History Literature / StarTrekTheNewVoyages

One entire chapter was devoted to [[FanFic fan fiction]], naming some of the best works and authors, with a few excerpts (they'd wanted to include some stories in their entirety, but it would have made the book too long). Most readers, even those deeply devoted to the show (viewing it in syndicated reruns on local channels), had had no idea fanzines or fan fiction existed -- other than possibly [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Drawerfic writing their own fanworks in private]] -- until they picked up ''Star Trek Lives!'' at the drugstore.

It begins with Joan Winston, [[Literature/SimeGen Jacqueline Lichtenberg]] and Sondra Marshak's ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Lives!_(book) Star Trek Lives!]]'' (Bantam, 1975). This was not the first published book, available to the general public as a mass market paperback on any newsstand, about ''Star Trek'' as a phenomenal show including the fans[[note]]David Gerrold's ''The World of Star Trek'', (Ballantine 1973), had a chapter about science fiction fans in general, ''Star Trek'' fans in particular, and fan fiction, even the names of some of the best fanzines with the cautionary note "No, I do not know where you can get any of these."[[/note]]. But it was the first to be ''all'' about the fans and how the show had inspired them to make the most of their lives and have hope for the future. Most of the book covers various psychological and cultural "effects" (with Sondra Marshak providing an [[Creator/AynRand Objectivist]] slant), elements of the show that appealed to different types of viewers. There are quotes from the stars, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, Creator/DCFontana and others[[note]]unfortunately, ''Star Trek''s [[MyRealDaddy unsung primary creator]] Gene L. Coon was unavailable for comment, having died in 1973[[/note]]. Joan Winston has an account of the ''Star Trek'' conventions she helped to organize, and her visit to the set on the last days of filming. You can read ''Star Trek Lives'' for free at the Internet Archive.

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* BedlamHouse: The 50s mental hospital in Shirley Maiewski's "The Mind Sifter" is mostly a hellhole, with only a few compassionate people trying to help this strange man with no memory; the rest are sadistic leering guys who beat him. Unfortunately TruthInTelevision for too many places.
* BridalCarry: In an effort to keep him from figuring out Uhura’s surprise party in "Surprise!", Spock acts like Kirk has an injury and carries him around, much to Kirk’s embarrassment.[[note]]Marshak and Culbreath, who ''were'' slash fans, inserted as much of this kind of thing as they could into the original stories, whether they'd started out that way or not.[[/note]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: Shirley Maiewski's "The Mind Sifter" has Kirk tortured by Klingons led by Kor using the titular device to get to the Guardian of Forever. Kirk now has amnesia but experiences massive screaming pain whenever he remembers or speaks his name and rank, reducing him to becoming like a helpless violent child in a 50s mental hospital until he’s saved.

* TheChewToy: Ruth Berman and Eleanor Arnason's "The Face on the Barroom Floor" has Sulu wondering if Kirk was human after a particularly anal bout of MarriedToTheJob, and boy is he. On a shore leave he’s forced to go on, he decides he'll try to unwind, splurges on a gaudy neo-samurai outfit (so doesn’t have his uniform), goes to a bar and can’t get a free drink with his PrettyBoy smiles but everyone thinks he’s a short BrainlessBeauty anyway. He inadvertently starts a BarBrawl, gets knocked out, robbed and arrested, and gets condescended to by authorities telling him that his "captain" will come pick him up in the morning. "But I'm the captain..."
* DateRapeAverted: "The Procrustean Petard" by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath is borderline BDSM where the crew inadvertently goes through a sex change machine. GenderSwap!Kirk, now a small, attractive and physically weak woman, meets Klingon captain Kang alone as they've agreed; everyone knows what’s going to happen, Kirk goes anyway, and he’s saved from rape by Bones (also female) and Spock (who's gotten an extra Y chromosome instead).
* DistressedDude: Kirk has a bad time throughout both editions, mind-sifted and trapped in an asylum during Shirley Maiewski's "The Mind Sifter", groped and a HumanSacrifice in Connie Faddis' "Snake Pit", caged to see how he would react during Jennifer Guttridge's "In The Maze", and having to be saved from rape in Marshak and Culbreath's "The Procrustean Petard".
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk in canon has a habit for it anyway, but it’s still fairly galling in "The Procrustean Petard" when Kang tries to rape him as “poetic justice”, and they’re friendly later in a bar.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: In Nichelle Nichols' "Surprise!", Uhura has sneaked into Kirk's cabin to leave gifts and runs into Kirk coming out of the shower, and barely keeps her composure, especially when he flirts with her to try and figure out what’s going on.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nichelle Nichols in "Surprise!" wrote of Kirk as concerned that he's getting old a few years before "The Motion Picture" put him in a full-blown mid-life-crisis.

