Anne McClean

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Name:	Anne McClean
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Type:	fan writer
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Anne McClean was a Kirk/Spock fanwriter.

An interesting thing happened in 1991. One author had five stories published by Merry Men Press, and then she was not heard of in K/S fandom again. And these stories are quite memorable…. In “A Perfect Arrangement,” two new officers are temporarily assigned to the Enterprise. The woman is slated to become a first officer, the man is scheduled to be her captain, but first they are more or less “observing” the way Kirk and Spock do things. What isn’t known to our heroes, though, is that these observers have plans of their own. The woman has been infatuated with Kirk for a while, the man with Spock, and they each initiate relationships...or try to. Their plan is to swap partners: for the woman to become Kirk’s first officer on the Enterprise and for the man to take Spock away with him when he is assigned his ship. When Spock realizes what is going on, he tells Kirk, but his captain refuses to believe that such a plan is motivating his new lover. He rejects Spock in anger, and Spock, disconsolate, has to decide if his best career move— and personal move as well—would be to accept the man’s offer to become lovers and a new command team.

What’s arresting in all five of these stories is a harder, sharper, even more brutal characterization of Kirk than is regularly seen in K/S stories. Some fans have joked that the author wrote the same story five times, but that’s not really true, and all of them are of real interest.

Her Stories

• A Perfect Mate (First Time #28)
• A Perfect Arrangement (First Time #29)
• The Oldest Story (First Time #30)
• A Terrible Rightness (Scattered Stars #3)
• Another Side of the Mirror (Within the Mirror #5)