First Conflict

Fanfiction
Title:	First Conflict
Author(s):	Emily Adams
Date(s):	1990?
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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First Conflict is a K/S story by Emily Adams.

It was published in the print zine As I Do Thee #13.

Summary

"Why is Kirk angry with Spock? That's the question the Vulcan is asking himself... with very little success at arriving at an answer."

Reactions and Reviews

1989

Even after re-reading the beginning, I'm still not sure how Spock knew Kirk was mad at him. The. description of them going in separate directions for a moment was too vague to make the point. Also, this story needed an ending. I don't feel that anything was resolved—except Spock's conclusion that love would go on—and that wasn't adequate. What I did like about this story was Spock's logical thought patterns as he considered his own reactions—or lack of such—to Kirk's anger. It's just the kind of things I can imagine him thinking. Overall, this story needed a lot of fleshing out. It came off as a tease—since neither the reader nor Spock ever knows what Kirk is mad about—and I was left feeling that Kirk is a selfish, inconsiderate jerk, and Spock a bit of a wimp. (I think the Vulcan could have been more forceful and perhaps insisted that Kirk communicate with him about the problem.) I don't want to believe they would actually treat each other like that.

I like this story mainly because it made me think. The author didn't trot out nice little answers to all the questions, but left me to consider a few possibilities of my own. But the particular "problem" didn't matter anyway, as it was mainly a catalyst for the look at Kirk and Spock's maturing relationship and the type of difficulty two men of their personalities are going to encounter.