K/S
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The convention of using both K&S and K/S to designate a story featuring the Kirk/Spock relation was still in use; the use of just the slash had not yet been standardized.
Mary Ellen Curtin says on alt.startrek.creative.moderated on Dec 9 2002:
Katherine Langley has done great work looking for the first use
of the word "slash" (as opposed to the virgule, "/"). We have found very,
very few uses before "Night Tonight Spock" quit publication in 1985. By
1990 it starts to show up on Usenet -- before that I can find only a few
discussions of K/S in the googlegroups archive. Still in 1990 the FAQ for
rec.arts.startrek had the following definition:
K/S = Generally refers to the "liberal" writing style of some of the
less-accepted Trek books
A discussion of Star Trek pairing codes and name abbrevations was posted by Aleph Press to rec.arts.startrek.current on November 30, 1995. It said:
- B/G *is* Bashir and Garak. There are only two commonly accepted fan slash
- acronyms in Trek-- K/S (Kirk/Spock) and P/C (Picard/Crusher.) You never
- see S/K or C/P. Other orthographies exist for B/G, though (I've also seen
- it G/B, and even G/J! A side note-- a lot of fans have taken up using
- people's first names in their orthographies, for instance referring to
- Dax/Bashir fiction as J/J, despite the fact that neither character is
- commonly called by their first name on the show. I think this is
- annoying. If I see J, I expect it to be Janeway, not Dax or Bashir.)
