Let Me Help
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Let Me Help |
| Publisher: | Ashton Press |
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| Date(s): | fall 2019 |
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| Medium: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: AOS |
| Language: | English |
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Let Me Help is a gen Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: AOS digest-sized anthology. It contains 169-pages (~59,000 words).
The concept was by Doctor Beth, it was edited by Dovya Blacque, and the cover art by is Laura Quiles. Interior art is by Doctor Beth, Gamin Davis and Alayne Gelfand.
Table of Contents
- Let Me Help by Doctor Beth (A missing scene from “Amok Time”. Kirk has more than a few worries about Spock as the Vulcan's behavior becomes more and more atypical.)
- Consequences by Mary Schuttler (Are there truly no lengths to which Dr. McCoy will go to save a patient? The question is answered when Spock is seriously injured on a landing party.)
- Not Even Close by Doctor Beth (An unfortunate encounter with a mystery drug while on a mission leaves Kirk with a somewhat... drunken Spock on his hands.)
- In It For Life by Loretta Greco (A missing scene from “Into Darkness”. What was McCoy's private reaction to Kirk's death?)
- The Core of The Matter by Dovya Blacque (A missing scene from “The Apple”. Kirk's reaction to losing three crewmen on Vaal's planet leave him more than a little unsettled.)
- Three Red Sevens And A Wild Card by Judy Decker (Kirk learns that winning at gambling isn't always a good thing.)
- Truth, Beauty... And Thorns by Gamin Davis (A missing scene from “Is There No Truth in Beauty?” Miranda's reaction to Spock's meld with Kollos is unexpectedly aggressive and her intent toward Spock unexpectedly personal.)
- When the Morning Sun Rises by Judy Decker (Kirk and Spock run afoul of Orion Slavers.)
- Mr.Spock and the Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Day by Cheree Cargill (If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another. Mr. Spock has more than his fair share.)
- Worst of Times by Gamin Davis (A missing scene from the Wrath of Khan. A heartbroken Kirk is concerned by Doctor McCoy’s increasingly odd behavior following Spock’s death.)
- More Than A Flesh Wound by Doctor Beth (A missing scene from “The City on the Edge of Forever”. Spock needs electronics for his primitive computer if he is to determine whether Edith Keeler must die or not. But obtaining those electronics is not a simple, or easy, task.)
Editor's Comments
From a 2019 podcast:
The zine is called Let Me Help... it started off as a spork hurt comfort zine, and I think it mainly is a Spock gen hurt comfort zine...I started writing these stories that were all new stories. For example, I wrote one as sort of a missing scene for "City on the Edge of Forever," but it was told from Spock's point of view. So I started writing it and I started telling Alayne about it, and she was very intrigued by the idea of the story. And there's a lot of humor and fun in the story, as well as tragedy and as we all know...
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The idea of the story was that Spock realizes that Kirk is falling in love and that Kirk may not be able to cause the death of Edith because it's such a tragic thing for him. So what I did was, as I said, you know, if Kirk can't do it, Spock is going to have to and this will tear Spock up inside. And because Spock realizes that Kirk may not be able to put the mission above his personal feelings in this case. In the end, Kirk did, of course. And in my story, of course he did. But this also combined another trope, I guess, is what I like to write or wanted to write about was where Spock was hurt on any on a planet where he had to hide the fact that he was an alien and could be exposed and was. And was trapped basically in this alien land. And Kirk had to go and find him and had to hide the fact that he was an alien. Now, of course, in my story, Spock gets injured, and that's so you have to hide the fact that he's injured from the people on, you know, just people in New York and it's at that point at this point that Kirk realizes what Spock is going through and what Spock would go through if he, if they were forced to stay in New York, if the mission failed, basically. [1]