So...Star Trek

[jedi_of_urth]

So, thanks to corrielle bringing it up, I've spent this evening reading Kirk/McCoy fanfic.


I haven't actually talked about Trek much, even though I did think the movie rocked all kinds of awesome. I haven't gotten to see it again (because I'm poor and don't think seeing the movie repeatedly is good for that) but I really did like it.

So, coming out of it, when it came to shipping obviously Spock/Uhura was first on my mind because it was all kinds of cute and I liked that addition to the Star Trek world. And yet, nothing really possessed me to go look for fic on the subject (though bits have shown up on my f-list and I've read them).

But after that, Kirk/McCoy pinged off my slash radar, and I don't have all that sensitive slash radar. Kirk/Spock, totally didn't ping it, but K/M have a great buddy dynamic that my slash radar is particularly sensitive to. Still the fact that they are the first pairing I have actively read any fic for is pretty surprising.

Thing is TOS isn't, and will never be, *my* Trek. I've only seen a scattering of episodes and the movies, and some of those I barely remember so I have no comment on what I feel about the characters in TOS, for me that crew is already at least equally represented by the new versions as they were by the old.

In spite of the fact that I'm that way about TOS, I'm a little sad that it looks like for a lot of people this is the first dose of Star Trek they've gotten, because Star Trek is about more than pretty people in a two hour movie. But then I'll take TV over movies at most anything, it's just the style of storytelling I prefer.

Comments

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Well, even TOS had movies and, to be honest, that was probably my first exposure to the fandom: mvoie IV (and the Nuclear Wessels! and the whales!) and TNG.

And then recently Dad's been watching the episodes (even before the movie came out) and, lol, Kirk/Spock is so canon is makes me laugh. But then I like to give a hearty dose of mocking to any episode. I love it in its ridiculousness. A bit like old!Who.

[jedi_of_urth]

One of my earliest Trek memories is going to see Undiscovered Country in the theater, which about coincided with the time when I started getting into TNG. Looking back I can't swear which came first.

There's plenty of mockable stuff in TOS, but it was the 60s so yeah. I probably should give it a chance but I'm a TNG-DS9 person, kind of like I'm a New Who person, TOS and Classic Who just aren't the same thing.

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but which lasted longer?

I'm a TNG-VOY person, all the way (never could get in to Star Trek on a bus station...though I watched some of it). But I also consider myself a TOS person and have oddles of fun watching it (unlike...a good deal of Classic Who).

[jedi_of_urth]

Paradoxically, it took B5 to make me love DS9 (even though I love B5 more). Because initially DS9 didn't really catch me either, partly because it didn't start off great and partly because I had a hard time getting into the different mindset. But B5 was something all together different and I loved it, so when I came back to DS9 my outlook was different.

That said, the reasons I love those two are very closely related to the reasons why I couldn't handle VOY.

[silverraven.livejournal.com]

Hee, I think Spock/Uhura was cute too. I adored that scene in the transporter room :-)

I prefer TV over movies too. Not that I don't enjoy movies because I really do! But I like the details and building of friendships and seeing how characters grow that TV allows for.

[jedi_of_urth]

I like movies but, the longevity, the rise and fall, and the world building of TV is so much more my thing. And I also prefer series' of books to stand alone novels most times, or at least big epic sweeping stories that could have sustained a series. Probably the same part of my brain that doesn't know when to quite when it comes to plotting fanfic.

[marble-rose.livejournal.com]

It seems like the subject of slash has been brought up a lot lately. It's odd, my slash radar is hoaky at best. Unless the writers/actors are trying to play up the slash, I rarely notice it. When other people try to explain why they slash certain pairings (that aren't, you know, obvious gay pairings), I can see where they're coming from; I just hardly ever notice it on my own.

Although, I do pick up on fem!slash more readily. I wonder why that is. Maybe I subconciously identify with females more? Hmmm.

[jedi_of_urth]

When other people try to explain why they slash certain pairings (that aren't, you know, obvious gay pairings), I can see where they're coming from; I just hardly ever notice it on my own.

To be honest, most of the time that's me. But sometimes something will come at just the right angle and I'll actually think it on my own. And then there are times when I want to ship a slash pairing but I just can't because I know it's the sort of thing that...pings my radar I just not as a *ship."

I don't really pick up o femslash that easily myself, although I often wish there was more of it around that I enjoyed.