Dreamscape (Star Trek: TOS story)

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Fanfiction
Title:	Dreamscape
Author(s):	Bryan Taylor
Date(s):	1992
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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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

1993

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. Here's an example of adverbs, adjectives and assorted askew grammar: "He drank heartily cool, clear water Spock had kept in a covered cooling jar, and eyed in the candlelight the Vulcan stretching out his muscles, knowing then his heat had died a little bit." Say, what?

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.

An intriguing story: an unknown phenomena causes vivid dreams, which show the inner desires of the crew. I was fascinated, but at the same time also disappointed. The author creates the wildest dreams and then she/he (?) closes the door and passes to the order of the day.

I mean the sex scenes. Sorry, when I'm this plain, but when I read e.g. about Spock's Pon Parr, I felt like a kid, who saw a lolly that vanished the next second again!

Really, I can do without the sex scenes and there are a lot of stories without, that I love, but in this story everything is set up in this direction and then - nothing! And another thing that irritates me: I can't imagine our shy Spock talking to McCoy so casually about violent sex and Pon Farr!

All things considered, this could be a nice story, if the reader would be allowed to look at the lolly in detail.