In the letterzine  INTERSTAT, Duane had been accused of producing a Mary Sue in the person of K’t'lk, the glass spider. Crispin, joining the Mary Sue debate in that letterzine, responded:
Please quit classifying many Star Trek stories in terms of Mary Sue and non-Mary Sue! People level accusations of Mary Sue at the most unlikely subjects nowadays - including
glass spiders […]

a fan with the pen name Crispin replying to people accusing a glass spider to be a Mary Sue. qouted by camille bacon-smith 1992.

i….. erm….

glass spider mary sue? something wild were going on back there in the 80s fandom O_O

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