An Easier Time
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | An Easier Time |
| Author(s): | Michele Arvizu |
| Date(s): | 1987 |
| Length: | 38 pages |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
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An Easier Time is a 38-page Kirk/Spock story by Michele Arvizu. The art is by Pat Cash.
It was published in Nome #10.
Summary
"After the fal tor pan, Spock has dreams of his pon farr on the Genesis planet, deals with Spock's efforts to regain his personal memories."
Reactions and Reviews
... starts out a little slow and muddy, beginning after the end of ST4, and dealing with Spock's efforts to regain his personal memories. Stay with it, the ending is worth all the rest, and Saavik's characterization is great.[1]
I'm sure there'll be some strong debate on this, but in my mind the Saavik in this story could only have been Robin Curtis. The ST IV Spock (as opposed to what I consider the "normal Spock") was rather charming, though it did take me awhile to warm up to him, as it did when I first saw the movie. I enjoyed him as the aggressor and liked his ease at discussing sex and his feelings in his conversation with Kirk. Again, would have liked to have seen a sex scene between Kirk and Spock, though I didn't miss it as much in this story as I did in "Sea Change." [2]
"An Easier Time" by Michele Arvizu is the best in this issue. Saavik played an important part in the Star Trek story, and she seems to have fallen by the wayside. Nobody seems to know quite what to do with her. Michele has developed a very plausible role for her. Incorporating Saavik's past history into the story was a good idea. It lays the foundation for what comes next.[3]
One fan compares "An Easier Time" and the other stories in Nome #10 as examples of the way 1980s fanfiction represents K/S (see Reactions and Reviews: Issue #10 for the full LOC):
[The first story, One More Door]: My favorites are long term lovers, yes, but their relationship is not complete until they produce a child (by McCoy's genetic manipulation) and this baby is delivered in the most "natural" way possible. The story seems to imply that the relationship cannot be considered as complete in itself but must be ratified in (what is in this century) a heterosexual manner. Michele Arvizu's "An Easier Time" seems to produce the same answer to the problem. The post-Voyage Home pair have no relationship and, it seems, cannot have one until Spock has had sex and converse with Saavik. Only through her can he learn to accept and later voice his love for Kirk. "He thought of his time with Saavik. She had given all this to him. She had put things in perspective, made him feel unique, special, loved. Given him the courage to speak of love to Jim and the chance to reinvent himself." So again, homosexual love has been somehow verified by heterosexuality....[4]