Star Trek Reboot

[bluflamingo]

I don't know if anyone reading this is a Star Trek Reboot fan, but I'm guessing someone is, so... would anyone have time to give a quick read through to a 1500 word Kirk/McCoy fic for torachan's transfic mini-fest, preferaby by the end of the month?

New fandom is making me nervous, especially with, you know, *decades* of history that I don't know at all (what is it with me and coming in at the end of something? Like SG1 wasn't bad enough!).

That said, I love the film so much, despite my lack of Trek knowledge - seriously, I don't think I've ever seen a single episode of any of the TV series. Do I have to hand in my sci-fi fan badge now? But I love that they're all *smart* - I mean, them being the Enterprise crew at the end is still implausible, but less so. And Uhura is awesome (I love Zoe Saldana, ever since I saw Center Stage), and so is Captain Pike (I'm not the only one who's really, really strongly reminded of Gibbs from NCIS whenever he's on screen, right?).

And Spock: I intend to assist in the effort to reestablish communication with Starfleet. However, if crew morale is better served by my roaming the halls weeping, I will gladly defer to your medical expertise.

I love that line, it makes me grin every time he says it.

Comments

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

Oh, but I don't see any reason they couldn't have beamed everyone from anywhere on Earth. They've never indicated any sort of limitations that way. And now I will stop.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

It didn't seem like a serious enough crisis to bother? Like, you wouldn't recall an entire ship's crew because a couple of drunk students tried to get aboard, but you would if someone bombed the ship? And they thought Vulcan was closer to drunken students than a bomb and by the time they realised it wasn't, it was over anyway.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[skieswideopen]

Maybe, yeah, but it still seems like they would have had at least half experienced crew, and half new cadets serving as back-up. I don't know--maybe we're intended to think that's what they did do. But again, it's something that could (and IMO should) have been explained fairly easily, and wasn't.

Re: Not a die-hard fan, really, but I've seen most of TOS and read a lot of the novels

[bluflamingo]

I don't know--maybe we're intended to think that's what they did do

I think so - that's why we have Sulu and Chekov, and Spock who's obviously supposed to be there. Plus the lieutenant who Uhura replaces. But yeah, it could have stood to be made a little clearer.