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Shirley Maiewski's "The Mind Sifter" has the one kind nurse, Jan, convinced that she loves Kirk. She means well, but Bones and Spock point out two things 1) Kirk is really not in any position to consent, having been tortured into regression, and 2) kisses aside, it’s a pitying mother kind of love, which she admits to, and Spock mind melds with her to take away her worry about Kirk, while allowing her to remember him and reassured that these are his friends who can heal him and take him back to where he belongs.
* HandGagging: The unedited version of Maiewski's "The Mind Sifter" (which was just called "Mind-Sifter") had one of the sadistic orderlies (who keep calling Kirk pretty) clamp his hand over Kirk’s nose and mouth ostensibly to stop him screaming, but also because he’s the favourite punching bag.
* HypocriticalHumor: In Berman and Arnason's "The Face on the Barroom Floor", Kirk uses one of his “Prince Charming” smiles to try and get free drinks, but gets annoyed when everyone from then on acts like he’s a useless pretty boy.
* ImpliedRape: In Connie Faddis' "Snake Pit", a “moon-faced, overweight woman” gropes Kirk while he and Chapel are tied up, and makes not explained but obvious suggestions to the rest of her species who laugh about it, and when she tries to do it a second time, he kicks her away, getting a beatdown for it.
* KarmicRape: "The Procrustean Petard" -- Marshak and Culbreath seem to think that GenderSwap!Kirk on some level is asking for it, Kang trying it and saying Starfleet would laugh at him when they heard the news, and Bones (also a woman) saying he can’t carry on being captain, or all men they meet would either condescend to him or assault him, just because he's now an extremely attractive female.
* KinkySpanking: In Nichelle’s story, "Surprise!", Kirk threatens Uhura with spanking a few times for giving him the runaround, and he’s not against the idea of getting a birthday spank himself, especially if it comes from Spock.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Nichelle in "Surprise!" sums up Spock’s ConflictingLoyalty between his Vulcan decorum and Kirk pretty well, calling it not as secure as he’d like when it comes to this particular human.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Phyllida in Marcia Ericson's "The Enchanted Pool" gives the appearance of being this. She's actually [[spoiler:a Starfleet officer in [[GardenGarment GardenGarments]], claiming to be a NatureSpirit and using mythic, coded language to tell Spock who she really is and what's been happening, because the area is under surveillance.]] He spectacularly fails to get it.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: played with in Doris Beetem's "The Hunting". The ''mok farr'' is a coming of age ritual for Vulcans, involving a mind meld to understand the ferocity of the beast, to better understand the savagery of the Vulcan nature.
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Kirk in the original series has no problem knowing he’s a PrettyBoy and using it as a tactic; but in "The Procrustean Petard" he gets angry because as his whole crew has been through the sex change machine, they find that every genderswap has overlapping traits (Bones is considered handsome and a little weary even as a woman; Uhura is now a powerful man, with the same calm courage she's always had), and being a short, curvy, beautiful woman means…
* MindRape: Maiewski's "The Mind Sifter" is not subtle with parallels to actual assault, with Kirk getting drugged and kidnapped on an ([[{{Brainwashing}} implied coerced]]) date during a shore leave when he was alone, tortured by Kor with the device to the point that his own name and rank is a trigger to nightmarish agony so that he’s kept helpless, and ends up in a BedlamHouse in the 1950s with, save for one kind nurse, sadist orderlies who torture him, call him a pet and snark at him for being a PrettyBoy.
* TheNapoleon: In a nod to Shatner being whiny on the Trek set about his height, Kirk gets pissed about being considered “little”.
* PrimalFear: In “The Mind Sifter”, Kirk’s kidnapping is unsettlingly realistic for a Trek story, roofied on a date and passing out in the taxi.
* RevengeByProxy: Chekov in "Day of the Dove" had tried to rape Kang’s wife, so as well as just for the humiliation factor, Kang wants to rape Kirk as “poetic justice”.

