The Legacy (Star Trek: TOS story by Mara-Lyn Cade)

K/S Fanfiction
Title:	The Legacy
Author(s):	Mara-Lyn Cade
Date(s):	1987
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Genre:	slash
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Original Series
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The Legacy is a Kirk/Spock story by Mara-Lyn Cade.

It was published in the print zine Naked Times #14.

Summary

"Part III of the trilogy based on The Price and the Prize. A/U: Carolʼs death after giving birth to Kirkʼs son threatens to tear Kirk and Spock apart when Spockʼs true parentage is discovered and he and Kirk are sold into slavery."

Excerpt

"Jim felt the hard fingers pressed to the flesh as if it were his own face Sporl held. He gasped , feeling the power of the Elders slice into Spock's defenseless mind. The battered body stiffened in a pitiful attempt to evade their assault; but the Elders leisurely rifled the Vulcan's thoughts, his emotions, his memories. The violation centered on their union. Memories of shared times were dissected. The bond he and Spock had formed was touched, examined with disbelief which strengthened into disgust. Jim was on the outside now, no longer a part of the meld, no longer a part of Spock. He had no strength, no will to control his being. He allowed the guards to support his slumped body as he watched the savage mind probe terminated. The bond was broken."

Reactions and Reviews

Involving A/U story wherein Spock is the leader of the Vulcan warriors and Kirk is his pleasure slave and, of course, they are secretly bonded.

Lots and lots of plot in this fun, exciting story. In fact, so much plot that I call this an 'and then' story. As in, 'and then Spock was taken prisoner, and then Kirk was sold into slavery, and then they are rescued, and then...'

I took guilty delight in the depiction of Carol, whom Kirk impregnated, as a whining, bigoted bitch. But, Kirk, being the moral, upstanding citizen that he is, feels terrible guilt that he couldn't be there for her. But, we don't care because he rides off into the desert with Spock to the warrior's enclave which is depicted with some neat "historical" facts.

Really fun reading and good detail as Spock meets with the war council and all those viral Vulcan warriors lust after gorgeous Kirk.

Things turn bad for our boys, as they are wont to do in these exciting, plot-filled stories, and (need I say more?! T'Pring, who is appropriately bitchy is behind it all, along with Stonn, who is appropriately slovenly.

Here's a kind of unique love-making technique (I know, it rhymes) that I can't remember ever reading —"Jim moved his hands to the corded muscles behind each knee. He stroked the sensitive area, urging relaxation." And I'm a sucker for "the most intimate part of his lover's physical being" and "exquisite impalement" and "ecstasies of the flesh."

There are so many unusual details to this story. The author had a very inventive way of looking at this pre-reform type Vulcan society with those nasty Vulcan elders and upstart Vulcan warriors and all that revolt and social upheaval going-on. It was so fun.

One unique detail was Spock's pet—a big, as in big—cat that kills some nasty guards. There's a really exciting scene as the Vulcan clan invades Spock's mind for the truth, and then they are punished, and then Kirk comes to the rescue, and then....

And here's a great typo- "In a society where all life was centered within the clam..."

The "rescue scene" was especially well thought out and clearly organized as to who is standing where and who does what to whom. This, I have learned, is no mean feat! Trying to place a whole bunch of people who are doing a whole lots of things in one scene is very difficult. This scene is worth studying!

What a fun, interesting story, that even though not beautifully written or poetic, is filled with lots of satisfying K/S and then....

This is the very satisfying conclusion to Mara-Lyn Cade's trilogy of stories that are a sequel to "The Prize". I loved the revolt of the Warriors. Their motives were believable, and they were exactly the kind of group who would be capable of pulling off a revolution eventually. The slaves could never have revolted successfully by themselves. They were too powerless. They needed powerful allies like the Warriors. Although I liked the way "The Legacy" ended, another story in the a/u would be nice. It might tell me what happened next in this Warrior's revolt, and whether Satak or Sulu ever got to bond.