Just a Kiss (Star Trek: TOS story)
| K/S Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Just a Kiss |
| Author(s): | Jenna Hilary Sinclair |
| Date(s): | 2001 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
| External Links: | Just a Kiss |
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Just a Kiss is a K/S story by Jenna Hilary Sinclair.
It was published in the print zine Legends #1.
Summary
"James Kirk has a proposition for his first officer. They share everything in their lives… except one, very intimate, aspect. An aspect he feels should be shared."
Reactions and Reviews
Unknown Date
This one is lovely because it rings so true. It takes effort for them to understand one another, but they're both willing to try.[1]
2001
I don't know many people who could make so much out of a simple kiss. Jenna has a flair for making a lot out of a simple action or a simple scene. She fleshes it out into something significant and enjoyable without making the language dreary or tedious or too flowery.
The way Jenna explores this is with an interesting slant on Vulcans and their relationship to kisses and intimate touches in general. I found myself feeling for Kirk very deeply when he suggests he and Spock take their relationship to a physical level, and Spock is reluctant.
However, the Vulcan agrees to make an experiment. Kirk offers to kiss him and if it doesn't light a spark between them, they agree to simply put the whole incident behind them and forget it ever happened.
Kirk's fear, hope and need for this to work is evident in every word, every gesture he makes and as a reader, I truly felt for him.
When the experiment appears to fail, he is devastated but tries not to show it. Then, Spock adds another dimension to the kiss.... the Vulcan way of sharing intimacy.
Just a Kiss was lovely, and Itruly enjoyed my read. [2]
A kiss is not just a kiss in this great story and when you read it you'll see why. Gosh, stories like this have a way of turning me to mush, I'll admit it. But I'm not complaining! This story is sweet, tender and even a bit sad in one part when the guys do kiss.
Read it and smile and sigh and be glad we have Jenna writing in our fandom. [3]
I love this story. I love that even without sex it's so sweet and romantic it's totally satisfying. It's about, obviously, their first kiss; and I adore that aspect of Kirk and Spock first getting together, whetherwe get to see the first sex or not. (I also love the first "I love you" but I think I like the first kiss better.) I think these two men kissing is just incredibly erotic; and the first time, especially if neither has had any sexual behavior with men before, is a heart-melting experience. (I think I just said the same thing a few different ways... and I could say it a few more ways, too. I clearly love the first kiss.)
I like how the story is all just one scene in one place, with a nice, slow conversation and Kirk's thoughts and feelings. He's finally been able to bring up 'the only thing we don't share." They talk of their perfect friendship, compatibility. But Kirk is being careful, logical, non-threatening as to anything further, so as not scare Spock off with untoward passion; and Spock not only wonders why the physical is necessary to add, but never figured Kirk would want a homosexual thing. It's so sad, so poignant, that Spock feels he can't have such a relationship with Kirk because he wouldn't be adequate. He's had little experience, and only with women.
But Kirk says, let's kiss and see what happens. I will say here, though, that with all the build-up leading up to this kiss, the very moment Kirk touches Spock's lips was not really written; it goes straight past that moment to a "were kissing" phrase. However, it wasn't really this first kiss that brings them together, but the first "real" kiss.
I don't need to say what takes place and how it's resolved, but there is a gorgeous, sexy, quietly impassioned speech by Spock; and a satisfying ending. A lovely story. [4]
2002
Having heard about this particular kiss through reviews, I thought I knew exactly what to expect. I was wrong. Perhaps I didn't pay enough heed to the LOCs, or possibly I just read it differently. What I believed I would find was a few pages of very steamy, erotic, gasping for air paragraphs describing the Perfect Kiss. What else could you expect? We're talking about Kirk and Spock.
Our author, however, has made a long and intensive study of Kirk and Spock. She knows them inside and out. She knows that above all else, Spock has Vulcan roots and a strong Vulcan upbringing. She reminds us that he is not an impulsive, hedonistic human who throws caution to the winds. Surprisingly, in this account, neither is James T. Kirk. Kirk is after all, Starfleet trained and very capable of self-discipline if the occasion warrants. He knows that this is the most important confrontation of his life and he has no intention of risking it through lack of preparation or actions based on instinct. He has thoroughly considered what he is asking of his friend and has thought through every possible reaction that Spock might have to his well-rehearsed suggestion that they consider taking their relationship a giant step further.
This is the drama, the mystery. Not knowing what the outcome will be. With one disappointing attempt, the tension mounts. Will this new level of their relationship end before it has had a chance to begin? Jenna will tell us, but in her own time and her own way.
Of all the possible means to commence the K/S legend, this is, after all, the most logical. [5]
2021
4/5. I enjoyed this. It didn't have a plot or anything, but it was nice. I like the heavy emphasis on consent.[6]
References
- ^ from Recs by Rhaegal
- ^ from The K/S Press #57
- ^ from The K/S Press #58
- ^ from The K/S Press #59
- ^ from The K/S Press #74
- ^ K/S Fanfiction by uss-genderprise.tumblr.com/