Love and Logic (Star Trek: TOS story by Dovya Blacque)
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Love and Logic |
| Author(s): | Dovya Blacque |
| Date(s): | 1987 |
| Length: | 24 pages - zine 12,053 K/S Archive |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
| External Links: | The Kirk/Spock Fanfiction Archive on AO3 |
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Love and Logic is a K/S story by Dovya Blacque.
It was published in the print zine A Gathering of Blacque and later online (11/2010).
Summary
"It's the day after V'ger and neither Kirk nor Spock can sleep. Each seeks the other out and they talk long into the night about regrets and memories and motivations, about loyalty and friendship."
Reactions and Reviews
Unknown Date
A sweet post-Gol fic. I especially like the way their time apart has aided their understanding of themselves, and that they approach being together in a much more adult way than they might have during the 5YM. [1]
1997
This is an interesting story in a little zine that's copyrighted 1987, Two of the stories in A Gathering of Blacque are reprinted from other zines, and two see print for the first time. Love and Logic is one of the new stories.
I'm a fan of this author's work, but I was a little disappointed in the entire zine. At first I thought Love and Logic would be the same, as it is a pretty light-weight story that's basically just a long conversation between Kirk and Spock after Spock returns from Gol. Nice sex at the end, although in my opinion too much of it. Apparently one thing that homosexual men find amusing about slash fandoms is the endless multiple orgasms our characters are able to achieve, when in real life nothing of the sort happens. So when I read scenes where Jim and Spock manage to experiment with every sexual position known to humanoids, all during their first night together, I get a little impatient.
Love and Logic became intriguing for me when the author used Turnabout Intruder in a way I don't think I've ever read it used before. Kirk discovers after the incident with Janice Lester that he's become attracted to men. He tells Spock: "I found myself..looking at men... differently." He glanced at Spock again, this time to find a raised eyebrow. He couldn't help but laugh. "I didn't know I was looking at them like I used to look at women... not for a while, anyway. And, when I did figure it out, I... panicked."
I really didn't like what the author had Kirk say a little later in the conversation: "What I'm not, is a man who lusts after other men. I just find I want to be around men more... like I used to want to be around women. I like their company much better now. I've...never been with a man."
Now if that isn't copping out I don't know what is. Either Kirk is attracted to men or he isn't. I thought this was a case of a malady that I was also inflicted with in my early years in K/S: Our heroes couldn't possibly be homosexual! In some stories, one or both of them are. Some folks don't care to read this interpretation, and that's fine, and some folks don't care to write this interpretation, and that's also fine. But it bugged me that this author set up her situation and then backed away from it.
In our fandom, we read that Spock is a homosexual much more often than we read that Kirk is one. (And of course, one has to ask oneself what the definition of "homosexual" is. We could have a long discussion about this in Round Table.) This story distinguished itself by having Kirk transformed by his experience with Janice. I've read and even written that the transference was pivotal in his life, but never in quite the way presented in this story. [2]
2021
5/5: I don't usually like Character Study, but I actually enjoyed this one. There were a few bits about gender that I didn't really like, but overall it wasn't too bad. It was well written and while slow it was pretty emotional. It was really good. [3]