Brother's Keeper (Star Trek: TOS story by D.T. Steiner)
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| Star Trek TOS Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Brother's Keeper |
| Author(s): | D.T. Steiner |
| Date(s): | 1977 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
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Brother's Keeper is a gen (though some would say barely) Star Trek: TOS story by D.T. Steiner.
It was published in Rigel #3.
It is a Mirror Universe novella where the M/U Kirk and Spock are rescued by this Enterprise after they are stranded on Halka as it is being destroyed by the Empire.
Another author, Flora Poste, wrote a long series that continues this story. See Mirror Antagonists.
Reactions and Reviews
1977
"Brother's Keeper", by D.T. Steiner, is the tour-de-force of this issue — a novella of the "Mirror, Mirror" Kirk/Spock[1] relationship, and "our" universe's Kirk/Spock relationship, set against a background of trust/betrayal/ rebellion/unrest. Rigel III is worth buying for this story alone. [2]
1983
I never thought I'd like another story better than "Summer's End" until I found "Brother's Keeper." That has to be my all time favorite story, followed by Nightvisions. "Brother's Keeper" made me wonder what I was doing even attempt ing to write stories, and you can't imagine how long I wished I could write like D.T. Steiner. I've always felt that the biggest tragedy in Trek was that she never wrote the sequel. [3]
1984
BROTHER'S KEEPER is about the Mirror Universe K and S (and this universe too). They are in constant conflict and when Spock's plans to rebel against the Empire backfire and he has to escape into this universe he drags Kirk, kicking and screaming, after him. The story is almost, but not quite K/S. It was written before the K/S premise was more than a gleam in Fish's (and a few others) eyes. I would love to see a K/S sequel written by someone good. [4]
1994
Spock was tortured and mind controlled, that was a real killer. It's very slashy in feel, tho officially hurt/comfort. [5]
References
- ^ Many fan reviewers of the time refer to some stories as K/S; the contents skate really, really close to what fans today define as slash but were what fans in 1977 were defining as a relationship story, and perhaps what fans today would call pre-slash or simply smarm.
- ^ from Delta Triad #4
- ^ from K/S & K.S. (Kindred Spirits) #5 (1983)
- ^ from K/S & K.S. (Kindred Spirits) #10 (1984)
- ^ comments by Gayle F at Virgule-L, quoted with permission (July 17, 1994)