Title: Communication.
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series.
Pairing: Kirk/Spock.
Categories: Angst, Epistolary, Romance.
Length: Medium (~8.600 words).
Warnings: None.

Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: Beyond Dreams Press.

Review:
The Federation enters a war with the Tholian Assembly and Spock is given a ship of his own. Unexpectedly separated and unsure about their fate, Kirk and Spock exchange messages and finally confess their feelings for each other.

For a series that had so many episodes centered around the threat of war, a relatively small number of fics in the TOS fandom deal with the issue. "Communication" is one of them and it does so in a wonderful way: instead of focusing on space battles, it focus on two captains dealing with volatile situations, the danger their crews live in and the distance that has been put between them.

This story is full of little details that I love: mentions of the crews and the work they are doing, details about the war (which earns bonus points for originality by having the Tholians as the enemies instead of Klingons and/or Romulans), the heading on the messages (which change depending on the mood/seriousness of the situation).

Through subspace messages, communiqués to and from Starfleet and the News Service's press releases we see Kirk and Spock draw closer and closer and overcome their hesitation about expressing their feelings. Though there's quite a bit of angst and frustration along the way, the ending more than makes up for it.

Communication.