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*"Angel Unaware"     Angel Unaware and Other K/S Stories, May 1986 (p.3-9)

Exploration of the complex relationship between Kirk and Spock in the Mirror Universe.

"Dark Dreams, Revisited"     Angel Unaware and Other K/S Stories, May 1986 (p.10-22)

Kirk attempts to recover memories of his and Spock's recent experience in Orion captivity, and discovers that Spock had taken him sexually in order to foil his sale, then erased the memory.

 

"Enemy Within the Mirror     Angel Unaware and Other K/S Stories, May 1986 (p.23-34)

"The Enemy Within" in the Mirror Universe, where the "intruder" is the gentle Kirk and the raging Kirk must take that part of himself back in order to command.

 

 

"Alternate Ending"     Angel Unaware and Other K/S Stories, May 1986 (p.35-47)

Variation on "Turnabout Intruder" in which Kirk's body (and Janet Lester's mind) are dead and no return is possible.

 

 

"The Answer / The Question"     Angel Unaware and Other K/S Stories, May 1986 (p.45-50)

Kirk and Spock grapple with Spock's departure for and return from Gol.

"Only Human"      Berengaria #9, June 1977 (p. 147-159)

Despite continued commendations from Star Fleet and adulation by the public, Kirk has lost confidence after some of his recent decisions resulted in a number of deaths and a near-disaster for the ship. Sent to Earth on home leave, he decides to resign, over McCoy's objections. On the return trip aboard a Star Fleet training vessel, Kirk is forced to take over during an attack by Orions, and consequently revises his decision.

 

"The Only Other Thing" Contact #4, Sept. 1977, (p. 2-17)

Kirk must confront a childhood friend from Tarsus days, who continues to obsess about his family being deemed unworthy and slaughtered before his eyes while Kirk's people were allowed to live, and has become an anti-Federation terrorist. He finally has to kill the man, releasing an emotional storm in which he turns to Spock.

"One Good Turn"     Galactic Discourse #2, July 1978 (p. 7-22)

Spock has disobeyed Kirk’s direct order to save him; with Kirk unconscious in Sickbay, a court sentences Spock to “maximum sentence” at the Carbel penal colony. Spock redeems himself by heroism when the Klingons attack the colony to free their operatives. Standard fare. The sentence seemed extreme for the crime.

"Reckoning"     Galactic Discourse #3, July 1980 (p. 12-40)

Post-Babel, Spock is furious with McCoy for not taking proper care of Kirk. McCoy sends them down for recuperation during the conference, and the Orion blood-mate of the spy who committed suicide goes after Kirk. Spock sets himself up as bait instead as they try to uncover the full Orion plot. Spock is held hostage, Kirk trades places, Spock overpowers his guards to escape and reveal the plot while the Orion tortures Kirk, and McCoy arrives with the cavalry to tend Kirk. Corridan is admitted, and Sarek asks Kirk to help him get to know his son on the return journey. Has some good points, including McCoy trying to fight his own jealousy of the friendship between Kirk and Spock, but flawed by a decidedly overprotective and overemotional Spock.

"Truths"     Entercomm #5, 1982 (p.122-163)

Post-V'Ger. Kirk and Spock attempt a first contact while Enterprise is called away. They are treated well enough, then suddenly arrested by the military leader who takes Spock for a Romulan and plans to execute him. Kirk escapes, rescues Spock and the two are pointed on an arduous journey toward safety high in the mountains, with Kirk desperately ill from altitude sickness and the military in pursuit. Throughout, both Kirk and Spock question Kirk's ability to resume command with his new disillusionment from serving in the Admiralty. A somewhat rambling tale with a lot of oft-used elements, including powerful telepaths testing and learning from the Kirk & Spock friendship. Pretty high smarm content.

"Conundrum"     Galactic Discourse #4, April 1983 (p. 95-128)

On a landing party, Kirk is captured by the locals, who proclaim him a bringer of death, beat him and stake him out to be stung by a swarm of insects. On rescue, he recovers, but suffers mysterious debilitating bouts of illness. Meanwhile, they rescue a cargo ship from Klingon attack but Kirk has to stay aboard to whip the mutinous crew into shape - until they conspire to hand him over to the Klingons. Their doctor, fortunately, plays with him a while before resorting to the mind-sifter. This allows rescue, and the eventual discovery that he is suffering from malaria - which had been imported to the unfriendly planet by someone before the Prime Directive came into play, accounting for the hostile reaction.

