Resolution (Star Trek: TOS story by Lyrastar)

Fanfiction
Title:	Resolution
Author(s):	Lyrastar
Date(s):	2005
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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Resolution is a Kirk/Spock story by Lyrastar.

Reactions and Reviews

You can find this story in any one of several ways in the archive. Once you’re at the main page, you can hit Search, and then do a Simple Search by clicking on the drop-down menu for Story Title, and then type in Resolution in the next box. Or from the main page you can click on Authors and then on Lyrastar, then scroll down to find this short but rewarding story. There are other ways to find it, too, which you’ll catch onto as you explore your way through the archive. It’s really user- friendly and easy to read through.

I really admire authors who can capture Jim Kirk’s inner voice successfully and make me believe I’m really listening to his thoughts. That’s what this story does, which is described by the author as “the time after the first time.” Here Jim and Spock have just made love, and formed a bond, and Spock is sleeping in the narrow bunk while Kirk is too keyed up to sleep. “For in all his life he could not remember a feeling more perfect, not one, than the way he felt right now and he would not waste it in sleep. He had finally achieved everything he had ever desired all at once, and it was better—far, far, better—than he could have imagined. Ship command has always been a heavy trophy born in loneliness; he had felt that as much as any other man. But everything was different now, and he would never be alone again.” Isn’t that really good writing? Yes, I think it is. I’ve found that it’s really hard to convey this sort of contentment, that it’s easier to write sorrow than joy (easier to act angst than comedy), but in this short piece Lyrastar not only captures essence-of-Kirk that pleases me no end (don’t you ever read K/S and just ache because it makes you feel so good because it’s so right?), but the author also has some rewarding perceptions. Such as expressing just right how the “psychic contact through their skin” might have been as disturbing after a newly-established bond as it was desired.

I finished reading this short story very, very contented, and I guess it’s because both Spock and Kirk are, too. I’m really happy this story is now available to just about everybody, including newbies trying out K/S for the first time, through the online archive.