The Mind Withdrawn

Fanfiction
Title:	The Mind Withdrawn
Author(s):	Kathryn Drennan
Date(s):	1977
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Genre(s):	gen
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
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The Mind Withdrawn is a Star Trek: TOS story by Kathryn Drennan.

It was published in the print zine Galactic Discourse #1.

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Rather tedious tale with Kirk being singled out because of his latent esper talent to join/rescue a “Circle” of 7 Elsons, who are merged beings, and outlawed on their own planet. Despite Spock’s encouragement to explore this side of himself, Kirk is committed to his individuality and disturbed by the Elsons. It just doesn’t all hang together very well.

'The Mind Withdrawn' by Kathryn Drennan is a an interesting get-Kirk story. (there was a lot of 'get' in this ish). The story is fairly well-written, the aliens a bit different.

...[long and meandering], but it has a pleasant readability and gives a new look at the hive-mind concept.