I still crush on McCoy when I bother to think about it.

[antennapedia]

Star Trek: my first fandom.
Doctor McCoy: my first fandom crush.
Star Trek: the latest movie trailerIt's obviously a serious re-write of the previous series canon, and more things blow up than ever blew up before. Zachary Quinto is shockingly Nimoy-ish, though of course his voice is all wrong. It's not yet clear to me it'll be good, but it is clear

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[tx_cronopio]

McCoy? Really? *gives you a gold star*
I was a Spock gal, followed closely by Sulu. Never gave a damn about Kirk, never will :)

[antennapedia]

Really! Seriously! Had a major McCoy crush when I was a teenager. Spock was close. I'll happily ship McCoy/Spock right this instant if anybody wants some shippage.

[mamadar]

Ship! ship! ship!

Spock/McCoy: They bonded over being emotionally exhausted by Kirk.

[antennapedia]

Also, union of opposites. I so think McCoy's Spock-baiting is flirting.

[secondalto]

I'm eager to see it.

I've always been a Scotty gal myself, though I wouldn't turn down Bones' southern charm.

[antennapedia]

I'll see the movie just for the sake of seeing Simon Pegg in the role.

[antennapedia]

An all-round nice guy too, I hear.

[missparker]

OH I'LL BE THERE.

[antennapedia]

Hee!

Am contemplating digging the box of Trek fanfic zines out of the closet where it's languished for the last 20 years.

[missparker]

thank god the internet happened. i don't have the closet space.

[antennapedia]

The Internet is great for fanfiction. It's all over the place! Easy to find and read and enjoy! Though the lowered barrier to entry does create its own set of problems.

[seldomifever]

Heh. My sister loved McCoy. He always seemed too old to me. I think my first Star Trek crush was Chekov. I was really little and for some reason he reminded me of my first teevee love, Davy Jones. When I rediscovered ST again ten years later, I wanted nothing more than to throw Capt Kirk to the floor of the bridge and make sweet intergalactic lurve to him. Macho, sexist, silly, and yet deliciously virile. Yum!

[antennapedia]

I've always had a thing about the older men. Giles is a departure for me in that he's more or less my age. (In the series, that is, when I watched it, Giles was my age. ASH himself is a decade older than I am.)

[seldomifever]

You replied too fast. I didn't get to correct my spelling.

I've always loved older men as well. Giles counts as older, because, in my mind, I relate more to the teenage characters on the show. In real life Head's 14 yrs older than me. He was born the same year as my brother and several of my brother-in-laws. Most of the older men I loved in rl were more like twenty yrs older than me, which is a little gross, I guess.

[antennapedia]

No, sheesh, not gross. Even in the least. She said, using yet another Giles/Buffy icon.

[nemaihne]

McCoy was always too much like one of my uncles. I liked Chekhov best. Kirk annoyed the hell out of me as a little girl, but I grew to like his character enough that I already think I'm going to hate the new version. There's just something that tweaks wrong about that particular actor.

But it's Trek. I'll be there.

[antennapedia]

Pine isn't quite right in affect, somehow, yeah. I'm willing to give him and the movie a shot, though. Because as you say, it's Trek.