 

"A Time To Care"     Galactic Discourse #4, April 1983 (p. 151-153)

Post-"Khan" vignette. Kirk/McCoy scene outside the radiation chamber. Kirk is shocked, grieving and blaming himself, while McCoy tries to protect the admiral's dignity and points out that Kirk's presence at the end was crucial to Spock.

"Acceptance"     Galactic Discourse #5, April 1987 (p. 46-77)

Post-"Enemy Within." Fresh from having to absorb his own dark side, Kirk encounters good and evil twins vying for planetary rule. He is tortured and dropped into a lake, from which he is rescued by Spock and McCoy, after which he manages to bring the sides to negotiation.

"What Is Left?"     Galactic Discourse#5, April 1987 (p. 189-204)

Vignette; Kirk pondering what there is of Spock in Spock after the fal-tor-pan

"This Side of the Mirror"     R & R #2, Winter 1976 (p. 20-27)

(Reprinted from Grope)

Uhura’s Mirror experience sets her to wondering about - and then trying out - taking her friendship with Sulu to a new level.

Poem: "Were You There?"     Galactic Discourse #5, April 1987 (p. 184-185)

A drunken McCoy queries the other barflies about whether they were one of the 18 survivors of an Orion attack when Spock and Kirk were killed.

The Price (novel), 1988. 140p,

[Abode of Strife #14]

Premise is a test of our three guys and their friendship to satisfy the curiosity of a sadistic alien. This piece seems completely unedited. It is riddled with typos, misspellings, and grammatical errors, not worth plowing through for the rather repetitious plot.

 

"Don't I Know You?"     Abode of Strife #19, May 1993 (p.126-139)

Kirk, Spock and McCoy are battered by space ripples on a shuttlecraft trip and are rescued by Sargon, now part of a ship that pretends to be a comet. Meanwhile, participants turn the Triskelion Games into a memorial for the presumed-dead Kirk and Spock. Sargon sends them back and despite injuries from another rough shuttle ride, they participate in their events. Now really... this is a little much; Kirk wins his swim relays with broken ribs - and McCoy lets him.

Chekov's Enterprise. Randy Landers, Orion Press, 1998. 254 p. Chekov in command of the new Enterprise on a variety of intertwined missions. Kirk's death/disappearance. The murder of Princess Teresa, now McCoy's wife, and their two sons, putting an end to that line from the Orion Universe. (Can't say I'm sorry. I thought she was a flat character, purely a sex object, beautiful but nothing else. ) Uhura as First Officer; serious conflict between Chekov & Randy's rather arrogant Sulu over search strategy for the Jenolen. Main plot concerns a Tholian "swarm" - based on fire ants - into Federation territory, ending with Chekov presiding over genocide after Spock's unsuccessful negotiations. Also a reporter hovering around causing trouble. Randy's Chekov is very Jewish. Very nice characterization on Chekov, especially the Russian Rules of Engagement. Cool cover by Zaquia Tarhuntassa

 

* "Spider’s Lair" Antares #5, July 2000 (p. 57-92)

[Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: Beginnings]

Evil “Q’xl%” (pronounced Kicksulpop) shows up every 30 years to slurp up 5 insignificant lives. It happens to take them from a landing party of the Shenandoah, commanded by Kirk and his second Gary Mitchell, with Sulu present. It is unaffected by laser weapons. Sulu is sent back 30 years later to try again. A nice touch here is that we don’t know if Sulu has managed or not - he does lose his 5 crew, though. Interesting contrasts of Sulu’s command crew and Kirk’s - Sulu’s does not come together like that of Enterprise.

 

"Duties and Responsibilities"     Antares #5, July 2000 (p. 110-112)

[Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: Chekov's Enterprise]
Chekov family vignette - his uncle berating him for not coming back for his father’s funeral.

"Too Great a Risk"      Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.20-24) (with Rob Morris)

Chekov, taking command of Enterprise-B, argues with Saavik over her elimination of Peter Kirk from the recommended crew roster, pointing out that by her criteria, both she and Chekov himself would be barred.

"Chains of Command"      Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.55-72)

Action. Helmsman Demora Sulu questions Captain Chekov's direct order during battle. At the resulting court-martial, she accepts reduction to petty officer and removal from bridge rotation to shuttle pilot. Chekov has to tell Hikaru Sulu about it.

"Freefall"      Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.73-82) (with Rob Morris)

Just after picking Peter Kirk up for his new assignment to Enterprise, Demora Sulu suffers a seizure from a brain fluke and dies.

"Ashes"      Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.99-100)

Vignette. New rec-room manager Guinan caters to Hikaru Sulu's grief for his daughter.

"Honesty"     Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 81-83)

Chekov and Saavik accuse one another of improvising their reactions and statistics. Cute.

