First Sight

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K/S Fanfiction
Title:	First Sight
Author(s):	Gena Moretti
Date(s):	1989, 1992
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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First Sight is a Kirk/Spock story by Gena Moretti.

It was published in Candlelight and Flames #1 and Naughty Bits.

Summary

"At their first meeting, Spock realizes that he and Kirk are soulmates, but must wait for Kirk to come to the same realization."

Reactions and Reviews

Spock discovers that his instant rapport with young Captain Kirk derives from their relationship in previous lives, and waits for the captain to discover the bond. It's a long wait, and a number of vignettes from episodes before Kirk is ready to hear the explanation, and it takes "Amok Time" before he realizes he really can give up women for an exclusive relationship with Spock.

I thought this story was conceptually confused. It seems to me that the Vulcan belief in an eternal katra preserved at Mount Selaya excludes the doctrine of reincarnation. A soul can't reincarnate if it's supposed to be residing at a shrine. This doesn't mean that Vulcans don't reincarnate. What it does mean is that reincarnation wouldn't be one of the tenets of their philosophy, and Spock wouldn't find such a concept in his tapes from Vulcan. I an also surprised that Spock couldn't find any references to soulmates or reincarnation in his study of the data on human cultures recorded on the ship's computer. Could it be that there was nothing in the data banks about Hinduism, Buddhism, or any of the Western Pagan religions? Another puzzling aspect of the story's concept of reincarnation was the idea that Kirk and Spock's bodies would have nenories of sexual activities from past lives. I have never heard of any form of reincarnation where the bodies survive into the next life. Is the author confusing reincarnation with the Christian doctrine of resurrection in the body on the Day of Judgement? I also wonder if this story is meant to be a/u, since it forgot that Chekov didn't join the crew until the second year of the five year mission, and that Kirk plainly didn't know anything about pon-farr in "Amok Time"? In general, the episode chronology in this story was totally re-routed and I wasn't sure whether this was deliberate or unknowing. Getting on to characterization, I didn't care for Spock's manipulation of Kirk's emotions in this story, but Spock's informing the nan be was using to make Kirk jealous of his intentions made the game-playing seem a little cleaner. Kirk's creating a scene at a diplomatic reception because of his jealousy did seem off-kilter, however. As a representative of the Federation, Kirk can't afford to be other than smiling and charming at a diplomatic reception. Surely aany eyes would have noticed Kirk's scowls and perenptory connand to Spock to return to the ship. Realistically, this would have becone an incident with diplomatic repercussions, and Kirk night even have been court martiailed for it -- depending on how important the plant in question was to the Federation. If Kirk was having difficulty mastering his jealousy, he should have politely made his excuses to the host, complaining of fatigue or a minor indisposition and beamed up to the ship himself without confronting Spock. That wouid have been proper professional behavior on the part of a starship Captain. "First Sight" needed more re-thinking to make it more consistent and believable.