30 Days of TV meme - Day 4

Feb 10, 2011 10:12

Oh hey, I'd almost forgotten I was going this...

Day 04 - favorite show ever: Star Trek. I've occasionally joked that my love of Trek was the only good thing I got from my father. TNG was the show of my childhood, I've seen all the movies a dozen times each. I still sob every time I see Spock’s death scene in Wrath of Khan. I still cry every time I see them watch Enterprise blaze out in the sky in Search for Spock. I kept a scrapbook of everything Trek related in magazines and TV Guide and newspapers growing up, I owned every Pocket Book novel through the early TNG novels and all the tech manuals (and OMG I just found a bunch of the novelizations available for the Kindle)... I made models of the Enterprise, my sixteenth birthday cake had a picture of the Enterprise.

Trek was my first foray into fanfiction before I even knew what fanfiction was.

I wrote and rewrote and rewrote an impassioned 5000+ word diatribe against the Trek reboot movie before wisely deleting it and just going with “not my Star Trek.” I have Very Strong Feelings about both Voyager and Enterprise. I loved Wesley Crusher because he was the Mary Sue I wanted to be.

I love Star Trek for the ideals it wanted to portray, even though I came to learn how much the execution thereof was rooted in social and political quagmires of its times, and thus still ended up reproducing the racism, sexism, homophobia and colonialism it tried to stand above.

It is the franchise of my heart.

30 Days of TV meme: Day 03 - favorite new show: Castle
Day 01 -should never have been canceled: The Middleman, Blood Ties, Sarah Conner Chronicles, Legend of the Seeker
Day 02 - show that you wish more people were watching: Rizzoli and Isles.

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