Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kirk/Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy Additional Tags: classic slash, Tentacles, Alien Sex, First Time, Sex In A Cave Summary:
After their shuttle craft explodes, Kirk, Spock and McCoy seek shelter in a cave. While they await rescue, a badly injured, delirious Spock expresses his deep longing for an emotional relationship with Kirk.
“This story is probably the first fully-developed K/S short story that was actually published. In it, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are stranded on a planet when their shuttlecraft lands and explodes. Spock suffers from a blow to the head and is unconscious when they take shelter in a convenient cave. (Convenient caves are an amusing cliché used by many K/S writers over the past twenty-five years.) During his delirium, Spock expresses and acts on his deeply-suppressed desire for a sexual relationship with Kirk. McCoy feigns sleep, and Kirk, though initially confused, goes through with the encounter, presumably willingly. But the question is, will Spock remember when he regains consciousness?” (x)
“I remember reading “Shelter” in WS20 and going crazy waiting for the sequel to come out. As usual for many stories of this type, it ended with the ‘mating’ and there was no discussion of the ‘aftermath.’ And in this case, since Spock was ‘out of his mind’ during the mating, it was logical that we fen were going ‘bug-fuck nuts!’ waiting for the sequel to find out how both Kirk and Spock would feel later, on the Big E, when they were both in their ‘right minds.’ (x)
Originally published in Warped Space #20 in October 1976.
