Kraith

Kraith (pronounced like "wraith"Email from Jean Lorrah to Carol Pruitt, dated 8 April 2021) is an early Star Trek: The Original Series alternate universe fanfiction series. It was originally created by Jacqueline Lichtenberg beginning in 1969. The series imagines Vulcan culture and telepathy, and in later episodes features a telepathic and empathic bond between James Kirk and Spock. 
At one time, the Kraith series was very well-known and influential. Due to its interesting ideas, the near-professional writing quality, and above all its focus on Vulcan culture and society, many fans of that period considered it, if not canon, very close to it. Others were skeptical, even hostile, not just to the series itself but to the adulation it and its chief creator received. 
A few ideas from Kraith were adopted into later iterations of the show, and (very loosely) into Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Media scholar Henry Jenkins explained that Kraith "reconstructed Star Trek from several different generic perspectives, including mythic adventure, courtroom drama, mystery and spy intrigue". Kraith's notoriety is such that articles on Wikipedia were created on the subject, as well as a separate category on Star Trek fanfiction.
While the series is gen, later stories came to cater to a number of (by now) well-established fannish kinks and thus may be considered idfic – fiction with a direct appeal to the basic emotional drives of the author, reader, or both. The first Kraith story was Spock's Affirmation, originally published in the fanzine T-Negative #8 in 1970.
Kraith fiction, by Lichtenberg, and other fans, appears in many zines, as well as in Kraith Collected volumes. Some of the fiction is now also available online. While it is a shared universe, Lichtenberg kept a very strong hand in its formation. She controlled topics, editing, and content. 
Kraith, deeply embedded in early Trek fandom, was a topic for satires, parodies, responsefics and "unofficial" fanworks. See Satires, Parodies, and Responsefic for some examples.
==The First Kraith Story==
Vulcan as portrayed in Kraith was not the first image of that world created by fans. Devra Langsam, Joyce Yasner, Sherna Comerford and others wrote numerous speculations on Vulcan culture and society for Spockanalia. Dorothy Jones Heydt had been discovering/writing about Vulcan culture and language since 1967, and her now well-known ni var poem "The Territory of Rigel" appeared in the first Spockanalia. Her Dorothy and Myfanwy Series, which introduced ideas about Vulcan language and society from the perspective of an Earth xenolinguist, began appearing in the first issue of T-Negative in 1969. She put considerable effort into creating details of a Vulcan language, and several fan writers picked up on and used it in their own stories.
The first Kraith story appeared in T-Negative 8, in August 1970. Partly due to the near-professional quality of Lichtenberg's own writing, partly to her vividly realized settings, fairly well-drawn characters and tightly plotted storylines, and partly to fans' hunger for any and all information about Vulcan, Kraith assumed enormous popularity and importance almost immediately. Where Jones-Heydt's stories were more like aired-Trek episodes -- they took place mostly aboard the Enterprise and focused on people and events -- Kraith went "behind the scenes" to the intricacies of Vulcan culture and society. At the time, this was what most fans wanted to see.
==The Origins of Kraith==
There are several origin stories for Kraith.
===Kraith as Writing Exercises===
In Star Trek Lives!, published in 1975, Kraith is described as "originally started partly as practice assignments for a writing course." According to an unnamed source (probably Lichtenberg herself) on the Kraith website, the writing course was the Famous Writers School, now defunct.
===Kraith as a Star Trek Sequel===
From a 2003 chat with Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
===As a Script: "Remote Control"===
In 1968 Lichtenberg wrote a script, intended to be submitted to Paramount for Star Trek, entitled "Remote Control". It was published in issue #1 of Interphase and subsequently reprinted over two issues of Pastaklan Vesla: 
A longer and more detailed version of this origin story is told in the introduction to the first Kraith Collected: 
===Kraith as "Star Trek plus Darkover"===
Lichtenberg credits Marion Zimmer Bradley with many of the ideas behind Kraith. An anonymous article on the simegen.com website, The Kraith Premise, describes Kraith as having been conceived specifically because Lichtenberg thought she could tell the nature of the universe Gene Roddenberry was trying to create based on the professional science fiction authors he'd recruited as writers and advisors; and she had noticed Bradley was "missing". (Apparently Gene Roddenberry asked Bradley to write a Star Trek script and she turned him down.) The article claims that the Kraith Premise is "Star Trek plus Darkover" in that it includes Bradley's "laws of ESP" (presumably this refers to the definitions and limitations of the laran gifts): "The premise lifted from her work and woven into Star Trek is the premise behind her Darkover Universe novels, namely the laws of ESP."
The resemblance to Darkover is particularly noticeable in Kraith Vulcans' use of psionic devices and the hints of what the ancient, pre-Surak Vulcan "Top Of World" culture was like. The idea of a telepathic aristocracy, of leaders being those who could coordinate and channel other telepaths, and of pon farr originally being related to the blooming of a particular flower, are all similar to ideas found in Darkover. 
Lichtenberg was also said in this article to have conceived Sime-Gen by combining Darkover elements with Star Trek's various Effects as noted in the book Star Trek Lives!. The Kraith Premise, author unknown (possibly Jean Lorrah).
In 1974, Lichtenberg wrote:
In 1978, Lichtenberg wrote: 
In the foreword to The Keeper's Price (1980), Marion Zimmer Bradley played down the supposed relationship between Star Trek, Kraith and Darkover, claiming that Kraith originated as an independent paracosm of Lichtenberg's which she mapped onto Star Trek as a method of practice writing: 
In 1978, Bradley talked about encouraging beginning writers to develop their own unique styles, said "one of the first things I ever wrote to Jacqueline was that she would never do anything worth doing, professionally, until she got out of Roddenberry's Star Trek universe and started creating her own." Darkover Newsletter 
==="Kraith" and Sime~Gen and Star Trek===
Image:zeorsimetrek.jpg|from a 1977 flyer for Ambrov Zeor! printed in Probe #12, the creator illustrates the symbiotic relationship of Kraith, Star Trek, and Sime~Gen
===Kraith as Worldbuilding Exercise===
In an interview in the National Fantasy Fan Federation (n3f.org) publication for June 2010, Lichtenberg said that what she'd viewed aired-Trek as lacking were worldbuilding elements, specifically those related to mysticism and/or religion. 
