Finally

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Finally
Author(s):	Kathy Stanis
Date(s):	1996
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Finally is a K/S story by Kathy Stanis in the zine Amazing Grace #3 (01/1996).

Summary

"Spock follows Kirk into the Nexus and they become lovers before returning together to their own time and place."

Reactions and Reviews

This post-Generations story is written with Kathy's typically strong lyrical language. "Kirk looked at Spock and saw all the years they had been together, saw the strong Vulcan face at the noon of its prime. He looked at his own hands, feeling a potent energy surge from his center." And how about "...and he had imagined Spock laying down that strength and allowing Kirk to feast on him, to melt Vulcan constraints with his heat." I love that image, feasting on Spock. I often wish I could do that....

The story was a little confusing, probably because I haven't seen and don't intend to ever see the Generations movie. I think the author should have tried harder to provide a setting I could grab on to. I felt like the characters were in some amorphous no-where, mist and fog swirling about them, a reflection of the ambiguity of the time line. Perhaps this was deliberate on the author's part, but I felt uncomfortable without an anchor for my mind's eye.

I also wondered at the motivation for the guys coming together at precisely this time, so late in their lives. The story didn't really provide it, and so I was a little lost as to WHY they were dancing around each other sexually right now. I felt like I'd walked into a movie halfway through, and at first I thought that was because of my lack of specific knowledge of Generations, but surely that movie didn't provide the K/S motivation!

Am I right in thinking that this is really an alternate-universe post- Generations story, with Kirk and Spock changing things in the Nexus at the end of this story so that the Generations story we're familiar with replaces the one that generated "Finally"? If I've read that properly, what a wonderfully clever thing to do, the sort of twist that lifts any work by Kathy above the ordinary.

A beautiful, sexy story about Kirk and Spock in the Nexus. A funny surprise ending too. Very nice.

Finally – the Nexus provides an answer rather than a bevy of questions. Well, to be honest, lots of questions remain while reading this, but somehow they don’t seem as important as they used to because Spock has found Kirk.

The author answers why Kirk says “Oh my...” as he apparently dies after his encounter with Soran in Generations. I have always believed this means he sees Spock after being separated him for an untold amount of time in the temporal anomaly. It seems Ms. Stanis agrees with me. This is a most confusing situation to address – I could never imagine how to explain it even to myself. She does a darned good job!

Kirk’s uncertainty is predictable and has just the right intensity – enough to confuse him but not enough to detract him from the Vulcan who has suddenly and inexplicably joined him in his world. But exactly where is this world? The Nexus? Reality? Is Spock real or an illusion? For that matter, Kirk wonders, is he also no more than an echo of himself? He asks Spock if they need to eat or drink in this place. For once Spock has no definitive scientific answer, but a very practical one. I was very impressed with the way this author managed to never quite assure the reader of what was authentic and what was not – this was effective because it manages to convey the nebulous quality of the entire situation.

What’s most important is that Kirk and Spock are together and knowing what it is like to be separated, they waste no time in expressing their love and appreciation for each other. They are mature men, confident even in the face of this tremulous existence. Very satisfactory conclusion to Generations!