* StrawVulcan: Claire Gabriel's "Ni Var" has Spock split into his human half and Vulcan half, throwing his friends for a loop when the latter doesn’t even want to banter with Bones.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath just ''looooved'' this trope. As he’s the strongest male on the ship, Spock gains another y chromosome, making him see his two now female friends as weak and useless. When he goes back through the sex change machine, he gets ''another'' one! (This was based on the now-discredited idea that extra y chromosomes cause aggressive, sexually dominant "supermales". It doesn't.)

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: To Kirk’s annoyance, in "Surprise!", nobody else on the ship seems to be bothered that Spock is carrying him in his arms.
* WhatTheHellHero: In Claire Gabriel's "Ni Var", Bones hits below the belt (he wants Spock in for a physical, and only Spock and Kirk know Spock is split into his human and Vulcan half), assuming Kirk is trying to pull rank, and brings up “A Private Little War”, asking if Kirk wants to play god again.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: In Juanita Coulson's "Intersection Point" -- this was one of the first ''Star Trek'' fan stories to appear in one of the first fanzines, ''T-Negative'', and like most early fan fiction it reads like an episode of the show -- a mission destroys a man’s mind, and his girlfriend has a breakdown at Spock, clawing at him and screaming he should have gone instead.

It begins with Joan Winston, [[Literature/SimeGen Jacqueline Lichtenberg]] and Sondra Marshak's ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Lives!_(book) Star Trek Lives!]]'' (Bantam, 1975). This was not the first published book, available to the general public on any newsstand, about ''Star Trek'' as a phenomenal show including the fans[[note]]David Gerrold's ''The World of Star Trek'', (Ballantine 1973), had a chapter about science fiction fans in general, ''Star Trek'' fans in particular, and fan fiction, even the names of some of the best fanzines with the cautionary note "No, I do not know where you can get any of these."[[/note]]. But it was the first to be ''all'' about the fans and how the show had inspired them to make the most of their lives and have hope for the future. Most of the book covers various psychological and cultural "effects" (with Sondra Marshak providing an [[Creator/AynRand Objectivist]] slant), elements of the show that appealed to different types of viewers. There are quotes from the stars, Creator/GeneRoddenberry, Creator/DCFontana and others[[note]]unfortunately, ''Star Trek''s [[MyRealDaddy unsung primary creator]] Gene L. Coon was unavailable for comment, having died in 1973[[/note]]. Joan Winston has an account of the ''Star Trek'' conventions she helped to organize, and her visit to the set on the last days of filming. You can read ''Star Trek Lives'' for free at the Internet Archive.

One entire chapter was devoted to [[FanFic fan fiction]], naming some of the best works and authors, with a few excerpts (they'd wanted to include some stories in their entirety, but it would have made the book too long). Most readers, even those deeply devoted to the show (viewing it in syndicated reruns on local channels), had had no idea fanzines or fan fiction existed until they picked up ''Star Trek Lives!'' at the drugstore.

Reader response was overwhelming, and editor Fred Pohl, up at Bantam Books, realized that the ''Star Trek'' phenomenon was by no means dead. If fan fiction was what readers wanted, he was [[MoneyDearBoy more than happy to sell it to them]]. He commissioned Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath to select the best stories and process them[[note]]their editing methods were controversial and not always ethical[[/note]] into something he could put out as a trade paperback. ''Star Trek: The New Voyages'' came out in 1976, with ''New Voyages 2'' two years later.

It begins with Joan Winston, [[Literature/SimeGen Jacqueline Lichtenberg]] and Sondra Marshak's ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Lives!_(book) Star Trek Lives!]]'', published in 1975. This was not the first book about ''Star Trek'' as a phenomenal show including the fans[[note]]David Gerrold's ''The World of Star Trek'', published in 1973, had a chapter about the fans and fan fiction, even the names of some of the best fanzines[[/note]]. But it was the first to be ''all'' about the fans and how the show had inspired them to make the most of their lives and have hope for the future. Most of the book covers various psychological and cultural "effects", with quotes from the stars and Creator/GeneRoddenberry[[note]]unfortunately, ''Star Trek''s [[MyRealDaddy unsung primary creator]] Gene L. Coon was unavailable for comment, having died in 1973[[/note]]. Joan Winston has an account of the ''Star Trek'' conventions she helped to organize, and her visit to the set on the last days of filming.

