If Today Be Sweet
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| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | If Today Be Sweet |
| Publisher: | Bristol Star Fleet Registry |
| Editor: | |
| Author(s): | Patricia Thompson |
| Cover Artist(s): | Rod Summers |
| Illustrator(s): | Rod Summers |
| Date(s): | April 1985 |
| Medium: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | |
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If Today Be Sweet is a gen Star Trek: TOS 17-page zine by Patricia Thompson.
It includes two full-page illustrations by Rod Summers.
The first print run was 200 copies.
Summary
IF TODAY BE SWEET is Pat Thompson's first story for BSFR since the superb SPOCK trilogy. [1] In essence a sequel to the episode AMOK TIME, IF TODAY BE SWEET is set 5 years later when, suddenly, Spock's former betrothed re-enters his life with a vengeance.
Sample Interior Gallery
sample text
illo (photocopy) by Rod Summers
Reactions and Reviews
This fanzine... has two full-page illustrations plus a front cover. It's well-typed and printed. The story is set three years after 'Amok Time.' In the world in which this story is set, there is a legend that says that a 'Vulcan male who escapes pon farr will die unless he marries someone within the following three years and at the beginning of the story Spock has found his solution, although in doing so he has misled Captain Kirk. The third anniversary of Spock's pon farr does not go unobserved by T'Pring. Unaware of Spock's solution she has decided that he shall now, in spite of her past actions, marry her. She chooses to inform Spock of her choice in front of the entire bridge crew after a previous, more private, communication has failed to have the desired result. Sarek is then drawn into the story and both he and Spock are invited to make a Statement of Truth at the Hall of Justice on Vulcan in answer to a Statement made by T'Pring Spock feels that he cannot, morally, let his solution be known publicly. Further that his admission of the solution will implicate Captain Kirk and possibly endanger his career. And yet if he states he has no need to marry he will be counted to be no longer Vulcan and his father will be disgraced and stripped of his rank for defending him, since if Spock is judged not Vulcan Sarek's judgment is at fault in defending a lie. This is a story about T'pring's attempted revenge on Spock and his family when she is thwarted in her attempts to marry him and of how Jim Kirk prevails on Spock to defend himself. Although short, I enjoyed this zine very much. Perhaps one could argue with Patricia's portrayal of Spock being somewhat, to emotionally involved to see the logic in speaking out and defending his position but nevertheless I think she has written a compelling story about Spock's dilemma and his thoughts and Kirk's efforts to help Spock. [2]
References
- ^ The first being The Restitution of Spock.
- ^ from Star Trek Action Group #74