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

Comments

[chanter1944]

I stumbled across the stealing of the Enterprise scenes, including lead-up, while attempting as much of a rewatch as can be managed in clips... Don't call me tiny? That was Sulu! XD Meanwhile Chekov's sounding very serious indeed over comms there. <3

[technoshaman]

My bad. "Tiny" Sulu. Checkov is still a sneak. "Admiral...."

[chanter1944]

Eh, I didn't recognize the specific quote until the rewatch, so. Not tiny Sulu, that is. XD Chekov's sneakity for all the right reasons. "Admiral..." I *loved* that exchange! Part lingering hero worship, part ohthankgod I'm safe, part quirky humor, part probable dazed state of mind - poor man!

Speaking of admirals, or references to one specific one, when Khan first hears about Kirk's promotion via an offhand reference made to it and breaks in to *hiss* the rank back at Chekov and Terrell... I thought, for years, that that was an agitated Chekov reacting to Khan's disrespecting Kirk, as in 'Hey, use the man's proper rank, you jackass!' I only much later figured out who was actually speaking. Puts a whole different spin on that scene snippet, that does.