One entire chapter was devoted to [[FanFic fan fiction]], naming some of the best works and authors, with a few excerpts (they'd wanted to include a few stories in their entirety, but it would have made the book too long). Most readers, even those deeply devoted to the show (viewing it in syndicated reruns on local channels), had had no idea fanzines or fan fiction existed.

Of course, many people besides fan authors contributed to the great [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/History_of_Star_Trek_Fan_Campaigns letter-writing, petition and protest campaigns]] that saved the original series and renewed it for a third season; viewers of every gender, age and profession were involved. However, Marshak and Culbreath, in describing the fan campaigns, naturally emphasized the participation of amateur authors and editors, and dedicated ''New Voyages'' to them. Each of the stories has a foreword by one of the original ''Star Trek'' creators.

It begins with Joan Winston, [[Literature/SimeGen Jacqueline Lichtenberg]] and Sondra Marshak's ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Lives!_(book) Star Trek Lives!]]'', published in 1975. This was not the first book about ''Star Trek'' as a phenomenal show including the fans, but it was the first to be ''all'' about the fans and how the show had inspired them to make the most of their lives and have hope for the future. Most of the book covers various psychological and cultural "effects", with quotes from the stars and Creator/GeneRoddenberry[[note]]unfortunately, ''Star Trek''s [[MyRealDaddy unsung primary creator]] Gene L. Coon was unavailable for comment, having died in 1973[[/note]]. Joan Winston has an account of the ''Star Trek'' conventions she helped to organize, and her visit to the set on the last days of filming.

It begins with Joan Winston, [[Literature/SimeGen Jacqueline Lichtenberg]] and Sondra Marshak's ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Lives!_(book) Star Trek Lives!]]'', published in 1975. This was not the first book about ''Star Trek'' as a phenomenal show including the fans, but it was the first to be ''all'' about the fans and how the show had inspired them to make the most of their lives and have hope for the future.

Reader response was overwhelming, and editor Fred Pohl, up at Bantam Books, realized that the ''Star Trek'' phenomenon was by no means dead. If fan fiction was what readers wanted, he was more than happy to sell it to them. He commissioned Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath to select the best stories and process them[[note]]their editing methods were controversial and not always ethical[[/note]] into something he could put out as a trade paperback. ''Star Trek: The New Voyages'' came out in 1976, with ''New Voyages 2'' two years later.

* ADayInTheLimelight: “Snake Pit” for Chapel, where she saves Kirk from being a HumanSacrifice, and “Surprise” for Uhura, where she organises the captain a birthday party.

* CompanionCube: Lampshaded in-universe during Ruth Berman and Eleanor Arnason's "The Face on the Barroom Floor", as Captain Pérez notes that Kirk and the ''Enterprise'' come in a set "like a hermit crab and its shell". Jennifer Guttridge's "The Winged Dreamers" also has Kirk call the Enterprise a dominating woman in an appreciative way.[[note]]Guttridge was definitely a slash writer, and may have written the first slash story back in '67, but it was a private creation and was never meant for any kind of publication. In any event, "Winged Dreamers" hints at Spock thinking of Kirk in a RomanticFriendship way, but nothing more than that.[[/note]]

* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Kirk in the original series has no problem knowing he’s a PrettyBoy and using it as a tactic; but in "The Procrustean Petard" he gets angry because every genderswap has overlapping traits (Bones is considered handsome and a little weary even as a woman as example), and being a short, curvy, beautiful woman means…
* MindRape: Maiewski's "The Mind Sifter" is not subtle with parallels to actual assault, with Kirk getting drugged and kidnapped on an ([[{{Brainwashing}} implied coerced]]) date during a shore leave when he was alone, tortured by Kor with the device to the point that his own name and authority is a trigger so that he’s kept helpless, and ends up in a BedlamHouse with, save for one kind nurse, sadist guys who torture him, call him a pet and think he’s pretty.

