Star Trek flailing

[emmagrant01]

Have just seen Star Trek. Hired a babysitter so I could go in the middle of the day by myself and revel in the slashy goodness. Holy shit, people. Holy fuck. I need me some Kirk/Spock fic STAT. Preferably something written in the last couple of weeks. Surely there are a few hundred new comms by now. Recs? Anyone?

OMFG, wasn't it brilliant how they made the film AU from ST:TOS, so that the entire future is wide open? I mean, seriously, is that not the most brilliant thing they could have done? Now there can be all new fics, books, movies, and fics -- did I mention fics? -- none of which have to follow the TOS canon! Or, they could just rewrite it all, given the newly rewritten history! You don't really even have to know much about the TOS-verse in order to read and write it! Mwahaha! The old-timers are either going to love that or hate it, but I am just in awe of the brilliance of that move on the part of the film's writers.

And holy shit, the slashy potential! Sure, they threw that whole Spock/Uhura thing in there to take the edge off, but by the end of the film, Spock and Kirk only had eyes for each other. Old!Spock practically said so much to Young!Spock at the end. He was all, "You neeeeed each other."

Oh, yes. They sure do. And hell, throw Uhura into the mix too. Why not?

And holy shit, that last scene, when Eric Chris Pine's Kirk walked onto the bridge, he had utterly morphed into Shatner's Kirk. It was fantastic. I got chills.


I have been waiting a long time for this film, because I knew it would give me just the kick in the ass I needed to get back into fandom. Consider my ass well and truly kicked! Woot!

Comments

[longleggedgit.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, I see why they did the AU thing, but it kind of annoys me to be honest. :| It feels like a cop-out! I think the ST universe is big enough that they could have made a great movie WITHIN the boundaries of canon.

For the most part, I did like it, though! I was just a little disappointed in some aspects, but that's cause I'm a silly old Trekkie. :P

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm still uncertain how canon is defined in the ST fandom. It was pretty complicated in the Star Wars fandom with all the films, novelizations, third-party-written books, comics, and RPGs, but for ST it must be insane. I've always been a casual fan, but never hard-core enough to figure all of that stuff out, and seriously, I doubt I'll be able to.

I would love to get to a point where I feel comfortable writing fic, and I hope I can do it without being taken down 18 pegs by the people who know the universe 20 times better than I do, yanno? The ST universe is pretty huge and intimidating!

[longleggedgit.livejournal.com]

You know, at this point, so am I. xD And to be fair, ST has always been really into time travel plots. I do get why he made that move, though--it gives him a lot more freedom, and even makes it possible for fans to get less upset when he makes inevitable changes to canon.

Haha, it's a lot. I don't think I understand over half of it, myself.

I think you'll be fine! It is a big, intimidating verse, but from what I know, ST fandom is really sweet, and since most old-schoolers liked the new film, too, you have no need to feel bad if you just stick to that canon writing fic. :)