Graveyard Orbit

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Graveyard Orbit
Author(s):	Jack Hawksmoor
Date(s):	2011
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
External Links:	Graveyard Orbit
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Graveyard Orbit is a Kirk/Spock story by Jack Hawksmoor.

It was published in the print zine T'hy'la #31.

Reactions and Reviews

I really liked this story at first. I like this author's work anyway, and this one has plenty of whomp!Spock, for which I am a shameless fool.

the story opens in the middle of a crisis, a "Foothold" situation, (for the SG1 fans among us). very quickly we learn that the Enterprise has been invaded by some kind of incorporeal entities, that these entities are capable of puppeting their helpless hosts into doing pretty much anything their twisted minds can come up with. there is pitched battle in the halls, the bridge has already fallen and they are locked out of Auxiliary Control so they can't do much. and to top it off Spock is very far from at his best -- Jim has already been possessed and the torrent of hatefilled garbage flowing over the bond they share is crippling Spock and making it nearly impossible for him to think clearly. the story handles nicely the conflict McCoy has between riding herd on Spock and not losing him to this, and at the same time, being the voice of reason and caution. when he finally learns how badly Spock is affected he understands, which not all authors have him do in such a case. this one gets McCoy, that he can't be any other way, i.e. less snarky, but he'll stand at Spock's back here whether they win or lose. his anger and despair, when they finally come up with a way to force the entities out, only to lose most of the formerly possessed to simple old-fashioned shock, circulatory collapse, are very well portrayed. and Spock, how guilty he feels about what he thinks were his lapses in his duty, also well done. we see a little about how Jim's affected, but it's Spock who is really worked up and disturbed over it -- as he would be. but with all of that I have to say I found the story's actual ending rather unsatisfactory. it just ends, seemingly in the middle of a scene, with no warning or explanation I could see. and it wasn't until I flipped through to the back of the zine to check the page count and saw the warnings, etc., that I realized that a) half of the ending was not in fact missing, and b) that this story is intended to explain why Spock went to Gol. this was after I'd already gotten hold of a second copy because I thought the first must be missing a chunk.

I wanted very much to like the ending as well as the rest of this story, but it didn't work for me. YMMV, of course -- I'd still read anything new by this author, and wager I'd like all or most of it. just that the ending here felt rushed and somehow incomplete, which may of course also just be me.