Angel Trek

Zine
Title:	Angel Trek
Publisher:
Editor(s):
Date(s):	2004
Series?:
Medium:	print
Size:	212 pages
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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front cover, art by Gamin Davis

back cover, art by Gamin Davis

Angel Trek is a gen Star Trek: TOS 212-page anthology of holiday fic by Gamin Davis. Art by Gamin Davis.

Contents

• Author's Preface (3)
• The Best Christmas Present; another link ("The story of Spock's first-ever Christmas among Humans, and how he deals with spending it alone at Starfleet Academy--with some unexpected help from his room-mate and would-be friend, a Human named James T. Kirk.") (5)
• The Star: Circles of Light ("Shortly before the first Christmas, after the V'ger mission, McCoy faces a seemingly impossible choice: give a presentation on Vulcan mating rituals for the annual Federation Medical Conference or risk his career. When Kirk, as a result, is forced to choose between helping him or keeping his years-old, but so far unbroken promise to Spock not to discuss details of the pon farr with anyone, his choice leads to a loss of Spock's trust and the near-destruction of their friendship ( and more) as Christmas approaches. Then a mysterious star heralds a Christmas miracle that draws the two of them back together.") (17)
• Angels: Home for Christmas ("(TOS, K&S, S/Ch, Mc, assorted Human relatives of Spock; h/c [G]) Two years after the V'ger mission, the crew of the Enterprise-including Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Christine Chapel-get the chance to spend Christmas on Earth with their families. After being rejected by his Humans relatives, Spock accepts an invitation to join Kirk and Christine in Iowa where they are sharing an old-fashioned Christmas with Kirk's Mother; Spock arrives feeling depressed and isolated, and when he gets lost in a blizzard, a vision of an angel shows him how truly fortunate he is.") (65)
• Time of Miracles ("Kirk is injured during the Enterprise-A's shakedown cruise; Spock and McCoy face Christmas with him in a coma at a starbase hospital and the two of them having to spend the holiday together, worrying about Kirk and learning to get along with each others.") (164)

Summaries

From a distributor, Agent With Style:

Find out how Spock and his friends on the Enterprise might have celebrated Christmas over the years. These stories show Spock dealing with the holidays while at Starfleet Academy, after the V'ger mission, during the second 5-year mission and after the whale probe incident in Star Trek IV, while the longest story suggests that certain types of angels might be real -- even in the 23rd century.

My Christmas-themed zine, available as of May 2004, contains a set of stories about how Kirk and Spock, et al, celebrate Christmas over the years; stories range from their years at Starfleet Academy ("The Best Christmas Present", in which Spock tries and ultimately fails to ignore Christmas on Earth while at the Academy, thanks to new friend James Kirk) to post-Star Trek IV ("Time of Miracles"--while still getting the crew settled in on the Enterprise-A, Kirk is injured and may spend the holiday in a coma from which he may or may not recover; when Kirk is transferred to a starbase for more intensive treatment, McCoy and Dr. Christine Chapel accompany Spock there and try to help the still-recovering Vulcan cope with the increasing onslaught of returning but still-unfamiliar emotions, such as an ever-deepening concern for Kirk). The zine takes its name from the longest story, "Angels: Home For Christmas", an "It's a Wonderful Life"-ish story set mostly on Earth 2 years after ST:TMP in which Spock flees the home of his mother's relatives in Philadelphia to spend Christmas with Kirk and Christine in Iowa while McCoy visits his daughter and family in Georgia, and much angst ensues. Also includes "The Star: Circles of Light", in which circumstances involving McCoy and a medical conference force Kirk to divulge confidential details of pon farr, putting in motion a series of events that nearly destroy his friendship with Spock until a miraculous Christmas Eve event brings about their reconciliation. (WARNING: this story deals with attempted suicide.) Color front and back covers (Kirk, Spock and Christine at the Kirk family home on front [includes Kirk's mother and Amanda] and a Christmas Party portrait of the four--Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Christine--on back.

Reactions and Reviews

[Angels: Home for Christmas]:

Anyway, I started rereading "Angels: Home for Christmas" and G. Davis really is a talented writer. This story is what certainly started this K/S/Ch thing for me. This IS a K/S/Ch story (with no sex, but some silliness worthy of K&S, if you know what I mean). Now, I don't care for her Spock (pathetic), or her Chapel (drippy) and what she does to Kirk at one point (having him pray) is atrocious. But this is a threesome, set after V'Ger, and if you get over the cognitive dissonance and the cloying family values theme (*puke*) it's not really the worst or most implausible threesome ever made.

In spite of myself, I am enjoying this story quite a bit on rereading. I don't know why . . . I guess so much of it reads like K/S anyway and I always like K/S/f where K/S is the primary couple. The story is easy to read, even if you don't buy Spock crying himself to sleep in his mother's sister's house because his cousins were mean to him. And I don't know, but those cousin-incest scenes are kind of cute. (Spock thinks his first cousin looks strikingly like Jim, and you can divine the rest . . .)

I dunno, I think we've (I've) dismissed this masterwork too soon. 'Angels' is growing on me, doncha know... And I'd forgotten about this:

"Eventually he turned the tables on them, climbing on top of Kirk just to pin him down and tickle him mercilessly for several minutes--after which he scrambled through the snow on all fours after Christine, holding her down more gently and similarly tickling *her*. Kirk finally stopped him by hugging him affectionately and pinning his arms, and though Spock knew he had recovered enough strength to be able to free himself, he gave in, letting Kirk hold him and listening to his laughter. Immediately he felt Christine next to and behind him, leaning across his back and nuzzling his ear."

Rewrite this as a sex scene, Julie. I dare you.

[Angels Home for Christmas]: Gamin swears this is an S/Ch story. Uh, sure, whatever you say. Repression never tasted this good. (Gamin's comment: "I can't control how you interpret my stories.")

[Angels Home for Christmas]:

Spock is badly out of character in this. Sorry.

Author's Response:

Well, I was wondering when my first "bad" review would come and from whom, and I'm really not surprised. That's okay, Greywolf, I think *your* Spock (and Kirk) are madly, and badly, OOC, based on the few stories of yours that I've read, so it balances out. I'd like to respond more extensively, but there's not much I can say to "your Spock is badly out of character", no examples or explanations given. As always, nobody forces anybody to read any of my stories, and I think you already knew that my view of Spock is not the same as yours. The best advice I can give you is, hey, you don't like my version of Spock, don't read my fic. :^P

[The Best Christmas Present]: aw!! i love this!! *sniffle* this was so beautifully written. sweet and touching a great holiday fic!!

[The Star: Circles of Light]: Wow. That was...heavy. But the ending was okay. I was very nervous and on the edge of my seat, but I'm glad I hung on. Thank you for sharing.