Comments | eliyes: thoughts on a dominant theme in McCoy/Chekov reboot fic, with obligatory TOS timeline footnote

eliyes

thoughts on a dominant theme in McCoy/Chekov reboot fic, with obligatory TOS timeline footnote

Jul 04, 2010 06:50

In the 2009 movie, from the end of Act I onward, Chekov is 17*, and McCoy is 31. Subsequently, a lot of the McCoy/Chekov ficcers out there have McCoy agonizing about having to wait until Chekov's 18 to make any kind of move on him (and several artists have made this a not-very-funny running gag ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

kiffie July 4 2010, 17:35:44 UTC

Wow, timeline inconsistencies make an ely do SCIENCE research! :D

eliyes July 4 2010, 21:07:40 UTC

Yes?

jo_the_phoenix July 4 2010, 17:39:33 UTC

That seems to be a consistent theme in several (read: all) pairings with Nu!Chekov. I find it slightly irritating.

eliyes July 4 2010, 21:08:34 UTC

Only slightly?

jo_the_phoenix July 5 2010, 17:59:37 UTC

I tend to understate things.... it is so irritating that I want to rip my hair out while screaming at the top of my lungs at all of the "Chekov turns 18" fics.
'Kay, maybe not /that/ irritating..... but I think your icon says it all.

eliyes July 5 2010, 19:49:31 UTC

Ah. Understatement is a skill I admire but don't always catch in text.

It's pretty irritating. And I tend to think that people nearly twice his age have better things to do than wait until the instant he's legal to jump him.

imasupermuteant July 4 2010, 19:52:20 UTC

Really what we have to surmise from all this is that nu!Chekov is obviously lying about his age and using some kind of genetic voodoo to make himself go through puberty early and that McCoy (who is the only one who could potentially find out about said voodoo) still has to wait two years.

....That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

eliyes July 4 2010, 21:08:56 UTC

It's as good an explanation as any.