Playing with Fire (Star Trek: TOS story)
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Playing with Fire |
| Author(s): | Charlotte Frost |
| Date(s): | 1992 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
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Playing with Fire is a Kirk/Spock story by Charlotte Frost.
It was published in the print zine Within the Mirror #6.
Summary
"Stranded when their shuttlecraft crashes, Kirkʼs feelings of aloneness intensify when Spock sickens, leading to Kirkʼs decision to open himself to Spock."
The Author Comments
I think this mirror universe story was inspired by the idea of Spock coughing while he and Kirk are trapped in a cave. The kind of thing that can get on an impatient man’s nerves. I don’t know what happens after that, but I assume sex eventually ensues. *g* [1]
Reactions and Reviews
1992
A believable scenario with Kirk realizing how much he needs someone, but I thought that Spock was more realistically portrayed. [2]
This is an excellent 22-page story. The basic plot is a/u where Kirk and Spock are stranded on a planet. At the beginning Spock is ill, and the ruthless boleroed [3] Kirk must care for him. The writing, characters, and plot development are well done and realistic. The dialogue is snappy.
The title comes from Spock's comment, "Surely, you realize I would not go so far as to play with fire... unless I were willing to risk getting burned." Later on, Kirk will refer to this. What he says is really cute.
Everything is great about this story except for one nit-picking thing that shouldn't have bothered me nearly as much as it did. RIND (as in melon rind) is misspelled. [4]
References
- ^ from Charlotte Frost at Stories I Have Known, posted in perhaps 2005, accessed January 3, 2012
- ^ from The LOC Connection #42
- ^ What is "boleroed"?
- ^ from The LOC Connection #43