Writer's Block: The Final Frontier
Oct. 24th, 2008 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Hmm.
Truth is, I don't currently care about Star Trek in the least. My interest flagged after Star Trek: The Next Generation because Sisko was a bore, the lovely Kira merely brought us into Bajoran religous politics, I couldn't stand the Ferengi, and Chakotay was the disappointment of the century - the rebel who was more meekly conformist than Starfleet itself. Where were the Picards of yesteryear?
But I discovered slash through Star Trek, back when K/S was all there was, and I loved it. Anyone else remember Cheap Thrills? Thrust? But that was years and several fandoms ago, and slash has come a long way, and you can't (quite) go home again.
And... time for a confession... though I thought I couldn't care less about Star Trek, when I saw a picture of the new young Kirk and Spock on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, I felt a bit of a thrill.
My recipe for a good Star Trek:
Hmm.
Truth is, I don't currently care about Star Trek in the least. My interest flagged after Star Trek: The Next Generation because Sisko was a bore, the lovely Kira merely brought us into Bajoran religous politics, I couldn't stand the Ferengi, and Chakotay was the disappointment of the century - the rebel who was more meekly conformist than Starfleet itself. Where were the Picards of yesteryear?
But I discovered slash through Star Trek, back when K/S was all there was, and I loved it. Anyone else remember Cheap Thrills? Thrust? But that was years and several fandoms ago, and slash has come a long way, and you can't (quite) go home again.
And... time for a confession... though I thought I couldn't care less about Star Trek, when I saw a picture of the new young Kirk and Spock on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, I felt a bit of a thrill.
My recipe for a good Star Trek:
- Two, maybe three at most, strong central viewpoint characters.
- Put in sense of real science fiction - a sense of wonder, innovation, discovery, exploration. A sense of newness. Not just a future that feels like the past.
- Be socially progressive rather than conservative.
- Be imaginative, but keep the characters' psychology realistic.
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Date: 2008-10-24 11:08 pm (UTC)I'm very excited about the new one, much to my surprise.
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Date: 2008-10-25 02:00 pm (UTC)Perhaps I should have persisted - but I was just so turned off by the first two seasons. Or whatever it was I saw. It's a surprise I ever watched any Star Trek again.
I'm not - yet - excited about the new one. But I've gone from an attitude of "I don't even want to hear about it" to a touch of visceral thrill - which will probably prevail. Especially if it's good.