And Everyone in Their Time

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	And Everyone in Their Time
Author(s):	Dovya Blacque
Date(s):	1987
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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And Everyone in Their Time is a K/S story by Dovya Blacque. It is a sequel to A Time for Everyone.

It was published in the print zine A Gathering of Blacque.

Summary

"Back in the 23rd century, there are realities to be faced, mysteries to be solved and a 20th century woman finds herself amid it all with no identity and no understanding of her role in things."

Reactions and Reviews

This story is a sequel to A Time for Everyone, reprinted in this same zine. And Everyone in Their Time is a real disappointment to me, since I am usually a fan of this author's work. Nothing seems to work here, not the sex, not the character around whom the story revolves, not the characterization of McCoy, not even the mystery that is at the heart of the story.

Kirk and Spock have gone back in time to the 20th century, and when they come forward again they bring with them Nyrah. Her medical readings make it seem as if she is from their own time, yet she has no memory of living in their century. The fellows investigate, using at one point a terminal on Wrigley's, and eventually deduce that she was a part of an illegal time travel experiment. In the meantime, Kirk and Spock struggle to find equilibrium for their new relationship on the ship (they'd become lovers while they were back in time, meeting Nyrah for the first time), and there's the hint of an attraction between Nyrah and McCoy.

And that's it. Nothing is resolved in any way. Kirk doesn't do anything with the information he gets about Nyrah, she manages to handle the trauma of the news like a trooper, we don't quite know where things stand between her and McCoy. Either a sequel was planned that was never written, or the author lost interest in the story and finished it up quickly so the zine could be printed. It also reads very much like a Mary Sue story.

This is so especially disappointing because Dovya Blacque is capable of writing challenging, emotionally-stirring stories. Maybe this one was an old practice story? It's a puzzle to me.