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Kate MacCullugh

"World's Shortest Mary Sue Story" Galactic Discourse#5, April 1987 (p. 110-111): A fan with a thing for Klingons should have been careful what she wished for.

Valerie Mackney

"Reflections on Damocles" Alnitah #11 July 1980 (p.29-42): While inspecting a planet devoted to Federation military and espionage technology, Kirk lands in a Mirror universe in which Spock is female, devoted to him, and gruesomely sadistic. Interesting take on the premise, and Kirk's reactions of mixed love and horror are well-drawn.

Linda Maclaren

"Dreadnought Explorations I" Dreadnought Explorations #1, May 1976 (p. 4-29): (with Gina Martin); The Enterprise crew return from their 5-year mission to a heroes' welcome and unease about new assignments. Kirk rejects a ground assignment and is given command of the new Dreadnought-class vessel Federation. He recalls his crew and they take off on their first mission, a joint effort with Romulans and Klingons to investigate mysterious disappearances of Romulan people beyond their territory. Kirk goes aboard early, discovers that Orion Trader Danior Abrasax and his "pantha" cat have stowed away, and the ship suddenly takes off on her own uncontrollable pre-programmed course into a star. Spock recalls the crew, pursues in Enterprise, and they manage to use tractor beams to deflect the course and regain control. Back on base, Kirk uses negative psychology to get McCoy to volunteer for the Federation. As they head off, they learn that they will be assigned to a Klingon fleet commanded by Koloth.
Danior is a fun character, rebellious and mildly empathic, and delights in getting under Spock's skin. The "Traders" are an interesting race who are not regular Orions, but live out their lives in space.
Danior: "Silly invention, gravity."

" Leonard Nimoy on Stage" Dreadnought Explorations #1, May 1976 (p. 33): rev. of play Sherlock Holmes, with Nimoy in lead role
"Dreadnought Explorations II" Dreadnought Explorations #2, July 1976 (p. 4-49): (with Gina Martin)
Danior persuades Kirk to take him along, as he has seen the now-abandoned Romulan colonies and suspects that the phenomenon has something to do with Orion Trader legends of "The Sentinel." The crew begin to develop strange headaches and erratic behavior, and a few people drop inexplicably dead of cerebral hemorrhage. When Kirk becomes critically ill, Danior and Spock do a joint meld on him and find out that the problem stems from sophisticated alien probes sucking information from their brains, evidence of a serious invasion of a new civilization, headed for the Romulan / Klingon / Federation area. Kirk convinces a reluctant Tal to go in search of the source of the energy controlling the probes.

"The Orion Traders" Dreadnought Explorations #2, July 1976 (p. 50-51): (with Gina Martin)
Cultural background for the DE universe.
"Profile: the Trekker at the Convention" Dreadnought Explorations #2, July 1976 (p. 52): (with Gina Martin)

"Dreadnought Explorations III" Dreadnought Explorations #3, Sep 1976 (p.5-50): (with Gina Martin)
The crews are outfitted with subcutaneous neutralizers to counter the effects of the probe energy-fields. Kirk bans Danior from the bridge and the insulted Danior decides to leave at the first colony they reach. The uneasy alliance of the three commanders becomes yet more uneasy when Romulan Tal, in charge, refuses to let the others investigate the abandoned colony that was their starting point for the mission. Kirk breaks the alliance; Tal relents. It turns out that the colony was totally annihilated, as were others. The Romulan report of inexplicable migration was merely a decoy story to encourage the Federation to participate in the mission. Kirk begins to romance the Romulan first officer Zada. Zada and the science officer Lexa (formerly the Romulan Commander of "Enterprise Incident") are clearly at odds with Tal. They head for a planet suspected to be the source of the invasion, where a full Romulan fleet vanished. Danior believes the planet houses a Sentinel, of Trader mythology, a boundary guard of a civilization bent on conquering the galaxy. The planet has weird energy fields like the probes that were killing people, and the fancy new shuttles can't function, nor can the transporter. Scott rigs shielding, and landing parties from all three ships go down, not including Tal who begins to show distinct cowardly tendencies. The planet is convulsing, and landing party members are picked off by various rockslides and such. Kirk and Koloth find an alien tower that is the source of the odd energy fields; it allows them inside its field, traps them there and probes their minds. They manage to destroy it with overloaded phasers, and help each other get back to the others and get the wounded to the beam-up point.

"The Pegasus Logs" Dreadnought Explorations #3, Sep 1976 (p. 51-59): (with Gina Martin)
Federation spies Devin McCabe & Zaluon Talgar sting a dilithium-smuggling / kidnapping ring operating from an interstellar circus.

