The Mechanics of Love and War

Fanfiction
Title:	The Mechanics of Love and War
Author(s):	Dovya Blacque
Date(s):	1991
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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The Mechanics of Love and War is a Kirk/Spock story by Dovya Blacque.

It was published in the print zine The 25th Year.

Series

• The New Captain
• Fire-Dare
• Mercy
• Side Trip
• Cocoon
• A Room Without Windows
• When the Circus Was Over
• Paradise Lost (Star Trek: TOS story)
• Darker Spirit
• Blue Symmetry
• Pandora's Box
• The Mechanics of Love and War
• Coffee
• Hovering
• The Stars of Home
• The 23rd Year: The Eulogy
• The 24th Year: Talismans in the Night
• The 25th Year: Days of Future Passed

Excerpt

"He didn't plan on it. In fact, it given the opportunity to state his opinion on the possibility of such a reaction coming from him, Kirk would have laughed at the astronomical odds. But there he stood, knuckles stinging, looking down at Spock ,who was now horizontal on the deck, two long fingers tendering touching the spot on his chin where Kirk had just struck him. "That," he said too quietly, "was for leaving without even saying goodbye!"

Reactions and Reviews

'The Mechanics of Love & War' ... is the 'post-Gol Story', the story of how Spock returns to the Enterprise and why. I can only say that this was one of the most difficult stories I ever had to write, not my usual choice of subject matter. I was cajoled and bullied into writing it!