overexplanation of a random thought.
It's sometimes amazing how things can intertwine themselves around and around inside one's head. Disentanglement is almost impossible when the twining results in a flash of insight, but for the sake of explanation I'll try.
So, this weekend I went on an Intensive Inquiry about Gender Identity, and we discussed all sorts of things, including how gender affects how people relate to each other, and how the lines between genders aren't nearly as neat as our society wants us to wish them to be. So my brain is on this topic anyway.
Tonight, we watched Insurrection, which is the 9th Star Trek movie, (3rd with the TNG cast). Afterward, I was wondering about the timeline, since it should be taking place during season 7 of DS9, and Worf was in the movie. So, being the lazy college student that I am, I googled it. I couldn't find a comprehensive timeline, because there isn't one. The writers never bothered to make one, and frankly, by the movies, it shows. It makes me want to be even more compulsive about my timelines, supposing I ever get around to the actual making of the book.
At the bottom of the Google page, there was a timeline showing the progression (or rather, lack thereof) of gay characters in Star Trek. Plenty of people want them, from the actors to various writers, but it has always been the case that the powers that be, either, in Gene Roddenberry's case, didn't find it important enough to pursue, or after his death, specifically didn't want to address that issue. And, as sad as that is, it is almost sadder to watch the progressions of promises made and broken and hopes raised and dashed, as different people were given control of the wheel.
And it frightens me. I know I'm going to sound terribly selfish here, but it almost makes me afraid to write. I have so very many wonderful ideas that are half-formed, but I'm afraid of what will happen if I let them out. I have an idea for a science fiction series, (as in, an original one, not just a rehash of what's already been out there for a quarter century), and it would be so very wonderful to be able to let it out, and to be able to do it, but, aside from the fact that I just don't have the resources, I don't know that I could bear to not have complete creative control, and I don't want to even think about how I would feel if someone else picked it up, and ran as amok with my ideas as they have done with Gene Roddenberry's.
So, basically, that was more or less the thought process, that didn't quite occur, in the same sense as the word occur means, in about a second and a half, while trolling the internet instead of sleeping at almost one in the morning.
Goodnight everyone.
So, this weekend I went on an Intensive Inquiry about Gender Identity, and we discussed all sorts of things, including how gender affects how people relate to each other, and how the lines between genders aren't nearly as neat as our society wants us to wish them to be. So my brain is on this topic anyway.
Tonight, we watched Insurrection, which is the 9th Star Trek movie, (3rd with the TNG cast). Afterward, I was wondering about the timeline, since it should be taking place during season 7 of DS9, and Worf was in the movie. So, being the lazy college student that I am, I googled it. I couldn't find a comprehensive timeline, because there isn't one. The writers never bothered to make one, and frankly, by the movies, it shows. It makes me want to be even more compulsive about my timelines, supposing I ever get around to the actual making of the book.
At the bottom of the Google page, there was a timeline showing the progression (or rather, lack thereof) of gay characters in Star Trek. Plenty of people want them, from the actors to various writers, but it has always been the case that the powers that be, either, in Gene Roddenberry's case, didn't find it important enough to pursue, or after his death, specifically didn't want to address that issue. And, as sad as that is, it is almost sadder to watch the progressions of promises made and broken and hopes raised and dashed, as different people were given control of the wheel.
And it frightens me. I know I'm going to sound terribly selfish here, but it almost makes me afraid to write. I have so very many wonderful ideas that are half-formed, but I'm afraid of what will happen if I let them out. I have an idea for a science fiction series, (as in, an original one, not just a rehash of what's already been out there for a quarter century), and it would be so very wonderful to be able to let it out, and to be able to do it, but, aside from the fact that I just don't have the resources, I don't know that I could bear to not have complete creative control, and I don't want to even think about how I would feel if someone else picked it up, and ran as amok with my ideas as they have done with Gene Roddenberry's.
So, basically, that was more or less the thought process, that didn't quite occur, in the same sense as the word occur means, in about a second and a half, while trolling the internet instead of sleeping at almost one in the morning.
Goodnight everyone.