This Time Forever

Fanfiction
Title:	This Time Forever
Author(s):	Lin Anderson
Date(s):	1981
Length:
Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Star Trek: TOS
Relationship(s):	Kirk/Spock
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This Time Forever is a Kirk/Spock story by Lin Anderson.

It was published in the print zine Nocturne.

Art

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  art for this story by Lee Sullivan as printed in "Nocturne"

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  art for this story by Lee Sullivan as printed in "Nocturne"

Reactions and Reviews

1981

THIS TIME FOREVER by Lin Anderson is the final story in the zine and has Kirk as its central character. I chose this as opposed to CARNIVAL'S END by Madeline Lee, which is of equal length, because of the very good characterisation of McCoy in Lin's story. Spock is caught up in a Romulan-Klingon battle and Kirk feels the bond disappear. McCoy contacts a Vulcan healer to ease the pain of the loss of the bond for Kirk. The story was intricate and well thought cut. The Kirk of this story is incapable of returning to normal duty after the loss of Spock and is in danger of losing the Enterprise owing to his absence. He is riddled with guilt because theirs was a death bond so why is he still alive? I had very mixed feelings about Kirk; half of me wanted to give him a good shake and tell him to pull himself together, half of me sympathised with his obvious distress. The former course was taken by McCoy. Bones' natural compassion for Kirk is overridden by his sense of duty which forces him to snap Kirk out of the melancholy he has fallen into.