Date: 01 Aug 2014 04:50 Title: A Hint of Madness
And we start back with Kirk handing command of the Enterprise back to Spock. You can almost hear how he wants to tell Spock to take a few more days of vacation time, just so he can fly around on his favorite ship again, but he shows restraint. Jim is still curious about everything that’s going on and Spock is … well, Spock. He’s back to normal it seems and his mannerisms are that of a relaxed, unburdened Vulcan.
Boy, though, did Spock get something up his tail from New Year’s on. He was back to his worse self, a version that I had hoped to never see again. Biting off heads off trainees? That’s MEAN, Spock. Dude, you’re better than that. I can see why Sulu was angry and so was I.
Everything after that has the air of something really, really wrong with Spock. Jacking the Starswift? Taking it on an errand? Insuring the craft with his own money? What the hell was Spock doing? Kirk is as perplexed as he is worried and, were it not for the many years of friendship the men have, I would think the admiral would lay into Spock HARD. Instead, Kirk lets it go and tries to get to the bottom of it.
And then Spock hits the deck. The description gives away that he’s got some sort of disease, but the lead up the in story reveal is all types of concerning. I’m wondering exactly what his disease is. We’ll find as we go along, hmm?
Author's Response:
Read on, trekfan, read on. You are one busy fella.
Yes, Spock is definately not himself. Whether it's a germ or a problem (or both) something is really eating him. And now he's collapsed. There are probably some trainees who breathed a secret sigh of relief at that.