Death of a Flame, or Amanda's Mission

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	Death of a Flame, or Amanda's Mission
Author(s):	Doris Beteem
Date(s):	1972
Length:
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Death of a Flame, or Amanda's Mission is a 1973 Star Trek: TOS Kraith story by Doris Beteem.

It was published in Grup #1 as the third part of "Wreath of Kraith." Then it was reprinted in Kraith Collected #1 (1973) and Introduction to Star Trek Fanzines (1975).

Series

• Wreath of Kraith, part one: Child-of-the-Tradition, or Sluraz' Affirmation
• Wreath of Kraith, part two: Won't You Walk a Little Faster, or Tanya's Argument
• Wreath of Kraith, part three: Death of a Flame, or Amanda's Mission

Fan Comments

Contrast A Matter of Priority with Doris Beteem's Death of a Flame (Amanda's Mission), which was undeveloped and unsatisfying, made Sarek out to be an echo of the caricature Spock was in "THAT WHICH SURVIVES," one of the awful offerings of the 3rd season, and left Amanda with even less of a personality than she appeared to have in "JOURNEY TO BABEL; and you'll see what I mean. There was also, for one of the few times in the whole Lichtenberg collocation, an intensely lyrical and even moving scene where, preparatory to going to help Kirk and McCoy deal with a transporter-room full of half-wild Vulcan children, Spock and T'Aniyeh (Tanya) join minds and form a link to give them both inner peace, so as to give peace to the frantic children. It's one of the few places where Lichtenberg lets her hair down and shows what she can do to stir your soul, as a writer and as a person. Reading what she can do, and how seldom she'll do it, is frustrating.