While I loved what [the Star Trek producers] had accomplished, I felt it was sloppy, incomplete. The worldbuilding was conspicuously lacking . . . [This] irked me no end because it would have been easy and cheap to fix. It would lose the TV viewing audience though . . . . I didn't know that many of the things Roddenberry did "wrong" were things he did on purpose because of his humanistic philosophy. He was a very open-minded man, but he had a blind spot where SF was concerned because of his philosophy. . . Gene Roddenberry was an atheist. He believed that humanity would grow out of the need for God and religion as we matured as a species. According to Brannon Braga, Roddenberry wanted the Star Trek universe to reflect this by denying all forms of religion and mysticism, which he saw as symptoms of a "defective brain". The advanced civilizations they visited had to be atheistic too; every time a religious society was depicted, it was cultlike and tyrannical. When Kirk in "Who Mourns for Adonais" says "Mankind has outgrown the need for gods", he adds "We find the One quite adequate" only because NBC's Standards and Practices office insisted that he say it.
In anthropology and archaeology courses, I had learned that every culture on earth somehow has a slot in its archetype list for some kind of mysticism. See Lin Carter's Imaginary Worlds (Ballantine, 1973) for a brief diatribe on the need for depiction of some form of organized religion, temples, priests etc. in fantasy literature (as opposed to expressed belief and/or actual presence of deities), and finding them inexplicably lacking in J.R.R. Tolkien's oeuvre. The Silmarillion had not yet gone to press, and Carter may have changed his mind after reading it and the Westernesse material in the Books of Lost Tales, which were published before Carter's death in 1988. Until you fill that spot in, you don't have a realistic construct within which to tell a story. 
At that time (before the movies, just two of the three seasons having run on TV), we didn't have those wonderful scenes on Vulcan that we got with the films. So I looked at my shelves of SF books, thought about all my most favorite authors (some of whom wrote scripts for Trek), thought about what was "wrong" (i.e. sub-standard by SF novel criteria) with Star Trek, and decided to fix it in a fanzine story. . . 
I really thought everyone would understand what was missing. . . . I figured everyone else would come up with all sorts of other things to fill that empty niche in the worldbuilding, generating a zillion additional Trek universes to play in.
So I took Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover novels . . . and mixed them up with Star Trek (shaken, not stirred) and produced a Vulcan culture -- in a multicultural world only hazily sketched beyond that -- and told a story to illustrate what you could have if you didn't pull your punches on worldbuilding.Jacqueline Lichtenberg, interviewed in The National Fantasy Fan, vol. 10, no. 2, June 2010. 
===Kraith as "Intimate Adventure"===
Some fans feel that the real hero of these Kraith stories is Vulcan itself. Jacqueline Lichtenberg sees it as the story of Spock's life and the impact that friendship with Kirk had on Spock and thus the history of the Federation. "Had they not bridged that species gap in a telepathic bonding, the Klingons would have won."She never says how or why the Klingons would have won; perhaps that was supposed to be in a future Kraith tale that never got written.
This brings into play Lichtenberg's "Intimate Adventure" idea, that a truly realistic story must include an emotional dimension. Calling "Intimate Adventure" a separate genre, she talks about it in terms of characters facing emotional challenges -- admitting to shortcomings, striving to overcome fear, etc. Characters become "real to one another" as they become aware of each other's emotions. The difference between this and an ordinary adventure story is that the Intimate Adventure shows the hero learning how to relate to others. "Instead of weapons of combat ... the protagonist must weild [sic] the weapons of Life -- emotions, psychology. The protagonist must solve the problem faced in the world outside the Mind with the weapon of Emotional Honesty within the Self and within the Relationship."Intimate Adventure Defined at simegen.com. In a 2007 News from the Crypt interview, Lichtenberg revealed that Intimate Adventure "is in fact a plot archetype."
However, Lichtenberg's own stories (and most other Kraith stories, with few exceptions) are constructed as conventional narratives, with plots that move characters from point to point. While feelings and emotions (including Vulcan emotions and how they are expressed) play a vital role, they are not the focus of the tales.
===Outgrew Its Original Nest===
In 2017, Ruth Berman explained how the series "out-grew" her zine series, T-Negative: 
==Shared Universes and Other Effects==
===Development into a Shared Universe===
Subsequently many others have written and drawn in the Kraith universe along with more works by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, that form a large "canon" for this 'verse. There even exists a Kraith Creator's Manual as guide for people who want to write in it as well as an Understanding Kraith reference zine. Kraith Creator's Manual (accessed 21 Aug 2009) There are also further Kraith alternate universes that branch off from the main, i.e. AUs of the shared AU.
See Kraith Round Robin for a detailed look at how the 'official' Kraith stories were to be created and published. 
Kraith was deeply embedded in early Trek fandom, and was a topic for satires, parodies, responsefics and "unofficial" fanworks. See for some examples.
===Kraith Creators: A 1972 Roster=== 
This roster from 1972 is a veritable list of BNFs of the time, and illustrates the clubbiness of this shared universe. It is also a peek into a Kraith's past that had yet to achieve a nearly-impossible level of intricacy. From the Kraith Creator's Manual: 
==="Procedures for Submitting a Kraith Story"===
From 1977, the introduction in Kraith Collected #5 by Jacqueline Lichtenberg: 
For more from Kraith Collected #5, in its entirety, broken into three segments, see images:
Image:kraithrules1.jpg|from Kraith Collected #5, "Procedures for Submitting a Kraith Story," click to read
Image:kraithrules2.jpg|from Kraith Collected #5, "Procedures for Submitting a Kraith Story," click to read
Image:kraithrules3.jpg|from Kraith Collected #5, "Procedures for Submitting a Kraith Story," click to read
A fan in 1992 explained: 
===About the Kraith Shared Universe -- from an Official Contributor===
In 1977, Daniela Kendall (an admitted pseudonym for "one of the Kraith Creators,"Possibly Linda Deneroff.) wrote a long article in Probe #11 in which she addressed fans writing in the Kraith universe, both "officially" and 'unofficially," as well as the mechanics of the Kraith Round Robin, the institution put in place to edit and approve fans' additions to the official timeline. She also expressed concern about the number of non-Kraith stories that included references to the Affirmation, the "Vulcanur" language, etc. as if these were canon, taking for granted that they were established.
In Probe 12, Winston Howlett reported that the article, intended to stimulate discussion about issues in fan fiction and publishing, had received favorable responses from the general Probe audience, but that "With the exception of Ms. Lichtenberg, Ms. Segal and one other person, reactions received from Kraith creators -- in person, by phone, by mail, and in other publications -- were less-than-logical and sometimes bordering on the inane. The subject is closed."
There is a line in the Kraith dictionary/compendium, Understanding Kraith, partly dedicating the work to "Winston Howlett and ‘Daniela Kendall,’ who made it all necessary. Judith Z. Segal, Understanding Kraith. Entire text online at simegen.com.
