“as brilliant a record as his famous ancestor” [SILV]
In 2022, Bob Stek, BSI (“The Mysterious Scientist”) wrote a pastiche that connected the worlds of Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes. He wasn't alone in this thinking; as the lone Vulcan on the Enterprise, Spock consistently reminded others that he was governed by logic and did not allow emotions to affect his judgment.
Nicholas Meyer, BSI (“A Fine Morocco Case”), author of The Seven Per-Cent Solution and director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, previously made connections between Holmes and Spock, as the latter referenced "an ancestor of mine" when using the famous impossible/improbable quote.
More about Spock, Star Trek, and Meyer below.
Meanwhile, Bob Stek's novella, titled An Ancestor of Mine, was originally posted on AO3 (Archive of Our Own) and has been downloaded many hundreds of times. The plot is as follows:
Can Professor Moriarty blackmail Sherlock Holmes? He has evidence that the examination of a cosmic string by Star Trek’s Mr. Spock went horribly awry, and stranded him in Victorian England. In his new home, a surprise onset of Pon Farr leads to an encounter with a Wold Newton descendant — Violet Rutherford, a progressive English adventuress with eclectic interests and friends. Their relationship stretches the Prime Directive to the breaking point and leads to the birth of both Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.
It could explain so much. Logic in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
Bob has kindly agreed to have the volume published on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, so we include it here:
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