The 23rd Year: The Eulogy

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	The 23rd Year: The Eulogy
Author(s):	Patricia Laurie Stephens
Date(s):	1991
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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The 23rd Year: The Eulogy is a Kirk/Spock story by Patricia Laurie Stephens.

It was published in the print zine The 25th Year.

Series

• The New Captain
• Fire-Dare
• Mercy
• Side Trip
• Cocoon
• A Room Without Windows
• When the Circus Was Over
• Paradise Lost (Star Trek: TOS story)
• Darker Spirit
• Blue Symmetry
• Pandora's Box
• The Mechanics of Love and War
• Coffee
• Hovering
• The Stars of Home
• The 23rd Year: The Eulogy
• The 24th Year: Talismans in the Night
• The 25th Year: Days of Future Passed

Reactions and Reviews

'The 23rd Year: The Eulogy' by Patricia Laurie Stephens takes Kirk and Spock home to Iowa and to the unhappy duty of a son having to face the loss of a parent. Kirk is forced to confront death and the more he confronts it, the more he fights against it, the harder it hits back. This is a two hanky story!

I thought this was the best story in the zine. It brought forward some important issues -- such as the meaning and usefulness of heroism in sports, and whether heroic role models are constructive or destructive. Peter Kirk's girlfriend, 8uzy O'Connell, was a very memorable character. I am especially fond of seeing strong women like her in fiction.