Star Trekkin' Across the Universe

[jedibuttercup]

I'm watching a few old TOS episodes to refresh my memory today. For various reasons, I've started with "The Conscience of the King", and OMG. *laughs* I'd forgotten just how accurate Pine's portrayal of Kirk's behavior with women really is.

The science can still go hang, but every time I watch the movie I get even more impressed with all the love and detail they lavished on the remake in other ways. I love this 'verse, I really do.

... The adolescent Hogwarts escapees writing "Supuhura" and "Spirk" fanfiction, however? *wince* Overall, the quality of new Trek fanfiction on LJ has been extremely high and very enjoyable, but there are already a couple of comms I think I'm going to have to defriend before they harsh my squee.
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Comments

[jedibuttercup]

It's not the pairing that's making my nostrils flare. It's the term. There have been Kirk/Spock, or K/S, shippers on the 'net as long as there's been one. And Spock/Uhura, and countless other pairings.

It's the juvenile namesmushers making the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Nine times out of ten, that's a complete red flag that (a) they are new to writing for Trek, (b) they're even newer to reading anything Trek-related, (c) they may not have even watched any Trek prior to the movie, and (d) they didn't bother to do much research.

I know every 'pretty' fandom is prone attracting fans that just want to play with adolescent storylines and make their favorite characters make out, but it's harder for me to ignore in this one.

[brendanm720.livejournal.com]

[nods]

I do understand... I remember getting part-way through one of those Hogwarts escapee's and just having to close it and go mow the lawn or something because of the suck.

In other news, you can now suggest that the n00bs go watch some classic trek over at youtube. They've got entire episodes up there. It looked like they had all three seasons, too, which is pretty freaking awesome, because there are a couple that I can't remember ever watching.

[jedibuttercup]

Even better, Fancast has the entire series uploaded, full-length episodes, all on one page. =)

Not that most of the n00bs want to take the time. They just want to play with the pretty.

[brendanm720.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.youtube.com/show?p=Zk2dX5DnW_c) is what I meant about the Star Trek on YouTube. They've also got the full-length episodes, sorted by season.

Plus, MacGyver. Score.