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The Brass Bed (Star Trek art)
| Fan Art | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Brass Bed |
| Artist: | Alice Jones |
| Date(s): | 1978 |
| First Published: | |
| Medium: | |
| Genre/Style: | het |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
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The Brass Bed is a Star Trek: TOS illustration by Alice Jones.
It was used as the cover of the zine, NTM #2.
The brass bed is a trope in both Star Trek: TOS and Starsky & Hutch fanworks.
From Camille Bacon-Smith in her acafan book, Enterprising Women:
In the story "The Tenth Night" [Amanda] teaches Sarek the importance of an equal partnership in bed as well as in professional life. Amanda has grown tired of taking the passive role in their sexual relationship. On the night in question, she asks her husband to grip a bedpost while she takes over the dominant sexual role. By the end of the story, the brass bedpost has taken the imprint of Sarek's hand, and he has come to understand his wife's sexual frustration. In fact, Amanda's brass bed has become a symbol in the community for the ideal of sexual equality. [1]
Fan Comments
...up to her usually superb standards and is quite possibly the best piece of work in the entire zine. [2]
References
- ^ from Spock Among the Women by Camille Bacon-Smith
- ^ from Datazine #5