thoughts on a dominant theme in McCoy/Chekov reboot fic, with obligatory TOS timeline footnote
In the 2009 movie, from the end of Act I onward, Chekov is 17*, and McCoy is 31. Subsequently, a lot of the McCoy/Chekov ficcers out there have McCoy agonizing about having to wait until Chekov's 18 to make any kind of move on him (and several artists have made this a not-very-funny running gag).
What they aren't taking into account, apparently, is that a) we have no official "age of consent" ever specified in Star Trek (although 15 was mentioned for Human males in TNG -- or at least for Riker), and that b) right now in the real world the age of consent in the country of Russia AND the American State of Georgia is 16.
So really, they're good to go.
*which is nonsensical, since Chekov was 22 in "Who Mourns for Adonais?" which took place in late 2267 and therefore he should have been 13 in 2258 (which is when he said he was 17, since Pike met Jim in 2255 and everything from the Kobayashi Maru test onwards happens "Three Years Later"), and there is no reason whatsoever that the Kelvin's encounter with the Narada and all the changes that wrought on Jim Kirk's life should have caused Pavel Andreievich Chekov to be born four years early!
What they aren't taking into account, apparently, is that a) we have no official "age of consent" ever specified in Star Trek (although 15 was mentioned for Human males in TNG -- or at least for Riker), and that b) right now in the real world the age of consent in the country of Russia AND the American State of Georgia is 16.
So really, they're good to go.
*which is nonsensical, since Chekov was 22 in "Who Mourns for Adonais?" which took place in late 2267 and therefore he should have been 13 in 2258 (which is when he said he was 17, since Pike met Jim in 2255 and everything from the Kobayashi Maru test onwards happens "Three Years Later"), and there is no reason whatsoever that the Kelvin's encounter with the Narada and all the changes that wrought on Jim Kirk's life should have caused Pavel Andreievich Chekov to be born four years early!