The Gift (Star Trek: TOS story by Mara-Lyn Cade)
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| Title: | The Gift |
| Author(s): | Mara-Lyn Cade |
| Date(s): | 1986 |
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| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| Relationship(s): | Kirk/Spock |
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The Gift is a Kirk/Spock story by Mara-Lyn Cade.
It was published in the print zine Naked Times #12.
Summary
"Part II in the trilogy based on The Price and the Prize -- A/U: Spock sends Kirk a woman from Earth for him to have children with, but problems arise when the woman realizes that Kirk and Spock are lovers."
Series
- The Pleasure (in Naked Times #11)
- The Gift (in Naked Times #12)
- The Legacy (in Naked Times #14)
Reactions and Reviews
1987
THE GIFT by Mara-Lyn Cade is the second part of what we're promised will be a trilogy concluding in NAKED TIMES #14. I was impressed with the first installment, and even moreso with this second part. Ms. Cade gives us some good insights into a "slave" (in name only) Kirk and a Warrior Spock. This installment takes place primarily on Vulcan, and though I'm not normally a fan of alternate universe fiction, I found the characters and the action to be sufficiently intriguing, and I'm looking forward to the final installment. [1]
1989
This is the second in Mara-Lyn Cade's trilogy. I enjoyed this story until I reached the end. In fact, I liked the conflict in Spock over having to kill humans in the rebellion on Earth, and I liked his integrity in resisting Orion demands to kill humans unnecessarily. I was impressed with the way Kirk won over Spock's eldest son, Shar,and his rapport with the children in general. I have always wanted to think that Kirk would be capable of being an excellent father—given the right circumstances. I wasn't all too fond of Kirk's relationship with Carol Marcus. She didn't have much strength of character or intellect. She was only a pretty sex object. That made Kirk's loyalty to Spock too easy. I wish she'd been more interesting.
Yet my biggest problem came at the end when Kirk indicated that he loved Spock so much that he'd have fought by Spock's side in the Earth rebellion. Earlier in the story, he'd voiced misgivings about it, but at the end he had none. This sounds romantic on a superficial level, but in the context of slavery, this sounds like Kirk's mind is truly enslaved. The premise of these stories is that Kirk is only pretending to be Spock's slave because humans can't be free on this Vulcan. Yet Kirk is really a slave if he gives up his integrity for Spock. If he's actually willing to do anything for Spock—break any ethical principle and other loyalty he ever had, then he's violated his selfhood. That's not a man in love speaking. Love shouldn't be so self-destructive. No, that's a slave who's spirit's been broken by his owner. [2]
References
- ^ from On the Double #3
- ^ from The LOC Connection #10