==Characteristics of Kraith==
===Vulcan Culture===
In the Star Trek The Original Series episode "Amok Time", Kirk and McCoy remarked on T'Pau's officiating at Spock's wedding as indicating that Spock's family was extremely important. In Kraith, the family is part of the First Realm, a dynasty that has existed from the time of Surak.Kraith never gets specific about when Surak lived and wrote the Construct which revolutionized Vulcan civilization. In the Enterprise episode "Awakening", if you want to take that as canon, Surak lived in what would be Earth's 4th century A.D., about 900 years before the time of Star Trek TOS which is supposed to take place in the 23rd century. Various fan writings have Surak living anywhere from 1000 to 2000 years before.. The Realm is not a place but a status in which Vulcan Traditions are passed on in an unbroken line from Surak, with youngest sons being trained by their grandfathers. There are only three First Realm families left; Spock's, T'Pau's, and Soled's. The Second Realm involves men who received their training from people other than their own grandfathers, and so on.
Before Surak, leaders were men who could draw lots of people together telepathically to unite them as a group mind. Called kataytikh (pl. kataytikhe),According to Joan Verba, fan writer Joyce Yasner asserted a firm belief that this word was pronounced "katydid". this ability turned out to be genetic and they started breeding for it with arranged marriages.In Diane Duane's Spock's World, which has some influence from Kraith, the arranged marriages began as a way of breeding for "The Eye", the protective inner eyelid from the TOS episode "Operation: Annihilate". Some time later arranged marriages were also used to breed for certain telepathic traits. By Spock's time the kataytikhe's task is to perform the "Affirmation of the Continuity" in which every 51.237 standard years, a group of no fewer than 57 people are telepathically drawn together by a kataytikh in order to pass on Vulcan cultural and social values. The Kraith is the chalice from which participants drink water during the ceremony. A woman with the kataytikh gene is a sterile Daughter of Tradition (T'Pau is one of these) and her life is devoted to public service. A Vulcan who misses the Affirmation is effectively outcast.
Spock conducts his first Affirmation in the first Kraith story, Spock's Affirmation. In Spock's Mission Sarek, captured by Romulans, misses the Affirmation but is able to "trans-affirm" in a unique situation during his rescue (explained in the author's endnote). In Ruth Berman's "The Disaffirmed" a young Vulcan scout who missed the Affirmation prepares for a unique life outside Vulcan tradition, and asks Uhura to be his wife; Spock explains exactly why the boy is now considered a non-person in Vulcan society. An alternate universe Kraith story, "Equity" by Joyce Yasner, describes three explorers who miss the ceremony and subsequently seek asylum on Earth after being told they will have to be sterilized.
Kraith also provides details as to just why Spock's father Sarek was opposed to his entering Starfleet rather than the Vulcan Science Academy. One version of how this happened is told in the story Sundered Duties by Jackie Bielowicz, Linda Deneroff and Fran Zawacky. Spock was one of the last male heirs of the First Realm. He would have duties which required his presence at home. He might not be able to get back in time for the Affirmation. Also, his half-sister T'Uriamne possessed the kataytikh gene and was therefore sterile, a Daughter of Tradition. It was therefore extremely important that Spock marry and have children -- hopefully a son whom Sarek could train as a kataytikh -- so that the First Realm would continue. This is why Spock's betrothal to T'Pring took place at such an early age. If Spock were to go into Starfleet, he might be serving on a ship when he went into pon farr and unable to get back to Vulcan in time.Which is, of course, exactly what happened. Naturally, Sarek and Amanda didn't mention any of this in "Journey to Babel" because (as Spock revealed in "Amok Time") the pon farr is a deeply personal thing and Vulcans do not speak of it.
===Kirk and Spock's Relationship===
Due to contact with telepathic aliens including several mind-melds with Spock, Kirk begins to develop telepathyActually portrayed on the show in the episode "Obsession", written by Art Wallace. In "And the Children Shall Lead", written by Edward Lasko, Kirk reacts with severe anxiety to unseen energy disturbances in a cave on the planet. Sondra Marshak also used this idea in her novel The Prometheus Design and Claire Gabriel has Kirk able to make brief telepathic contact with Spock in The Thousandth Man. Spock tells him later that telepathy can be a learned skill. and subsequently must study on Vulcan to learn to control it. For personal as well as political reasons Spock and his father Sarek take this opportunity to adopt Kirk and welcome him into Tsaichrani, Vulcan society and culture. During Kirk's period of study he enters a hierarchical "Warder-Liege compact" in which he has to obey Spock without question. 
In the Kraith novel Federation Centennial, Spock is under arrest for defending himself in a bar fight while Sarek is suspected of murder, and agrees to a Warder-Liege where Kirk is the Liege in order to gain time to clear his and his dad's names. As amateur author Sondra Marshak became involved with Kraith she used the Warder-Liege to introduce more explicit D/s ideas along with other power kinks. In a later episode, Joan Winston's "The Maze" (Metamorphosis 2, August 1976), there is punishment spanking of Kirk by Spock, in would be called domestic discipline fic in modern labelling practices).
Lichtenberg believed that Kirk becoming telepathic was one of the concepts of Kraith that would be far beyond the comprehension of most fan readers. She believed that Spock's Nemesis (Kraith IV), the story in which Kirk first realizes his incipient telepathy, would never be published. In the Author's Note at the end of Spock's Mission, Lichtenberg reveals:
===Other Relationships===
One of the themes of Kraith is Spock's search for a truly fulfilling mate. It is assumed all the way through the series that Spock will mate with a female and have children by her, especially considering his heritage. 
A fan writes in 1992: "Even Kraith - probably the archetypal alternate universe zine - was basically a find-Spock-a-wife series - he lost at least three during it!"Sheila Clark, "Fanzines 1966-1991", in IDIC #20, p. 65, entire zine online.
In "Spock's Affirmation" he meets the beautiful and gifted T'Rruel, a master of the ancient art of tokiel. T'Rruel is also a bigot with a pronounced dislike for alien races, including Earth people.If that had been T'Rruel up on the tokiel platform in "Spock's Argument", she'd have been dancing for secession. She and Spock later form a matrimonial bond out of desperate necessity having nothing to do with personal attraction. T'Rruel immediately becomes pregnant, and cannot adjust her body and mind quickly enough to be able to participate safely in the Affirmation. She dies offscreen.
