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I broke up with Star Trek for good, for real, for ever, around halfway through the ST:Voyager run. It had been my first fandom, inducted as I was as a small child, sitting on the couch watching TOS reruns with my dad, who claimed even then that he'd seen every single episode. I'd gotten so excited about the upcoming reboot now known as TNG: discussing its merits with family and friends in that serious, slightly, ah, authoritative? way that Treksters do, going to cons, and eventually, blissfully, in the early nineties finding my way on to the internet where I really belonged.
My point is, Trek was my childhood sweetheart. We grew up together. We were right for each other. And my parents loved and approved too; it was a de facto member of the family, which made the breakup that much more difficult.
But it was the right decision. So when the movie came calling, I had to think seriously about whether to reconsider my cold-turkey, no-contact policy. Had enough time elapsed, I wondered, that it no longer had the power to hurt or disappoint me?
Yes. And I saw the movie, and loved it. Not enough to go back to the relationship we had before, but in a more fondly distant hey-kid-you-did-good kind of way. Not that it didn't have its problems, like OMG Gene SAID "no more time-travel stories" and then as soon as he died they did that freaking idiotic Data's Brain rip-off and haven't stopped with it and the AU BS since and it's just an excuse for lazy writing, which is probably why lazy writers KEEP DOING IT but I can appreciate execution, and this was well executed.
In fact, my only real disappointment is that I find this iteration of Kirk to be as sexually unattractive as Shatner-Kirk. He's always been the least appealing of the captains, and I don't know why. Picard? Fuck yes, in a heartbeat. The DS9 guy? Absolutely, with or without the definite article. Hell, I'd even take post-haircut Janeway out for a few drinks and see where the night goes. But Kirk, for all his womanizing ways, continues to leave me cold.
Of course, it may just because everyone in the movie is under 30 and I'm attracted to grizzled 40-somethings. Whatever. Shut up. It'll go away soon. Here, have some Spock/Uhura + Kirk.
Anything else interesting? Well, I'm enjoying My First Dictionary.
Jonathan Ross got Ewan McGregor to say the word "cock" (at about 6:30), which I appreciated.
Also, thumbs up for slashy King's porn!
Yeah, that's all I got.
My point is, Trek was my childhood sweetheart. We grew up together. We were right for each other. And my parents loved and approved too; it was a de facto member of the family, which made the breakup that much more difficult.
But it was the right decision. So when the movie came calling, I had to think seriously about whether to reconsider my cold-turkey, no-contact policy. Had enough time elapsed, I wondered, that it no longer had the power to hurt or disappoint me?
Yes. And I saw the movie, and loved it. Not enough to go back to the relationship we had before, but in a more fondly distant hey-kid-you-did-good kind of way. Not that it didn't have its problems, like OMG Gene SAID "no more time-travel stories" and then as soon as he died they did that freaking idiotic Data's Brain rip-off and haven't stopped with it and the AU BS since and it's just an excuse for lazy writing, which is probably why lazy writers KEEP DOING IT but I can appreciate execution, and this was well executed.
In fact, my only real disappointment is that I find this iteration of Kirk to be as sexually unattractive as Shatner-Kirk. He's always been the least appealing of the captains, and I don't know why. Picard? Fuck yes, in a heartbeat. The DS9 guy? Absolutely, with or without the definite article. Hell, I'd even take post-haircut Janeway out for a few drinks and see where the night goes. But Kirk, for all his womanizing ways, continues to leave me cold.
Of course, it may just because everyone in the movie is under 30 and I'm attracted to grizzled 40-somethings. Whatever. Shut up. It'll go away soon. Here, have some Spock/Uhura + Kirk.
Anything else interesting? Well, I'm enjoying My First Dictionary.
Jonathan Ross got Ewan McGregor to say the word "cock" (at about 6:30), which I appreciated.
Also, thumbs up for slashy King's porn!
Yeah, that's all I got.