Dreadnought Explorations IV Dreadnought Explorations #4, Nov 1976 (p. 4-57): (with Gina Martin)
Kirk resolves to try to talk with the new aliens. McCoy puts himself on report after an ensign under his charge is killed in a lab accident. Zada and Lexa plot mutiny against the cowardly Tal. A shuttle crew is injured investigating an odd asteroid field and Chekov and McCoy go to assist in a medical shuttle. A spacecraft lurking in the asteroids had attacked the shuttle, and now transports the two shuttles aboard; Federation pursues into the field. The aliens examine McCoy, Kazmeric and Chekov; McCoy refuses to play in their intelligence test, but manages to establish communications. The aliens populate a planet until they use it up, then move on to a new one; this is an advance ship seeking a new home while the queen and colonists remain behind. The aliens have no sense of individual identity. The Federation reaches the alien ship; it keeps telling them that they are "controlled" and must surrender. Meanwhile, the three Feds escape and get to their shuttle; McCoy remains behind to operate the hangar door - then bash in the machinery - while the other two take the shuttle and fly home. He is last seen being overpowered by the aliens. Kirk pursues, pointing out to Spock that, "McCoy is an impatient man, and I don't intend to keep him waiting."
"The Baldurian Log" Dreadnought Explorations #4, Nov 1976 (p. 58-70): (with Gina Martin)
A Pegasus Logs series tale (not read)
"Assignment: L.A. Snow Job" Dreadnought Explorations #4, Nov 1976 (p. 71-79): (with Gina Martin)
Gary Seven story. Mr. Atoz pops into Gary's office, having inadvertently put some tape he pirated from Enterprise while waiting for Kirk & co. into the Atavichron instead of his own. He insists on accompanying Seven on his mission to prevent an assassination. Good fun.

"Dreadnought Explorations V" Dreadnought Explorations #5, Jan 1977 (p. 4-77): (with Gina Martin)
McCoy, Chekov and Kazmeric all suffer guilt over McCoy's predicament. The Federation finds the Enterprise damaged by an attack by the alien and render assistance. Tal turns tail; Lexa and Zada have their mutiny and rejoin Kirk in battle against the alien; new alien ships enter the fray; Danior and Spock retrieve McCoy by transporter, but have to hold him in limbo when the unit is damaged, leaving Danior trapped and injured in the transporter room. The Feds are victorious but with serious damage and injuries, and the knowledge that by destroying all the scout ships they may have condemned an entire people to extinction. Zada looks after the injured Kirk.

"Human Sacrifice" Dreadnought Explorations #5, Jan 1977 (p. 80-97): (with Gina Martin)
This was a Contact story contest entry, and not their best work. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and others are stranded on a planet and under attack by Gorns - who have eaten the husband of one of the scientists in the party. Kirk is injured and there is an emotional scene of Kirk ordering the others to safety while he stays to hold off the Gorn - but it turns out they are shipwrecked themselves and amenable to negotiation.

* "Beyond the Mirror" Dreadnought Explorations #5, Jan 1977 (p. 104-118): (with Gina Martin)
Nicely done "Mirror, Mirror" story depicting the events of the episode from Mirror Kirk's pov.

* "Koloth Hatches His Revenge" Entercomm #5, 1982 (p.68-80): (with Gina Martin & Carol Yocum); Striving to improve his capacity for imaginative thinking, Koloth comes up with the perfect revenge for the tribbles Kirk sent to his ship. He sends 50 Gorn eggs to Kirk, so that the baby Gornlings all imprint on him at hatching. A charmer. The story takes place in the Dreadnought Explorations storyline, but that is not particularly important to enjoyment of the tale.

Shirley Maiewsky

Alternate Universe 4 #1, 1974, 62p. (with Virginia Tilley & Anna Mary Hall): First installment of a serialized novel.; Kirk is distracted by headache at a critical battle moment, and three planets are destroyed by the enemy. The guilt-ridden Kirk is drummed out of the fleet and sent penniless into the world. Spock and McCoy prevent him from committing suicide, and he becomes a freight navigator under an assumed name. However, he is recognized by an agent of Light Fleet - benevolent meddlers in societies, the same folks who employed Gary Seven, and whose aim is a peaceful galaxy. This issue ends with Kirk recruited to Light Fleet as an “Action Agent.” When a mission goes awry, Kirk is briefly captured on the Enterprise, but Spock and McCoy, trusting him, allow him to escape. A pleasant enough read with decent writing, though the angst was a bit overdone, and I found I didn't care much for the whole idea of Light Fleet - too much Big Brother, perhaps.