In "Spock's Mission", we are introduced to Tanya Minos (or T'Aniyeh), a Greek telepath who was raised on Vulcan. Spock knows her of old and has long wanted to be her husband, but she believes herself to be too emotionally unstable. She has periodic bouts of depression and is willing to risk suicide in "Secret of Groskin". Finally she accepts his offer, only to die a few episodes later. Apparently Lichtenberg was going to introduce a fourth wife for Spock who would be his best complement, but that was about the time Sondra Marshak came aboard, and plans for this woman's introduction were permanently shelved.
Kirk is described in "Challenge" by Eileen Roy, an alternative universe Kraith story, as having been involved with a "Denebian pleasure flower" who had two children by him. Later when she found better work she sent the kids to live with Kirk on Vulcan and they become his responsibility. In a mainstream Kraith novella, Spock's Pilgrimage, where Kirk visits an alternative timeline, he is somewhat attracted to T'Uriamne, who is warmer and less bigoted there. In that and other stories co-written by Marshak, Sarek speaks several times of the necessity for Kirk, as his adopted son, to be bonded to and marry a Vulcan woman. Marshak went into detail in Star Trek Lives! about her plans to explore the implications of Kirk marrying a Vulcan, flatly in terms of a dom/sub relationship: "A warder-liege with Spock is one thing. But what about one with a Vulcan woman? What if Vulcan women are as strong or nearly as strong as Vulcan men? (Wouldn't they have to be to survive the pon farr?) What if they are much stronger than Kirk? What happens when Kirk meets T'Uriamne, and finds himself totally in her power... legally?" She seems to have written a draft of this story, as she showed it to William Shatner during the interviews for Shatner: Where No Man... and bluntly asked him if it turned him on sexually.
Joyce Yasner's "Equity" introduces Saida Bh'mar, Samijahr Malhotra, and T'Eris Purjda gat-Malhotra, and describes their relationships to one another with a brief glimpse of Vulcan everyday life.
===Slash, or Lack Thereof===
There is no homosexuality depicted or mentioned in Kraith. Vulcan is described as extremely underpopulated. Vulcans don't use contraception or abortion for this reason. It can be assumed that if there are Vulcans who are gay, they will marry (or be required to marry) opposite-sex partners so they can have children.
Some K/S fans privately wondered if the universe had a pre-slash element. They felt that the stories were written by fans who didn't believe K/S was in character (or the fanwriters were not allowed to suggest it), but were trying to scratch the same itch. 
They also pointed to the fact that Kraith writers took great pains to create complex and well-rounded female characters to be Spock's wives (T'Rruel and T'Aniyeh (Tanya)), only to realize that they just weren't right and had to be killed off. In the Kraith universe, Spock's relationship with Kirk overshadowed any relationship he (or Kirk, for that matter) had with a woman.Morgan Dawn's personal notes from conversations with K/S fans in the late 1990s. This was especially true after Sondra Marshak came aboard for Spock's Pilgrimage in Kraith Collected 4 (her influence is clear in the preceding novella, Spock's Decision; by Lichtenberg's account she wrote large portions of the second half):
Lichtenberg had had significant plot reasons for the deaths of T'Rruel and T'Aniyeh, and had not killed them off merely because they "just weren't right". Each was wrong for him in her own way, as T'Pring had been in the series, and Lichtenberg intended from the beginning to depict a fourth wife.
Many fans wrote stories set in the Kraith universe, or using Kraith terminology, without attempting to submit them as part of the official Kraith canon. At least two of these stories, Frankie Jemison's "Kirk's Decision" and "Aftermath", published in Obsc'zine 1 in 1977, were K/S narratives.The form "[character]'s [action]" in titles was typical of Kraith stories, and given that "Aftermath" was reviewed in terms of Kraith, it is logical to assume that "Kirk's Decision" was likewise meant to be set in the Kraith universe. A follwup review in Obsc'zine 2 detailed exactly why slash is inconsistent with the depictions of Kirk and Spock in the Kraith universe:
==Kraith and Its Relationship to Canon Star Trek==
From Bill Hupe's catalog: "The definite classic Trek zine series... winner of the first Surak Memory Alpha Award. Kraith is a series of stories and articles exploring Vulcan culture and its interaction with the Human-dominated United Federation of Planets. This series extrapolates from the 'givens' in the original Star Trek series to create a truly alien Vulcan, the discovery of the depth of differences between Vulcan and the Federation, and the cultural dynamics of the interface provide the background. Point of interest: points of contention with Kraith fans about this series: a Vulcan cessionist movement, an ancient Vulcan psychic technology, Sarek having a son with a Vulcan princess, and the symbolic destruction of the Enterprise have now all been established via the classic movie series and the TNG episodes through Gambit 2.""Gambit", a two-part Star*Next episode, featured a group of privateers who raid archaeology sites. There is a Vulcan woman, Tallera, among them, and one of their goals is to find a particular Vulcan artifact. Tallera tells Picard of a "small but growing movement of extreme isolationists on Vulcan. A group that believes contact with alien races has polluted our culture and is destroying Vulcan purity. This group advocates the total isolation of Vulcan from the rest of the galaxy and the eradication of all alien influences from our planet... There was even a time when we used our telepathic abilities as a weapon. A time when we learned to kill with a thought." She is referring to the Stone of Gol, saying "it is a psionic resonator, a device which focuses and amplifies telepathic energy." This is straight out of Kraith and the psionic devices used by the pre-logic "Top of World" Vulcan government.
This is no coincidence. In the 2010 N3F interview, Lichtenberg stated that many years after her initial contact with Roddenberry, pertaining to Star Trek Lives (this had to have been in 1973 or 1974), she was told that "there were copies of Kraith in Roddenberry's offices while they were working on the early movies, and he was asking people to read them."In a letter published in issue 3 of Spockanalia, Roddenberry specifically named Spockanalia as "required reading" in the Star Trek offices. There's no written confirmation he did this with other fanzines and we don't know who told Lichtenberg this, but it's very likely. In a 2020 interview for startrek.com, Lichtenberg said she had personally seen a copy of Kraith Collected on Roddenberry's coffee table when she visited his office in 1976."On this 1976 trip, I had done a few cons before [where] I met Joanie [ Joan Winston ] at another [con] in Iowa, then we rented a car, drove to Kansas City, did Worldcon, flew to LA, rented a car, and visited Paramount Studios and Gene Roddenberry's office (where I found a copy of Kraith Collected on a coffee table, well dog-eared)." Jacqueline Lichtenberg, quoted in Anthony Darnell, "Living Star Trek: How Two Women Breathed New Life into the Franchise", startrek.com, 2022-09-08, originally published 2020-08-03. She claimed that elements of the films which are similar to events in Kraith stories were not copied, but were things "any trained writer" would realize were inevitable. Among these were that the Enterprise had to be destroyed, Spock had to die and be reborn -- "undergo a mystical death experience to remain valid" -- and that he had to have a sibling.If this is true, the "trained writer" was more likely to have been Harve Bennett than Roddenberry. Roddenberry hated the destruction of the Enterprise in The Search for Spock and called it a "foolish piece of waste": "I don't know what they gained by losing the Enterprise, other than a moment in a film. The Enterprise was really one of our continuing characters." (Reported by Joel Engel, quoting Susan Sackett's unpublished Star Trek: The First 25 Years, in Gene Roddenberry: The Man & the Myth Behind Star Trek (Hyperion, 1994).
