Second Star to the Right (Star Trek: TOS story)

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	Second Star to the Right
Author(s):	Kay Wells
Date(s):	1993
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Second Star to the Right is a K/S story by Kay Wells.

It was published in the print zine First Time #36.

Summary

"At the end of the Khitomer peace process, Kirk and Spock finally admit to their feelings for one another as they return to Earth to face retirement."

Reactions and Reviews

I've always loved this story and while reading it again I was struck by a certain sentence, a sentence dealing with Vulcan's culture: "...Spock would probably return to Vulcan where he would be greatly respected for his scientific and ambassadorial accomplishments, but lost and friendless in a culture that didn't even acknowledge the concept"

Those last words brought me in a kind of upheaval because where does the concept of T'hy'la comes from if if isn't from Vulcans? Granted pre-reform ones, but it's not because control is willingly adopted that one becomes unfeeling. A very passionate and warlike people had to adopt strict self control or face certain extinction. For some time the scale would've swung completely to the other side but that's as unhealthy as unbridled passion. In the end Vulcan would've found a balance, nature would've demanded it Emotional, oh yes, but tempered, like tempered steel but still there. And like Kohlinary are testament to an excess of control, so there has to be sects who flatly refuse control but the majority of Vulcans would navigate between those two groups and since Spock is a scion of a highly placed clan, it's probable that his would be more controlled.

If all that feeling goes underneath and little or next to nothing is ever allowed expression, there has to be a safety valve somewhere, a link to ones bondmate, friends and family perhaps?