The Lo' Chin

Fanfiction
Title:	The Lo' Chin
Author(s):	Ray Newton
Date(s):	1981
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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The Lo' Chin is a Kirk/Spock story by Ray Newton. It is a sequel to The Lorath.

It was published in the print zine Naked Times #4/5.

art from Naked Times #4/5, Vel Jaeger for "The Lo' Chin"

art from Naked Times #4/5, Vel Jaeger for "The Lo' Chin"

Summary

"Returned to the present, Kirk and Spock decide to go to Vulcan in order to have their bond formalized."

Reactions and Reviews

1983

Back on the Enterprise and on the way to Vulcan, a public affirmation of the bonding made in Vulcan's past. Kirk and Spock are serenely unaware that one of them is in mortal danger. A religious fanatic among the security personnel tries to save the human's immortal soul from the corrupting alien. It's an interesting idea which Newton never really develops; Kirk and Spock don't learn of the religious opposition to their union and nothing much happens (except the usual).

1992

This is the disappointing sequel to "The Lorath". The expansion on the slave concept in the original story includes a great deal of sexist claptrap. It occurs to me that the presence of women shouldn't be a drawback for Vulcan warriors. The inducing of pon-farr by a woman's pheromones would make a Vulcan warrior especially fierce. All his male opponents wouid be rivals. Kirk and Spock return to the present, the Enterprise and a plot that leaks like a sieve. I wonder why Spock would feel Chapel's unhappiness. He's a touch telepath. He shouldn't be feeling her emotions unless they have a bonding link. There are also religious fanatics aboard the Enterprise as officers who shouldn't have gotten through Starfleet's screening, and a too convenient accident. And why couldn't both Scotty and Spock have gone on the repair mission involving radiation and worked together? This would have cut the repair time and exposure to radiation in half.