Reception
Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer, writing for Tor.com in February 2013, said that it was "incredibly romantic". She stated that it reminded her of 18th century literary Romanticism, "which suggested that morality lay in nature and civilization was a corrupting influence". She said that whilst it could be considered to be "a trivial piece of fluff tossed off by a fan writer and published when Pocket Books wasn’t paying much attention", it could also be seen to be a "call to action that requires readers to examine their relationships and their actions".
In Elizabeth Woledge's article for Extrapolation, entitled "From Slash to the Mainstream: Female Writers and Gender Blending Men", she describes Killing Time as "erotic but not sexual" and said that Spock and Kirk both "combine masculine and feminine imagery". She suggested that it was not the romantic overtones that caused the reaction, but rather that it was this gender-blending that was the issue.
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