The Hunting (Star Trek: TOS story)

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Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title: The Hunting
Author(s): Doris Beetem
Date(s): 1976
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Genre: gen
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
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The Hunting is a story by Doris Beetem.

It originally appeared in Eridani Triad 3 (1972). It is also in Star Trek: The New Voyages #1 (1976) with an introduction by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath.

Reactions and Reviews

1976

Another shore leave party, Doris Beetem's "The Hunting," is also essentially unchanged. Published originally in 1972 in Eridani Triad #3, it is about a Vulcan hunting ritual to prove one's adulthood. The idea is original and the story quite well executed. There were just a few spots where a different choice of words would have improved the telling, for instance on page 137, "Catching the polite battle stance of his science officer and chief medical officer. Kirk extrapolated..." [1]

2008

Spock and McCoy go on shore leave and some of Spock’s weird vulcan ways puts them in trouble. Nice exploration in character bonding, but not much else. [2]

2009

I didn't think much of this one. The characterisation was a bit iffy, and the writing quality was pretty ordinary. Spock/McCoy shippers might find something to play with in there, but for me it was really a non-event. [3]

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