For the Fear of McCoy
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| Star Trek TOS Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | For the Fear of McCoy |
| Author(s): | Elaine Romig |
| Date(s): | 1977 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
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For the Fear of McCoy is a Star Trek: TOS story by Elaine Romig, art by Virginia Jacobsen.
It was published in the print zine Berengaria #9.
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Told first-person from the pov of a crew woman who is crawling the ceiling - literally, and with the help of McCoy's Arcturian resins - to elude capture while hallucinating. When they catch and sedate her, it transpires that she had been spirited away by unkown beings she remembers as "giant flutterflies" and clouds, who sent her back after about an hour with an artificial pituitary gland substituted for her own. So far, so good - the character is witty and the situation interesting; however, it devolves a bit in the resolution: Spock is called on to meld with her to discover the beings' nature and intentions. They are creatures who need the master glands of other species to continue their life cycles, which seem to be a never-ending series of metamorphoses. [1]