Many early fan writings had postulated siblings or half-siblings for Spock despite Dorothy Fontana's insistence that he had none. In Kraith, Sarek's first wife was a Vulcan woman, T'Yuzeti, who is never described nor appears in any of the stories. Their daughter, T'Uriamne, was not a rebel but a traditionalist. She led a secessionist movement to pull Vulcan out of the Federation and cease all contact with alien races, believing this was the only way to preserve Vulcan culture.T'Uriamne and her coldly rational secessionist movement, conducted entirely within Vulcan law, could not have been more different from Sybok's raucously emotional pirate-escapade. A very similar secessionist movement is the basis of the main plotline in Diane Duane's Spock's World (1989), again led by someone with close ties to Spock and strong personal reasons for pulling Vulcan out of the Federation. In the two-parter Spock's Argument, Spock returned to Vulcan with his fiancee Tanya Minos (T'Aniyeh) to oppose her proposals. A formal session of Vulcan's Guardian Council takes place and is described in minute detail.
The Enterprise was established as having been destroyed (literally unraveled) and replaced early in the series. Anna Mary Hall's A Matter of Priority tells the story of that tragedy. 
There is no Kraith story in which Spock dies and is resurrected.
==Lichtenberg on Concrit: "The Negative Value of Positive Input" ==
In 1993, Lichtenberg addressed fans in Information for Would-be S/G Writers regarding another one of her created universes. While her advice was for Sime~Gen fans in particular, it displays her views on constructive criticism for fan writers, the "payment" for zines, thin and thick skins, egos, "real writers," and her views on the purposes of amateur fiction. 
This attitude echoes and was in part shaped by Lichtenberg's apprenticeship with Marion Zimmer Bradley. See also Marion Zimmer Bradley as a Mentor to Other Fan Writers, Dianne Sylvan's Vampires Saved My Soul...after Marion Zimmer Bradley tried to kill it (WebCite), and Lichtenberg's Marion Zimmer Bradley's Influence on the Sime~Gen Universe.
==Kraith Backlash==
Also see: May You Live Long and Prosper: Kraith Open Letter by Jacqueline Lichtenberg.
===Too Influential, Not Fannish===
Some fans felt that Kraith had become too powerful and too influential.
From a fan in 1977: 
Some fans thought that it was not fannish for its creator to appear at conventions alongside the "official" creators of canon. Joel Davis, in a guest editorial in Odyssey #3 (January 1979), writes about his feeling that it was wrong for fan writers, no matter the quality of their work, to be treated at these conventions as "pro fans", as Star Trek creators equal to Roddenberry, Shatner, Nimoy, Gerrold et al: 
Others felt there was a double-standard within Kraith: it had become so popular, it was being treated as fanon, if not canon, and was inching closer to becoming a product of TPTB See Lichtenberg's reference above to Roddenberry using Kraith as a source as the films were created. that it had become something that fans didn't need Lichtenberg's permission to use.
===Fan Fervor===
Other fans were alarmed at the fervor of Kraith fans. Deb Walsh remembers her first con, August Party: "... it's a little scary, because people are really serious about this stuff! At our dealer's table, I'm sitting right next to a very nice lady who gets pretty weird when she starts talking about being "inducted into Kraith." I know nothing about this, and I'm starting to edge toward the exit." My Life in Fandom 
===Spock as a Superhero===
Some fans complained that in Kraith, Spock had become a sort of superhero. A "lucid essay" responding to this topic was included in Kraith Collected #6, a single page with two small drawings. 
File:Romulanwine4-12.jpg|illo by Cara Sherman in Romulan Wine #4 (1974)
File:Kraitcollected6art10.jpg| from Kraith Collected #6, Randy Bathurst -- "For those of us who always thought Kraith turned Spock into Superman."
Image:clipper9-1.jpg|from The Clipper Trade Ship #9 (1975), artist is Debbie Collin -- "and so ends another chapter in the continuing saga of Super Vulcan!No relation to Demi Hamm's "Super Vulcan" parody in Menagerie 3.... bringing truth, justice, and the Kraith Collected to the far reaches of the Galaxy. Tune in again next week for Chapter 12,500 of "Captain Kirk and Moby Cloud!" S'Chames Rondeau presents Kraith Corrected (with apologies to J.L.)"
===Fandom Rigidity and Control===
Some fans also bristled at the controls Kraith's creators insisted upon, citing the rigidity and time vetting fiction through the Kraith Round Robin. They disliked what they felt to be an overly controlling, micro-management of the concept, feeling that it stifled creativity and wasn't fannish. 
In 1975, Lichtenberg wrote: 
===Racism===
==Sex and Violence==
The editors of Kraith Collected explained some their views on sex, violence, and Star Trek Lives!:
==Sociological Exploration in Kraith==
Lichtenberg stated that one of her goals in writing Kraith was to point out problems in aired-Trek concerning the assumption that the Federation (i.e., the United States) and its values were "better", and that Kirk (i.e., a white, American male) was going around "correcting" societies that didn't meet with his and the Federation's personal values. She went into this in some depth in a scene from the Kraith novel Federation Centennial, in which a conference takes place with the aim of improving Federation attitudes, diversity, accommodations and inclusion of non-human member species. Kirk is asked a number of increasingly discomfiting questions about his Prime Directive violations by an Andorian ambassador; Spock follows up with the observation that the Federation, like 20th century America, tends to "sell its values with its merchandise". The novel further explores the need for accommodations for Federation member races who are not from Class M, earth-like planets. 
