Star Trek TOS Fanzine "The Climb" GEN Novel by Trinette Kern ‎ Paperback Book

this is the story of a mountain climb made by Spock (who, for the sake of this story, is an expert mountain climber) and Kirk (who is a novice at the sport). The climb is hazardous and winter blizzards are fast approaching. When they have almost reached the summit, they are informed that another mountain climbing party has lost its guide and that they [Kirk and Spock] are the chance of getting those other people off the mountain alive. From that point on, Spock and Kirk are engaged in a race against, time, the weather, and quickly exhausted food supplies to get the survivors off the mountain before they get snowed in or die of starvation. All in all, this zine's quality of writing is well above the average of Trekfic. But, I have one purely personal prejudice against the story: the attitude of about the first thirty or so pages, Spock is so great it hurts my eyes to look at him due to to the sunlight glinting off his halo. And most of what Kirk does seems designed to make Spock look good. But, most fans won't even notice that, because the story is that good. The emphasis of the story is on developing friendship between Kirk and Spock during the long ordeal, to this will especially interest fans whose interest is the 'Kirk/Spock [the reviewer does not mean slash] relationship. [4]