The Vigil (Star Trek: TOS story by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson)
| Star Trek TOS Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | The Vigil |
| Author(s): | Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson |
| Date(s): | 1970 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
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The Vigil by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson is a novella in the "Dorothy and Myfanwy" series, published in T-Negative 7 (1970).
Previous stories in the series have established that Mr. Spock has been helping xenolinguist Lt. Dorothy Conway with her studies in Vulcan languages. Over time they have established a working partnership and he has come to consider her a useful assistant. In "The Vigil", the transporter messes up and Captain Kirk is lost on a planet without his communicator. Spock uses a combination of shuttlecraft landing parties and meticulous sensor scan of the entire world, sector by sector, staying awake and focused until the Captain is found. Anticipating that he will begin to speak Vulcan as he tires, Spock keeps Lt. Conway near him for translation purposes. After about a week of this, the Captain is found. Exhausted from the long vigil, Spock ends up in sickbay, and when Conway visits him he uses Vulcan poetry to propose to her.