Maternal Matrimony

Maternal Matrimony is a Rejuve Universe series written by Crimson Kid. It is set in about the same time period as the Melody Stories (mid-28th century) but takes place primarily on the colony planet Vladivost and the Confederation Starfleet space station orbiting it called Starbase Seventeen. (The station's number is obviously taken from the motion picture Stalag Seventeen, one of numerous World War II references in the stories.)

Synopsis
The series begins with former Lieutenant Commander Carlton Kristain, who had been a Starfleet medical officer, awakening as a rejuve who is physiologically a five-year-old, after his having been subjected to Kelvaron radiation poisoning. Although his actions to help save a contaminated mining crew are considered heroic by Starfleet, his wife and former military superior, Rear Admiral Rebecca McMichael, believes that he acted irresponsibly in unnecessarily subjecting himself and his medical spaceship's crew to serious danger. (However, Carlton turns out to have been the only one of the rescue team who ended up having to be rejuved. One of the mining crew members rescued, a middle-aged woman, likewise had to undergo three rejuves to eliminate the radiation's effects, but everyone else from both crews survived without being forced to rejuve.)

Rebecca has decided to effectively become her ex-husband's new mother (hence the title of the series), making her a single parent (technically his guardian at this point), and she intends to raise him as a rejuved child under the lifestyle of fem-dis ("feminine-disciplinary") strict Traditionalism, which had apparently been the philosophy practiced during their marriage as well. As her brand-spanking-new son, not only is her former husband Carlton going to be generally subject to a "spare the rod and spoil the child" approach toward child-rearing, but his one-time spouse also intends to introduce a regular spanking regimen to punish him for his purportedly irresponsible actions which have dramatically altered their family life. (It eventually becomes apparent, via references to their previous romantic/marital relationship, that Carlton had been subject to domestic discipline from Rebecca during both their courtship and marriage.)

Carlton's former daughter Nantessa, a thirteen-year-old, has effectively become his older sister; upset by the loss of Carlton as her father, she has been recruited by her mother to assist in corporeally correcting him quite frequently and is eager to do so--his first spanking (via her hairbrush) as a rejuve occurs with him going bare-bottom-up across her lap during their reconstructed family's hovercar trip from the infirmiry to its planetary residence.

How long Carlton's rejuved corporal punishment regimen is intended to last hasn't been stated by Rebecca, but it's obvious that the relatively privileged status presumably afforded to a Medicalos isn't going to be extended to him immediately, if at all.

Characters

 * Carlton Kristain, former Starfleet lieutenant commander and medical officer, a 5-year-old.
 * Rear Admiral Rebecca McMichael, Carlton's wife turned mother, Starfleet commander-in-chief of Starbase Seventeen.
 * Nantessa McMichael, Carlton's teenage daughter turned big sister, a 13-year-old.
 * Montana Starr, Carlton's best friend and kindergarten classmate, a 5-year-old.
 * Billy Treadwell, Carlton's friend, child of Lavinia Treadwell, a 6-year-old.
 * Commodore Lavinia Treadwell, Starfleet second-in-command on Starbase Seventeen, Billy's penny parent.
 * Selena Lamonica, Lavinia's lesbian life partner, Billy's penny stepmother.
 * Lieutenant Junior Grade Yolanda Lansford, former Starfleet subordinate of Carlton, occasionally his babysitter.
 * Greta Jurgensen, kindergarten classmate of Carlton and Montana, a 6-year-old.
 * Katrina Kemp, kindergarten teacher of Carlton, Montana and Greta.
 * Commander Rosita Septien, Starfleet intelligence officer, one-time Starfleet Academy schoolmate of Rebecca and Carlton.
 * Portia Highsmith, police officer on Vladivost, member of the Interstellar Sorority of Spanking Spouses.

List of chapters

 * 1) Maternal Matrimony
 * 2) Awareness (f/m)
 * 3) SMALL WORLD (F/m)
 * 4) RULES AND CONSEQUENCES
 * 5) DREAMS AND AWAKENINGS (f/m)
 * 6) REFLECTIONS (F/m f/m)
 * 7) DISCIPLINE AND FORGIVENESS (f/m)
 * 8) EAVESDROPPING (F/m)
 * 9) BEDTIME BOOKENDS (F/m f/m)
 * 10) SKYWARD BOUND (Part 1 § 2) (F/m)
 * 11) COMRADES-IN-REJUVES (F/f F/m)
 * 12) BABYSITTER REDS (Part 1 § 2) (F/mm)
 * 13) AFTERMATH (F/m)
 * 14) YIKES! (F/m)
 * 15) BAD THURSDAY (Part 1 § 2 § 3) (f/m F/m F/f)
 * 16) NUDITY (Part 1 § 2) (f/m)
 * 17) EASTER, BRIGHT AND DARK (Part 1 § 2 § 3 § 4 § 5 § 6 § Epilogue) (F/m F/f f/m F/F)
 * 18) TRIPLE JEOPARDY (Part 1 § 2 § 3 § Epilogue) (f/m F/m F/f F/mf, f/mf)
 * 19) not yet written
 * 20) LITERARY CRITICISM (F/m)

Links

 * Maternal Matrimony on Rogue's Weyr Story Page