In the story following the novel, Spock's Argument, the Vulcan governing council has conducted an investigation into the theft and recovery of a kraith chalice being transported on a Federation ship, and determined it had received inadequate security. It had been treated merely as a priceless antique, with no concern for its importance to the preservation and continuance of Vulcan culture. Without a kraith, the Affirmation can't happen, and (at least) 57 Vulcans would be expelled from society. In addition, a kraith has psionic properties which allowed it in the proper hands to be converted into a deadly weapon. So important was this incident that the investigative board recommended that Vulcan secede from the Federation immediately. Spock trained his then-fiancee Tanya Minos, a human telepath who had studied on Vulcan, to present an argument against the proposition using tokiel, an ancient art form of sophisticated dance-language combined with holographic technology.
Many fans may have been unprepared for these assertions. Lichtenberg said she believed at the time that only a handful of people would ever be able to fully understand her ideas."The concepts are radical and very strange. Not one in five hundred would be able to accept them." Author's Preface to Kraith Collected Vol. 1. However, the editorial in Spockanalia 3, published in 1968, had voiced nearly identical concerns about the series, and in 1973, gay Jewish Star Trek creator David Gerrold in his book The World of Star Trek had already explicitly and at some length delineated the problems with having the Enterprise being the galaxy's policeman, bringing " truth, justice and the American Way" to alien worlds.
Lichtenberg herself acknowledged that fan concern about Terran domination of Starfleet and the Federation went years back.
==A Personal Statement in 1977==
Jacqueline Lichtenberg issued a personal statement in 1977 that addressed the lack of progress in further Kraith fiction: 
=="A Call for Papers" in 1980==
From the editorial of Kraith Collected #6 in 1980: 
==Some Examples of "Non-Official" Kraith Stories==
* The zine series Variations on a Theme takes up after Spock's Pilgrimage and follows the adventures of Commodore Spock from the alternative universe.
* Kirk's Decision and Aftermath, both by Frankie Jemison (1977)
* Deborah Laymon's 2010 fanfic fragment, Justice and Mercy, drawing on the facts presented at the assembly in Federation Centennial, depicts a Terran attorney who seeks to file a civil action against Starfleet in the name of a Vulcan friend and co-worker.
==Satires, Parodies, and Responsefic==
The Kraith Universe has inspired many fans to take on Kraith in their own ways, both with responsefic and in various parodies and satires. 
A fan in 1975, Cara Sherman, imposed a rule on herself about creating a Kraith satire: 
* Spock's Arthropods by Jan Snyder, Signe Landon, Amy Falkowitz, Eileen Roy, Bev Clark, Joe Alletto and Paula Evans (1976)
* "The Affirmation", "The Betrothal", "The Marriage" and "Confrontation" by Sheryl Roberts in Kraith Collected 5. Combining a satirical view of Kraith with typical clichés and situations from various types of Star Trek fan fiction, romance novels and a bit of Darkover thrown in, these stories were actually taken seriously by some early reviewers and derided as Mary Sues.
* For Your Affirmation... by Joyce Yasner is a satire which compares a Kraith Affirmation to a Star Trek convention. Yasner goes into considerable detail to compare Affirmations to conventions in terms of logistics; how will participants get there, how will the accommodations be arranged, how long can they expect to be there, etc "Are there any human endeavors that even remotely resemble Affirmations? Of course there are. Every year for the past several years thousands of Star Trek fans have gathered regularly to affirm their commitment to Star Trek. These events are called Star Trek conventions." . from Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #1 
* Spock's Inflammation by Margaret Draper (a Klingon agent, disguised as the Herrisan ambassador, gets stuck to Spock's butt) a story in Menagerie #12 and Deep Grope 
* The zine, The Holy Quail, had "the main purpose of which was to publish a horrid little poem I'd written and to get in a few swipes at the Kraith people." from the editorial of Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #1 
* Crate Collection, by Guinn Berger (topic is fan stories and Spock's propensity to marry a woman and then become a widower, satire with a focus of Kraith), printed in WXYZine #1 (March 1978)
* Difference, the first story in the Delphian Chronicles, a series of works by Theresa Holmes that were later reworked as original fiction.
==Reactions and Reviews==
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==Order of Stories==
There are also a number of stories in all volumes of Kraith Collected that aren't listed below because the creators decided they weren't part of the official series but published them anyhow. 
All of Volume V is considered 'Kraith A/U' so there are no stories from KCV indicated in the chronologies.
===1972===
 Image:kraithbib2.jpg |bibliography as of 1972, from Voyages #2, click to read 
 Image:kraithbib1.jpg |bibliography as of 1972, from Voyages #2, click to read 
===1974===
 Image:kraithmasterplan1.jpg| bibliography as of 1974, from Kraith Collected #2, click to read 
 Image:kraithmasterplan2.jpg| bibliography as of 1974, from Kraith Collected #2, click to read 
 Image:kraithbib1980.jpg| |bibliography as of 1980, from Kraith Collected #6, click to read 
===1977===
Chronology from KCV (published May 1977)
* aI Stories coming before I IA Stories coming after a main series story
* I Main series stories IA(1) stories coming after IA but before IB
* AI Stories coming during a main series story
* cI untitled, Joel Davis (?)
* bI Sundered Duties, Frances Zawacky, L. Deneroff, J. Bielowicz KCVI
* aI Immovable Object, Morgan Ives
* I Spock's Affirmation, Jacqueline Lichtenberg KCI
* AI untitled, Jan Snyder (?)
* IA Shealku, Lichtenberg KCI
* IB Zyeto, Lichtenberg KCI
* IC Yehaena, Lichtenberg (unwritten)
* ID A Matter of Priority, Anna Mary Hall KCI
* IE The Lesson, Lichtenberg (outline only, KCM 1)
* IF Ssarsun's Argument, Lichtenberg KCII
* IG The Way Home, Hall KCI
* IH T'Alyen -- A Christmas Story, Theresa Holmes
* II Spock's Mission, Lichtenberg KCI
* II(1) Learning Experience, Jean Sellar KCIII
* IIA T'Zorel, Lichtenberg KCI
* IIB The Disaffirmed, Ruth Berman KCI
* IIC Operation Transplant, Lori Dell
* IID Temporary Addition Duty, Beverly C. Zuk
* IIE Initiative, Lictenberg KCIV
* IIF Ni Var, Claire Gabriel (sold to Bantam Books for Star Trek: The New Voyages: "there is a Kraith version for which Jacqueline Lichtenberg wrote a scene, somewhat different from the Bantam version, yet they won't let us publish it."
