Trek meta rec

[emmagrant01]

I was following some links and found this awesome piece of meta on the ways the AOS is different from TOS. I don't know TOS canon very well, and reading this really helped me see the difference, so I recommend it highly.

Here is a sample of what she says about Kirk and Spock:

In TOS, Spock was a restraining and cooling influence on the much more emotional Kirk. Their relationship was adversarial but not personally so; I find it unbelievably awesome that this is going to be the opposite. [...] This is two people who can compare and contrast their juvenile arrest records. This is two people who already have a habit of fighting personally and escalate each other to violence. Their intial reactions to being challenged by each other is already set in the habit of going for the throat first.

It's like they were looking all their lives for the one person they can't break, and lookie here, there you go. Jim Kirk, who doesn't know how to lose, and Spock, who burns down the village and salts the earth when he goes to war.

They are going to have some epic fights, and some epic angry sex.

Okay, that's piquing my interest in K/S again... XD

Comments

[green-key.livejournal.com]

Yes and yes and YES!

The biggest change here, imo, is Spock. Gene Roddenberry, for reasons of era and NBC and others, couldn't go into Spock's history very much; the studio already felt he was far too alien, and Gene had to push the envelope in small ways. But the AOS addition of his story growing up recognizes his Human half as well as his Vulcan half, and the struggle he goes through to balance those sides and find acceptance within society (he leaves Vulcan and comes to Earth for acceptance), his family (mother accepts and loves him, father doesn't understand him, is embarrassed by him, and pushes him to be Vulcan), and acceptance of himself. He's pretty messed up, especially for a Vulcan. And it's entirely believable.

Kirk also is changed, though not as dramatically. We get the idea that he's rebellious, and possibly has issues with his step-father. Asking about his father is one of the first questions he puts to Spock Prime. He's still trying to find himself, leaning toward what he knows (jump first, talk fast - bravado will cover everything), trying to do something he doesn't.

Two guys trying to find themselves. It's a *brilliant* start for rebooting the series, because they're going to grown and find themselves together along this new path. Yum. *G*

That said, I can't wait for the DVD to see the cut scene of Spock's birth. Should be interesting to compare Sarek's reaction to George Kirk's. Also, a scene of antagonism between Jim and his brother Sam (who is, as I understand it, the boy Jim passes on the road in AOS).

[wivern.livejournal.com]

Fascinating post. It makes so much sense.

Though I'm the opposite to her re Spock. I don't much like him in NewTrek, he has lost his Vilcanness and that's what made him fascinating to me. Though to be fair, it may just be that they have altered what being Vulcan means, but in that case I wish they hadn't gone the route of making them aggressive, angry, frankly nasty types. It was the intense emotion controlled that was so appealing to me. *sigh* maybe things will sort out in further movies.

On the plus side, I like NewKirk better than the original. *g* And I should probably add that I liked the movie sooo much.