On Fanlore, users with accounts can edit pages including user pages, can create pages, and more. Any information you publish on a page or an edit summary will be accessible by the public and to Fanlore personnel. Because Fanlore is a wiki, information published on Fanlore will be publicly available forever, even if edited later. Be mindful when sharing personal information, including your religious or political views, health, racial background, country of origin, sexual identity and/or personal relationships. To learn more, check out our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Select "dismiss" to agree to these terms.
Covered Wagon
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Covered Wagon |
| Author(s): | K.S. T'Lan |
| Date(s): | 1985 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
| External Links: | |
Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
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".[1]
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. [2]
References
- ^ from Communicator #22 (March 1985)
- ^ from Not Tonight Spock! #9