The Visit (Star Trek: TOS story by Eva Stuart)

Fanfiction
Title:	The Visit
Author(s):	Eva Stuart
Date(s):	1985
Length:	14 pages
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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The Visit is a Kirk/Spock story by Eva Stuart.

It was published in the print zine The Voice #4.

Series

In order of publication, possibly not in fictional chronological order:

• The Sun Rising (Classified Assignments #1) (1981)
• The Anniversary (Classified Assignments #2) (1982)
• Love's War (Classified Assignments #2) (1982)
• Legacy (The Voice #1) (1982)

• The Solution (Classified Assignments #2) (1982)
• The Still Centre (The Voice #2) (1983)
• Patterns (T'hy'la #3) (1983)
• Winter Storm (The Voice #3) (1984)
• A Day in the Life (The Voice #3) (1984)
• The Visit (The Voice #4) (1985)
• The Lion and the Lamb ("touched" #5) (1985)
• The Rescue ("touched" #6) (1986)

Summary

"Kirk and Spock have been lovers for 18 months when they invite McCoy to their home."

Reactions and Reviews

1986

"The Visit" by Eva Stuart directly clashes with my sense of how Kirk, Spock and McCoy inter-related in the series episodes. I see Kirk and McCoy as having an intimate friendship. Kirk confides in McCoy and they are occasional drinking buddies. They know each other rather well. They care about one another very much. They are usually relaxed in one another's presence. If Kirk is tense with him, it is attributeable to an emergency situation and not discomfort in dealing with McCoy per se. Spock and McCoy's relationship is more ambivalent. The original foundation of their friendship is that they both care deeply about Kirk. Over time, they learned to respect and value each other for themselves and I think the series shows this. It is true that they are tempermentally opposite. Although McCoy comes to an intellectual accomodation with Spock's Vulcan attitude, he can't understand it on a gut level. Yet what a differerce there

is between the Spock-McCoy relationship in "The Galileo Seven" when they scarcely knew one another, and their open caring for one another in "The Empath"! Their sparrring on the bridge is no more than affectionate teasing. They know it and Kirk knows it. When Kirk "defends" Spock from McCoy's teasing, he's playing a role in their game. Spock isn't seriously under attack from McCoy. Their most serious clash in the series is in "The Tholian Web" when Kirk, the foundation of their friendship, seems to be dead and Spock won't share with McCoy his sense of loss and grief. That is why McCoy presses Spock to show how he feels about Kirk, because he, McCoy, needs the emotional support. I don't understand why McCoy in "The Visit" is so reserved and uncomfortable with his two closest friends. It is utterly beyond me.