As Christmas approaches, Jim is crushed at his ongoing failure to add to the family tree. Three and a half year old Rose meanwhile wants more than anything to be one of Santa's elves. Spock faces the bewildering challenges of consoling both his bondmate and his young daughter.

A special holiday edition sequel to "How to Marry a Starship Captain." Tapestry series.

COMPLETE! (Miracles do happen...)

Unintended, but not unwelcome Christmas gifting reprecussions.

Between the lines from Space Seed to The Wrath of Khan. What made Khan so insane? Why did Spock really seek the Kolinahr? This was written 2 years before The Search for Spock, and the solution for Spock's rebirth was amazingly similar to the movie--minus the idiot Klingons.

Amok Time reprecussiions.

Memories . . . misty water-color memories. Or not.

Sometimes you do what you must to survive. And sometimes it's what you wanted all along.

Guess what happens when the transporter splits Spock instead of Kirk? Vulcans are the wackiest people.

It’s July of 1969 and the entirety of the USA seemed to have space fever. That is, however, aside from James T Kirk, a very recent military school dropout who’s come back to his hometown to try and sort himself back out. When he encounters a wounded alien who’s crash-landed in the middle of a neighbouring farm, it’s a race against the clock, the US government, and the alien’s rapidly deteriorating health, to try and bring him back home.

Oh, and also their growing feelings for each other, but that's quite low on their shared priority list among the chaos of everything else.

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A story told in part by two people who really should be doing something better with their time than hosting a conspiracy-based podcast episode on Kirk’s mysterious, possibly alien-related, disappearance.

Can a person from Spock's past help captain and first officer become more than friends?

When the Enterprise's first officer recruits childhood acquaintance, Tralnor, as a partner in completing a dangerous covert task assigned by T'Pau, nothing is easy. Vulcan's shadowy past still has teeth, and the onus is on Spock to stop a piece of history from taking a bite out of the present.

Jim Kirk, convinced he's still got time to ask Spock to be his lover, starts to fray at the edges, nearly sinking their relationship, after he catches wind of a very special woman in Spock's life. What Kirk does not know is just how much Spock wants to stay at the captain's side as a friend plus a lot more.

Will Kirk and Spock overcome their inability to express their true feelings toward one another?  Is it going to take meddling friends and crewmates to push them together? What is T'Pau so desperate to find the answers to? And, who or what exactly is Mollie?

To all of you trying to survive this beleaguered world by escaping it, I offer only this:  don’t go too far.  Plant a seed or a tree and renew your soul in nature, on which your life depends and always will.  Hold fast to quietude and that which matters.  Forsake fools who elect to destroy our pale blue dot—there is no planet V.  Think, for the sake of all our tomorrows. 

This story could follow Becoming Kirk by several years, and frequently alludes to aspects of Just a Small Family Affair and You Don’t Love Me, Right but is its own timeline.  Don’t think linearly!  Thanks, always, for indulging me in this little pursuit—it was my way of coping through this pandemic, a long-distance Zoom with my Trek family.

DISCLAIMER: The Star Trek characters are the property of Paramount Studios and Viacom. The story is my creation and property, and is copyright 5/28/20, in the midst of a global pandemic.  I will not benefit financially in any way from the online publication of this story.  But I do benefit mentally.

Any errors, of which there will be many, are my own.