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This is something from a long time ago - anyone remember the two "Star Trek - New Voyages" books that were published in the 1970s? Each of them contained several short stories and a poem or two. All fanfic, I believe. This poem was in the second volume:
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Soliloquy
My father gave no word of love to me.
My mother practiced laudable restraint.
My Vulcan childhood lessons logically
Prepared me to despise the human taint.
I could not blame T'Pring; I saw that she
Let flawless logic over pledge prevail.
For she would stop at nothing to be free
Wisely to mate with a pure Vulcan male.
Human tormentors do not understand
Acknowledgment of feeling causes pain,
Cruelly subvert defenses I had planned,
Plot to anesthetize my watchful brain.
What will they find when I am ripped apart?
"I love you, Captain," written on my heart.
(by Marguerite B. Thompson)
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I remember telling someone about this poem once, at a Star Trek party the one time I got to go to ShoreLeave. She laughed and said it made her think of Raggedy Ann. And of course, ever since then I've wanted to make a Spock ragdoll with a little heart stamped "I love you, Captain," tucked into his side, where his liver should be.
***
Soliloquy
My father gave no word of love to me.
My mother practiced laudable restraint.
My Vulcan childhood lessons logically
Prepared me to despise the human taint.
I could not blame T'Pring; I saw that she
Let flawless logic over pledge prevail.
For she would stop at nothing to be free
Wisely to mate with a pure Vulcan male.
Human tormentors do not understand
Acknowledgment of feeling causes pain,
Cruelly subvert defenses I had planned,
Plot to anesthetize my watchful brain.
What will they find when I am ripped apart?
"I love you, Captain," written on my heart.
(by Marguerite B. Thompson)
***
I remember telling someone about this poem once, at a Star Trek party the one time I got to go to ShoreLeave. She laughed and said it made her think of Raggedy Ann. And of course, ever since then I've wanted to make a Spock ragdoll with a little heart stamped "I love you, Captain," tucked into his side, where his liver should be.