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]

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