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destina

Star Trek!

May 08, 2009 12:35

So, here is how much of a Star Trek geek I am: when the Star Trek Encyclopedia was in its first printing, I found 70+ factual errors and wrote an indignant letter to Michael Okuda, and that is how my name came to be listed in the acknowledgments (with several hundred other eagle-eyed nerds) in the revised version. Can you say Trek nerd? I think you ( Read more... )

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destina May 10 2009, 04:05:20 UTC

eeeeeeeeeeeeee! Also, your icon CRACKS ME UP. :D

lanning May 8 2009, 19:45:39 UTC

I found 70+ factual errors and wrote an indignant letter to Michael Okuda, and that is how my name came to be listed in the acknowledgments

*kowtows* I am not worthy! I am not worthy! *g*

I can't wait to see this. Can't. Wait. My first fandom! *squees a quiet at-work squee*

destina May 10 2009, 04:06:09 UTC

Hahahaha, you're totally worthy. *g* I am just a total nerd, is all. And I still can't figure out where I worked up the nerve to send that letter, heh. ALSO! I'm so happy you're posting and commenting again and stuff. I've missed you lots. *hugs*

taraljc May 10 2009, 04:26:33 UTC

I used to email Okuda and PAD, back in my Usenet days. And when I went on my one and only Paramount backlot tour in 1994ish, I totally geeked out when we ran into Okuda in the signage dept.

lanning May 10 2009, 14:30:32 UTC

*hugs you back* I've missed you, too, sweetie. Lord, I missed everybody so much. I'm so glad to be back. :D

kimberlite May 8 2009, 19:49:12 UTC

I just got back from the theater and share your squee! I loved the relationship development -- go OT3! :)

destina May 10 2009, 04:06:32 UTC

I am looking forward to some good, modern-sensibilities-type OT3 slash. *g*

taraljc May 10 2009, 04:27:09 UTC

YES, PLS. Also, I've never 'shipped Kirk/McCoy before, and erm... yah. *makes grabby hands*

advection May 8 2009, 20:03:08 UTC

Word and more word.

SO MUCH LOVE.

destina May 10 2009, 04:07:18 UTC

\o/! Also, *hug*. Especially tonight; you are on my mind. I hope you are able to have a good day, tomorrow. I know I am feeling it, and I suspect you are, too. *more hugs*

advection May 10 2009, 05:11:35 UTC

I am feeling it, and I'm thinking of you too. Big, big hugs.

Of the good, I was flying when I came out of the theater on Thursday night. Dancing, even. Happy-making movie is a happy thing. :-) :-)

samdonne May 8 2009, 20:20:22 UTC

I enjoyed it all the more for the fact that I have watched enough Star Trek to get the call-outs and the winks and the shivery music, but was never into it enough that I cared when they basically rewrote history--in fact, that was my favorite aspect of the enterprise (no pun). A reset that lives up to its name.

But because they went full-on AU, one thing did annoy me (as it annoys me when I come across it in AU fic).

I didn't get the rationale (or the rationalization) for removing the captainship from Spock. Why must it be Kirk? Answer: because it must. That's not satisfying. Not from the point of view of character and not from the point of view of story. There was no time paradox. No structural reason why Spock couldn't have captained the Enterprise, with Kirk as his First Officer.

I get that, however ballsy Abrams was, he couldn't really go against the foundations of canon. But he put me in a place where I wanted to see the sacred cow slain. (That place that can only be reached, I often think, when one is not writing as a fan ( ... )

samdonne May 8 2009, 20:24:01 UTC

PS: not meaning to squee-harsh. I am very much a-squee and will be seeing it again this weekend. It's just...maybe that Quinto kid was too good.

destina May 10 2009, 04:09:28 UTC

I totally understand what you're saying. (And honestly, you can never, ever be squee-harshing here; I love different points of view. It just so happens I agree with you on this. *g*) I was actually thinking throughout the middle portion of the movie - wow, I never really considered what it would be like for Kirk to serve under Spock. This is interesting. And then, of course, it didn't last. But I love that in the retro-reset sort of thing they have going here, it seemed possible that it might happen for more than a hot second. I expect the fan fiction writers to carry that out, and hopefully something awesome will come of it.

taraljc May 10 2009, 04:37:17 UTC

I think tho that the point was made that, had Spock remained captain, they would have gone to rendezvous with the fleet, and Earth would have been lost. What makes the two of them an excellent team is the combo of Kirk thinking outside the box, while Spock is smarter than a room full of geniuses. I thought the point was that Spock wasn't going to be maverick, and that situation required a maverick captain. But neither of them can do it alone--they needed to work together. When it was all Spock, or all Jim, both on their own, it didn't work. It's not about Jim winning Enterprise out from under Spock. it's about the birth of the team that makes Enterprise the flagship of the fleet ( ... )

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