"Angel"     Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 116-141) (with Rob Morris)

A lonely immortal entity draws Saavik to it, taking on the image of David Marcus as an angel, and endangering the Enterprise in the process.

"The Last Word" [editorial]      Antares #12, December 2003 (p. 160) / Randall Landers

Randy's touching comments on not having called Ann Zewen the night before she died of complications of surgery.

 

* A Difficult Concept (cartoon collection) Orion Press, 1995, [36p.]

Trek cartoons, all incarnations. Some excellent bits. The border drawings are an especially nice touch.

"Back to the Front"      DeForest Kelley Compendium, June 1991 (p.146-148)

McCoy's experience in the repair shop of the "Shore Leave" planet.

 

"Malfunction"     Log Entries #23, April 1979 (p.3-7)

The transporter malfunctions during beam-down, leaving Kirk injured and separated from Spock and McCoy, who find him by joining forces in a mind-meld.

"Dalliance"      Beyond the Farthest Star #1, 1985 (p. 49-51)

Chapel seduces Spock with one of his mother's recipes.

 

 

 

"Spock's Decision"    Berengaria #2, Jan. 1974

[Kraith V (1971) with additional scenes on Vulcan by Sondra Marshak (1972). Also reprinted in Kraith Collected #4]
Typically convoluted Kraith thing. Kirk is esper-shocked, as is most of the crew to a lesser extent, due to some space phenomenon. He and Tanya are somehow linked, Tanya dies of the shock. Spock takes over just about all ship functions, telling McCoy how to treat everyone (with Theragin derivative) and Scotty how to make the engines go and so forth. Spock keeps Kirk alive, barely, by invoking the Liege-Ward programming that had been installed in him when Sarek adopted him (huh? - anyway, he appears to have been on Vulcan for some kind of training, and one thing must have led to another...). This puts Kirk in a slave relationship to Spock - who seems to really get off on it. When they get away from the danger zone, Kirk has to be taken to Schillia for emergency psionic treatment by the local aquatic folk. Later he will have to go to Vulcan for more Vulcan discipline. (Hmmm) A Schillian about to become a starship captain asks Spock (with his amazing telepathic prowess) to help him consult the Oracle. For some reason, this is going to require Spock's retirement. But he agrees. They do. And the Enterprise goes on to Vulcan... more tripe no doubt to follow. Don't get me wrong; Jacqueline Lichtenberg can write a good story, and if you enjoy gaudily ritualistic, patronizing Vulcans, you'll like hers.

 

"Remote Control"     Interphase #1, July 1975 (p. 50-93)

Screenplay intended for the original series in 1968. Author notes that this was the progenitor of her Kraith series, though the story does not show Kraith overtones.
A quite viable script with fine characterization. Spock is having inexplicable medical symptoms, and the ship is experiencing sundry technical problems including a sensor ghost. New crewman Mathews, a Vulcan-Human hybrid who ignores his Vulcan side as Spock does his Human qualities, is producing the "Mathews Effect" - irrational antipathy - in everyone else because he is a broadcast empath but refuses to believe it. The problems are, of course, a devious Romulan plot, requiring Spock to get in touch with his humanity and Mathews to reach for his Vulcanity.

* "Without Pomp or Circumstance"     Beyond Orion #2, July 1977, p. 3-18

Sahaj Series.

Spock turns his panic-stricken son over to Sarek and Amanda to raise.

 

* "Expose"     Alnitah #10 March 1979 (p.2-5)

Young Spock, traveling with his mother, experiments with practical jokes; Amanda retaliates with a human form of discipline as recommended by Mark Twain. Leslye's usual charming rendition of the mischievous Vulcan child.

 

** "The Bronze Cord"     Dagger of the Mind, 1980, p.123-155

Sahaj series

Two years after Spock has taken Sahaj from his foster father Jeremy Gill to put him in the care of Sarek and Amanda, Gill has become ambassador to Vulcan in hopes of being near the boy again. Enterprise is taking him there, and all the crew conspire to keep Gill and Spock from coming to blows. Nice touch in this one is the game of Olympic Chess that runs through Gill's mind at opportune moments throughout the story.

Patricia Lindl

"Rescue"    Dreadnought Explorations #5, Jan 1977 (p. 79-82)

Altair gets stuck in a jeffries tube and Kirk is the only one who can get near her.

"The Medal"     Antares #2, 1998 (p. 5-10)

[Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: Beginnings]

Spock and Sarek at odds over an act of violence that earned Spock a medal of valor.

