Covered Wagon

Fanfiction
Title:	Covered Wagon
Author(s):	K.S. T'Lan
Date(s):	1985
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Covered Wagon is a Kirk/Spock story by K.S. T'Lan.

It was published in the print zine Duet #11.

Summary

"A/U While visiting Earth, Spock is taken as a slave, but is bought by the young human Kirk for companionship."

Reactions and Reviews

1985

'Covered Wagon' is set on Earth, a planet which never recovered from the Eugenic wars. Spock strays from the safe zone and is captured by slavers. Owing to his being damaged goods, he does not fetch a good price and a self-employed goods deliverer, Jim Kirk, buys him. Fans of K.S. T'Lan will not be disappointed. Although I dislike the premise I would have to say that the story is beautifully told. We learn about the shortage of women and Kirk's preference for men as sexual partners and the reason why. The longest story in the zine, it does make, as Doreen says in her editorial, "compulsive reading".

Doreen [the editor] has saved the best till last & this is a thoroughly 34-page story set on Earth in the period after the Eugenics Wars where there are only isolated pockets of civilisation & the rest of the planet has reverted to savagery & barbarism. Spock has wanted to see & explore his mother's planet & foolishly wandered beyond the safe area of the Starbase. He is captured, taken prisoner & kept constantly drugged. Eventually he is bought by a merchant trader--Kirk--who makes a living selling goods to isolated farms. In the course of their travels in Kirk s covered wagon they learn to trust, respect, desire & finally love each other. It doesn't take much persuading on Spock's part to convince Kirk to come home to the stars with him.