Made for Each Other

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	Made for Each Other
Author(s):	Anne Laurie Logan
Date(s):	1975
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Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Made for Each Other is a Star Trek: TOS story by Anne Laurie Logan.

The Series

• A Desecration of Steel and Plastic (Warped Space #3)
• To Explore Strange New Worlds (Warped Space #4)
• Made for Each Other (Warped Space #6, reprinted in Alpha Continuum #4)

Reactions and Reviews

Unknown Date

Silly but entertaining and creative were-creature story, told in first-person by a young ambassador from planet Paradox. Various crew members seem to be carrying a were-gene, and when exposed to the star they are orbiting, they Change. Spock becomes a cat and scratches McCoy when the doctor tries to pat his head. The planet's inhabitants are also were-"wulves" and the Paradox contingent beam down to discuss arranging Organian protection for them. Also, security crewman Norton abandons ship to run off - as a wulf - with his superior officer. Best bit in this story was the "beastume" - an artificial lifeform that transforms into one's clothing at will.

1975

The whole issue [of "Warped Space" #7] was well-written and put together. The only klinker in the lot was Logan's third-in-a-series,of Mary Sue epics, and it was not only her best so far, it was even rather well-done. Logan does write well. She merely tends to have less than reasonable stories to tell. Tara, her Mary Sue, may be different in that she is a snot (or 'bitch'), but she is still a knowitall, unreasonably and inconsistently competent. Unless they are handled terribly carefully, [Mary Sues] are not generally interesting. They have nothing to teach us; we have nothing in common, and that is why Mary Sue stories generally fail.

As no one has said it so far, I would like to comment that I really like Anna Laurie Logan's "Paradox" series. I think it's delightful, the freshest, most original basis for a ST take-off I've seen in a long time. It's a great way to take pot shots at our heroes and still have a nice story line going. A Lieutenant Mary Sue story it is not (although I'm sure there's a lot of Anna Laurie in Tara)! She may have her problems with total coherency, but then so does KRAITH. There's a lot to the regal KRAITH that will have to be filled in at some future date to make it totally comprehensible to us poor readers. This is not an outright fault. It smokily seems a matter of the authors having of much in mind that it just doesn't all come out on paper. It just takes time and experience to work things out. As a teacher of creative writing, I must say that I prefer too little to too much explanation. The former invites the reader to uses his/her wits, the latter insinuates that the reader must be led around by the nose or he/she won't understand anything.