Alternate Universe 4 #2: "The Debt," 1976, 140p. (with Virginia Tilley , Daphne Hamilton & Anna Mary Hall): My same criticisms apply to this second installment - everybody's guilt-ridden agonizing is heavy-handed and Light Fleet is a disturbing concept. But again, the writing is frequently quite good, and the plot kept me reading - or at least scanning for the most interesting bits. On assignment, agent Kirk is rescued from hanging by the Enterprise - alerted by Light Fleet. (Uhura, conveniently, is also an agent.) When McCoy discovers his communications chip, Kirk, per Light Fleet orders, escapes by staging his own suicide. Blaming himself for having betrayed Jim in obeying his Starfleet oath, McCoy becomes such a total wreck that Spock suspends him and he goes to soak his sorrows on leave planet Gagarin. Meanwhile, back in Light Fleet, Vulcan agent Malon is assigned to assassinate the Klingon leader to stop intergalactic war. She does so, but is devastated at having killed. She compares sorrows with Kirk, and they get permission to collect Dival, a Light Fleet telepathic psychologist, and go to Gagarin to put McCoy right. McCoy, however, detects and prevents the healer's telepathic contact, and cannot be cured in the short time left before Dival must go home to undergo a type of spontaneous fission in which a Child is formed. Distracted by McCoy's problems, Dival leaves it too late and goes into the "creation" phase with McCoy witnessing the weirdness. Meanwhile, the war has not stopped after all - Klingons attack Gagarin with a new, indestructible ship, and Enterprise roars into the fray. Dival's friends arrive to help him in his Creation, and Kirk shows himself to McCoy, opting for personal over professional loyalty. But McCoy has now seen too much. He is invited into Light Fleet, but refuses to abandon Spock and has them mind-wipe him, all except for the knowledge that Kirk is alive, which he is allowed to share with Spock. Oh, meanwhile... Malon has had to participate in a Vulcan gang-mind-meld and Spock - also drafted into the group - recognizes her from long ago and questions her supposed death and motives, but she escapes thanks to Light Fleet training. Enterprise, with a little help from Light Fleet, defeats the invincible Klingon ship - leaving Spock to ponder the impossibility of that victory and start putting 2 & 2 together. Kirk and Malon go off to new Light Fleet adventures.

Collette Mak

"There Are Always Alternatives" R & R #10, Summer 1979 (p. 173-174): Cute vignette on the theme of alternative solutions. Amanda needs Sarek to be her escort in presenting a treaty - or she will be viewed as a gift; and she drops an earring down her dress and declines McCoy's helpful offer ("I AM a doctor"). Spock solves both problems.

"Birthday Boy" R & R #11, Fall 1979 (p. 168-175): Riley is presented with an Orion dancer for the night for his birthday and finds himself on the wrong side of the law in a fight to defend her.

Joy Mancinelli

"A Call From the Editor" R & R #10, Summer 1979 (p. 70-71): Editor of Stardate: Confession calls contributor Christine Chapel to confirm details of her "Volcanic Vulcan" stories, and Uhura accidentally broadcasts the conversation to the ship.

Maggie Manlove

"The Question" Galactic Discourse#5, April 1987 (p. 166-169): Kirk and McCoy wager over whether Spock is or is not ticklish, with inconclusive and Doctor-aggravating results.

Fern Marder

"A Winter's Dawn" Dagger of the Mind, 1980, p.81-101 (with Carol Walske): Nu Ormenal Series; A story of Kor's life and death.

David Marks

"Kobayashi Trumped" Beyond Antares (CA) #10, April 1987 (p. 7-9): Just prior to TMP, Kirk beats Kobayashi Maru again, this time with the new Enterprise.

Unexpected Aid Beyond Antares (CA) #11, Oct. 1987 (p. 4-7): Harry Morrow tumbles to Kirk's plans to steal Enterprise – and decides to help out. Nice take.

Cheryl Martin

"A Strange Thing Happened" Abode of Strife #19, May 1993 (p.3-8): As newlyweds Sarek and Amanda return to Vulcan, an old acquaintance of Amanda's attempts to seduce Sarek.

Gina Martin

"Dreadnought Explorations I" Dreadnought Explorations #1, May 1976 (p. 4-29): (with Linda Maclaren); The Enterprise crew return from their 5-year mission to a heroes' welcome and unease about new assignments. Kirk rejects a ground assignment and is given command of the new Dreadnought-class vessel Federation. He recalls his crew and they take off on their first mission, a joint effort with Romulans and Klingons to investigate mysterious disappearances of Romulan people beyond their territory. Kirk goes aboard early, discovers that Orion Trader Danior Abrasax and his "pantha" cat have stowed away, and the ship suddenly takes off on her own uncontrollable pre-programmed course into a star. Spock recalls the crew, pursues in Enterprise, and they manage to use tractor beams to deflect the course and regain control. Back on base, Kirk uses negative psychology to get McCoy to volunteer for the Federation. As they head off, they learn that they will be assigned to a Klingon fleet commanded by Koloth.
Danior is a fun character, rebellious and mildly empathic, and delights in getting under Spock's skin. The "Traders" are an interesting race who are not regular Orions, but live out their lives in space.
Danior: "Silly invention, gravity."
"At the Equicon-Filmcon Convention" Dreadnought Explorations #1, May 1976 (p. 30-31): con review

"Dreadnought Explorations II" Dreadnought Explorations #2, July 1976 (p. 4-49): (with Linda Maclaren)
Danior persuades Kirk to take him along, as he has seen the now-abandoned Romulan colonies and suspects that the phenomenon has something to do with Orion Trader legends of "The Sentinel." The crew begin to develop strange headaches and erratic behavior, and a few people drop inexplicably dead of cerebral hemorrhage. When Kirk becomes critically ill, Danior and Spock do a joint meld on him and find out that the problem stems from sophisticated alien probes sucking information from their brains, evidence of a serious invasion of a new civilization, headed for the Romulan / Klingon / Federation area. Kirk convinces a reluctant Tal to go in search of the source of the energy controlling the probes.

