Brotherly Love (Star Trek: TOS story)

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Brotherly Love
Author(s):	Deborah Cummins
Date(s):	1987
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Brotherly Love is a Kirk/Spock story by Deborah Cummins.

It was published in two parts in print zine Naked Times #15 and #16.

Summary

"Kirk and Spock crash on an unknown planet but are separated when found by different groups of natives and taken as peasant and nobility, respectfully."

Reactions and Reviews

I didn't read the first part of BROTHERLY LOVE until I had NAKED TIMES #16 and could read the entire story at once. What this amounted to was a rather tired retelling of the trite "Kirk and Spock are trapped on a backward planet where Spock is captured and held by an evil man who has designs on his body until Kirk can rescue him with sundry and assorted predictable problems and moments of hurt comfort along the way" theme. While I enjoy h/c as much as the next guy, at times this story went beyond necessity to make its point. Ms. Cummins' characters are somewhat one one dimensional as her good guys are good and her bad guys are bad and there's no middle ground. Between parts one and two, this story could have been at least ten pages shorter. At times over written, at times boring, I feel that holding off to read part one until I had part two was not worth the wait.