The Legend of the Sand Dollar

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Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title: The Legend of the Sand Dollar
Author(s): Marcella Belton
Date(s): 1983
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Genre: het
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
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The Legend of the Sand Dollar is a Star Trek: TOS story by Marcella Belton. The illos are by Kathy Carlson.

inside art from Nome #6, Kathy Carlson
inside art from Nome #6, Kathy Carlson

It was published in Nome #6. It is a sequel to The Seed.

Both "The Seed" and "The Legend of the Sand Dollar" were to have appeared in the proposed zine "Best of Nome" #1.

Summary

"A/U: After Kirkʼs death, Spock discovers a daughter of Kirkʼs that neither was aware of."

"Following Jim Kirk's death, Spock has become obsessed with Jennifer Williams, the daughter Kirk never knew he'd had. Spock has brought Jennifer to Earth to meet Leonard McCoy and she and McCoy became close friends. The doctor councils his two troubled friends who are so dear to him."

From the Story's Preface

The first part of this, THE SEED, begins with a much-changed Spock, bereft of his "soul brother" by Kirk's sudden death, and releasing his "life force" to join him. He is suddenly confronted with Jennifer Williams, the daughter James Kirk never knew he'd had.

He journeys to see her, compelled to know this child of the man he'd loved so many years, and is faced with a being ironically similar to the father she'd never known. Spock is catapulted into a maelstrom of emotional/ sexual tension; unable, at first, to retrieve his grip on reality, he becomes obsessed with the need to relive the life he might have had with Kirk had either of them been able to admit to the physical passion between them.

Jennifer herself, young and vulnerable, is alternately attracted and repelled by the formidable Vulcan; she is unaware that the chains which seem to bind her to Spock were forged half a century ago, in a different time and place. The story now continues ...

Reactions and Reviews

While there are no known LoCs for this story, it was regarded by the editors of Nome to be popular enough to have been one of the stories in "Best of Nome" #1.

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