#anyways! kirk is cool. he can cook. tarsus fucked up his perception of cooking and food.

[laney-rockin]

HC that Kirk is a great cook/baker but never really gets to showcase that skill cause his quarters [unlike Pike's] doesn't have a massive fucking kitchen he can play around in.

But the thing that draws him the most is old rationing recipes from the great depression. This man was on Tarsus where he nearly died from starvation, ofc he'd be super good at cooking with barely anything.

He also [imo] would also be super good at picking up clues as to if a plant is edible or not and likes to play that game in his head as he looks around planets as Spock goes around doing whatever he does with his tricorder.

And Spock and Bones don't know shit about these skills of his until they're all stranded somewhere and Kirk just cooks nonchalantly and the other two just look either [in Bones' case] bewildered and [in Spock's case] mildly baffled that their captain can just make 3 reasonably sized portions out of NOTHING.

#star trek #jim kirk #spock #star trek tos #tos star trek #tos kirk #bones mccoy #star trek headcanon #star trek the original series #james t kirk #james tiberius kirk #his time on tarsus led him down the whole 'learn to cook with what you got' mentality and he's kept at it for YEARS #which is sad- but at least he has a life skill #gotta look on the bright side amiright? #spock and bones probably have an idea he can cook but don't think he can cook with like 4 ingredients and a prayer #anyways! kirk is cool. he can cook. tarsus fucked up his perception of cooking and food.