O_O I love you! Or... I love this story! This is one of the most brilliant fanfictions I have ever read; I love how you made every little quirky bit of pre-and-early-TOS work out beautifully with the canon; the uniform replicators, Spock smiling, everything! And I love how well the romantic plot-line blends into the canon, and is extremely adorable, by the way. This is the most beautiful true-to-canon writing I've seen!

This was a perfectly genius and amazingly mindblowing story! :D 

This story definitely deserved the best K/S novel award.

It's a perfectly heartbreaking story. The entire thing with the creature was written very well, each bit of pain, and each small glimmer of hope, and the reactions to it afterwards. It makes me feel very bad for Spock, everyone prodding him exactly where it hurts - the bond, and his human emotion. Even doing it for a good reason, as McCoy used it against him to keep him alive, was excruciating pain for him (but written very well). 

I liked the ending. It was the most heartbreaking moment of the story, but in a way, it wasn't as sad as when the creature first started ruining things. Nearing the end, I could see that it was starting to reach the point where they couldn't get back together, at least not in this story, so it wasn't as shocking as it possibly could have been. But I do like how it ended with McCoy's perspective, and him having some small hope that things would someday bring them together again.

That Spock had been planning to leave Kirk even before the creature had inhabited his mind was a painful but inevitable revelation - I think no matter what the situation, Spock would have eventually broken down in some way and acknowledged that he needed time.

This is the type of story that one would think would need a sequel, but I think it works really well as it is, with its sequel being Star Trek: The Motion Picture. There was once a story similar to this that tried to link itself to TMP, but it just didn't seem like it would turn out right, whereas this story is written in such a way that I can see how it could explain their reactions towards each other in that movie.

Brilliant story, I definitely enjoyed it!

Everyone, sing it with me!:

Our proper, cool first officer was drugged with something green
And hauled into an alley, where he suffered things obscene
He sobered up in sickbay and he's none the worse for wear
Except he's somehow taught the bridge computer how to swear...And we're Banned from Argo, everyone....

*cough* Sorry. This fic reminded me of that song. :)

This was a very good and amusing story. It makes me want to search out the original writer of the Vulcan Language Institute, and get him to post his secret page of Vulcan swears, which he never got around to doing.

*dies of happiness*

Truly, utterly, brilliant!

I completely melted at what Spock said about Kirk, in the observation room when the Vulcans didn't know he was there. And I adored the entire section where Kirk slowly learned to not hate him, and started to see him as a friend and a person. It was awesome! And some of the phrases in there were brilliant as well ("Vulcans need more than idle words," being one example. Just...wow. And the entire "Lean on me..." bit. Astoundingly beautiful).

The rest of the Vulcans learning to be loyal to their new captain was also very touching. :3

I also like how you wrote the beginning "rape" as if it really wasn't. So it wasn't that Spock really did it out of choice, just in an attempt to save himself. That really made it easier to understand how they could become close to each other again, and was well worked into all of it.

The one thing that I wish you had written into it was whatever Bones' reaction would be to Kirk and Spock being in a relationship - Because, Bones saw Kirk at his worst, after the rape, and (unless Sellar told him) he had no clue why it happened. (Did Sellar tell him? It'd be a useful thing for the CMO to know about Pon Farr and Plak Tow on a ship half crewed with Vulcans...)

Also, I loved that you used Vulcan in it. Vulcan that's in the Vulcan Language Dictionary and all. :D Did you perhaps study at the Vulcan Language Institute? I'm starting to read through some of the lessons they offer, and it's quite fun.

As I said before, beautiful and brilliant story!

Author's Response: Dear TechnoPoet. I'm stunned. I don't know what to say. This is an amazing review. So indepth and insightful. Thank you for taking the time. I think I'll follow your points. I'm thrilled you thought some of the phrases were beautiful. Sometimes they just come and sometimes they're like pulling teeth. The observation scene just came fully formed as I was writing. Love it when that happens.

It's okay if it's a long time before the next chapter. ^_^ I'm just very glad you updated - I missed this story, and I was worried that it wouldn't continue at all.

Keep up the good work, even if it takes a while. :)

This is really good so far! :) I'm looking forward to an update! :D

Keep up the good writing!

Author's Response:

Thanks so much for reviewiing. I updated several chapters, so you're caught up to my lj. :)

O_O 8D This is such an amazing story! :D Thank you so much for writing it, and continuing to update it! It's really hard to believe that this is your first story in this fandom; it's just so well done! *cough* ...Sequel? :P Pretty please?

Okay. Because I know that this is too awesome a story to not go back and review every single chapter next time I reread it...Expect that to happen sometime. Hopefully soon. If there's time.

*melts*

Brilliant. Absolutely, amazingly brilliant. Without a doubt. So awesome. I love Agoraphobe!Spock, even though he has issues, and needs love, it's a good plotline.

I'd want a sequel if I thought this wasn't a good ending. It is a good ending. A sequel would still be awesome, but...*shrug* I'll take what I can get.

So, so much love for this story. I've been reading it for three days straight, only stopping for schoolwork and chess games against the computer (which I've mostly lost, by the way, making me wonder if Tri-D chess is easier to figure out).

But I ramble. Just...awesome. And you'll find out the many and multiple things I adore about this story when I go back and review all of it. Which I will do. I swear. Because it's awesome.

Dif-tor heh smusma

This is good! I love the idea of this, and the storyline. I felt really bad for Spock Prime in STXI - He did look lonely and in pain during most of it, especially at the end scenes. Poor sad Vulcan :(

And if Nimoy were to be in the next Star Trek movie I'd hope that they would bring back Shatner, just for a bit. They need to somehow rescue Kirk Prime from Spock Prime's past, so they can do a big reunion scene and make all the K/S fangirls giggle.

And I always loved McCoy's speech... Someone on YouTube set it to clips from the original series, and it fit beautifully. Just perfectly. I can look up a link if you want...

Yay, an update! :D

I must say, I do adore this story. I like the idea of this chapter, the creating art in sand, and having it be better than on the paper. :) It was a nice touch.

Author's Response:

Thank you so much!! I've always been a fan of alternative media in art and sand  seemed like an interesting twist. I hope to update super soon, I'm sorry this last chapter took so long O_o