"The Orion Traders" Dreadnought Explorations #2, July 1976 (p. 50-51): (with Linda Maclaren)
Cultural background for the DE universe.
"Profile: the Trekker at the Convention" Dreadnought Explorations #2, July 1976 (p. 52): (with Linda Maclaren)

"Dreadnought Explorations III" Dreadnought Explorations #3, Sep 1976 (p.5-50): (with Linda Maclaren)
The crews are outfitted with subcutaneous neutralizers to counter the effects of the probe energy-fields. Kirk bans Danior from the bridge and the insulted Danior decides to leave at the first colony they reach. The uneasy alliance of the three commanders becomes yet more uneasy when Romulan Tal, in charge, refuses to let the others investigate the abandoned colony that was their starting point for the mission. Kirk breaks the alliance; Tal relents. It turns out that the colony was totally annihilated, as were others. The Romulan report of inexplicable migration was merely a decoy story to encourage the Federation to participate in the mission. Kirk begins to romance the Romulan first officer Zada. Zada and the science officer Lexa (formerly the Romulan Commander of "Enterprise Incident") are clearly at odds with Tal. They head for a planet suspected to be the source of the invasion, where a full Romulan fleet vanished. Danior believes the planet houses a Sentinel, of Trader mythology, a boundary guard of a civilization bent on conquering the galaxy. The planet has weird energy fields like the probes that were killing people, and the fancy new shuttles can't function, nor can the transporter. Scott rigs shielding, and landing parties from all three ships go down, not including Tal who begins to show distinct cowardly tendencies. The planet is convulsing, and landing party members are picked off by various rockslides and such. Kirk and Koloth find an alien tower that is the source of the odd energy fields; it allows them inside its field, traps them there and probes their minds. They manage to destroy it with overloaded phasers, and help each other get back to the others and get the wounded to the beam-up point.

"The Pegasus Logs" Dreadnought Explorations #3, Sep 1976 (p. 51-59): (with Linda Maclaren)
Federation spies Devin McCabe & Zaluon Talgar sting a dilithium-smuggling / kidnapping ring operating from an interstellar circus.

Dreadnought Explorations IV Dreadnought Explorations #4, Nov 1976 (p. 4-57): (with Linda Maclaren)
Kirk resolves to try to talk with the new aliens. McCoy puts himself on report after an ensign under his charge is killed in a lab accident. Zada and Lexa plot mutiny against the cowardly Tal. A shuttle crew is injured investigating an odd asteroid field and Chekov and McCoy go to assist in a medical shuttle. A spacecraft lurking in the asteroids had attacked the shuttle, and now transports the two shuttles aboard; Federation pursues into the field. The aliens examine McCoy, Kazmeric and Chekov; McCoy refuses to play in their intelligence test, but manages to establish communications. The aliens populate a planet until they use it up, then move on to a new one; this is an advance ship seeking a new home while the queen and colonists remain behind. The aliens have no sense of individual identity. The Federation reaches the alien ship; it keeps telling them that they are "controlled" and must surrender. Meanwhile, the three Feds escape and get to their shuttle; McCoy remains behind to operate the hangar door - then bash in the machinery - while the other two take the shuttle and fly home. He is last seen being overpowered by the aliens. Kirk pursues, pointing out to Spock that, "McCoy is an impatient man, and I don't intend to keep him waiting."
"The Baldurian Log" Dreadnought Explorations #4, Nov 1976 (p. 58-70): (with Linda Maclaren)
A Pegasus Logs series tale (not read)
"Assignment: L.A. Snow Job" Dreadnought Explorations #4, Nov 1976 (p. 71-79): (with Linda Maclaren)
Gary Seven story. Mr. Atoz pops into Gary's office, having inadvertently put some tape he pirated from Enterprise while waiting for Kirk & co. into the Atavichron instead of his own. He insists on accompanying Seven on his mission to prevent an assassination. Good fun.

"Dreadnought Explorations V" Dreadnought Explorations #5, Jan 1977 (p. 4-77): (with Linda Maclaren)
McCoy, Chekov and Kazmeric all suffer guilt over McCoy's predicament. The Federation finds the Enterprise damaged by an attack by the alien and render assistance. Tal turns tail; Lexa and Zada have their mutiny and rejoin Kirk in battle against the alien; new alien ships enter the fray; Danior and Spock retrieve McCoy by transporter, but have to hold him in limbo when the unit is damaged, leaving Danior trapped and injured in the transporter room. The Feds are victorious but with serious damage and injuries, and the knowledge that by destroying all the scout ships they may have condemned an entire people to extinction. Zada looks after the injured Kirk.

"Human Sacrifice" Dreadnought Explorations #5, Jan 1977 (p. 80-97): (with Linda Maclaren)
This was a Contact story contest entry, and not their best work. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and others are stranded on a planet and under attack by Gorns - who have eaten the husband of one of the scientists in the party. Kirk is injured and there is an emotional scene of Kirk ordering the others to safety while he stays to hold off the Gorn - but it turns out they are shipwrecked themselves and amenable to negotiation.

