Strive seek find yield

strive seek find yield by waldorph is a Kirk/Spock fusion fic, where the characters of Star Trek reboot, Spock and Kirk are respectively Victoria and Albert from the film The Young Victoria which details chronicles the early years of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom's reign and her marriage to Prince Albert.
The fic is part one of three in the AO3 series Spoctoria, which also includes two missing scenes: You are Cordially Invited by screamlet and The Virgin King by waldorph. A masterpost was made by Warldorph on Dreamwidth with links to the fics, chapters and parts of the series as well as fanart was made, but is currently friendslocked.
== Overview ==
The author's summary of the fic on AO3: 
The entire main cast of the Star Trek (2009) movie makes an appearance in the fic, as do many characters from Star Trek TOS. It is set in an alternate universe where the Federation is a monarchy with an entrenched, rather inbred aristocracy. 
Spock and Kirk first meet after Spock, in his role of heir to the throne, pays a post-disaster state visit to Tarsus IV, where he briefly meets shell-shocked young survivor James Kirk and never forgets him. When Spock succeeds to the throne, he selects Jim as his dance partner for the first dance of his Coronation Ball. Naturally (in a universe where James Kirk is involved) this leads to Jim "assisting" Spock with sex which leads to an affair (a little long-distance while Kirk is in command of the Enterprise) which leads to an engagement (ditto) which leads to a surprisingly successful marriage. All while Kirk is working on beating the Klingons, to fulfill the offer he made Spock (instead of declarations of courtly love) that Kirk would win Spock a war against the Klingons if Spock made peace with the Romulans. 
The story features many entertaining secondary characters such as Sybok, T'Pring (Countess of T'Paal and Spock's chamberlain) -- affectionately nicknamed "T'Pringles", Uhura (Duchess of Nairobi and Spock's social secretary), Christopher Pike, Number One, Gary Mitchell, Winona Kirk and Sam Kirk, and of course Bones, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty, and the rest of the Enterprise crew. The fic also contains many references to the original series.
With waldorph's permission, a ~9,000 word missing scene for the story (the actual wedding)"and then, when I refused to write the wedding, [screamlet] wrote it her own damn self." in notes at the story masterpost by waldorph, 11 October 2010 (Accessed 11 April 2011) was written by screamlet: You Are Cordially Invited.
In May 2012, sevenses podficced the story and cybel turned it into an audiobook with a cover done by Arminaa that's available at the Audiofic ArchiveStrive seek find yield Audiobook at Audio Archive (Accessed 13 June 2012). The podbook is 7 hours and 12:47 min long.
==Recs and Reviews==
The fic was generally reviewed positively by fans:
In particular, some fans praised the emotive quality of the writing and the fic's fleshing out of supporting characters:However, the fic was criticised by some fans; in particular, for being out of character:
==Example Art Gallery==
File:Strive seek find yeild banner.jpg|Podfic cover art by Arminaa (2012)
== Inspired Fanworks ==
=== Fan art ===
* Cover fan art for Strive Seek Find Yield by theimperialpurple 
* Star Trek (Reboot) Redesign by avoxsus
=== Fan mix ===
* Star Trek Big Bang '10; Fanmix #1 by jazzy_peaches
=== Podfic ===
* Strive Seek Find Yield (Podfic) by ofsevenseas 
=== Translation ===
* 【翻译】Strive Seek Find Yield by 炏燚 (kait)
==References==
Category:Slash Fanfiction
 Category:2010 Fanfiction‎
Category:Star Trek AOS K/S Fanfiction