Kirk/Spock Online Festival/KSOF 2003

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The third Kirk/Spock Online Festival was announced quietly in January 2003 with a simple pointer to the KirkSpockFest egroup (restricted membership) for those who wanted to participate. Scenarios were now called challenges, and all challenges for the first wave were to be developed within the group. A few weeks later it was announced that each participant would issue one challenge and that those challenges would be randomly allocated. Artwork for the first wave did not appear to be challenge related.
The second wave was markedly different from all previous approaches, with a minimum word requirement for stories, a cash prize offered and the possibility of inclusion in a dedicated print zine. It was first announced in June 2003, again with a quiet approach and pointing people to the website details, but in September of that year a lack of participants prompted a much more detailed post on various newsgroups and mailing lists, as well as in The K/S Press Issue 85.
==Announcements==
==Wave 1==
Rules for Wave 1 were distributed only within restricted and limited membership egroups, so cannot be reproduced here, but were very similar to previous festival rule sets. Once the challenges had been made and allocated within the KirkSpockFest egroup they were published to Lady Kardasi's Domain and out of the 13 challenges listed, 9 stories were eventually published as KSOF Wave 1.
===Challenges===
Author 	Challenge 	Issued By
Acidqueen 	Valeris was spying on Kirk in TUC. We only see the last time she spied, because that was when she finally got the stuff she needed from Kirk. But presumably she didn't have the amazing luck of getting that on the first try. She'd probably been eavesdropping or spying visually or whatever for weeks... her reactions to a Kirk/Spock sex scene? In my mind, they're an old married couple at this point, but that doesn't make it any less hot. How would Valeris react? Shock? Disgust? Arousal? Amusement? Indifference? Valeris POV or third person subjective... so she gets to describe it.	Farfalla
Dina 	A slight rewrite of the ending of Squire of Gothos. Trelane of Gothos has decided he needs a pet, and Kirk will do admirably. He's quick-thinking (for an inferior life form), agile, and healthy. He's also house-broken and learns quickly. Trelane's "parents" are almost convinced. How does Spock unconvince them? 	Downdilly
Dreadnought	Write a story, where the problem is not Spock being cold, but Kirk being hot. 	Vanasati
Farfalla 	After the fal-tor-pan, some lingering connection remains between Spock and McCoy, the keeper of his katra. How do Kirk, Spock (and McCoy) deal with this? 	Sara
Farfalla 	Kirk witnesses Spock receiving a blowjob administered by another member of the crew. Kirk & Spock are not lovers at the time & never have been. What happens? 	JS Cavalcante
Jesmihr 	Kirk and Spock’s shore leave gets interesting when Spock accidentally becomes inebriated. 	Unknown
Lyrastar 	Kirk (or Spock - your choice) is captured by an enemy (Klingons, Romulans or somebody else - as you like) and replaced by a clone. How and when will the other find out, how will this inflict their relationship etc. 	T'Len
Rae Trail 	Spock and Kirk wake up on a prison ship. 	Menolly
Sara 	The boys and the 23rd century version of "parking"--whatever you consider that to be. Not accidentally stranded together, but planned by one or both of them. 	Lyrastar
===Reactions and Reviews: Wave 1===
For full story and art lists, together with reactions and reviews, see Side by Side Special Edition 3
==Wave 2==
This was the first time a competition style KSOF had been run, with cash prizes of $50 for first place, $30 for second and $20 for third and although it was not specified in the rules, payment of the prizes was initially said to be 'with the reservation that there are several submissions to choose from.' Money for the prizes was collected by donation, in part from organisers Jenna Sinclair and kira-nerys, but largely from anonymous donorsKSOF 2003 Wave 2 Donation page (accessed 9 April 2022) and prize amounts were to be adjusted if more donations were received.
Despite the cash incentive, in the end only three novellas were published as KSOF 2003 Wave 2 and the tentatively planned printzine did not go ahead, although the winning story Mimor Six was included in Cyberdreams #2.
===Rules===
===Challenge===
===Reactions and Reviews: Wave 2===
For full story and art lists, together with reactions and reviews, see Side by Side Special Edition 4
==References==
Category:Star Trek Challenges
Category:2003 Challenges
Category:Kirk/Spock
Category:Star Trek TOS