Writer's Block: The Final Frontier
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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: 2008-10-25 02:10 pm (UTC)I don't think I saw "Trials and Tribbleations". Good title.
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Date: 2008-10-25 04:24 pm (UTC)It melds the DS9 crew (some of them) with the original series ep "The Trouble with Tribbles." By all rights it should have been too cheesy to work, but it was surprisingly engaging and poked a lot of fun at ST's constant use of time travel plots.
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Date: 2008-10-26 01:56 am (UTC)