The Way of a Warrior
- For other fanworks with a similar title, see The Way of the Warrior.
| Star Trek TOS Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Way of a Warrior |
| Author(s): | Karen Louis |
| Date(s): | 1978 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series |
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The Way of a Warrior is a gen Star Trek: TOS story by Karen Louis.
It was printed in The Sensuous Vulcan.
The story generated some controversy because the author used the name for Sarek's home planet that another fanwriter had created for her Sahaj Trek universe.
The Controversy Regarding "Valjn'd'jt"
Leslye Lilker wrote a personal statement complaining about Lewis' use of the name "Valjn'd'jt":
I would also like to answer a question that has been cropping up frequently in my mail since the publication of THE SENSUOUS VULCAN. In [that] 'zine appears a story entitled "The Way of a Warrior" by Karen Lewis. The author has used "Valjn'd'jt", the name of Sarek's home in the Sahaj universe, despite a request not to. I am not Karen Lewis (a pseudonym). I did read the story before publication, and, for my answer to "The Way of a Warrior", please read "Nivar to a Desert Rose", to appear in THE OTHER SIDE [#3]. Send s.a.s.e. to Amy Falkowitz [address redacted] for information. [1]
See more about this controversy at Valjn'd'jt to Val'jn'jt: The Universe Becomes Fanon.
Art for the Story
art by Marty Siegrist
art by Marty Siegrist
art by Signe Landon
Fan Comments
A "what if..." permutation on my favorite episode, written by one of fandom's best known authors, who has chosen to play the Masked Writer game for employment reasons. I think it's one of the finest things the Masked Writer has ever done, but then I admit to being partial to the milieu and situation of the story. [2]
"The Way of a Warrior" and its sequel, "When Legends Fall Silent" by Karen Louis [sic], is a Spock/T'Pring "Amok Time" alternate universe story, in which Spock remains on Vulcan to mate with T'Pring, believing Kirk killed, and suffering greatly from T'Prings uncooperativeness, he decides to execute T'Pring ritually. After many painful events and feelings, he finally gives T'Pring to Stonn, and gives his unborn child to their care. They leave the planet, and Spock returns to Kirk and the Enterprise. It is a well-written story, but I find it rather tedious, and a "downer." Its resolution seems rather weak and in adequate. [3]
Karen Louis (aka somebody BIG) has two halves of a story on T’Pring and Spock, i.e. what if Spock didn’t release her to Stonn but dragged her off still thinking that Kirk is dead? It’s told from her point of view and she certainly is a meany, really warped. I must ask, though: if Spock
and Sarek weren’t speaking until "Journey to Babel," how come the wandering scion of the clan Xtmpr... was welcomed home with open arms (or the equivalent thereof)? Not overwhelming, folks, and the second half was a re-hash of the Kirk arrives and all is well bit. (I kinda liked Stonn, though.) [4]
References
- ^ from Scuttlebutt #5, as well as Warped Space #31/31
- ^ from the editorial of The Sensuous Vulcan
- ^ from Not Tonight Spock! #6
- ^ comments in Right of Statement #1 (1978)