* IIF(1) Kirk Beams Down, Lichtenberg
* IIG Diana, Pat Osborne (first Draft only)
* BIII To Be a Part, Ellie Bach
* AIII The Tanya Entry, Pat Zotti KCI
* III Spock's Argument, Lichtenberg KCI
* III(1) The Obligation/Through Time and Tears, J. Lichtenberg, J. Winston KCIII
* IIIA Federation Centennial, Lichtenberg KCII
* IIIA(1)unwritten but reserved, Lichtenberg
* IIIB Secret of Groskin, Lichtenberg KCIII 
* IIIC Coup De Grace, Lichtenberg KCIII
* IIIC(1) Coup De Partie, Ruth Berman KCIII 
* IIID Ju'nfreya, Carol Lynn and Deborah Goldstein
* IIIE Operating Manual, Hall KCVI
* IIIF The Galileo Affair, Sr. Leo Frances (may be renumbered IIIA(2) )
* IIIG What Are Telepaths Made of, Morgan Ives
* IIIH A House Divided, Frances Zawacky, Deneroff
* IV Spock's Nemesis, Lichtenberg KCIII
* IVA The Safrik File, Paula Smith
* IVB The Selet File, Beverly Clark
* AV Bones' Vision, Roy
* V Spock's Decision, Lichtenberg KCIV
* VA Christine's Decision, Sharon Emily
* VA(1) One Fingered Symphony, Roy
* VB reserved but unwritten, Eileen Roy
* VC reserved but unwritten, Connie Faddis
* VD Spock's Pilgrimage, J. Lichtenberg and S. Marshak KCIV
* VE The Maze, Winston KCVI
* VI An Ediface of Value, Lichtenberg
* VII Spock's Challenge, Lichtenberg
* VIIA T'Uriamne's Decision, Sondra Marshak
* VIIB H'L'Vingrey, Lichtenberg
* VIII Spock's Memory, Lichtenberg
* The Satherik Affair, Theresa Holmes, lingerdeath series, unnumbered.
Kraith Chronology at simegen.The "linger death" is how a Vulcan in pon farr dies if he can't get home or can't relieve the condition through combat or marriage. It is "a slow and painful death. Kraith suggests that this is the reason the normally life-loving Vulcans allow the duel to the death at the ceremony of Koon-ut Kali-fee. "It is better to die quickly in battle, through loss of the challenge, than to suffer the agonies of the Linger Death." Deborah Laymon's 2010 Kraith fragment Justice and Mercy describes a Vulcan suffering the linger death.
===1980===
Chronology from KCVI (published December 1980)
* aI Stories coming before I IA Stories coming after a main series story
* I Main series stories IA(1) stories coming after IA but before IB
* AI Stories coming during a main series story
* bI Sundered Duties, Frances Zawacky, L. Deneroff, J. Bielowicz KCVI
* aI Three Steps Behind Him, Eileen Roy KCVI
* I Spock's Affirmation, Jacqueline Lichtenberg KCI
* AI
* IA Shealku, Lichtenberg KCI
* IB Zyeto, Lichtenberg KCI
* IC Yehaena, Lichtenberg (unwritten)
* ID A Matter of Priority, Anna Mary Hall KCI
* IE The Lesson, Lichtenberg (outline only, KCM 1)
* IF Ssarsun's Argument, Lichtenberg KCII
* IG The Way Home, Hall KCI
* II Spock's Mission, Lichtenberg KCI
* II(a1) Sarek's Meditation, Jean Lorrah KCVI
* II(1) Learning Experience, Jean Sellar KCIII
* IIA T'Zorel, Lichtenberg KCI
* IIB The Disaffirmed, Ruth Berman KCI
* IIC Operation Transplant, Lori Dell
* IID Temporary Addition Duty, Beverly C. Zuk
* IIE Initiative, Lictenberg KCIV
* IIF Ni Var, Claire Gabriel (sold to Bantam Books for Star Trek: The New Voyages): "there is a Kraith version for which Jacqueline Lichtenberg wrote a scene, somewhat different from the Bantam version, yet they won't let us publish it."
* IIF(1)
* BIII To Be a Part, Ellie Bach
* AIII The Tanya Entry, Pat Zotti KCI
* III Spock's Argument, Lichtenberg KCI
* III(1) The Obligation/Through Time and Tears, J. Lichtenberg, J. Winston KCIII
* IIIA Federation Centennial, Lichtenberg KCII
* IIIA(1) Warder Liege, Lichtenberg KCIII
* IIIB Secret of Broskin, Lichtenberg KCIII
* IIIC Coup De Grace, Lichtenberg KCIII
* IIIC(1) Coup De Partie, Ruth Berman KCIII
* IIID Jh'nfreya, Carol Lynn and Deborah Goldstein
* IIIE Operating Manual, Hall KCVI
* IIIF
* IIIG A House Divided, Frances Zawacky, Deneroff KCVI
* IIIH With All The Wisdom I Can Summon, Richard Plazza (unwritten)
* IV Spock's Nemesis, Lichtenberg KCIII
* AV Bone's Vision, Roy KCVI
* V Spock's Decision, Lichtenberg KCIV
* VA Christine's Decision, Sharon Emily KCVI
* VA(1) One Fingered Symphony, Roy KCVI
* VB
* VC Days of Future Past, Cynthia Levine KCVI
* VD Spock's Pilgrimage, J. Lichtenberg and S. Marshak KCIV
* VD(1)
* VD(2) Kirk's Triumph, Deneroff, Lichtenberg, Frances Zawacky KCVI
* VE The Maze, Winston
* VI Spock's ___________
* VII Spock's Challenge, Lichtenberg (unwritten)
* VIII Spock's Memory, Lichtenberg (unwritten)
===From Karen Halliday's Zine Index===
From Halliday's Zinedex: Kraith originally appeared in the following zines (order is chronologically in the storyline, not by date of writing): [info from WXYZine #1]
* Kraith I: Spock's Affirmation (Lichtenberg) T-Negative #8, August 1970. The events leading up to Spock's first Affirmation ceremony.
* Kraith IA: Shealku (Lichtenberg) Impulse #4 A straight-ahead murder mystery which illustrates the unfairness of Starfleet rules about telepaths. 
* Kraith IB: Zyeto (Lichtenberg) Starbase Omega A short story where we see how Vulcan disputes are resolved.
* Kraith IC: Yehaena (Lichtenberg) (listed as 'unwritten' on Lichtenberg's website) 
* Kraith ID: A Matter of Priority (Anna Mary Hall) An alien virus which infects bacteria dissolves the polymers that comprise a majority of the equipment, uniforms, and the Enterprise itself. The entire ship is literally unraveling, and because the problem is extremely contagious, Starfleet orders the Enterprise scrapped.
