so my grandma died recently, and my parents have been dealing with the quantities of Stuff accumulated over the course of her and my grandpaâs lives, which could be interesting on its own as a family matter, but, well, grandpa was a science fiction writer, and they knew a lot of science fiction writers, which means a lot of the stuff is classic sci-fi and fantasy. books, artwork, that kind of thing. what i had not realized, but perhaps should have predicted, was that knowing a lot of science fiction writers in the â60s meant that they knew people who had written for this one TV show in the â60s that some science fiction writers worked on, and these people liked to share stuff.
what iâm saying is that i have now held in my hands one of the original, physical scripts for the star trek episode âamok timeâ.
it was like holding a piece of history. my own hands, carefully cradling the origin of sex pollen and fuck or die. a work whose influence went far behind what the writer could have expectedâsacred, almost, in its way. who knows how much spawned from this episode? how much fanfiction would never have existed were it not for this holy text? indeed, the very concept of slash itself? an artifact, a priceless relic, sitting on my parentsâ couch.
i havenât seen the entirety of the episode itself, so i donât know if there are any real differences between the script and what was aired, but i had to skim it anywayâand i did find something that is perhaps worth mentioning, whether or not this actually counts as canon. but hey, hard to get more canon than an Actual Official Script, right?
VULCANS BLUSH YELLOW, BITCHES, ITâS CANON
thanks for specifying âkarate-typeâ, theodore sturgeon. coulda gotten confusing, that.
anyway, it was a deeply surreal experience and iâm pretty sure the script is getting donated someplace with a lot of the other stuff, but man, my grandparents were cool
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