... Er, yeah, that's kind of a telling description there, isn't it?! XD *coughs* He *is*, though.

There are, I admit, some godawful TOS fics out there, including many of my early ones from back in college. Please don't go looking; they're *awful*. Once in a while, though, I'll find an absolute gem someone's posted on AO3... I really should read more of the tie-in novels, since you mention those. I've read, I think, two of them to date, and that was ages and ages ago. Ooh, time for a reread...