 

* "The Emancipator of Trill"     Antares #3, 1999 (p. 10-41)

[Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: First Mission v.3]

Diplomatic and personal troubles ensue when a Trill ambassador, possibly inside a coerced host, views Kirk as her entertainment.

* "Light Speed in an 85 mph Zone"     Antares #6, Oct 2000 (p. 126-128)

[Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: Beginnings]

Nice little vignette - young Kirk is celebrating his admission to SF Academy by getting another traffic ticket, forcing the long-suffering cop to admit he’ll miss him.

"The Last Word: Is This a Mirror Universe?" [essay]      Antares #11, April 2003 (p. 119-120)

Eloquent discussion of the lamentable change over the Star Trek incarnations from the dominant themes of responsibility, self-sacrifice, and the superiority of man to machine to tales in the more recent series in which the main characters elude responsibility, place personal friendships ahead of the safety of the Galaxy, and glorify cyborgs and holograms over humanity.

"First Contact 101"      Antares #12, December 2003 (p. 1-61) / D.G. Littleford

Academy Days composite, featuring Finnegan torturing Kirk as a plebe, Kirk breaking up with Lystra Davis after forgetting her birthday, Kirk defeating invincible chess champion cadet Spock on his first try, a variety of bigoted cadets, and the uneasy origins of their partnership when defense instructor Rodriguez forces them to be first sparring partners, then teammates.

 

"The Fear Of You"      Alpha Continuum #1, 1976 (p.39-47)

Odd and rather disturbing tale in which Spock, sent along with a New Danaan woman and her symbiotic pet tiggy to investigate a mushroom hallucinogen smuggling ring on a planet on which Tellerites have seeded telepathic hounds... well, it was hard to follow, but the woman and her tiggy - which was quite a nice critter - end up dead and Spock ends up joining the hounds in massacreing the smugglers. Ick.

 

"No Child of Man"     Alpha Continuum #2, March 1977 (p.37-41)

Illo interp: McCoy with a woman wearing a moon amulet. Without doubt the wildest version of McCoy’s divorce I’ve come across! Arianna as a member of a coven, with McCoy having her committed after witnessing her indulging in bloody ritual during her pregnancy. It also speculates that Jo may be parthenogenic - Ari’s child, but not McCoy’s after all. Definitely original, and rather spellbinding.

"Made for Each Other"     Alpha Continuum # 4, March 1980 (p.9-18)

[reprinted from Warped Space #6]
Silly but entertaining and creative were-creature story, told in first-person by a young ambassador from planet Paradox. Various crew members seem to be carrying a were-gene, and when exposed to the star they are orbiting, they Change. Spock becomes a cat and scratches McCoy when the doctor tries to pat his head. The planet's inhabitants are also were-"wulves" and the Paradox contingent beam down to discuss arranging Organian protection for them. Also, security crewman Norton abandons ship to run off - as a wulf - with his superior officer. Best bit in this story was the "beastume" - an artificial lifeform that transforms into one's clothing at will.

"Responsibility"     Alpha Continuum # 4, March 1980 (p.43-50)

Illo interp - one of the Three in cloaks in the mountains, Kirk with a staff, plus one of Kirk, chained to a rock with a serpent after him.
Suffering from debilitating nightmares, Kirk seeks the help of dream therapists - (apparently on the planet where the women engineers gave Enterprise's computer its quirky personality). They send him on a dream Quest, with Spock & McCoy also providing their dreams to the technicians. In payment, Kirk captures an Orion pirate ship that has been plaguing their planet.

"Millions Will Die Who Did Not Die Before "     Abode of Strife #24, 1994 (p.4-11)

"City on the Edge" alternate, with McCoy left stranded in the past.

* "Nameless Enemy"     Alnitah #1 Nov. 1975 (p.24-29)

[reprinted in Alnitah Omnibus #1]
Interesting and dramatic dilemma. Kirk, McCoy and Spock are escorting a young Romulan prisoner when the shuttlecraft is damaged and Kirk knocked unconscious. There is possibly enough air for three to survive until rescue, but definitely not for four. Spock decides to sacrifice the Romulan woman. An interesting bit here is that McCoy offers to do it so that Spock won’t have to; one reason Spock won’t let him is that the woman is about Joanna’s age.

 

"Reconciled Among the Stars"     Alnitah #3 1976 (p.35-44)

After "Paradise Syndrome," Kirk is unable to overcome his grief, leaving an already-exhausted Spock to do both their jobs. Spock's attempt to shock Kirk into accepting the reality that Miramanee could never have been a meet companion to the real Kirk puts an insurmountable rift between them. McCoy's hesitation to relieve them both of duty results in Spock blacking out at a crucial moment, causing the death of a crewman. Kirk calls an inquiry at which McCoy defends Spock and gets the two back together.

