A Thousand Times

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	A Thousand Times
Author(s):	Mara Lynn Cade
Date(s):	1988
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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A Thousand Times is a Kirk/Spock story by Mara Lynn Cade.

It was published in the print zine First Time #18.

art by Dragon for "A Thousand Times"

art by Dragon for "A Thousand Times"

Summary

"Kirk is chosen as a “Token” by an alien ruler and must submit sexually to him, causing Spock to think it was consentual when he finds out."

Excerpt

"You expect me to what?!" the young captain shouted, eyes blazing with indignation. "Captain, please understand, you were never meant to . . . . It was never the intention of the Diplomatic Corps to ask . . . . " For a man whose professional work was with words, Hynsyn found himself suddenly inarticulate. "To ask this . . . of you."

Reactions and Reviews

My least favorite stories were A THOUSAND TIMES by Mara Lynn Cade and UNTIL TONIGHT by Peter Silverton. A THOUSAND TIMES involves Starfleet officials forcing Kirk's hand in either taking on a highly unsavory assignment himself or delegating the humiliating task to Spock. Of course Kirk takes it on himself but the aftermath is taken out on Spock. The solution to the turmoil is well done, but I found the entire situation not only unbelievable but terribly unbelievable.

Mara Lynn Cade's A THOUSAND TIMES kept my attention, and to be quite honest, one of the central characters, The Pehta, gave me the creeps. Add to this the fact that Kirk's physical symptoms and mental distress following his subjection to the alien's rather distasteful invasion of his body was very well expressed, and one is left feeling absolutely filthy (that's realism enough, thank you). Good reading.