My Thoughts On Star Trek
The night before last, I had an exciting and awesome experience when I met up with several internet people: ms_treesap (the only one I really knew prior to the meeting), rhaegal (with whom I have several weird things in common with: e.g. she works in my building and went to school at the top of the road where I grew up, and we'd never met before :O ) and rionaleonhart (who gives new meaning to the word "glomp"). Also in attendance was my IRL friend heyorion, there because she is also a nerd and in case I was murdered.
I was concerned that they would all be 45 years old and named Clive, and would bundle me into a van and do to me... whatever it is these people do, but no. They were in fact actual real-life fangirls, and it turns out that other people like me don't just live in my computer at all but are really real and are lovely as well. Also, they do things like hanging out in houses and eating pizza and watching Star Trek... which is, in fact, what we did. \o/
I had never seen any Star Trek before. My knowledge of it was based on various crumbs of information picked up here and there:
+ A book called Deviant Desires, that is where I first heard about slash, which had a picture of Spock bumming Kirk
+ Having watched William Shatner yell "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN" a number of times on YouTube and LOLing at said clip (seriously, look at his hair)
+ The bit in "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" where they run up a rock that apparently Kirk once ran up
+ The novelty single, which will now be in your head for days (protip: sing "The Final Countdown", that'll expunge it)
+ The recent film, which was awesome in its own right, but that left me wondering about all the extra gags I might have got if I had ever seen the original series.
So. We watched several episodes:
One was called "Naked Time" and, rather annoyingly, featured no nudity. The plot involves... well, pretty much they all get drunk, but it's really a space disease or something, IDEK. One guy stabs himself with a knife so blunt you could probably get away with bringing it on a plane, and bleeds under his shirt without damaging the shirt in any way. Sulu is an oiled, shirtless pirate. Spock is emo.
Another one, I don't know the name of, but they end up in a sort of Bizarro universe where Spock is evil, and you can tell he is evil because he has an evil beard. Despite having a beard he still wears that funny blue eyeshadow that he always wears. I guess it's, like, Vulcan eye markings or something. Also, Uhura's uniform is skimpier than usual and boy, does that lady have intense abs. Ooh, and on that note, Uhura is fucking awesomesauce, yes or yes?
"The Trouble With Tribbles". As far as I could tell, some guy on another ship is intimate with an electrical appliance and sends out a distress call, but by the time Kirk arrives he has freed himself from the Breville Sandwich Maker or whatever it was and has to invent some story about grain. Meanwhile, Uhura gets a pet ball. The pet balls reproduce real fast, so the ship is suddenly full of balls. *Is twelve* Also, there are Klingons, which are - it turns out - men with stupid clothes and ridiculous beards.
"The One Where Spock Goes Into Heat" (may not be actual title). Oh my god, this is just incredible. And ludicrous. And dear god - the K/S is just so, so blatant. Seriously. So basically, Spock gets all sort of... hormonal, to the extent that he throws a bowl of soup at the wall (I think it was in that episode), and finally admits that he needs to get some ASAP or his balls will literally explode, taking the Enterprise with them. They go to Vulcan, where he and Kirk have to fight each other, something to do with Spock having a wife, apparently. Kirk's shirt rips right over his nipples. At the end, Spock still hasn't got laid, and then he and Kirk disappear off together. WHAT. Like I said, fucking awesome. :P
Anyway! So those are, thus far, My Thoughts On Trek. I am now going to make my 28946237435th attempt at drawing some Merlin fanart.
I was concerned that they would all be 45 years old and named Clive, and would bundle me into a van and do to me... whatever it is these people do, but no. They were in fact actual real-life fangirls, and it turns out that other people like me don't just live in my computer at all but are really real and are lovely as well. Also, they do things like hanging out in houses and eating pizza and watching Star Trek... which is, in fact, what we did. \o/
I had never seen any Star Trek before. My knowledge of it was based on various crumbs of information picked up here and there:
+ A book called Deviant Desires, that is where I first heard about slash, which had a picture of Spock bumming Kirk
+ Having watched William Shatner yell "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN" a number of times on YouTube and LOLing at said clip (seriously, look at his hair)
+ The bit in "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" where they run up a rock that apparently Kirk once ran up
+ The novelty single, which will now be in your head for days (protip: sing "The Final Countdown", that'll expunge it)
+ The recent film, which was awesome in its own right, but that left me wondering about all the extra gags I might have got if I had ever seen the original series.
So. We watched several episodes:
One was called "Naked Time" and, rather annoyingly, featured no nudity. The plot involves... well, pretty much they all get drunk, but it's really a space disease or something, IDEK. One guy stabs himself with a knife so blunt you could probably get away with bringing it on a plane, and bleeds under his shirt without damaging the shirt in any way. Sulu is an oiled, shirtless pirate. Spock is emo.
Another one, I don't know the name of, but they end up in a sort of Bizarro universe where Spock is evil, and you can tell he is evil because he has an evil beard. Despite having a beard he still wears that funny blue eyeshadow that he always wears. I guess it's, like, Vulcan eye markings or something. Also, Uhura's uniform is skimpier than usual and boy, does that lady have intense abs. Ooh, and on that note, Uhura is fucking awesomesauce, yes or yes?
"The Trouble With Tribbles". As far as I could tell, some guy on another ship is intimate with an electrical appliance and sends out a distress call, but by the time Kirk arrives he has freed himself from the Breville Sandwich Maker or whatever it was and has to invent some story about grain. Meanwhile, Uhura gets a pet ball. The pet balls reproduce real fast, so the ship is suddenly full of balls. *Is twelve* Also, there are Klingons, which are - it turns out - men with stupid clothes and ridiculous beards.
"The One Where Spock Goes Into Heat" (may not be actual title). Oh my god, this is just incredible. And ludicrous. And dear god - the K/S is just so, so blatant. Seriously. So basically, Spock gets all sort of... hormonal, to the extent that he throws a bowl of soup at the wall (I think it was in that episode), and finally admits that he needs to get some ASAP or his balls will literally explode, taking the Enterprise with them. They go to Vulcan, where he and Kirk have to fight each other, something to do with Spock having a wife, apparently. Kirk's shirt rips right over his nipples. At the end, Spock still hasn't got laid, and then he and Kirk disappear off together. WHAT. Like I said, fucking awesome. :P
Anyway! So those are, thus far, My Thoughts On Trek. I am now going to make my 28946237435th attempt at drawing some Merlin fanart.