* SlashFic: To varying degrees, modern readers will see every story as obviously Kirk/Spock, enough to notice (which the cast forewords either ignore or are fine with) but of course not too explicit. Not every author whose work was published in ''New Voyages'' was a slasher. Maiewski and Berman certainly were not. Connie Faddis didn't even believe in slash and wrote an experimental novella, ''None There Embrace'', illustrating exactly why the old "Spock goes into ''pon farr'' and there's only men around" bullshit would not work.

* TraumaButton: In Claire Gabriel's "Ni Var", Kirk comes across children who have been separated by a machine into two, and immediately feels ill, remembering "The Enemy Within" and how badly that went, not just for himself but others. Bones notes later that Spock’s the one that split in half, and Kirk is taking it worse, still in denial about having a darker side and feeling useless over not being able to help.

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: In Juanita Coulson's "Intersection Point" -- this was one of the first ''Star Trek'' fan stories to appear in one of the first fanzines, ''T-Negative'' -- a mission destroys a man’s mind, and his girlfriend has a breakdown at Spock, clawing at him and screaming he should have gone instead.

The third season of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' came about because of slash and female fans. And so, in 1976, The New Voyages 1 and 2 were released, a set of official fanfics (including "Surprise", written by Nichelle Nichols) edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, with forewords from Gene Roddenberry and the cast.

* BedlamHouse: The 50s mental hospital that “The Mind Sifter” has is mostly a hellhole, with only a few people trying to help Kirk and the rest are sadistic guys who leer at him.
* BridalCarry: In an effort to keep him from figuring out Uhura’s surprise party, Spock acts like Kirk has an injury and carries him around, much to Kirk’s embarrassment.
* ColdBloodedTorture: “The Mind Sifter” has Kirk tortured by Kor and the titular device to get to the Guardian of Forever, with the added bonus of amnesia but massive screaming trigger of pain whenever he remembers his name and rank, reducing him to becoming like a helpless violent child in a 50s mental hospital until he’s saved.
* CompanionCube: Lampshaded in-universe during “The Face Of The Bar Room Floor”, as Perez notes that Kirk and the Enterprise come in a set. “The Winged Dreamers” also has Kirk call the Enterprise a dominating woman in an appreciative way.
* TheChewToy: “The Face Of The Bar Room Floor” has Sulu wondering if Kirk was human after a particularly anal bout of MarriedToTheJob, and boy is he. On a shore leave he’s forced to go on, he splurges on a gaudy neo-samurai outfit (so doesn’t have his uniform), goes to a bar and can’t get a free drink with his PrettyBoy smiles but everyone thinks he’s a short BrainlessBeauty anyway, inadvertently starts a BarBrawl, gets knocked out, robbed and arrested, and gets condescended to that his “captain” will come pick him up in the morning.
* DateRapeAverted: Kirk as a woman in "The Procrustean Petard" is told to come alone by Kang and try his usual seduction tactic. Everyone knows what’s going to happen, Kirk goes anyway, and he’s saved from rape by Bones and Spock.
* DistressedDude: Kirk has a bad time throughout both editions, mind sifted and trapped in an asylum during “The Mind Sifter”, groped and a HumanSacrifice in “Snake Pit”, caged to see how he would react during “In The Maze”, and having to be saved from rape in “The Procrustean Petard”.
* EasilyForgiven: Kirk in canon has a habit for it anyway, but it’s still fairly galling when Kang tries to rape him as “poetic justice”, and they’re friendly later in a bar.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: In the story written by Nichols, Uhura is faced by Kirk coming out of the shower, and barely keeps her composure, especially when he tries to seduce her to try and figure out what’s going on.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nichelle Nichols wrote Kirk scared that he's getting old a few years before "The Motion Picture" put him in a full-blown mid-life-crisis.
* ForgottenBirthday: The plot of “Surprise” is Kirk disappointed thinking everyone’s forgot his birthday, when really Uhura and the others are running around trying to organise a surprise party.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: “The Mind Sifter” has the one kind nurse, Jan, convinced that she loves Kirk. She means well, but Bones and Spock point out two things 1) Kirk is really not in any position to consent, having been tortured into regression, and 2) kisses aside, it’s a pitying mother kind of love, which she admits to, and Spock mind melds with her to take away her worry about Kirk because they can fix him in the future.
* HandGagging: The unedited version of “The Mind Sifter” had one of the sadistic orderlies (who keep calling Kirk pretty) clamp his hand over Kirk’s nose and mouth ostensibly to stop him screaming, but also because he’s the favourite punching bag.
* HypocriticalHumor: In one story, Kirk uses one of his “Prince Charming” smiles to try and get free drinks, but gets annoyed when everyone from then on acts like he’s a useless pretty boy.
* ImpliedRape: In “Snake Pit”, a “moon-faced, overweight woman” gropes Kirk while he and Chapel are tied up, and makes not explained but obvious suggestions to the rest of her species who laugh about it, and when she tries to do it a second time, he kicks her away, getting a beatdown for it.
* KarmicRape: “The Procrustean Petard” seems to think that Kirk (who has been turned into a woman) on some level is asking for it, Kang trying it and saying Starfleet would laugh at him when they heard the news, and Bones (also a woman) saying he can’t carry on being captain or all villains they’ve met would assault him, just because he’s Kirk in a weaker body
* KinkySpanking: In Nichelle’s story, Surprise, Kirk threatens Uhura with spanking a few times for giving him the runaround, and he’s not against the idea of getting a birthday spank himself, especially if it comes from Spock.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Nichelle sums up Spock’s ConflictingLoyalty between his Vulcan decorum and Kirk pretty well, calling it not as secure as he’d like when it comes to this particular human.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: played with in “The Hunting”, as the mok farr is a coming of age ritual for Vulcans, and it’s a mind meld to understand the ferocity of the beast, to better understand the savagery of the Vulcan nature.
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Kirk in the original series has no problem knowing he’s a PrettyBoy and using it as a tactic, Kirk in “The Procrustean Petard” is angry because every genderswap has overlapping traits (Bones is considered handsome and a little weary even as a woman as example), and being a short, curvy, beautiful woman means…
* MindRape: “The Mind Sifter” is not subtle with parallels to actual assault, with Kirk getting drugged and kidnapped on an ([[{{Brainwashing}} implied coerced]]) date during a shore leave when he was alone, tortured by Kor with the device to the point that his own name and authority is a trigger so that he’s kept helpless, and ends up in a BedlamHouse with, save for one kind nurse, sadist guys who torture him, call him a pet and think he’s pretty.

