Earth and Vulcan are on the brink of war, tensions between the two planets have never been higher and the entire quadrant is terrified. Everyone that is aside from pirates.

But then, one day the famed pirate captain Jim Kirk meets a Vulcan on the run with a mysterious past, who throws a spanner in all of his pirate plans.

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?

In the earliest days of Enterprise's five-year mission, Jim Kirk feels obligated to make his first winter holiday season as captain an occasion of friendship-building and reverie. Christmas party closing in, one important person hasn't RSVP'd. . .

Despite warnings from long-serving crew members and the man himself, Kirk's not taking no for an answer. Come floods, fires, or madness, the captain has come to a decision: if Spock refuses to emerge from his shell and act like he might deign to coexist with all the new faces aboard the Enterprise, there is no recourse but to transfer the science officer to another ship.

Will the command staff of the Federation's flagship emerge from these festivities in one piece or is this association doomed from the start?

Home for the Holidays is a stand-alone story set in the same universe as The Mair-rigolauya.

Kirk’s head lay on his elbow as he made out the shape of his lover in the dark.

Jim ist Spock hoffnungslos erlegen, doch ist er sich ziemlich sicher, dass der Vulkanier nicht so fühlt. Während die Enterprise im Orbit um die Erde überholt wird, nimmt Jim ärztlich verordneten Urlaub auf der Farm seiner Eltern in Riverside. Als Spock zu Besuch kommt, scheint jedoch alles schief zu gehen - oder auch nicht ?