more on Star Trek!
Am I the only person who got to "These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission..." and immediately teared up?
Oh, come, on. Anyone? ...anyone? Bueller?
Anyway. Moving right along. I love Star Trek. I love it. It is not a part of my earliest childhood, as it is for some people, but I have been watching it on and off for ten years or so, and when I think about it, I think about coming in from school when I was eleven or twelve and putting it on, and it's all mixed up with coming home and growing up and finding some of the first things, science fiction and fandom and grand liberal visions of the future, that I consciously understood I was going to carry with me into adulthood. I love it, very, very much, and I think everyone should love it. It makes me kind of angry to see this weird thing against newbies that's starting up. I am all for new people seeing it and going "omg! shiny! I want to write Kirk/Spock now!", and I really don't understand people getting all... weird about it. Sure, Star Trek has lots of history and Star Trek fandom has lots of history, and it's nice if people know about that. But the history of Star Trek fandom is the history of fandom, too! And, I don't know, I always thought the point of fandom was joy and fanfiction and people jumping up and down with excitement because of this really cool new fandom they're into.
Oh, and can I say again, I love Star Trek. The thing I love about it, is, okay. Star Trek is a vision of our future - us, pathetic human us. We, all of us, have spent decades just eating up this vision of the future where we are - strong, and moral, and liberal, and, sure, you can criticise it for all sorts of reasons, but basically, it shows us as better than we are. I love that. We want to be better, we can be better. That's why I get silly about it.
I think this may be Classic Fandom Week in my head, because having finished A Civil Campaign and laid Bujold down for the moment, I am also sort-of accidentally re-reading lots of Discworld. I read Thud! and Making Money last week (oh, also: whose is the copy of it I have? I'm sure I borrowed it off one of you), and The Wee Free Men, and now I am re-reading Night Watch. Which I also love, but for very different reasons from why I love Star Trek. I have not yet read Nation, which I really ought to read, I'm told - I read half of it over the winter, but must remember to finish it after my exams.
Speaking of my exams - waily, waily, waily, etc. I am aware on some conscious level that there is absolutely no way that I can possibly get through all this stuff in time, especially as Operation Mental Health is going well but not spectacularly, and I keep needing to take time out of my hectic schedule of doing nothing at all to do a slightly different kind of nothing at all, but I have it in a box marked "Do not look at this box". It's... a fact, but it's just there. Oh, and also, my results for the last batch were supposed to come out on May 11th. That's... kind of fail, actually.
...anyway. Still here.
Oh, come, on. Anyone? ...anyone? Bueller?
Anyway. Moving right along. I love Star Trek. I love it. It is not a part of my earliest childhood, as it is for some people, but I have been watching it on and off for ten years or so, and when I think about it, I think about coming in from school when I was eleven or twelve and putting it on, and it's all mixed up with coming home and growing up and finding some of the first things, science fiction and fandom and grand liberal visions of the future, that I consciously understood I was going to carry with me into adulthood. I love it, very, very much, and I think everyone should love it. It makes me kind of angry to see this weird thing against newbies that's starting up. I am all for new people seeing it and going "omg! shiny! I want to write Kirk/Spock now!", and I really don't understand people getting all... weird about it. Sure, Star Trek has lots of history and Star Trek fandom has lots of history, and it's nice if people know about that. But the history of Star Trek fandom is the history of fandom, too! And, I don't know, I always thought the point of fandom was joy and fanfiction and people jumping up and down with excitement because of this really cool new fandom they're into.
Oh, and can I say again, I love Star Trek. The thing I love about it, is, okay. Star Trek is a vision of our future - us, pathetic human us. We, all of us, have spent decades just eating up this vision of the future where we are - strong, and moral, and liberal, and, sure, you can criticise it for all sorts of reasons, but basically, it shows us as better than we are. I love that. We want to be better, we can be better. That's why I get silly about it.
I think this may be Classic Fandom Week in my head, because having finished A Civil Campaign and laid Bujold down for the moment, I am also sort-of accidentally re-reading lots of Discworld. I read Thud! and Making Money last week (oh, also: whose is the copy of it I have? I'm sure I borrowed it off one of you), and The Wee Free Men, and now I am re-reading Night Watch. Which I also love, but for very different reasons from why I love Star Trek. I have not yet read Nation, which I really ought to read, I'm told - I read half of it over the winter, but must remember to finish it after my exams.
Speaking of my exams - waily, waily, waily, etc. I am aware on some conscious level that there is absolutely no way that I can possibly get through all this stuff in time, especially as Operation Mental Health is going well but not spectacularly, and I keep needing to take time out of my hectic schedule of doing nothing at all to do a slightly different kind of nothing at all, but I have it in a box marked "Do not look at this box". It's... a fact, but it's just there. Oh, and also, my results for the last batch were supposed to come out on May 11th. That's... kind of fail, actually.
...anyway. Still here.