PS: I feel slightly superior 'cause apparently those stupid!Kirk people are reading Kirk/Bones and not Kirk/Spock... I don't see this phenomenon in most of the nu!K/S I've read, and indeed I see people writing Kirk as a math/programming genius a little too much (I mean, he's smart, but why does he have to be *that* smart in *that* way?). I think you could blame the movie & Kirk saying and doing re: finishing the Academy a year early and his high test scores reference, but. I mean, I'm getting tired of genius!Jim, I dunno. Moron!Jim is just hilarious, though; but basically I don't think pairing him with Spock makes that inevitable at all. Granted I haven't read *that* much fic? But I think in this case it's less pairing him with the nerd (ie, Spock) and more pairing him with someone who tops him and is apparently 'rugged' (Bones, I guess) making it necessary that Jim be more vulnerable/goofy/moronic (and thus needing of advice/rescue/whatever). I'm guessing. I think the point of K/S shippers is that Spock inspires Jim to new heights and they're a more awesome team together, not that Spock is superior to Jim and therefore lords it over him. I don't even know how anyone can parse that. So even if Spock tops him, it's not (that I've seen) in a condescending way; I mean, it's just such a huge compliment for Spock to like you, Jim *has* to be super-smart/awesome, or otherwise why would Spock bother? It's like, if they identify with Spock's genius-nerdiness so much, they would know that moron!Jim is soooo not a turn on. At all. Jim has to be 'worthy' of Spock, more like, and so they go the other way and make him 'too smart' in the wrong way and also (in a different way) don't accept that differens strengths are OK. With Bones, there's not so much of a 'deserving' thing, maybe, so it's ok that Jim is an idiot 'cause Bones kinda thinks/treats him as an idiot in some ways already (like he needs a keeper, a shot in the neck/ass/etc).

There's a lot of competency porn in K/S; partly 'cause Jim is captain and he gets to feel smug/possessive about the competency of his whole crew on top of his own huge ego. :> :> heh. I feel smug, yes.