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A Hero's Return
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | A Hero's Return |
| Author(s): | Joyce Tullock |
| Date(s): | 1980 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | gen |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
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A Hero's Return is a Star Trek: TOS story by Joyce Tullock.
It was published in the print zine Galactic Discourse #3.
Summary
McCoy is returning to the Enterprise after helping to fight a plague. This story tells of the feelings of his friends, especially Jim Kirk, as they welcome him home.
Reactions and Reviews
McCoy has worked himself into exhaustion on a plague assignment and is blaming himself for sitting communing with the computers while other medical personnel were out assisting patients and dying with honor - though he was forcibly kept in safety and reduced the projected plague deaths by three-quarters. Kirk gets him out of the funk by telling him (falsely) that Spock had said the computer could have done it without him; the argument against Spock shows him that he really did make a difference. Nice touch with McCoy’s mercurial personality here - he really is rather irrational, but keeps all his good martyr points. [1]