On August eleventh of 2162, the Calafan High Priestess Yipran chooses her successor at the Festival of Lo. 
A seven-year-old Spock reflects on the most significant holiday of the Vulcan people,”Gad Kaunsh’es,”and reaches a decision about his future. Written for the February ‘Alien Holiday’ challenge.
Winner:
Alien Holidays Challenge
Spock and Lauren may be living together with their new son, but not as husband and wife. And there is little harmony as Spock's rebellious daughter T'Beth approaches her 18th birthday.
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At age seven, Spock prepares to celebrate a Vulcan feast day. One happy family? Not quite. I wrote this in response to the February challenge about alien holidays.
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This is an immediate sequel to “Call of Duty,” and a companion piece to “The Awakening.” Kirk and Spock find themselves stranded 2,000 years in Vulcan’s past. Spock is racing against time to make repairs to the shuttlecraft, their only means to return to the future, before a mysterious infection claims Kirk’s life.
It will stand on its own, but will be a richer story if the events portrayed in those two pieces are fully understood.
An open intercom provides entertainment during a boring shift on the Enterprise.
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The pon farr destroyed Lauren's love for Spock, and Spock no longer even trusts himself. But from the ruins of their broken marriage comes a new hope.
Cover image "Expulsion from Paradise" by Marc Chagall.
Spock has trouble controlling his behavior and his wife is sure he is running a fever. Just a virus? Or has their recent marriage affected his Vulcan hormones?
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Spock and Lauren have completed their week of bonding and are back serving aboard the Enterprise when a shuttle crash strands Lauren with Chris Chapel. Not exactly a vacation...
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While Spock is off bonding with his new wife, his daughter T'Beth strays onto dangerous ground. Kirk helps her, but the misunderstanding that results further damages his friendship with McCoy.
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Spock's daughter, T'Beth, cannot accept the fact that he is marrying Lauren Fielding--and she's not the only one opposed to the marriage. A surprise bachelor party and a trying reception test Spock's Vulcan endurance, but at day's end they are truly one and together.
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Spock returns to Earth and confronts his daughter T'Beth about her behavior. The subsequent campout at Yosemite proves eventful for everyone involved. Might someone at long last "pop the question"?
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Lauren Fielding encounters Sybok when he takes over the Enterprise. It seems that Spock has not told her everything about the renegade Vulcan. Sybok is fascinated with his brother's woman, and Spock's loyalties are even more deeply torn.
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Spock's daughter, T'Beth, comes to live with her Great-Aunt Doris on Earth, but her attitude brings trouble at home and at school.
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Spock's self-confidence is shaken when a psyche evaluation leaves him grounded from the Enterprise, but Lauren refuses to give up on him.
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On Vulcan, Spock's daughter lied before ShiKahr's Council of Elders. Now, at his urging, T'Beth is going back to confess her crime.
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A "You Only Live Once" challenge entry (January 2014)
Leoni Jex and Noah Cutler share a conversation.
Winner: You Only Live Once Challenge
Lauren learns that the new Spock has returned to Earth to testify at Kirk's court-martial. Her Spock is dead. She stood over his coffin. How can she expect anything from this stranger, when Spock even feels like a stranger to himself?
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When Spock retreats to Mount Seleya, his daughter T'Beth joins some discontented Vulcan youths and runs afoul of the law.
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Spock and his daughter T'Beth are back safe on Vulcan, but memories of their captivity haunt them as Amanda prepares to celebrate Christmas.
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While on the promised trip to Ildarani, Spock and T'Beth are kidnapped and held hostage by a Klingon bent on revenge.
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Written for the "Left Behind" Weekly Free Write:
"Risk is our business." Starfleet officers risk not only their own destruction, but the hearts of those they leave behind.
When the people who love you most fear for your survival, sometimes no news is the worst news of all.
Halfway across the galaxy, the USS Tesseract has gone silent.
Back on Earth, chief engineer Maren O'Connor's family waits ... and worries.
(Contains spoilers for Star Trek: Tesseract.)
