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It's midnight in Spain which means I can post my fic for the third day of @mirror-events!
The Empire doesn't allow relationships between humans and Vulcans, so the only way for Kirk to be with Spock involves using Marlena and a bunch of excuses.
The portrait had been intended to be formal: two distinguished Starfleet officers, both past sixty, standing together at the close of a mission that had changed more than anyone yet understood.
Kirk’s hair was silver now, his face marked by years of command. Rumour had it that he would resign his commission when the Enterprise came home. Spock stood beside him still dark-haired, not yet old by Vulcan measure. After risking everything to broker peace with the Klingons, and helping expose the conspiracy that nearly destroyed it, he was said to be considering diplomacy.
The principal photographer arranged them carefully.
An assistant, standing off to one side, caught this moment instead.
Between one life and the next, they stood together: Kirk facing the lights, Spock close behind him, one hand resting around Kirk’s wrist in a gesture too familiar to have been posed.
Later, the photographer would call it the better portrait.
It's midnight in Spain which means I can post my fic for the third day of @mirror-events!
The Empire doesn't allow relationships between humans and Vulcans, so the only way for Kirk to be with Spock involves using Marlena and a bunch of excuses.
Spoiler-free until the warning! (I'll make it very clear when we get there)
This novel follows Spock's first mission after being assigned on the Enterprise, under Pike's command. And it's written by DC Fontana! That was all I needed to know to want to read it.
The mission itself isn't very interesting, it's in line with some of the forgettable TOS episodes. They have to act as mediators between a primitive planet's 3 different groups. The planet itself, and the fact that Pike had been there before and wanted to return alone, reminded me of A Private Little War.
But there are some other plots:
The recovery of an ancient Vulcan gem, the eponym Vulcan's Glory (...did I use that word correctly?)
A murder mystery
A young Lieutenant Scotty making secretly making engine-room hooch (it's so unnecessary, but I liked getting to see this!)
(sigh) Romance between Spock and a Vulcan officer named T'Pris
Slightly off-topic rant: please, stop putting romance in TOS novels, nobody is reading them looking for romance, and when you read a few of them they just cheapen each other. They always have to return to the status quo, and they always claim to be the most important romance in Kirk's / Spock's / McCoy's life 🫠 it gets grating
That being said, the Vulcan making out depicted in the novel is very similar to the way fic writers do it (sending caresses with their minds, tugging at the bond, hands...). So your Spock fic is betacanonically accurate, according to a scene by DC Fontana herself :D
There's some will-they-won't-they with Pike and Number One that I enjoyed. And I loved seeing more of Number One. We also get some Doctor Boyce and a pretty OOC Spock (I'd imagine he'd be MORE repressed at this point in time, not the opposite).
How slashy is it?
Almost no slash at all. The one thing saving it from getting a zero is that Pike is describes as really attractive from Spock's POV. I also ship Number One and her friend. We get a scene in which they fight each other as training. Sure, I'll count it. 1.5/10 for slash.
And my general rating of the novel is a 6/10. It's alright for a ST book (bad as a normal book), I wouldn't particularly recommend it. I have like 3 posts about it under the tag #vulcan's glory but there really wasn't much noteworthy to post about.
From now on, SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!
The conclusion to the murder mystery felt very unsatisfying to me. Maybe I missed it, but I felt like we got no foreshadowing whatsoever, not even a red herring. All explanation is given after they identify the culprit, as a stereotypical villain speech.
I also expected the hooch subplot to have something to do with anything else. It was aright by itself, but it feels a bit pointless.
My biggest gripe with the book is that Pike has only known Spock for like 2 weeks, yet he lets him do whatever he wants even if it's obviously against regulation.
Finally, it's interesting than when T'Pris dies and someone tells him Peace and Long Life, he thinks that he won't have peace, but he might live long. Compare that to Amok Time, in which he goes "I'm going to kill myself and suffer in the process👍"
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