A Time to Cry
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| Star Trek TOS Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Time to Cry |
| Author(s): | Thomas C. Harden |
| Date(s): | 1980 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
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A Time to Cry is a gen Star Trek: TOS story by Thomas C. Harden.
It is a parody and crossover/fusion with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
It was printed in Stardate #3.
Author's summary: "Kirk finds himself aboard the Seaview with Admiral Nelson, Captain Crane and Mr. Pem. Can he escape the horrors of that universe before he finds himself totally insane like them?"
Reactions and Reviews
I found the parody, "A Time to Cry," worthy of any ST zine. Keep up the good work. [1]
"A Time to Cry" was hardly funny at all.[2]
"A Time to Cry", the parody of the intrepid crew (ha-ha) of the Seaview, was an excellent story, but only after having seen many episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I think the readers may have been a little confused by it. This story also raises the debatable question of whether or not ST zines should increase its boundaries. Personally, I feel the answer is no, at least not to intrinsically minor television series that only bordered on science-fiction. It is true that Voyage did tend to rely on Nelson's "atomic shoebox", but I'm not sure how many ST fans will know that. [More than you might think.-Ed.] [3]
"A Time to Cry" I liked except for the ending. Just because Trelane took Pern out for a hunt doesn't mean that it was over. I figured that the fop would come back and entertain Kirk and company. "Meeting at Xanadu" was pretty well done. I'd like to meet a character in a story that's interested in a time period other than our own, though, like the 21st or 22nd century. (I believe that ST is set in the 23rd,) But then I guess it's just too big a temptation to pass up and it doesn't really hurt the story.[4]