while reading, and writing, too much fic

[chanter1944]

Clicky the cut for my personal musing on one TOS Trek character. YMMV. No idea what's been up with me lately, but this particular character's been giving me all the dang feels. Sharding adorable high-strung choirboy. I need to rewatch movies 2-4, or something. Maybe that'll de-clog my subconscious. What say, meimichan? I give you permission to laugh at me all you want.


Things Pavel Andreievich Chekov is absolutely categorically bloody not:

*a sly, manipulative schemer hiding reems of wicked knowledge behind an innocent facade

*the ship's bicycle, see both above and below

*promiscuous to a ridiculous degree; he's canonically interested in women, but somehow, a wild and misspent boyhood in Russia carrying over to dealings on the ship just does not compute, at all

*17, dammit, he openly says 22 in a TOS episode and that's what I'm sticking with, all the love to his alternate counterpart where it's due

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[chanter1944]

Spock still frightens me. I like Valeris. Not like *that*... platonically. One of my first, if not the first, glimpse I ever got of Spock was a certain scene between he and Valeris, after she did not... remember certain information. Very traumatic to watch, and very formative, when you're twelve. Spock's given me the low-level uneasy iffiness ever since, excellent character though he is, because all through watching prior canon, I've known just what he and Kirk are capable of. That's getting well and soundly addressed in a fic I'm working on, oh yes it is.

Fair enough to Picard unbending a little at the end of the series, though I'm guessing there are about a dozen visual cues (not Qs, ahem) I missed in that last scene. :)

Sisko, though... Every inch the military officer, that man, but with none of the chilly formality of a Picard, even if *some* of Picard's chill was a cultivated thing. Sisko's command was an honesty, Sulu the same, and that's a deliberate word choice on my part. Both of them had claws and no mistake, because you're absolutely right about the sort of warriors they both are - my tenses are flopping all over the place here, and I'd much rather say *are*, if given a choice - but... they're warriors with undeniably warm hearts, those two. And the occasional sly wisecrack that springs out of nowhere...! Yes, I'm mostly looking at you there, Sulu. Rand, too. Ahem. Speaking of Rand again, I was *delighted* when she started climbing the ranks, yeoman to transporter chief to first officer. She deserved it. I have one gigantic bias toward heroes of other stories, yes I do.

There are audio dramas of a number of Excelsior adventures out there. They are *treasures*. I really do need to find them again.

[we_are_spc]

Pass them? I mean...I need to look to see if I have any first.

I'm going ot miss my ex's connections to music and things. He gave me so damn much before he went to far-most of which I cannot get to now that I am no longer in the graces with him-and if I have anything to say for it, won't be for a life time or more.

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But dammit, I'm still having a hard time with a lot of things. *sighs*

-Fallon~

[chanter1944]

*hugs offered*

If I can find them, I'll share 'em.

[technoshaman]

There was a LOT of flap in fandom over what Spock did to Valeris.

I think most of the cues were audible; there were looks exchanged between Riker and Worf, but other than that, not much you missed.

Sisko ... It's funny how having an alien spirit alongside will give you a good command sense. (q.v. Jeffrey Sinclair of Babylon 5) Sulu... has the warrior spirit of a samurai, but the joie de vie of hanging out with an Enterprise crew... that can teach even a Klingon how to let his hair down. :)

I think my favourite "out of no where" shot was a freshly-re-integrated Spock from STIV:STW:

"Spock, where the hell's the power you promised?"
"One damn minute, Admiral!"

Jimbo SO had that coming! :)

James Tiberius Flavius Brosephus... :)

[chanter1944]

As there *should* have been a giant flap over what Spock, and Kirk (he gave the order, so he's culpable too) did to Valeris, regardless of what she herself did or how badly they needed her information. If nothing else, let the guilty take the consequences! Which they never did, so far as I know. ... Yeah, I'll let you know when that fic's ready to go, if you like? Not sure if you're interested, but it's another Young Wizards/Trek crossover.

Re: nonstandard souls and command: You're not that far off, I don't think. Sisko was a warrior musician engineer right from the start, even before the emissary situation. How much of that was genetics and how much was the Prophets spilling over... I'm inclined to say it was nearly all him, honestly, with a little definite extra depth added by wormhole circumstances. Sulu? You nailed it. The spirit of a samurai (and a little bit of a musketeer, ahem), the command (and the humor) of someone who came up as an Enterprise officer, and the ship-linked awareness of a pilot born and raised. :) I still imagine that the response "Fly her apart, then!" must have been a wrench, for him, even if he couldn't let himself feel it at the time. Thankfully for everyone, including Excelsior, she did not fly apart. But... I can imagine him feeling remorse for that one, for his ship, just the same. What helmsman wouldn't?

And Sinclair... You know how much I adore that man. He's himself, authentically, wherever his soul draws part of its influence from. That's all him.

Oh my shards, that one-liner is flipping hilarious! I didn't quite catch it for the zinger it was at twelve or thirteen, but now? I giggle like a fool. Ditto Chekov's "But I do not know your name!" Aww, sweetheart. <3