The Logical Choice
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| Star Trek TOS Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Logical Choice |
| Author(s): | Beverly Volker |
| Date(s): | 1976 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
| External Links: | Some content is online here. |
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The Logical Choice is a Star Trek: TOS story by Beverly Volker, art by Nancy Kippax.
It is in the print zine Contact #2.
Reactions and Reviews
As a change of pace for his zine's format, we have 'Logical Choice,' a good story which shows that one CAN write about the friendship which exists between Kirk and Spock without threatening one, or both, of their lives. [1]
'Logical Choices' is on the possibility of Spock getting his own command and how he will decide about leaving the Enterprise. Guess again... right! [2]
There's also one ("The Logical Choice") where Spock gets a promotion offer, but he turns it down because he'd rather serve on the Enterprise. That's the whole thing! It actually sort of interested me because I'm not sure anyone nowadays would dare write this boringly "duh!" a story for Star Trek now, but fandom was possibly quite different back then. Spock turning down a command because he wants to stay with Kirk has been done about 89 times (and variations have been done a further 460 times in other fandoms), but maybe this one was the first. You never know! Similarly, there's "An Act of Love" in which Kirk goes through some classic Trek psychic ordeal that reads like an orgasm to save Spock's life. Do I even have to comment? ;) [3]
"The Logical Choice" is in the "The Enterprise and its crew will never part" theme. The dialogue is stilted. In opposition, I remember an early and excellent T-NEGATIVE story in which Spock had not been promoted for three passes, and so faced the traditional "mustering out" of a line officer who had not made good. This is done in our military to get out the deadwood, those who are not good enough to advance, but because they hold their posts, are preventing more capable officers from advancing. It is, however, almost invariably a voluntary "For the Good of the Service" move. [4]
References
- ^ from The Halkan Council #22
- ^ by H.O. Petard from Spectrum #27
- ^ from Classic Zines: Contact #2 (Star Trek: TOS), intrigueing, December 20, 2014
- ^ comments by Sharon Ferraro in Menagerie #10