Wherein Maewyn reveals her past in Star Trek fandom
This started out as a reply to Taerie's comments in one of Mechtild's LJ entries. It's expanded somewhat from what I'd started writing!
Taeri and I seem to have similarities in our experiences with Star Trek fandom.
When she was younger, she had joined a Star Trek club and said, "It changed so much of my life that I wonder who I would be now if ( Read more... )
That picture of you and James Doohan is so cute.. and the story of his hand on your knee cracked me up. That was no accident you know. BAD Scotty!
Neelix was the one I liked the most in Voyager.. (Well, him and the doctor.)
I never really got into Deep Space Nine for some reason. And Enterprise just wasn't Star Trek to me. They ignored canon so much.
I remember those James Blish books! I read many of them and my brash friend mentioned earlier had ALL of them.. AND a tape recording of every single episode! We were crazed.
I guess if it hadn't been for Star Trek and Fandom I never would have met my husband. I sort of remember him standing behind somebody I was being introduced to as I was doing my shift at a convention desk. I have an indistinct memory of someone with red hair. Little did I know that the cross hairs were on ME. (He was sixteen years old! I was his first and only love. How romantic is that?)
Even more unusual we later found out that years before we had grown up with adjoining back yards! I don't remember him from then but he remembered once we realized this that as a twelve year old boy he used to slyly watch me with binoculars when I would sunbathe outside in my bikini.
Eventually we mentioned the coincidence of the backyards to his father who looked bemused for a moment and then suddenly brightened. "Did you used to sunbathe outside in a bikini???!!" We all cracked up. Like father like son I guess. I of course never had the slightest idea that anyone saw or noticed me out there.
I am also struck at how similar your history is to mine. Interesting how something of such apparent insignificance as a television show could end up drastically changing lives. All of the friendships I made in those years have endured to this day. We are all in touch although we have scattered all over the country. I certainly never expected it. It has been a strange and astonishing journey.
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This is amazing! You are a person I wish I'd met years ago! I've never met anyone else who was a Neelix fan! I even wrote a fic about him and Kes. No one has read it except me. I'm not ashamed of it, but I didn't think anyone else would want to read it.
I watched DS9, but wasn't as obsessed with it as some people were. I liked Enterprise, but it was on at a ridiculous hour at night, and they kept changing the time, leaving it off, and in the end, I just gave up.
If your friend had all those James Blish books, did she also have the photo novels? I think I've got all of them! (Secondhand bookshops are very handy.)
I love the story on how you met your husband (and how he - and his father - spied on you earlier in your life!) By the way, my husband is a redhead too! Unfortunately that's where the similarity ends. He has no interest whatsoever in Science Fiction or Fantasy. Oh well...
With regard to friendships formed through a mutual interest, earlier this year, my friend (who was the club's Co-ordinator all those years ago) had a party. There were a whole lot of people present that I hadn't seen for years. There was one man who remembered me, but for the life of me, I didn't remember him. I suppose that's what comes of being on a committee. At one stage the club had over 400 members, so it wasn't surprising that I didn't remember him.
I've enjoyed this little journey into the past. :)
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