The Joy Bringer

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	The Joy Bringer
Author(s):	Clare Bell
Date(s):	September 1977
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Genre:	het
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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The Joy Bringer is a Spock/Uhura story by Clare Bell that was originally published in the The Sensuous Vulcan. It is in The Elder Brother universe.

art by Clare Bell for "The Joy Bringer" -- from The Sensuous Vulcan

art by Clare Bell for "The Joy Bringer" -- from The Sensuous Vulcan

Reactions and Reviews

Clare Bell's 'The Joy Bringer' (lovely and different version of Vulcan, er, physiology -- and wait until you find out WHAT the 'joy bringer' means -- this is from Clare's own ST universe, which is very well-conceived).

"The Joy-Bringer," written by Clare Bell, is a wonderful tale of Vulcan mysticism, sexuality, anatomy, and love. A Starfleet physician, T'Prann, recognizes Spock's pain as pon farr. Although she is not bonded to Spock, she decides that it is her duty to sate him in order to perserve the crews of the ENTERPRISE and the T'PAU AVREENA. She brings to Spock the ancient teachings and rituals, which enhance the pon farr for both of them. Spock learns much more about his own anatomy and the physical structures of the Vulcan female, the complicating factors that make Vulcan love very special. Only after their ritual lovemaking is completed, do Spock and T'Prann learn that Spock has telepathically transmitted his pleasure to every other being, Terran and Vulcan, on both ships. Now, is that love? Or is that love, folks!?!

Claire Bell’s "The Joy Bringer" carries a lot of that emotion to the reader all by itself. I loved it (especially naming a starship after T’Pau)! The sf theme (telepathy/sex/conscious racial memory) is first rate and a really plausible look at why Vulcans are the way they appear to be. I liked T’Prann, too... definitely ’interesting’.