* Kraith II: Spock's Mission (Lichtenberg) T-Negative 10, April 1971 Spock's father, missing and presumed dead, is located in Romulan space. Assisted by Lt. Tanya Minos, a human educated on Vulcan and serving as interpreter for the Medusan navigator Thilien, Kirk and Spock prepare to rescue Sarek. 
* Kraith IIA: T'Zoral (Lichtenberg) Impulse #3. A Starfleet cadet who is half Vulcan and a Daughter of Tradition has applied to renounce her Vulcan citizenship, planning to live as a human. Her attempts to behave as one, however, look like bad imitations, and because she is extremely beautiful, her courtesy to male crewmembers is seen as flirting. After an attempted date rape by Chekov (!), Spock talks her into reversing her decision.
* Kraith IIB : The Disaffirmed (Ruth Berman) T-Negative 15, May 1972. A Vulcan scout who missed the Affirmation, realizing he will never be a true Vulcan again, prepares to lead a uniquely separate life and asks Uhura to be his wife.
* Kraith IIC: untitled (possibly also called 'Operation Transplant') (Lori Dell)
* Kraith III: Spock's Argument (Lichtenberg) T-Negative #12, October 1971 (says, June 1970). The theft of a Kraith chalice leads Vulcan's governing councils to propose that Vulcan secede from the Federation. 
* Kraith III: Spock's Argument Part 2 (Lichtenberg) T-Negative #13, December 1971. In this story we learn of the existence of T'Uriamne, Spock's half sister by Sarek's first wife, T'Yuzeti. Spock and Tanya, now bonded, plan to use an ancient Vulcan art form to illustrate their argument against secession.
* Kraith AIII: The Tanya Entry (Pat Zotti & Lichtenberg) Voyage II (same timeframe as III). Logs kept by Tanya's roommate Amy Bedford about her conversations with Tanya and why she should/shouldn't marry Spock. Amy is a half-Lythian empath who in many ways foreshadows Troi. She was a character Zotti created for her own, non-Kraith stories. Here, she witnesses Tanya's struggles with identity and with her inability to accept "normal human mating habits" such as sexual assault. Tanya is also portrayed in Doris Beetem's "Won't You Walk A Little Faster?" as being repeatedly assaulted and harassed on prior assignments.
* Kraith IIIA: Federation Centennial (Lichtenberg) Federation ambassadors, officials and other personnel meet on Babel to discuss changes to the Federation and Starfleet in respect of the many alien member cultures. Saboteurs stir up antagonism, Kirk and Spock go to work to solve a murder.
* Kraith IIIB: Secret of Groskin (Lichtenberg) On a world where they are supposed to make First Contact, the landing party runs afoul of the rules and are mistaken for "animals", incapable of logical reasoning. Spock convinces them differently, aided by a Vulcan psionic artifact he has inherited.
* Kraith IIIC: Coup de Grace (Lichtenberg) When a crewman is infected with kye-fi-par -- the Vulcan version of rabies -- on a specimen-gathering mission, Spock knows a mercy killing is the only logical recourse. Lichtenberg calls this "the single most embarrassing story I’ve entered into the Kraith chronology... I still consider that story a total failure. In some ways I wish I’d never written it; yet it does serve a purpose of sorts."
* Kraith IIID: Coup de Partie (Ruth Berman) Berman's answer to "Coup de Grace". A Vulcan geologist exploring the same planet is badly injured. When his wife brings him to the Enterprise in their scout ship for medical assistance he turns out to have kye-fi-par. This time Dr. McCoy insists on looking for a cure. Lichtenberg's comments on both stories illustrate what she was trying to do with "Coup de Grace" in the first place.
* Kraith IIID: Ju'nfreya (Carol Lynn & Deborah Goldstein) ?
* Kraith IV, Pt. 1: Spock's Nemesis (Lichtenberg) T-Negative 16, July 1972 (says January 1971) On a planet of proto-Vulcans, the landing party encounters a dangerous psionic artifact which traps Lt. Minos. 
* Kraith IV, Pt. 2: Spock's Nemesis (Lichtenberg) T-Negative 17, August 1972
* Kraith V: Spock's Decision Berengaria 2, January 1974; Voyages III (Lichtenberg-Marshak) The Enterprise investigates a dark star, which has unexpected effects.
* Kraith V-A, V-B, V-C: Never written. They were supposed to detail the adventures of the Schillian Ssarsun after he makes Captain.
* Kraith V-D: Spock's Pilgrimage (Marshak-Lichtenberg); Kirk's training as a telepath on Vulcan is underway, and we see part of his daily life. The Spock of an alternative universe -- a Commodore, whose Kirk has died -- attempts to kidnap "our" Kirk to replace him. The Pilgrimage of the title refers to "our" Spock's journey to an utsulan, an immense psionic structure that allows emotions to be donated as energy, to be recalled later. Spock uses this energy to rescue Kirk from Commodore Spock in the alternative universe.
* Kraith V-D(2): Kirk's Triumph (Linda Deneroff, Jacqueline Lichtenberg & Fran Zawacky); The episode with the dark star, the death of T'Aniyeh and the journey to the alternative universe have exhausted Spock and rendered him psi-blind. Kirk continues with his telepathic training, attempting to overcome a terrible psychic imprint from the stolen kraith chalice back in Episode 1. The story is how he does it in order to save an injured Schillian child, the son of his tutor. He is now considered to have graduated and can return to his life on the Enterprise.
* Kraith VI: Spock's Command (Lichtenberg) Never written.
* Kraith VII: Spock's Challenge (Lichtenberg) Never written.
* Kraith VIII: Spock's Memory (Lichtenberg) Never written.
==Meta==
* May You Live Long and Prosper: Kraith Open Letter by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1973)
* Kraith Review (Whap! Crunch! Ow!) by by Cara Sherman (1974)
* Why a Human Should Not Desire to Become Vulcan by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1974)
* Ritual in the Kraith Universe (critical essay) by Joyce Yasner (1974)
* Kraith Review (Whap! Crunch! Ow!) by Carla Sherman (1974)
* The Connection to Star Trek Lives! by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1975?)
* Darkover and Kraith by Amy Falkowitz (1975)
* I have been unable to determine whether or not the Council wishes to adopt Lichtenberg's philosophy as pertains to Vulcans as it is. by Carmen Dexter (1975)
* For Your Affirmation... by Joyce Yasner (1977)
* The Things to Be by Joel Davis (1979)
* The Beginner's Guide to Kraith Collected by Vivienne Rivers (1982)
* Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Eileen Roy (2017)
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