Editorial Judgement
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Editorial Judgement |
| Author(s): | Martha Selena Brown |
| Date(s): | 1993 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
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Editorial Judgement is a K/S story by Martha Selena Brown.
It was published in Charisma #17.
Reactions and Reviews
1996
I recently dug out this zine to lend to a friend and in skimming through it, rediscovered this story. I couldn't believe I hadn't LOCed it before.
What a delight! It's just impossible not to like a story that starts with a very recognizable Vulcan of our acquaintance sticking his "sleek and well-groomed head into a K/S editor's office and applying for a rape. We follow along with "Mr. Samith" as he goes from editor to editor in his search for the perfect partner who turns out to be a "middle height or shorter, medium to plump, Terran" registered as "Mr. Jones".
Meet the K/S editors you know and love, from the "soft" ones:" 'Wrong office,' she said. 'No undue death, torture, mutilation, mayhem, or rape on these premises'" to the "hard" ones:" 'You've come to the right place, then. Rape, murder, torture, death in ways too terrible to contemplate —we do 'em all.'" From the editor "who wanted him to sing" to the one who says, " 'Artists! I need artists! You an artist? No? Then I don't need you; go away? [sic]'"
Maybe if you stuck a phaser to my head I could write a humorous story, but I don't think so. Writing humor of any kind is difficult enough, but writing about our Kirk and Spock without making them into comical caricatures of themselves compounds the difficulty factor immeasurably. This author does it with love and style and makes it look easy. [1]
1993
This humorous story in which Spock, under a pseudonym, tries to find the right zines editor for the K/S scenario he wants, satires various types of K/S zines by utilizing exaggeration and sterotype. I hope that new fans don't take all this too literally. [2]
This was a very funny K/S story. I wish it would have been longer. [3]
References
- ^ from Come Together #29
- ^ from The LOC Connection #57 (1993)
- ^ from The LOC Connection #57 (1993)