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Family Matters by Elise Madrid (NC-17)
Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Author on LJ: gilda_elise
Author Website: None
Why this must be read:
Elise Madrid excels at coming up with fascinating plots, and often chooses to set her stories in seldom-explored areas of TOS canon. (More of her work can be found at ksarchive.com).
One of the best things about TOS fan fiction is that there is so much canon covering such a long period of time to play with. In the original Star Trek pilot “The Cage”, later incorporated into the two-part episode “The Menagerie”, one of the plot points is that Spock, serving at this time under Captain Pike, has suffered a leg injury.
In “Family Matters”, Elise takes this incident and explores what happens while a young Lieutenant Spock is convalescing on the Vega Colony. With six weeks of leave, and little to do but regain his health, he finds himself at loose ends until he meets Aurelan Kirk at the local medical center. Shortly thereafter, he is introduced to her husband Sam, and her brother-in-law, Jim Kirk, who has just graduated from the Academy and is on leave, waiting for his first posting.
One of the interesting things about “The Cage” is that Spock seems to occasionally be experimenting with openly showing emotion. A key element in Elise’s story is that Spock is making an awkward attempt to live more as a Human than a Vulcan. He trustingly welcomes his new friends into his life – but he is not yet aware of the dangers that emotions pose, or of the damage that they can cause.
In a devastating scene, Spock’s attempts at living with emotion ends in disaster. He returns to the Enterprise, now determined to be Vulcan in all ways. Years later, Kirk becomes Captain of the Enterprise. The author traces the repercussions of what happened between them against a background of the events of the first season. Then, the Enterprise reaches the planet Deneva where the events from their past must be confronted.
http://ksarchive.com/viewstory.php?sid=45
Pairing: Kirk/Spock
Author on LJ: gilda_elise
Author Website: None
Why this must be read:
Elise Madrid excels at coming up with fascinating plots, and often chooses to set her stories in seldom-explored areas of TOS canon. (More of her work can be found at ksarchive.com).
One of the best things about TOS fan fiction is that there is so much canon covering such a long period of time to play with. In the original Star Trek pilot “The Cage”, later incorporated into the two-part episode “The Menagerie”, one of the plot points is that Spock, serving at this time under Captain Pike, has suffered a leg injury.
In “Family Matters”, Elise takes this incident and explores what happens while a young Lieutenant Spock is convalescing on the Vega Colony. With six weeks of leave, and little to do but regain his health, he finds himself at loose ends until he meets Aurelan Kirk at the local medical center. Shortly thereafter, he is introduced to her husband Sam, and her brother-in-law, Jim Kirk, who has just graduated from the Academy and is on leave, waiting for his first posting.
One of the interesting things about “The Cage” is that Spock seems to occasionally be experimenting with openly showing emotion. A key element in Elise’s story is that Spock is making an awkward attempt to live more as a Human than a Vulcan. He trustingly welcomes his new friends into his life – but he is not yet aware of the dangers that emotions pose, or of the damage that they can cause.
In a devastating scene, Spock’s attempts at living with emotion ends in disaster. He returns to the Enterprise, now determined to be Vulcan in all ways. Years later, Kirk becomes Captain of the Enterprise. The author traces the repercussions of what happened between them against a background of the events of the first season. Then, the Enterprise reaches the planet Deneva where the events from their past must be confronted.
http://ksarchive.com/viewstory.php?sid=45
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