Hour of Gold

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Hour of Gold
Author(s):	Teri White
Date(s):	1980
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
External Links:	artist is Marla
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Hour of Gold is a Star Trek: TOS K/S story by Teri White. It is accompanied by two full-page illos, each by Marla.

It was published in Nome #2.

Series

• Hour of Lead in Thrust
• An Anguish to Pay in Naked Times #1
• Hour of Gold in Nome #2

Summary

"Now bonded, Kirk and Spock must deal with McCoyʼs misgivings and rethink their premature decision to only have sex when away from the ship."

Reactions and Reviews

1993

As I get older, I too enjoy reading about older relationships. It is nice to feel comfortable reading about a comfortable pair still in love, still getting it on, still finding new things to love amid the old comforts. Hour of Lead was mentioned. Read also Hour of Gold, the third part of the trilogy by Teri White. Lovely K/S. -- Even old broads love to read this stuff.

People talk today like old fandom never had harder edged stuff, like it is something that M. Fae personally introduced into fandom (not a slam on M. Fae, I've never heard her agree--) Gayle F wrote two of the harder edged early stories, 1) Mirrors of Mind and Flesh--short on plot, long on imagery and sex and betrayal and lowering of barriers, and 2) Desert Heat--a four story collection with one of the first "Spock rapes Kirk in pon farr" stories.

Another of that theme was Hour of Lead/Hour of Gold by Terri White. One of the nice parts of that story line, is just when Spock is feeling most guilty about the bruised, bleeding man beneath him, Bones comes in, sees Kirk, and makes Spock feel even worse. Loved that.

2001

Hour of Gold is a great example of a very straightforward, traditional K/S story from the early eighties, but the quality of the writing raises it above the ordinary…. Here Kirk and Spock have survived a pon farr together and have formed a bond. But they haven't had any sexual contact other than that violent time, and they have put off the consummation of their gentler, sweeter love until they are off the ship sharing shore leave. (This is a theme that I have seen running through several other older stories, but not one that I've seen written recently.)

The story opens as Kirk and McCoy share coffee at the end of a dull shift in a deserted rec room. They talk about the leave the crew will enjoy in just two days' time, and McCoy says: "I know a few places in the city," he said, almost managing to sound casual. "The drinks are cold, the music loud, the women... agreeable. Why don't I show you the sights? We could have a helluva time."

McCoy can't quite believe that his captain has given up women or that he has truly devoted himself to Spock and the bond, and he can't quite get over the violence and injuries of the pon farr, either. Kirk tells the doctor that he will be spending the leave with Spock instead, but McCoy still can't accept it. He jumps up and exclaims: "Explain all you want, Jim, but I'll never understand. You'll never be able to convince me that you'd rather go to bed with Spock than with a woman. If you had a real choice, you'd never make this one."

Most unfortunately, Spock has just walked in and has heard what the doctor has had to say.

Later Kirk and Spock are in the first officer's quarters, talking the situation out, and they are so tempted to make love right then and there, but they manage to resist and say they will wait until they are off the ship. Very frustrating! Both for them and for the reader. A few pages further on and Kirk is knocked unconscious by an explosion in engineering; the subsequent disturbance in the bond is really difficult for Spock to take as he races to the scene of the accident.

Kirk is released from sickbay quickly, and back in his cabin with Spock, the Vulcan says: "Are we not foolish to waste even one day of the time we have?" Ahha! Satisfaction at last!

There is an especially wonderful picture that accompanies this story by Marla.