Dreamscape (Star Trek: TOS story)

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K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Dreamscape
Author(s):	Bryan Taylor
Date(s):	1992
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Dreamscape is a K/S story by Brian Taylor.

It was published in the print zine First Time #34.

Summary

"The radiation that is causing madness in the inhabitants of a planet creates dreams of hidden desires in the crew of the Enterprise."

Reactions and Reviews

The Enterprise encounters an alien force that promotes vivid dreams amongst the officers and crew. The dreams precipitate the evolution of Kirk and Spock's relationship. A much done theme, which I wouldn't mind, as I enjoy that particular theme, but there's nothing new here and the plot is almost thrown aside as if it's not too important. At first, I thought the author just didn't know the characters that well: then I thought maybe it was written from a removed, objective point of view: then I thought maybe it had to do with the gender of the author. I don't know for certain, if the writer is a man or a woman, and ordinarily it wouldn't make too much difference if well written. But, there was something about how this writer sees sex and Spock and Kirk that gave me a feeling that he's a "he". I got a strong sense that the author also identified with Kirk, so strongly, that I felt I was reading about the author, him/herself. There is very unwieldy writing and grammar with textbook like dialogue. It cries out for major restructuring....I think the author wanted to express something about pain and sexuality, perhaps a little S&M, but it was only thrown into some dialogue, then mentioned briefly in one sequence, so it was only confusing instead of insightful or a facet of K/S sex life. As unsuccessful as this was, I write about it because the story actually was filled with possibilities that could have been very interesting and worth exploring. It has some good elements, without which no amount of rewriting could help. The intertwining of the dreams amongst the crew was one and the alien force that searches each mind was another.