Another Truth
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Another Truth |
| Author(s): | Rayelle Roe |
| Date(s): | 1983 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
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Lessons is a gen Star Trek: TOS story by Rayelle Roe.
It was published in the print zine Matter/Antimatter #3/4.
In this story, Kirk and Spock are marooned on a planet where Spock has been taken as a slave. A rarity in the fandom, it is a non-K/S slave story.
Reactions and Reviews
1984
The longest story in the zine is 'Another Truth' "by Rayelle Roe. It is a non-K/S slave story - at least, Spock isn't a slave once he and Kirk escape from captivity but he has to pretend to be Kirk's "pleasureling" while they are on the run and thus is treated as such by the general populace. This eventually begins to get to him and his hopeless attitude begins to get to Kirk also. If you can believe that a command trained Vulcan will go under because of repeated sexual advances and the surrounding- decadent behaviour, then fine; I personally can't, which takes away some of the enjoyment; even the explanation that Spock finally offers to himself is not totally convincing. I'm sorry that Rayelle Roe saw fit to explore an already done to death subject - after all there must be a thousand more ways of testing our heroes' mettle and she is a very talented writer. 'Another Truth' was also one of those strange stories set in a kind of limbo with which we are all too familiar; they are not K/S but nothing except this being K/S will explain the way the characters interact - Kirk is just a little too soft or too angry with one who is not his lover. [1]
1985
The theory of "Spock being the ultimate male" has been around awhile. I've read articles on that similar idea which were written back in the early seventies. I have also read fanzine stories where the idea of Spock having feminine traits is hinted at. One that comes to mind is a non-K/S slavery story which I believe appeared in Matter/Antimatter. Although the idea of Spock having feminine traits were forced upon him by the circumstances of the story (and the writer herself), it was definitely emphasized. I wonder why the idea of Spock (or Kirk) is so apparent in many fan stories? I don't have an affection for the idea myself... both Kirk and Spock are all male to me. [2]
References
- ^ from Communicator #17 (May 1984)
- ^ from APA Enterprise #25 (1985), in which a fan is commenting on the 1979 article in "The National Review" called The Gimlet Eye: Fanzines