* RevengeByProxy: Chekov tried to rape Kang’s wife, so as well as just for the humiliation factor, Kang wants to rape Kirk as “poetic justice”.
* SlashFic: To varying degrees, every story is obviously Kirk/Spock, enough to notice (which the cast forwards are fine with) but not too explicit.
* StrawVulcan: "Ni Var" has Spock split into his human half and Vulcan half, throwing his friends for a loop when the latter doesn’t even want to banter with Bones.
* TestosteronePoisoning: As he’s the strongest male on the ship, Spock gains another x chromosome, making him see his two now female friends as weak and useless.
* TraumaButton: In “Ni Var”, Kirk comes across children who have been separated by a machine into two, and immediately feels ill, remembering “The Enemy Within” and how badly that went, not just for himself but others. Bones notes later that Spock’s the one that split in half, and Kirk is taking it worse, still in denial about having a darker side and feeling useless over not being able to help.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: To Kirk’s annoyance, nobody else on the ship seems to be bothered that Spock is carrying him in his arms.
* WhatTheHellHero: In “Ni Var”, Bones hits below the belt (he wants Spock in for a physical, and only Spock and Kirk know Spock is split into his human and Vulcan half), assuming Kirk is trying to pull rank, and brings up “A Private Little War”, asking if Kirk wants to play god again.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: In “Intersection Point”, a mission destroys a man’s mind, and his girlfriend has a breakdown at Spock, clawing at him and screaming he should have gone instead.

* TraumaButton: In “Ni Var”, Kirk comes across children who have been separated by a machine into two, and immediately feels ill, remembering “The Enemy Within” and how badly that went, not just for himself but others. Bones notes later that Spock’s the one that split in half, and Kirk is taking it worse, still in denial about having a darker side and feeling useless over not being able to help