* "Beyond the Mirror" Dreadnought Explorations #5, Jan 1977 (p. 104-118): (with Linda Maclaren)
Nicely done "Mirror, Mirror" story depicting the events of the episode from Mirror Kirk's pov.

* "Koloth Hatches His Revenge" Entercomm #5, 1982 (p.68-80): (with Linda Maclaren & Carol Yocum); Striving to improve his capacity for imaginative thinking, Koloth comes up with the perfect revenge for the tribbles Kirk sent to his ship. He sends 50 Gorn eggs to Kirk, so that the baby Gornlings all imprint on him at hatching. A charmer. The story takes place in the Dreadnought Explorations storyline, but that is not particularly important to enjoyment of the tale.

Simone Mason

"Music of the Spheres" Log Entries #22, Jan 1979 (p.18-36): Kirk is turned into a vegetable by alien globes who communicate by music, don’t know their own strength, and learn by sucking minds out of bodies to join with them. Spock negotiates a trade to retrieve Jim, then the two of them together meld with the aliens to explain the problem. Not very convincing writing.

Melissa Mastoris

POEM: "Enterprise Memories" Abode of Strife #19, May 1993 (p.116-117): Admiral McCoy reminisces on his inspection of the NCC-1701D
POEM: "McCoy's Defense" Abode of Strife #19, May 1993 (p.116-117): McCoy tries to convince himself he was not responsible for Gorkan's death.

Helen McCarthy

"A Kind of Caring" Alnitah #2 Nov. 1975 (p.20-30): Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to meet a planet's delegation, and become stranded with Kirk badly injured by a hapless former friend, now driven "godmad" after witnessing all of his companions butchered in a local ritual.

"Alien" Alnitah #3 1976 (p.14-31): Spock is sucked through a space-time doorway into 20th-century Earth, where he is captured by Straker, heading a team trying to develop ways to protect Earth from extraterrestrial invasion.

* "And Peace on the Haven, and Peace on the Sea" Alnitah #6 June 1977 (p.24-29): Well-written and original. An artist, whose husband has died in the Fleet service, has been commissioned to create a statue of the spirit of Starfleet. In order to do so, she has been working on Vulcan. Interesting love/hate relationship of the artist and the sculpture; also good development of her own and McCoy's sense of something awry.
"A Greater Love" Berengaria #4, March 1975: Unappealing ½ p. vignette of The Three each attempting to sacrifice himself for the others, Spock succeeding

Jan McDonnell

"Ka-Ree-Ah" Alnitah #12 Dec. 1980 (p.15-22) (with Sue Bursztynski): Interesting take on the aftermath of "Amok Time." Stonn reclaims his honor by following ancient law to the letter, Challenging T'Pring's brother and forcing Vulcan to re-examine the absurdity of death challenge in Kal-i-fee. Nice touch is T'Pring ending up the consort of a legend, after all.

Jeanne Elizabeth McGrew

Times Change (novel) ed. Michael Ruff, Ruff 'N 'Ready Press, Rochester NY, 1992, 83p.: Star Trek / Lost in Space crossover. Best is actually the author's impassioned plea for the quality of the first season of Lost in Space, which made me curious to see them and find out if I would agree. The story is entertaining but not spectacular, and pretty sentimentally gushy. Enterprise is time-travelling to Earth to record events of the Eugenics War era, and rescues the party of the Jupiter II. Kirk tries to take them to their proper arrival date on Alpha Centauri, but is thwarted with every try – first through solar breakaway moves, then at the Guardian. Meanwhile, the Robinson party relive some of their episodes, through the Shore Leave planet and the Guardian. Will and Penny each rescue future love interests, and much of the story revolves around eventual amicable resolution of the craven Smith's relationship with John and Don, who actually do beat him up after threatening for so long. Finally, going beyond the Barrier, they find the source of the interference - a type of god made of neutrinos, who keep worlds and times in place, and now judge that the Enterprise must be destroyed. It is saved by Penny, who recognizes one voice as her "Mister Nobody" and makes an emotional plea.

Vulcanization (novel) ed. Michael Ruff, Ruff & Ready Press, 1994, 129p.

[Sequel to her Pitchforks and Pointed Ears] Novel crafted of four related stories on a theme of the pros and cons of emotion and non-emotion. These are pretty entertaining, even though the McCoy character here is whimpering, hysterical charicature. A pleasant, but somewhat overdone, theme in all of these is the Vulcans developing a taste for teasing the humans, and the humans learning to like it.

