The Naming

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	The Naming
Author(s):	Andrea Arat
Date(s):	1986
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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The Naming is a Spock/Kirk/OMC story by Andrea Arat. The sequel is Mish'I'Ya.

It was published in the print zine Shades of Grey #1.

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Reactions and Reviews

This story deals with a triad between Kirk, Spock and an alien who has precognition. Because of the precognition, I feared thatthe alien might have cheated when he beat Spock at chess, and I didn't particularly care for that idea. Yet more importantly, we are never shown why Kirk was in love with this alien, so the very basis of the triad is in doubt.

THE NAMING by Andrea Arat is a very unusually written story. This is told, first person, by the third party, a Haden who has no name ... and will have no name until Spock gives it to him. Haden, as Kirk calls him, is gifted with foresight, he knows what will be and how things will be before they happen. This is a strange story, the ending is left a bit ambiguous and, I feel, out of character for Kirk and Spock, but it is an interesting possibility and was fun to read.

The stories dealing with the theme of Kirk and Spock interrelating with a member of a third species were the weakest in the zine. "The Naming" by Andrea Arat, and its sequel "Mish'i'ya" by Cyrni Asher needed far more development of the alien third partner in order to be convincing, it is unclear to me why Kirk and Spock would love such a being. The idea of K/S being part of a group marriage is fascinating, but insufficiently explored. "The Naming" and "Mish'i'ya" read like fragments of a novel, and I'd much rather see the whole thing completed instead of jagged pieces that don't quite fit together.