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...well, to Star Trek. (And I'm so annoyed to realize I don't have a single Star Trek icon!)
Star Trek was my first fandom and is still my favorite show. I discovered it when I was 13 (1976 - I'm getting old! Older. Older!) and never looked back. Actually, I saw parts of a couple of eps when I was 10 without knowing what it was and loved it then, but didn't actually find out about Star Trek till a few years later. I came in through the back door, so to speak, falling in love with the show via James Blish's adaptations months before I got to see an episode. (Every Wednesday we'd go to the library. Every Wednesday this paperback book called Star Trek 7 - green cover, showing a big green hand about to grasp a spaceship - would practically throw itself in my face. I couldn't avoid it; every single week, I'd spin that book rack and there it was. I got so fed up with seeing it that I borrowed it. Devoured it in one night, then threw a fit - hey, I was 13! - till my mom took me back so I could get some more.)
I love Star Trek - the original, the one without all the great production values and special effects that the movies and later series had, the one where Captain Kirk bedded every woman he met (except you know, he really didn't - go back and watch closely) and occasionally chewed the scenery. I could actually go on for pages about Star Trek's place in my life but I won't. Spock was my favorite character from the beginning and Dr. McCoy has always been a close second. Sometimes, when it's been awhile since I've seen an ep, I think I don't really like Captain Kirk, but as soon as I see even part of an episode, I realize I'm wrong - I do like him. I love him. If I were in Starfleet, I'd rather he be my captain than any other we've seen in the Trekverse. (And - oh, this is so embarrassing! - when that "name 5 characters you would sleep with" meme was going around, I did it in my head, though not in my lj - and Spock did not show up on the list. But Captain Kirk did. !!! I was appalled - I don't like to go with the crowd, I don't want to be one woman in a harem, I don't do one-night stands. But Captain Kirk could have me. No question. [hangs head])
Thanks, Gene Roddenberry and William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelly and James Doohan (may they rest in peace), Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Walter Koenig for The Best Show Ever.
[geek mode off now!]
Star Trek was my first fandom and is still my favorite show. I discovered it when I was 13 (1976 - I'm getting old! Older. Older!) and never looked back. Actually, I saw parts of a couple of eps when I was 10 without knowing what it was and loved it then, but didn't actually find out about Star Trek till a few years later. I came in through the back door, so to speak, falling in love with the show via James Blish's adaptations months before I got to see an episode. (Every Wednesday we'd go to the library. Every Wednesday this paperback book called Star Trek 7 - green cover, showing a big green hand about to grasp a spaceship - would practically throw itself in my face. I couldn't avoid it; every single week, I'd spin that book rack and there it was. I got so fed up with seeing it that I borrowed it. Devoured it in one night, then threw a fit - hey, I was 13! - till my mom took me back so I could get some more.)
I love Star Trek - the original, the one without all the great production values and special effects that the movies and later series had, the one where Captain Kirk bedded every woman he met (except you know, he really didn't - go back and watch closely) and occasionally chewed the scenery. I could actually go on for pages about Star Trek's place in my life but I won't. Spock was my favorite character from the beginning and Dr. McCoy has always been a close second. Sometimes, when it's been awhile since I've seen an ep, I think I don't really like Captain Kirk, but as soon as I see even part of an episode, I realize I'm wrong - I do like him. I love him. If I were in Starfleet, I'd rather he be my captain than any other we've seen in the Trekverse. (And - oh, this is so embarrassing! - when that "name 5 characters you would sleep with" meme was going around, I did it in my head, though not in my lj - and Spock did not show up on the list. But Captain Kirk did. !!! I was appalled - I don't like to go with the crowd, I don't want to be one woman in a harem, I don't do one-night stands. But Captain Kirk could have me. No question. [hangs head])
Thanks, Gene Roddenberry and William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelly and James Doohan (may they rest in peace), Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Walter Koenig for The Best Show Ever.
[geek mode off now!]
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