#strek

[slut-to-you]

[mrspockllap]

problem: i miss star trek— the solution: star trek/mash crossover

[freakinglegs]

that moment when your high friend gets ahold of your jbl speaker

[diseasehaver]

what if deep space nine happen today odo get dubai chocolate

[thebluestockingfirefly]

Spock's Death and Funeral

If William Shatner ever doubts his importance in the Star Trek universe, look at this. The genuine emotion here is gutwrenching.

This is why the Pine/Quinto films didn't work. I like the cast of those films and their portrayals, but those films tried to hyper speed the relationships and pretend they had the same impact, and it didn't work. Spock shrieking KHAAAAAAN and Kirk sacrificing himself felt meaningless, firstly because there was no real logic to that swap, and secondly because Kirk's sacrifice felt hollow. He was barely the captain. He was still building a relationship with his crew (I love Karl Urban as Bones, though).

And regardless of anything else, magically bringing Kirk back to life with super blood dramatically undercut everything from the TOS movies. They killed off Spock because they didn't know if Leonard Nimoy was going to be back for the fourth film, and dammit, that loss felt real. By the end of Wrath of Khan, Spock was dead, and Kirk had real feelings about that. There was a damn funeral and everything. New Trek was just all lol we stuck Kirk in Sickbay and gave him super blood and he's totes fine now.

I enjoy SNW because they actually spend time on developing the crew's relationships. Spock would hijack the Enterprise to take Pike to Talos IV and it would be believable because the show has spent that time with the two men.

Anyway apparently in my spare time I actually want to write a whole lot of analysis about Star Trek, so let's mark that one on the 'future career goals' bingo card.

[grouperhq]

Hold on have people seen this....................

LEGO WORF THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[imetyouonljpodcast]

This Week In Fandom History → July 1976

"Commercialism in Strekdom,” an essay about fandom and the sales of fanworks, is released in Star Trek zine “Spectrum” #26. This is one of the earliest arguments by a fan that fanworks must necessarily remain free from profit to protect the nature of fandom as something other than an extension of corporate marketing. Written by M.J. Fisher, the zined of Spectrum.

[klaushargrief]

“You won the war, Edison! You gave us peace!” “Peace… is not what I was born into.”