Golden People

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Golden People
Author(s):	Sharon St. James
Date(s):	1989
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Golden People is a K/S story by Sharon St. James.

It was first published in the print zine Naked Times #22.

Summary

"Kirk is taken over by an entity after touching a golden statue who will free him on the condition that he and Spock make love while on the planet in order for her and her fellow “gods” to feed off of the emotional energy given off."

Reactions and Reviews

Conceptually speaking, this story is a flawed masterpiece. The central theme, that sex is sacred, is important to me. Ancient Pagan religions considered heterosexual intercourse a rite of fertility, but the golden people made no distinction between reproductive and non-reproductive sex. It was the love and unity of sex that was sacred to them, and I really appreciate that. The one thing that bothered me about the approach of the golden people was their fixation on fucking. They wouldn't let Kirk make Spock come orally because they wanted Spock to fuck Kirk. Why wasn't oral sex as sacred to them as anal intercourse? Isn't there love and unity in that act too? I suspect that this reflects the common prejudice in K/S that fucking is the only real sex and everything else is foreplay. A number of smaller problems in the story are focused around McCoy, who seems to be an incompetent. I don't know why it didn't bother him that a starship captain fainted. It certainly should. He also didn't check Kirk out properly. In addition, he thinks that Kirk and Spock should talk to each other about K/S, but doesn't tell them to do it. This makes him part of their unhealthy conspiracy of avoidance seemingly without realizing it. A qualified psychiatrist like McCoy should know better. Then there is a nit to pick about the golden people. Why couldn't they see Kirk stimulating himself when he turned over if they were in his mind? I also found it difficult to believe that Spock would engage in a series of double entendres without realizing it. One double entendre might easily escape him, but not catching several in a row makes him seem woefully dim. In summary, "Golden People" could have been excellent if only it had been written more carefully.

This story started out all right, but as I read on it got a little strange. I just couldn't really understand why the "Golden People" needed Kirk and Spock to make love.

This story had some interesting aspects and vivid descriptions of an alien culture. But Spock and Kirk are simply too perfect in this story. I don't really care for stories in which the salvation of either a culture or a whole universe depend on the absolute perfection of the couple. Kirk and Spock are Human and Vulcan; they have their faults and shortcomings as wells as their virtue. They aren't gods, and shouldn't be portrayed as such.