Who Follow Other Paths

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	Who Follow Other Paths
Author(s):	Tere Ann Roderick
Date(s):	1986
Length:	10 1/2 pages
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Who Follow Other Paths is a Spock/Kirk/McCoy story by Tere Ann Roderick.

It was published in the print zine Shades of Grey #1.

Summary

We learn how Kirk and Spock first realized they wanted McCoy to become a part of their intimate relationship.

Reactions and Reviews

WHO FOLLOW OTHER PATHS by Tere Ann Roderick involves Kirk and Spock with McCoy. We find a very settled in domestic trio one evening and get to listen in as Kirk and Spock tell McCoy of how they first came to know they wanted him to join them in their intimate sharing. I would have liked to have scene the story of the discovery written instead of being told about it, but this story is good and I enjoyed it. The bickering between Kirk and Spock is almost as good as the more typical bickering between Spock and McCoy. This story felt real.

"Who Follow Other Paths" by Tere Ann Roderick ignores the most basic rule of writing—show, don't tell. The real story here took place about ten years before the narrative begins. Tere shouldn't have had Kirk, Spock and McCoy sitting around and talking about what happened ten years ago. That's backassward. It destroys drama and immediacy.

(10 pages) McCoy returns from a family visit to his two bondmates Kirk and Spock. The story how it came to this triad after the initial K/S relationship is revealed over the course of the story...delightful established relationship K/S/Mc, not explicit.