Desperate Ills

Fanfiction
Title:	Desperate Ills
Author(s):	Maureen Fenton
Date(s):	1985
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Desperate Ills is a Kirk/Spock story by Maureen Fenton.

It was published in the print zine Duet #11.

Summary

"One year after their trip to Vulcan Spock enter pon farr again, and Kirk realizes that he wants to be the one to see Spock through it."

Reactions and Reviews

'Desperate Ills' by Maureen Fenton is the Pon Farr story in the zine and follows the usual pattern with Kirk offering himself as the ship is too far away from Vulcan for them to make it home. Pon Farr lovers will, I'm sure, find this to their liking. K. Lee Shea's contribution is called "First Impressions' and concerns the party given by Kirk on becoming Captain of the Enterprise. It is a relatively gentle story without the barbed wit which so often is the hallmark of this writer and, as such, I felt that it succeeded. Her description of Kirk studying himself in the mirror and Spock's reaction to the fact that this was no Greek God, why Kirk was actually SMALLER than he was, is superb.

One year after the events of Amok Time, Spock goes into pon farr again & Kirk offers himself. All I can say is if all pon farrs are as easy as this then I don't know why Vulcans worry about them so much.