Star Trek is copyrighted by Paramount/Viacom. Archernar and some elements come from "Pandora Principle" is written by Carolyn Clowes, and owned by Pocket Books. Sorel and Daniel Corrigan and their wives come from Jean Lorrah's novel "The Vulcan Science Academy Murders". The character Rrelthiz comes from "Just A Little Training Cruise" by A.C. Crispin in the book "Enterprise Logs". Captain Hunter, her relationship with Kirk, the Aerfen, and Commander Dannan Stuart belong to Vonda McIntrye. The story about the twilight eagle was created by Barbara J. Yanosko in "Time in Two", published in the fanzine "Trekism at Length VI". I have modified it; originally, it was story Saavik told when she and Spock traveled in time to PreReform Vulcan. In "The Race of Cain", the twilight eagle is a myth from Vulcan's history.
"The Race of Cain" is first broken into Phases representing the phases of the disease. Each phase begins with a verse from the song "Stranger To The Rain" from the musical "Children of Eden" by Stephen Schwartz. I got the idea for the story's title from this song as well.
Saavik's first/secret/self name in this story, whatever term you'd like to call it =), came from the fanfic story "Something Great and Mighty" by J. Richard Laredo in the fanzine "Abode of Strife 11".
To make my Hellguard survivors real, I used the life experiences of these people: the abandoned Vietnamese/American hybrid children, as well as talks with foster homes and the orphans I've met. And the children of rape in our country, represented in Jennifer Bowman's Forgotten Victims of Rape. (One side of my characters are summed up so much by her quote, "Don’t equate us to the act that brought us here." The other side is summed up by a quote from Law & Order: SVU - "You are the best thing in my life. And what happened to me to make you was the worst.")
I hope I reflected all this diversity correctly in the Vulcan/Romulan characters and the Vulcan culture.
Lastly, in a late chapter (currently not available), the tender gesture of Sarek touching his paired fingers to Amanda's lips was inspired by Joanna Bordelon's art piece "Vulcan Kiss". It can be found at http://www.spockandsaavik.com/art.htm. I also use this gesture in "Souls of the Wind", also available on the same web site.
After all that, you must wonder -- did I make up anything original in this story? Yes, everything else not mentioned above. ;)
Thank you to so many people for their support! Marla, Eowyn, and the people like Patty, T'Anna, and FireStar who follow this story and encourage me to write more - I'd serve on their starship any time.
