Love's Final Wish

Fanfiction
Title:	Love's Final Wish
Author(s):	Vary Higgenbottom
Date(s):	1992
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Love's Final Wish is a K/S story by Vary Higgenbottom.

It was published in the print zine Naked Times #28.

Summary

"A/U: Kirk is thrown out of Starfleet Academy after cheating on the Kobayashi Maru and becomes a successful writer instead, meeting a Vulcan officer from the Enterprise while gathering material for his next book."

Reactions and Reviews

1991

This a/u novella was too a/u for me. I can accept a/u characters which differ from those in the mainstream as long as they come from a different past, culture, etc., that explains why they're different from the 'accepted' characters. But the point where this story became a/u was the detail that Kirk was kicked out of Starfleet Academy for cheating on the Kobyashi Maru test, and that was not a strong enough justification, for me, to explain Kirk's different personality. I just could not see the bold, aggressive, energetic character I know turned into something of a Mama's Boy and settling into such a sedentary career as writing novels -- romance novels, at that — and becoming so sedentary that his flabbiness, though only age 22, is pointed out repeatedly by other characters in the story. When Kirk is finally re-admitted to Starfleet and assigned to the Enterprise, I could not believe that he would immediately risk he and Spock's careers -- which was so important to him -- by sneaking around to have sex. Spock was also a different character, but I found his depiction more believable since the story took place during the Captain Pike years, which justifies him behaving more emotionally than when he is older. I got a bit tired of Kirk's mother and felt that he and she were annoyingiy over-protective of each other. The character of Sergi was fun, however. I also liked the book publisher and his secretary and would have liked to have seen them play a larger role in the story. Questionable characterizations aside, the writing and development of this novella was handled very well. I got a kick out of the 'biographical' articles concerning author Winona Kirk. Had this story not been so unbelievable to me, it could have been a lot of fun.

1992

Young Academy-drop-out Kirk as a romance writer is pretty far-fetched, and his writing not even all that steamy to make him such a success. But I was intrigued; the story really did make me want to know what would happen next. I liked Kirk and Spock being so taken with each other at their first meeting, although the magnetism seemed too simplistic. But I suppose in such an A/U story they don't have quite the same history to get past in acknowledging their love. Didn't delve deeply enough into motivations for my liking. The lovemaking in the bond was really fine: some excellent language. I wasn't very taken with Winona and Sergi.