Perspectives (Star Trek: TOS story by S. Meek)

Fanfiction
Title:	Perspectives
Author(s):	S. Meek
Date(s):	1982
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Perspectives is a Kirk/Spock story by S. Meek.

It was published in the print zine Never and Always with Lighter Shades #1.

Reactions and Reviews

1993

This is a very simple tale told in two parts. The first is from Leila Kalomi's point of view, as she unexpectedly meets Spock in a lounge in a spaceport on Benecia, six years after the incident on Omicron Ceti III. He and Kirk are waiting to board a passenger liner. The second part takes place on the "D deck tourist class" cabin that Spock and Kirk have been able to procure to take them back to the Enterprise after a less than successful shore leave on Vulcan. Sarek will not accept the bonding between his son and Kirk, and so Spock and his father are estranged again. Naturally, Kirk feels guilty about this, and seeing Leila, whom he claims would have fit Sarek's standards considerably better than he himself does, quite naturally raises all his doubts and misgivings again. This story does a good job of getting Kirk and Spock out of the Enterprise environment. I loved seeing the two of them through Leila's eyes: and was quite willing to go along with her conclusions that the two of them must be lovers...

I also enjoyed the mature personality that the author gave Leila. So often she is portrayed as a gold-digger with few brains and no heart, and it was refreshing to see her as a real person who had grown from her experiences. There were a few technical problems from which the story suffered, very common ones that can be found in almost any K/S work. There was an occasional confusion of "he's", so that I wasn't quite sure who it was, for example, who "proved the emotional strength on which their relationship was based," although I could certainly make a good guess. A dialogue between K and S was interrupted by a several-paragraphs-long speech from Spock, an oration that was out of rhythm with the very realistic scene the author had managed to set. And there was just a little too much banter for ay taste about the narrow single bunks they were forced to endure on the passenger liner. "Perspectives" is a simple tale that I like alot. I don't think it's very easy to portray our guys in a setting outside their lives on the Enterprise in a very convincing manner, but this author managed it easily. The scene where Kirk comes upon his bondmate of only one month and Leila conversing in the departure lounge was great, not overdone, but suffused with realism. Leila managed to escape from the situation in exactly the same way that all of us have in the past (or wished we had.) On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give this story a 7.