"Disemotionalization" (p. 1-45)

All of Enterprise's Science section except for Lisa Hollister and Leonard McCoy have been killed and the replacements are all Vulcans. The humans find the constant criticism unnerving - not to mention a real, if undeseverved fear of nerve-pinching and/or tal-shaya. McCoy's plot to get even -- having all of the humans suddenly become super-Vulcan as an April Fool joke -- backfires when the Vulcans report an unidentified malady or possession of the crew and call on Intrepid for assistance. The joke becomes horribly true when Kirk and McCoy land in an alternate universe where the Vulcans have decided that all humans must be enslaved and forcefully disemotionalized in order to prevent galactic war. They escape the Vulcan brig through the ventilation system, but are caught and must watch Spock and Sarek destroy Enterprise before they finally convince the Vulcans to return them to their own universe.
[Best line is Lisa's: "Do you know that humans fear the nerve-pinch so much that when you do it to us, we faint."]

"Humanity" (p. 46-70)
Amanda persuades Lisa to consider Spencek's proposal of marriage. Spornak accidentally breaks Kirk's neck at ahn-woon practice, leaving McCoy as the only human on a landing party. Spivak tal-shayas a predator, rescuing McCoy but leaving him with nightmares of threatening Vulcans; uncharacteristically, McCoy asks Spock to erase the memory for him. A watching entity is upset that they killed the creature, and since it judges beings on their emotional gentleness, it has decided to kill all the Vulcans. McCoy talks it out of it by displaying his love for his Vulcan companions. This was pretty unconvincing -- no real set-up for such an entity.

"Emotionality" (p. 71-99)
Lisa's friend Tony decides belatedly to fight Spencek for her, ending up in Sickbay and giving Lisa doubts about her engagement, which are assuaged by Amanda. On a planetary mission, race of androids telepathically paralyze the Vulcan contingent and kidnap Lisa (from whom they hope to gain the ability to feel), leaving Kirk and McCoy to rescue her with another long crawl through a ventilation system. Lisa is by now married and pregnant.

"Humanization" (p. 100-129)
Enterprise is sent to investigate a colony run by Illya Solo, a human who has adopted the teachings of Surak. Since this can only seem like a good idea to the ship's Vulcans, the mission is divisive, causing suspicion between the Vulcan and human contingents. Spock and McCoy discover that Solo and his followers are planning to use the Guardian to introduce non-emotion 5,000 years back in Terran history to prevent all those wars. Solo kidnaps McCoy as hostage for a ship, and Spock must rescue him. Solo accepts Vulcan judgment, that his mind be rearranged to prevent further revolutionary action. Meanwhile, the Vulcan scientists have managed to create a device for eavesdropping on alternate universes, and they all do so. Bearded Spock of the ISS Enterprise has killed his Kirk and taken over, as our Kirk suggested to him. In Universe 2, the disemotionalized McCoy, a slave in Sarek's household, uses a contraband device to regain his emotions, but is caught and tortured for it by Spock, who applies night-long not-quite-tal-shaya as punishment In another universe, all Terran/Vulcan contact has been forbidden. McCoy's shuttle has crashed on Vulcan and he will be killed if found. Kirk persuades Spock to find and save him.

Donna McIntosh

"A Vulcan Dream / The Captain's Dream" Obsc'zine #3, May 1978 (p.11-14): K/S. The two have erotic dreams of one another, turning dream into reality.

Valerie McLean

"Wings of Wonder" Alpha Continuum #1, 1976 (p.11-14): A crewwoman finds herself dissociating from her body and must be retrieved by Spock via -- you guessed it -- mind-meld. Ho-hum.

Susan Meek

"Island" Alnitah #9 Jan. 1979 (p.30-32): Pretty standard little vignette of Kirk and Spock sharing a heart-to-heart after Gary's death.

"And the Stars Call Out" Log Entries #22, Jan 1979 (p.3-6): Family vignettes of Kirk and Spock as star-struck children.

"In Darkness" Log Entries #23, April 1979 (p. 18-19): Vignette of Kirk keeping watch at blind Spock's bedside as he recovers from the Denevan creatures.

POEM: "Circles" Alnitah #12 Dec. 1980 (p.22) / Susan Meek: McCoy muses on his and Spock's entrapment within their antagonistic parts.

Mergwin

* "The Fog" Candlelight & Flames #1, date unknown - 90's? (p. 1-22): Another species' physics experiments result in another inter-universal transfer. This time, Kirk finds himself in the Republic, whose Kirk is married to a bearded McCoy and whose government is so fearful of Vulcans as to forbid them aboard starships and to forbid them to mind-meld on pain of death. The reactions of all parties are very well drawn, as they try to restore the captains before they both die of the effects. A particularly sweet touch is "our" McCoy's confession to Spock -- before joining him in meld to rescue their Kirk --that he, too, had had hopes of Jim's love. The captains are restored, leaving a lonely Bones in one universe and a lonely Spock in the other. The latter, however, finds his way into a universe where his counterpart is both beloved and dying, and takes his place.

Teri Meyer

"The Day Rickles Was Phased Out" Berengaria #7, April 1976 (p. 20-23): Report (?) of a Trek con in which Don Rickles roasts the crew.

J. Mike

"The Woman Is..." R & R #10, Summer 1979 (p. 75-86): Exploration of T'Pring's challenge, tracing the childhood friendship of Spock, Stonn and T'Pring, T'Pring's growth as an artist, Spock's departure to Starfleet, and the attachment between Stonn and T'Pring. Nice factors are T'Pring coming to view Spock as a threatening intruder so that she refuses to trade her life for his; Stonn's sense of betrayal that turns his possession of T'Pring to ashes; Spock's bitter renunciation of all those gathered. Excellent writing.

