pine4pine is an exchange celebrating longing, both requited and unrequited. I didn’t sign up this year, but I saw a great prompt based on a single episode of Star Trek (the original series), so I cobbled together a treat. The episode is “The Enterprise Incident” (season 3).

The Touch of an Alien Hand (1653 words) by firecat
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Spock/Romulan Commander
Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Romulan Commander (Star Trek TOS: Enterprise Incident)
Additional Tags: POV Spock (Star Trek), Vulcans, Romulans, R&R, Space Stations, Bars and Pubs, Alien Cultural Differences, Logic, Technology, Memories, Spies & Secret Agents, Dom/sub Undertones, Secret Messages, Treat

Summary: Spock takes some R&R aboard a space station. A chance remark brings back memories of a brief encounter...