Star Trek
Just saw the new Star Trek film. It had a little to be desired by way of plot but it used feels and that was super-effective.
Let me start by telling you about my love for Star Trek.
Star Trek was my first fandom. As in, it was the first thing I'm conscious of being a fan of instead of liking. I remember when I first saw it, for example. I'd be 12, I guess. Going on a school trip and they showed First Contact on the bus and I loved it. I came home and started watching it on TV. I started reading the tie-in novels and I loved it. The FIRST think I did on the internet (I can remember this) was starch for Star Trek. I discovered fanfiction through star trek. I still remember little me stumbling in to the living room and telling my dad you could find stories about star trek online and they were FREE! I remember back in the days where you paid for time on the internet and I only had an hour a day or my mum would yell at me I'd spent my hour hunting fanficiton then the rest of the evening reading what I'd found.
The first piece of fanfiction I ever wrote, in the year 2000 when I was only 14, was Star Trek: Voyager fanfiction. It was terrible. I wrote my first piece of slash fanfiction, aged 16, for Star Trek: Enterprise. Enterprise was the first place I actively engaged in fandom as a participant instead of just a lurker. In those days fandom worked through yahoo groups and I was on EntSTSlash. It was the first time I'd had a close group of online friends. I celebrated my 17th birthday with those people, I remember because I remember one of the mods telling me they were glad they didn't have to pretend not to know I was under 17 any more. Enterprise fandom introduced me to multishipping as well as slash. I, being me, shipped a rare pairing (Reed/Mayweather) but I used to read a ton of pairings. Anything really, to get my fix. So I became and still am a multishipper.
I went to my first con when I was 16. It was a SFX convention and I met the guy who plays Brashir on DS9. I still have my con photo with him. It was my finishing high school present. At that con I also bought a starfleet academy shirt. I still own it. I also still own Enterprise action figures and a toy tricoder because I'm an adult! (Those action figures were really good quality but that's not a topic you want to start me on).
So, I've not been active in the fandom for a long time but it has a special place in my heart.
So, now I've spewed my fandom past everywhere, I really enjoyed this movie. I thought the plot was dodgy as all hell (the things that happened, how they happened, none of it really worked for me) but, let's face it, I'm there for the character interaction and that was golden. There were at least three different times I wanted to shout "NOW KISS" at the screen when Spock and Kirk were talking. That's always a good sign. I also loved Uhura in this. I didn't like her so much in the first one but I loved her in this. I really want fic of her, Spock and Jim in a three way relationship. I think at this point Jim's so young and so full of himself that as much as I love Spock they'd never work as a pairing but with Nyota to mediate between them, and then Jim to mediate between Nyota and Spock as we see him do in that beautiful shuttle scene that was basically "You upset me and you upset your boyfriend too. Right Jim?" "Leave me out of this but yes." they could really work as a three.
Let me start by telling you about my love for Star Trek.
Star Trek was my first fandom. As in, it was the first thing I'm conscious of being a fan of instead of liking. I remember when I first saw it, for example. I'd be 12, I guess. Going on a school trip and they showed First Contact on the bus and I loved it. I came home and started watching it on TV. I started reading the tie-in novels and I loved it. The FIRST think I did on the internet (I can remember this) was starch for Star Trek. I discovered fanfiction through star trek. I still remember little me stumbling in to the living room and telling my dad you could find stories about star trek online and they were FREE! I remember back in the days where you paid for time on the internet and I only had an hour a day or my mum would yell at me I'd spent my hour hunting fanficiton then the rest of the evening reading what I'd found.
The first piece of fanfiction I ever wrote, in the year 2000 when I was only 14, was Star Trek: Voyager fanfiction. It was terrible. I wrote my first piece of slash fanfiction, aged 16, for Star Trek: Enterprise. Enterprise was the first place I actively engaged in fandom as a participant instead of just a lurker. In those days fandom worked through yahoo groups and I was on EntSTSlash. It was the first time I'd had a close group of online friends. I celebrated my 17th birthday with those people, I remember because I remember one of the mods telling me they were glad they didn't have to pretend not to know I was under 17 any more. Enterprise fandom introduced me to multishipping as well as slash. I, being me, shipped a rare pairing (Reed/Mayweather) but I used to read a ton of pairings. Anything really, to get my fix. So I became and still am a multishipper.
I went to my first con when I was 16. It was a SFX convention and I met the guy who plays Brashir on DS9. I still have my con photo with him. It was my finishing high school present. At that con I also bought a starfleet academy shirt. I still own it. I also still own Enterprise action figures and a toy tricoder because I'm an adult! (Those action figures were really good quality but that's not a topic you want to start me on).
So, I've not been active in the fandom for a long time but it has a special place in my heart.
So, now I've spewed my fandom past everywhere, I really enjoyed this movie. I thought the plot was dodgy as all hell (the things that happened, how they happened, none of it really worked for me) but, let's face it, I'm there for the character interaction and that was golden. There were at least three different times I wanted to shout "NOW KISS" at the screen when Spock and Kirk were talking. That's always a good sign. I also loved Uhura in this. I didn't like her so much in the first one but I loved her in this. I really want fic of her, Spock and Jim in a three way relationship. I think at this point Jim's so young and so full of himself that as much as I love Spock they'd never work as a pairing but with Nyota to mediate between them, and then Jim to mediate between Nyota and Spock as we see him do in that beautiful shuttle scene that was basically "You upset me and you upset your boyfriend too. Right Jim?" "Leave me out of this but yes." they could really work as a three.