Without the Gardener's Craft

Star Trek TOS Fanfiction
Title:	Without the Gardener's Craft
Author(s):	Kathy Penland
Date(s):	1976
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Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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Without the Gardener's Craft is a Star Trek: TOS story by Kathleen Penland, art by D. Lichtel.

It is a responsefic to Connie Faddis's story, Gardener's Craft from Energize!.

It was published in the print zine Contact #2.

This story was mentioned in The Development of the Kirk/Spock Relationship: Its Foundation in Fan-Fiction (1978).

Summary

'Without the Gardener's Craft,' describes Kirk's re-adjustment to life after the lost fo his legs and the fitting of artificial limbs.

Reactions and Reviews

'Without the Gardeners' Craft' is a bit unusual. It is an alternate ending to a Faddis story that appeared last year in Energize!. Your time would be better spent finding a copy of the original story... [that one's] absolutely first rate.

"Without the Gardener's Craft" by Kathleen Penland revealed a lack of practical knowledge about the current state of prosthesis and the progress being made in that area. Again, this was a "torment" story, with Kirk losing his legs, acquiring and accustoming himself to prosthetics (ancient ones; practically wooden stumps) and his mental anguish, with Spock's difficulties thrown in. An exercise in catharsis and torture without the saving flow of compelling writing.