Conundrum (Star Trek: TOS story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Conundrum
Author(s):	Ginna LaCroix
Date(s):	1983
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Genre(s):	gen
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Conundrum is a gen Star Trek: TOS story by Ginna LaCroix.

It was published in Galactic Discourse #4.

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Descending to mediocrity, we run into a couple of super-twangulated hurt stories [ [in Galactic Discourse ]. In "Conundrum" by Ginna LaCroix, Kirk gets chomped by half a zillion insects on some planet, then staggers around for the rest of the piece wondering why he feels so lousy. He pulls a Cap'n Bligh on a free-merchant ship, gets captured and kicked around by Klingons, and winds up in sickbay near death, as usual, till McCoy deduces he has malaria, which the astute reader had figured out 30 pages previously. Why, the astute reader wonders further, if malaria had vanished from Earth long ago but only acquired immunity saves the planet natives from certain death, didn't the disease croak Kirk off first thing?