McCoy's Dream

Fanfiction
Title:	McCoy's Dream
Author(s):	Karla Kelly
Date(s):	1991
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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McCoy's Dream is a Kirk/Spock story by Karla Kelly.

It was published in the print zine Counterpoint #4.

Summary

"McCoy has a dream similar to Kirkʼs after watching the same movie."

Reactions and Reviews

1991

This story is so...McCoy. I could just see him sitting on a tipped back chair, a drink in front of him, relating his adventures to some captivated audience 20 or so years down the road. There was a lot of very vivid word pictures in this story. In particular, the paragraph which began "Jail cells are jail cells..." really nabbed my attention.

1992

I really liked this spin-off of CASABLANCA. Oh, one reason is that it wasn't dependent on the movie. I found its humorous incongruities, like the saloon named Gol, fun and not offensive. I also loved the K/S/Mc angle. On the other hand, if McCoy had never consciously acknowledged a sexual attraction to Kirk and Spock, this dream might later cause McCoy some serious emotional difficulties. I'd say there's room for a K/S/Mc sequel.

1999

I love the way this started. You knew with the opening sentence it was McCoy relating the story, “We came out of Klingon Space like a bat out of Hell...” A great approach.

This is done like the voice over in old movies, kind of Mike Hammer style, and focuses on a bar called “Gol” on a planet named (what else?) Casablanca.

The good doctor’s observations are priceless as Spock appears from behind the bar, tall, dark and mysterious, as Kirk walks toward him. “They were saying nothing, communing, just like on the Enterprise. It gave me the willies”. And, when the Romulan Commander horns in, “Spock drank in every detail of Jim, oblivious to any hostility. I drank. It seemed the sensible thing to do.”

Isn’t the dialog grand? You must read the description of their first kiss as McCoy remembers it, once again saying “when those two are together, nothing and nobody else exists”. How often we have been privileged to see that on-screen.

This was truly McCoy from start to finish and yet it also managed to be Kirk/Spock. Not a simple feat. If I may borrow from the good doctor’s style of speech: I didn’t expect to be impressed. I was.