Carolyn Milbrath

"Angel" Abode of Strife #24, 1994 (p.86-98): VIP passengers decide Kirk is the perfect match for their daughter.

Monica Miller

"A Trio of Ancient Vulcan Myths" Interphase #3, August 1976 (p. 41-49): Story for art folio. A young Vulcan worrying about his upcoming first pon-farr is diverted by an elder recounting tales: Vulcan fairies - themselves the incarnated souls of those who have died of thirst in the desert - who lead the dying to water; the roaming ghosts of the last surviving La-Matya people, slaughtered by the Vulcans in ancient times; a warrior doomed to eternal pon-farr who eventually sacrifices himself to the goddess of pon-farr by throwing himself into a volcano.

"Breeding Ground" Interphase #4, May 1977 (p. 119-139): Kirk and Spock arrive on a planet to attempt a diplomatic resolution to conflict between the two intelligent insectoid populations. Sabotage strands them in a region where they are attacked by large wasps which lay eggs in them. Oooh, ick. Rescue is effected by a combination of Spock taking Kirk into a healing trance, McCoy's persistence in a search party and discovery of the saboteur by a local leader. Standard stuff.

Diane Miskiewicz

"The Only Choice" Galactic Discourse#5, April 1987 (p. 7-13): [with Cinde Deren]; Post-"Empath." Spock tends McCoy in recovery; Spock and Kirk each offer tokens of appreciation. McCoy makes the interesting point here that he was the only logical choice -- the Vians would have eventually taken him whether or not they first destroyed Spock, because they required an emotional connection to Gem.

Pat Mitchell

"Destiny's Dreamers" Entercomm #5, 1982 (p.33-35): Vignettes of Spock and Kirk, each in his Academy days, longing for a true friend.

Gena Moretti

"First Sight" Candlelight & Flames #1, date unknown - 90's? (p. 49-71): Spock discovers that his instant rapport with young Captain Kirk derives from their relationship in previous lives, and waits for the capatain to discover the bond. It's a long wait, and a number of vignettes from episodes before Kirk is ready to hear the explanation, and it takes "Amok Time" before he realizes he really can give up women for an exclusive relationship with Spock.

* "Pock" Candlelight & Flames #1, date unknown - 90's? (p. 117-149) (with Annie Rooney): Charming if implausible tale of Jim and Spock, as two lonely little boys, making mental contact so that "Pock" becomes Jimmy's "imaginary playmate." When the boys are teenagers, Jim is running the family farm and looking after his mother, who has been paralyzed in a farm accident, and Spock flees Vulcan after the show-down with his father. He seeks Jim out, goes to work on the farm, and eventually reveals his identity and the boys become lovers.

Dani Morin

"Kismet " Obsc'zine #2, August, 1977 (p.90-91): Uhura and Chapel, lovers , speculate on the gossip that Kirk and Spock are, too. (Nice point that Chapel’s infatuation with Spock is a cover for her true love.

Rob Morris

"Dead To Me" Antares #3, 1999 (p. 84-86): [Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: The Adventures Continue v.1]; Scott, in the TNG era, confronts a relation still holding him responsible for Peter Preston’s death.

"The Way Back" Antares #4, Jan 2000 (p. 42-46): [Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: The Adventures Continue v.1]; Sulu attempts to salvage Chakotay’s career.

"The Viewing" Antares #4, Jan 2000 (p. 111): Vignette of old Admiral McCoy welcoming Jim's corpse home, 80 years late for his own funeral.

* "A Form of Release" Antares #6, Oct 2000 (p. 16-29): [Reprinted in: Orion Archives 2001: Third Mission v.1]; Peter Kirk, on Tantalus Rehab colony after the events of The Dianasian Gift, is interrogated by an unseen counselor with regard to his possible parole, and is reluctant to defend himself, but slowly reveals aspects of his relationship with his uncle Jim Kirk - who, of course, turns out to be the interrogator.

"Too Great a Risk" Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.20-24) (with Randall Landers): 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.

"Freefall" Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.73-82) (with Randall Landers): Just after picking Peter Kirk up for his new assignment to Enterprise, Demora Sulu suffers a seizure from a brain fluke and dies.

"The Odd Couple" Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.83-91): Chekov assigns Peter to room with galactic reporter Willis, who was Demora's lover and is not taking her death well. Peter hates reporters, and in these delightfully written vignettes, Willis does nothing to endear himself. The two finally duke it out over Willis' jealousy of Peter's relationship with Demora.

"Sometimes a Cigar" Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.92-96): One unintended Freudian phrase leads to another in this little romp, centered around Saavik's review of Peter Kirk's work.

"Phantoms" Antares #8, Jan. 2002 (p.97-98): Bittersweet vignette of Spock observing the new crew and seeing the old -- and seeking his own Kirk on Deck 15.

