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Destiny (Star Trek: TOS story)
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Destiny |
| Author(s): | Elise Madrid |
| Date(s): | 2005 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
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Destiny is a Kirk/Spock story by Elise Madrid.
It was published in the print zine T'hy'la #25.
Summary
"While at a carnival, Kirk humors Lori by going with her to see a fortune teller."
Reactions and Reviews
Opening her story in the TMP timeline, this fine author then chooses to very skillfully pull us along with Kirk into a memory triggered as he unpacks his belongings on the refurbished Enterprise. Hope is in the air because at long last he and Spock are again on their beloved ship, but it is laced with doubt and uncertainty. Can things ever be the same? Can the love they once knew ever be recaptured?As we ponder these questions, we are transported to an earlier, more forlorn time in Kirk’s life, when he is attempting to fill the void in his heart with Lori Ciani. The vision of her dragging him to a fortune teller makes me believe she expects the result to somehow bind her forever to Admiral Kirk. But fortune has other plans. In the mysterious darkened folds of the sorcerer’s tent, Kirk’s mind replays in vivid detail the love he shared with Spock before Gol. It nearly scorches the pages! And yet it is so sad to behold because it is only a memory and perhaps a tenuous dream of what might be again. His reactions are so clearly what I would expect. He wants so much to believe...yet he runs blindly away.
Back in the present, Kirk puts the material reminder from the encounter – a disk bearing his and Spock’s likeness – out of sight. Ms. Madrid has a great understanding of Kirk and how he longs for his Vulcan, and she has an imaginative way of shaping destiny with her words.[1]
References
- ^ from The K/S Press #101