"Open Sesame"     Alnitah #6 June 1977 (p.30-42)

Investigating a dead civilization with an operating computer control, the landing party and rescue party are trapped in the underground control center, Spock and an injured Uhura on one side of a forcefield, McCoy and an injured Kirk on the other. McCoy has to operate. Spock determines that he has been mentally attacked, undermining his determination to fight, and is able to overcome the reluctance by drawing on Kirk's will to fight and getting McCoy to curmudgeon him into going on.

* "Encounter at Deneb" Antares #10, June 2002 (p. 147-151)

Romp. Encounter at Farpoint with our guys in the dock; they flummox Q handily.

 

Epilogue (novel)

Part 1: Sol Plus Special Edition #1, 1976, 79p. [reprinted from Triskelion #4, 1971]
Part 2: Sol Plus Special Edition #2, 1977, 131p. [reprinted from Triskelion #5, 1976]
    Admiral Kirk, long after the Federation's war with the Romulan / Klingon alliance, is suffering the senility he knew he would develop ("Deadly Years") and has come to say goodbye to Spock (married with 5 kids, and indulging in human behaviors such as laughter) before doing himself in before he can get worse. Spock offers both physical and mind-meld treatment. Somehow, reliving others' lives of the intervening years will pull him out of himself and save his deteriorating mental faculties. Starts off a middling tale but becomes more compelling in the second part.
     Part I: Kirk experiences: 1) Spock's new life in command of the Surak with Molly Webster, Vulcan-raised human and telepath, as his First Officer, and running a much more informal ship. 2) Amanda's memories of Sarek's execution, and his katra (not named as such, of course) taking up residence in Amanda - which must be kept secret by some unexplained taboo. 3) Spock's experience of Nurse Joanna McCoy coming aboard, being ridiculously klutzy in normal times and absolutely efficient in an emergency, saving his arm in a crisis. And of falling in love, it seems, with Molly.
    Part 2: Kirk's treatments continue. 1) Molly shows him how she and Spock went undercover to retrieve information on a weapon that forces telepathy, resulting in madness in species that cannot shield, and were captured and tortured by the mind-sifter operator. They marry themselves in a Vulcan ceremony. 2) Amanda shows him how her household became the headquarters of the Klingon occupation force. They took in T'Pring, catatonic from Romulan mind-rape, and Stonn and several other injured people. Amanda started a Vulcan underground, and when the Klingon commander tried to take Amanda by force, Sarek invaded his mind from hers and took over, leading the Klingons into defeat. 3) Meanwhile, Spock and Molly are having trouble getting StarFleet to recognize their marriage. In a battle lull, they plan to hook up with Enterprise for a civil ceremony, but the Enterprise is attacked first; Joanna beams over to find both McCoy and Kirk badly injured. Kirk has to be left in stasis on a base; McCoy is reassigned with Spock on Surak, but Molly is promoted to Captain of Enterprise. McCoy takes Spock and Molly to Cogley, who gets through the red tape by having Spock claim his Terran citizenship, and marries them. The war is ending; the final blow coming as the telepathy weapon is used on occupied Vulcan. I-Chaya dies attacking a Klingon about to kill all of Amanda's household. A Romulan couple sell their newborn daughter to Amanda to prevent her becoming a slave; the child becomes Spock's eldest daughter.

 

"The Logic of Change"     Contact #2, May 1976, (p.?)

"The Tenth Night"     R & R #1, July 1976 (p. 3-26)

(Reprinted in Full Moon Rising)

Amanda and Sarek begin to adjust to each other - including sexually - in the first weeks of their marriage. She tries to test his physical limits (but can’t find them) and shows him how to let her be the aggressor sometimes.

"In a Bed of Stone"     R & R #2, Winter 1976 (p. 3-20)

Mirror Universe Sarek & Amanda tale. Amanda is the Imperial Governor of Vulcan and forces Sarek to attempt to satisfy her - under threat of killing off the adult Vulcan population, which would leave the children to die of physio-psychic imbalance.

"Care to Debate That?"     R & R #3, Spring 1977 (p. 95-99)

Jean defends her version of Vulcan sexuality (with an “awakening” of the male at first pon farr).

* "The Needs of the Two"     Galactic Discourse#5, April 1987 (p. 159-165)

Post-STIII. After the fal-tor-pan, a disturbed Spock comes to McCoy feeling that he has "misplaced" the doctor - he has no memories of him at all, nor why he chose him as Keeper - and requests a mind-meld.