My Dancing Day

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	My Dancing Day
Author(s):	Mary Louise Dodge
Date(s):	1979
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Genre:	het
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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My Dancing Day is a Star Trek: TOS Kirk/Uhura story by Mary Louise Dodge.

It was published in Delta Triad #5.

Part of a Series

(in order of publication, not necessarily in the order they occur):

• DT1: My Gracious Silence
• DT1: How About a Raffle?
• DT2: The Denebian Bell
• DT2: How About a Rematch?
• DT3: Old Child, Young Child
• DT4: Dark of the Moon
• DT4: I'll Come to You by Moonlight
• DT5: My Dancing Day
• DT5: Love's Renaissance
• DTSI: Uhura's Decision

Reactions and Reviews

It's Christmas time on the Enterprise and Kirk and Uhura, established but secret lovers, are separately making the rounds of the parties. Kirk's unfortunate entrance while M'Benga is forcefully pressing his own case with Uhura results in the couple indulging in a jealous quarrel rather than the long-awaited delicious evening together they had planned. Meanwhile, McCoy is watching everyone, especially Kirk, for signs of the holiday blues and generally getting in the way of the captain's romance. When the dust settles, Kirk proposes.

Then there's "My Dancing Day," with another Christmas party aboard the Big E while the aliens take care of the ship (nice idea, that). I just wish Dodge hadn't assumed all humans, especially Uhura, celebrate Christmas. Kirk's and Uhura's dialogue, particularly Kirk's, is often embarrassingly heavy-handed, like most of their speech in these stories. (In "Love's Renaissance," Uhura tells Kirk "Oh, the singing of my blood when you touch me!") "Dancing Day" also has a rather turgid scene in which Kirk tells Uhura of their future marriage and her having to give up her career for him, followed by Uhura's unblinking acquiescence. My, what progress we've made in two centuries.