My Gracious Silence

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	My Gracious Silence
Author(s):	Mary Louise Dodge
Date(s):	1975
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Genre:	het
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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My Gracious Silence is a Star Trek: TOS Kirk/Uhura story by Mary Louise Dodge.

It is #3 in a 7-part Kirk/Uhura romance series.

It was published in Delta Triad #1.

Reactions and Reviews

[The zine] consists mostly of three enjoyable stories and a fair amount of good artwork. 'My Gracious Silence' is about the kidnapping of Uhura while on leave and why she insists when she gets back, Kirk is going to kill her. It suffers a bit from making it too easy for Kirk and Spock to solve the problem -- and the scene where Kirk and Spock capture the bad guys is unbelievable.

The zine has an interesting premise; it is based on Ms. Dodge's article, "Kirk/Uhura: Speculation' in T-Negative #23. The Kirk/Uhura relationship has been some of some interest among fans, and Delta Triad devotes two of its stories to it with more to come in future issues. 'My Gracious Silence. is about the mysterious disappearance of Uhura while on shore leave and why, on her return, she insists that Kirk kills her. The first half of the story builds up the suspense and Captain Kirk reveals his secret love affair with Uhura! But the second half makes it to easy for Spock and Kirk to discover and capture Uhura's abductors... Still, an enjoyable, if not credible story to read.

'My Gracious Silence' is a sort of a Kirk/Uhura story. If you read Mary Lou's ideas concerning Kirk and Uhura in T-Negative #23, you'll know where she already stands, if not see if you can get a hold of that issue. In this story, Uhura is captured by kidnappers for some mysterious reason. She later reappears; and Kirk (with Spock's help) discover that Uhura has been implanted with a listening device and that there is a bomb aboard the ship. All of this is involved in a master plot of some sort. The story suffers a lot, especially because the reader isn't subtly introduced to the fact that Kirk and Uhura are lovers, it's just thrust upon you. Secondly, the solution to the problem is much too reminiscent of the ending Ruth Berman used in 'Coup de Partie' in Kraith Collected #3. I think also it might have been more suspenseful if the entire story had taken place planet-side, where another element of the exotic could have been added to the structure of the story.

"My Gracious Silence" is a Kirk/Uhura love story of average proportions. It's a fast paced story that left me less than lukewarm.