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87. Kirk and Uhura, surprise party
His 26th birthday comes and goes. There's a bond between the command staff, one that can only be forged by surviving impossible odds together, but its not friendship, not yet. He'd love to celebrate, but doesn't know how to make it not sound like an order, so he keeps quiet.
Then he walks into the officers' mess to shouts of 'surprise' and Uhura holding a birthday cake. Bones, Sulu, Scotty, Spock... even Chekov is there, grinning in delight. Bones nods in Uhura's direction, the mastermind behind this party, and Kirk grins. He might be wrong about that friends thing afterall.
