The Vulcan Survivor

Fanfiction
Title:	The Vulcan Survivor
Author(s):	Lucia Palude
Date(s):	2001
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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The Vulcan Survivor is a Kirk/Spock vignette by Lucia Palude.

It was published in the print zine First Time #52.

Summary

"The Enterprise runs across a distress buoy that leads them to a 16 year old crash site where they find one survivor, a now grown male cousin of Spockʼs."

Reactions and Reviews

"The Vulcan Survivor" by Lucia Palude is a 43 page very original story. I won't give the whole plot away here. Basically Kirk and Spock find a Vulcan male about 17 on a deserted planet who for 16 or so years has been raised by wolves (or animals similar to our wolves) and actually acts like a wolf. He is named Skeron, and Spock considers the feral boy his responsibility.

I really had trouble with what happened/was talked about at the top of page 34, but other than that the story was okay. At times the dialogue and vocabulary were such that I really didn't think Spock and Kirk sounded like themselves.

If one is hunting for a really original story, then this one will satisfy. As for me, I had a little trouble integrating the two parts of the story: the problem of Skeron, the Vulcan wolf-boy, and the way Spock and Kirk finally become lovers. It was almost as if there were two stories here, and the connection between them was very slight.