Night in Winter

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Night in Winter
Author(s):	Tere Ann Roderick
Date(s):	1987
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Night in Winter is a Kirk/Spock story by Tere Ann Roderick.

It was published in Greater California K/S.

Summary

"Kirk is withdrawn and depressed and Spock finds that even with oneʼs bondmate one sometimes has to talk things out as they do when Spock wakes one night to find Kirk up."

Reactions and Reviews

I have another nitpick about Tere Ann Roderick's "A Night in Winter". Toward the end we are told that Spock is T'Pau's heir. This is merely mentioned and has nothing to do with the plot. However, in the context of a mainline Trek situation where Spock has hardly spent any time on Vulcan since he entered Starfleet Academy, I find the idea that Spock is T'Pau's heir preposterous. Even in the unlikely situation that T'Pau is merely a ceremonial figurehead, she wouldn't permit Spock to stay in space and endanger himself. She would use her famous influence to ground Spock so fast it would make even his Vulcan head spin. I don't believe for a minute that T'Pau is only a figurehead, though. Vulcan has no need of figureheads and a figurehead would scarcely command the power that T'Pau exhibits in "Amok Time". Therefore, I assume she has a significant leadership position on Vulcan which has specific duties and which requires training for anyone who succeeds her. It would be logical for her successor to spend a great deal of time at her side watching how T'Pau performs her office. Spock as a man who has dedicated himself to Starfleet, couldn't do this. So he is an entirely inappropriate heir to T'Pau, and I can't accept that he would be given such a position. Authors pay attention to details before you make careless statements such as this one.

"A Night In Winter" by Tere Ann Roderick is next. Kirk is beginning to feel his age and begins to wonder about how he and Spock can grow old together when their aging rate is so radically different. A brief look into the bond between K and S.