"Certifiable" Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 12-18): On Chekov's Enterprise, Security Chief Ch'terr attempts to improve redshirt safety with a refresher course on hand-to-hand combat... which devolves into a potato-chip party.

"The Kid Down the Way" Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 22-25): Sulu receives a condolence letter from Peter Kirk on Demora's death and determines to get to know him.

"The Old Once Over" Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 43-48): Captain Chekov has trouble accepting his ship's psychologist's personnel recommendations.

"The Unforgiving Minute" Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 49-64): Post STVI, Peter Kirk has saved McCoy's wife Theresa by taking on four Klingons, and is comatose. Told first-person by McCoy as he discovers that Peter has also saved her before the attack, by taking her on sexually when her medication ran out. [I must have missed a dumb plot point here somewhere in the Theresa storyline... apparently she goes into a pon-farr-like rut periodically without medication. Ah, yes, Theresa the sex object and nothing but a sex object. Bleah.]

"Growing Up Together" Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 84-87): Several short clips out of the lives of Chekov and Peter Kirk, all beginning with Chekov's query, "Are you all right?" and Peter's response, "No." Nicely done.

"Angel" Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 116-141) (with Randall Landers): 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.

"Freedom from Fear" Antares #9, June 2002 (p. 142-150): Uhura reviews incidents from a variety of episodes that continue to haunt her, in consultation with the ship's psychiatrist.

"Another Such Victory" Antares #10, June 2002 (p. 20-21): Vignette of Commodore Wesley's response and resignation following the M-5 experiments (Ultimate Computer).

"Parallel Lives" Antares #10, June 2002 (p. 26-32): Peter Kirk / Saavik romance. Peter reveals to Saavik (his new love) his past love for and adultery with the dead Teresa (McCoy), along with his use of her friend Calita to gain distance from Teresa.

"Robbie" Antares #10, June 2002 (p. 89-105): Events around the death of Demora and arrival of Peter Kirk, from pov of Roberta Vasquez, Science Officer on the new Enterprise under Captain Chekov, and her assistand Natalie Buchanan.

"With Thee" Antares #10, June 2002 (p. 145-147): Peter Kirk and Spock agonize over a condolence message to McCoy after the deaths of Teresa and his sons.

"Crowded Theater" Antares #10, June 2002 (p. 185-187): Kirk is disturbed by his Security men's ready acquiescence to Janet Lester's outrageous demands while in his body; Chekov's responses to his inquiries encourage him to move Chekov to Security to remedy matters.

"Twixt and Tween" Antares #11, April 2003 (p. 24): Academy days vignette of Gary Keillor Mitchell matchmaking for Carol and Jim when Ruth breaks up with Jim. A reasonable background to both romances - Ruth is older than Jim and sure his love "has an expiration date."

"It's Not Fair" Antares #11, April 2003 (p. 5-17) (with Richard Dyke & Lisa Evans): Academy days tale, giving the back-story on Janice Lester's obsessional hatred for Jim Kirk. Janice was abused as a child by her Starfleet-hero father, and has grown into a brilliant but paranoid, self-doubting student suspicious of all men. Her Kobayashi Maru solution - to blow up the Kobayashi Maru because the crew logically must be already enslaved or collaborating with the Klingons and better off dead - does not pass review, and when she explodes at her failure to get into Command School, she is dropped from the Academy and heads off to Mars and megalomania. Nicely written, and it quite properly ignores the chauvinistic nonsense we saw in "Turnabout Intruder" to assume that, of course Starfleet in the 23rd century has women in command positions - it was just that Janice as an individual was unfit.

"Incident" Antares #11, April 2003 (p. 86-94): Serenidad series story, told from cadet Demora Sulu's pov: Peter Kirk, now a hero for having taken out a Kh'myr Klingon bare-handed while protecting Teresa of Serenidad, is now a lecturer in exobiology at the Academy. The story is mostly Demora's musings about their friendship as the chilren of famous Starfleet heroes, but the incident is that of Peter foiling a harassed cadet's to obtain revenge on his classmates with a smuggled phaser.

"To Explore" Antares #11, April 2003 (p. 95-97): Vignette, post-"And the Children Shall Lead." Kirk tries to explain to Tommy Starnes how they all go on exploring after the needless deaths in their wake - that Starfleet crew people choose exploration with risk over safer lines of work. Best line: "Mr. Spock can explain anything to anyone, except of course to Dr McCoy.".

"We Start Our Walking" Antares #11, April 2003 (p. 98-116): After Demora Sulu's death, Peter and Saavik embark on a shaky romance.

"Lawful Warrant" Antares #12, December 2003 (p. 149-159): Chekov's Enterprise. Peter Kirk and First Officer Uhura reluctantly rescue Harry Mudd from the Nausican friends of a knife-wielding lowlife whom Mudd has bilked out of a substantial pile of cash by cheating at cards - and more cheerfully hand him over to local authorities.

Carol Mularski

"A Temporary Calorific Effulgence" Galactic Discourse #2, July 1978 (p. 52-55): McCoy wagers Jim that he can make Spock blush. Entertaining little farce.