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Kith and Kin by Rabble Rouser (G)
Fandom: STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/rabble_rouser_st/
Why this must be read:
I’ve been recommending TOS slash stories up until now, but it’s time to visit the “gen side”.
Rabble Rouser really knows her Trek. Every detail in her stories is perfectly chosen to illuminate personal concerns and to connect her characters to much larger realities. She makes the 23rd century feel very real.
“Kith and Kin” is a post-five-year-mission story. McCoy is spending some time in a beach house with his 16-year-old daughter Joanna and his elderly father. Even though he had anticipated returning to Earth, now that he’s there, he’s unsettled over the changes in his life. The Enterprise crew has scattered. Spock has gone to Gol. Kirk is considering accepting the promotion to Admiral. McCoy feels that’s the worst possible choice Kirk could make, and decides the best thing to do about it is write a rude letter to Admiral Nogura.
As he struggles with the wording, the reader understands just how much McCoy feels shut out of Kirk’s life, how much life on the Enterprise has changed him, and how complicated it is to deal with the reality of a teenage daughter in person versus subspace communication. And, in the person of McCoy’s father, we quickly see exactly where the doctor got his temperament.
Rabble Rouser includes a fascinating flashback to McCoy’s first deep space mission, exploring both the beginnings of his friendship with James Kirk, as well as showing how he learns what it’s like to practice medicine in the heat of battle.
Rabble Rouser has written a fine character study; a wonderful insight into the human heart.
http://www.geocities.com/rabble_rouser_st/KithandKin.htm
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: http://www.geocities.com/rabble_rouser_st/
Why this must be read:
I’ve been recommending TOS slash stories up until now, but it’s time to visit the “gen side”.
Rabble Rouser really knows her Trek. Every detail in her stories is perfectly chosen to illuminate personal concerns and to connect her characters to much larger realities. She makes the 23rd century feel very real.
“Kith and Kin” is a post-five-year-mission story. McCoy is spending some time in a beach house with his 16-year-old daughter Joanna and his elderly father. Even though he had anticipated returning to Earth, now that he’s there, he’s unsettled over the changes in his life. The Enterprise crew has scattered. Spock has gone to Gol. Kirk is considering accepting the promotion to Admiral. McCoy feels that’s the worst possible choice Kirk could make, and decides the best thing to do about it is write a rude letter to Admiral Nogura.
As he struggles with the wording, the reader understands just how much McCoy feels shut out of Kirk’s life, how much life on the Enterprise has changed him, and how complicated it is to deal with the reality of a teenage daughter in person versus subspace communication. And, in the person of McCoy’s father, we quickly see exactly where the doctor got his temperament.
Rabble Rouser includes a fascinating flashback to McCoy’s first deep space mission, exploring both the beginnings of his friendship with James Kirk, as well as showing how he learns what it’s like to practice medicine in the heat of battle.
Rabble Rouser has written a fine character study; a wonderful insight into the human heart.
http://www.geocities.com/rabble_rouser_st/KithandKin.htm