Love is in the Air on the Enterprise

Fanfiction
Title:	Love is in the Air on the Enterprise
Author(s):	Wanda Butler
Date(s):	1993
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Love is in the Air on the Enterprise is a Kirk/Spock story by Wanda Butler.

It was published in Charisma #16.

Summary

"Kirk and Spock decided to co-couple with a Vulcan couple (co-coupling means a formal arrangement for guardians for perspective children."

Reactions and Reviews

Nicely imaginative. At first I felt this was a very delightful story. But by the end I felt dissatisfied, as if it was "unfinished." There seemed to be no conclusions about Kirk and Spock's relationship, merely a lot of separate vignettes of all the folks falling in love on the ship. The nice detail about, for instance. Uhura's arranging the party, would have been great in a longer story but as it is, it felt like just another separate piece. I found the "co-coupling" arrangement in the Vulcan way very interesting. I really like group marriages and so on, and was disappointed later on to find out that it is not a group marriage, just an arrangement for the welfare of children.

I really liked all the crewpeople - they're great! I felt engaged by these very likeable people right away. Starlight O'Hara and her husband Dan. Scotty shyly wooing Uhura. The Andorian and the cook. McCoy and the Lyrasian. Blackhawk and Laura. Sulu and Chekov (well...).

About Angela and Trina. it doesn't make sense to have the female couple feel they are faced with any disapproval or non-acceptance. Also, I think their calling each other "dear" is barfy. Like old maiden aunts stuff.

I realty liked Uhura's friendship with Kirk, and that she calls him "Jim."

I liked all the day-to-day shipboard lives and jobs underneath the command levels and the functions we're familiar with, but shouldn't the secretaries be called yeomen?