A Serpent in Eden
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| Star Trek TOS Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Serpent in Eden |
| Author(s): | Jim Ausfahl |
| Date(s): | 2000 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
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A Serpent in Eden is a gen Star Trek: TOS story by Jim Ausfahl.
It was published in Antares #6 and Orion Archives: 2266-2270 The First Mission #2.
Reactions and Reviews
Though I couldn’t follow the set-up for this little Chekov whodunit, it was delightfully written with a plausible new civilization. Chekov goes undercover as Socath, a Seeker in a rigid (pre-contact) caste society, trying to figure out what has become of a vanished starbase. He is only allowed to speak in questions, which is one of the finest points of the story. He is immediately nabbed to be on a jury in a murder incident and turns detective. Evidence points to Romulan involvement - all such evidence is hushed up by Jonax, their jury’s Holder of Hidden Knowledge. I didn’t quite follow the resolution - the Holder evidently decides the time has come to reveal his Hidden Knowledge - the existence of other planets and peoples - because some kind of danger of paradox is now past. [1]