How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Star Trek: TOS story)

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Author(s):	Doris Beetem
Date(s):	1970
Length:	6 pages
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation is a six-page Star Trek: TOS story by Doris Beetem in the first issue of Eridani Triad.

In it, James T. Kirk, as a boy, goes to San Francisco to visit his aunt, and meets with Spock, whose parents are attached to the Vulcan embassy there. Together, they run into a cadet Scott and a young Dr. Leonard McCoy. The author gets jossed with saying Kirk's middle name is Timothy; Tiberius comes up in a later episode.

I’ve noticed a current sub-genre of fan art & fan fiction depicting Jim and Spock (and sometimes other crew members) meeting for the first time as children.

This trope goes way back. The first “child Spock & Kirk” story I can find is in “Eridani Triad” in June 1970.

“How I Spent My Summer Vacation” is about James Timothy Kirk’s summer visit to San Francisco, where he met a Vulcan boy named Spock, whose ambassador father was stationed at the Embassy there.