The Fog

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	The Fog
Author(s):	Mergwin
Date(s):	1989, 1992
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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The Fog is a Kirk/Spock story by Mergwin.

It was published in Candlelight and Flames #1 and Naughty Bits.

Summary

"Kirk finds himself in yet another alternate universe where heʼs married to McCoy instead of bonded to Spock, but must find that universeʼs Spock in order to get home."

Reactions and Reviews

This story which deais with the entangling of the mainline universe with an a/u in which Kirk and McCoy are lovers, is interesting conceptually. The author should be careful with scientific terminology, however. A "biochemical structure" is organic. A "wavelength" is energy. So it doesn't make sense to say that they are similar. A "bi-dimensional warp" isn't something you can see or touch. So it doesn't make sense to say that it has a "molecular structure". The passing reference to a mindless mirror Spock being used to rape minds also seems puzzling. Mind-rape requires concentration and focus. The reference was also puzzling in terms of narrative continuity. In the beginning of "The Fog" a/u McCoy acted as if he'd never heard the name Spock. but later we learn that he'd met a Mirror Spock. This is contradictory. And how did a/u McCoy telepathically pull a/u Kirk when neither of them are supposed to be telepaths? There is also a missing transition. A/u Kirk has just returned from the mainline universe, but somehow he'd found out the fate of a/u Amanda. He couldn't have discovered this information in mainline universe records. So a paragraph needed to be inserted separating Kirk's arrival from the rest of that scene showing passage of time. I am sure that Mergwin will learn more about such things as she gains experience in writing.

"Another species' physics experiments result in another inter-universal transfer. This time, Kirk finds himself in the Republic, whose Kirk is married to a bearded McCoy and whose government is so fearful of Vulcans as to forbid them aboard starships and to forbid them to mind-meld on pain of death. The reactions of all parties are very well drawn, as they try to restore the captains before they both die of the effects. A particularly sweet touch is "our" McCoy's confession to Spock -- before joining him in meld to rescue their Kirk --that he, too, had had hopes of Jim's love. The captains are restored, leaving a lonely Bones in one universe and a lonely Spock in the other. The latter, however, finds his way into a universe where his counterpart is both beloved and dying, and takes his place.