Where I haven't gone before

[scarfman]

New thoughts about the new Star Trek.

• The dilettante feminist in me feels Amanda was stuffed in the refrigerator. The parallelism with Kirk could have been better if Spock too had lost his father. But the scene at the transporter pad after Spock has resigned the captaincy requires that Spock's Vulcan parent has survived, and without a total reboot Spock's Vulcan parent is his father. So it goes.
• I've seen more than one comment characterizing the final barrage on Nero's ship as out of character for Kirk, Spock and Star Trek; as done for revenge and in violation of the Federation's values. No doubt this interpretation is fostered if not outright caused by the sotto voce exchange between Kirk and Spock before Nero responds to Kirk's offer of assistance. But Nero refuses the offer, in terms that leave no room for interpretation that he will remain a clear and present deadly danger to the Federation if he is allowed to survive. His ship was damaged but not destroyed; if it had fallen into the black hole that way, it would have come out farther back in time, been repaired, and destroyed the Federation in Jonathan Archer's time. The final barrage on Nero's ship is a survival necessity (like kicking Kruge into the canyon on the Genesis planet, but on behalf of the whole Federation) and, if Kirk and Spock relish the necessity more than you like, remember that they're many years younger than when you met them.
  (And even then: Didn't Spock tell Kirk to kill the Horta? Didn't Kirk say after Praxis, "Let them die?")
• The fanfiction deluging my flist keeps making me say, "I'm not a slasher but a good story is a good story."

Comments

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

I think I'm with you on the Nero thing.

When you say "slash," are you referencing shipping in general, or man/man shipping?

Spock's mom: I was willing to accept her fate as one of the parents was going to die, and her death made it possible for his father to share the truth about his emotions to his son. The film seemed to make Spock struggle with the Vulcan side, so I guess the loss of his mom seemed the logical choice to me for some reason. Still, I get where your feminist is going.

[scarfman]

When you say "slash," are you referencing shipping in general, or man/man shipping?

Slash is man/man 'shipping. Woman/woman is femmeslash. Only non-slashers refer to het pairings as slash.

[laws-of-fizzix.livejournal.com]

But you're still allowed to use the slash itself, if not the term slash in het pairings? Like Uhura/Spock, even though it's not slash, right?

Because don't tell me I've BEEN DOIN' IT WRONG all these years.

[scarfman]

Oh yes. For instance, in the last story I printed here, as "Characters/Pairings" I listed "Spock/Uhura".