: Discovery
29 May 2025
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Summary
Father Christopher Pike, a Jesuit from Earth's Vatican Observatory, wakes up from a coma with no memories of his life, his past, or the five years he's supposedly spent as part of an interfaith monastic community on the moon of Delta IV, where he is the sole human among eight scholars representing different belief systems from throughout the galaxy - from a Romulan nun of the Qowat Milat, to a Trill Guardian, to a Klingon monk from Boreth. But as he attempts to acclimate to a life he doesn't remember, the only thing he recognizes is the face that greeted him upon waking: Spock, the cohort's resident Vulcan, who lives next door and is supposedly Pike's closest friend. After a mind meld helps Pike recover his memories of their life together at the monastery, the intimacy between them begins to deepen, and suddenly their vows of celibacy feel oppressive in a way they didn't before.
But even as the spark between them grows more difficult to ignore, Pike and Spock still can't shake the unsettling feeling that this isn't their real life . . . or the worry that somebody, somewhere, seems willing to go to dangerous lengths to stop them from getting back to it.