I’m great in bed

spoilers for a 15 year old episode

what tv insider has to say about the final episode and what dominic keating had to say about it in a recent interview along with conner trinneer;

Apropos of the episode, I have always said it was clunky. But I have always sympathized with Brannon [Braga] and Rick [Berman] and them wanting to somehow honor not just our show, but the end of their tenure with the franchise. It wasn’t the best way to do it and clearly it upset Scott [Bakula] way more than we knew at the time. Remember when we did that 10-year reunion at CBS and he aired his grievance at that time. He was quite plainspoken that he felt we were shortchanged with that last episode and he wasn’t happy about it. But God bless Scott, he didn’t complain about anything. So, when he does say something like that you know that really got to him.

more of that interview here

*i'm old

( Star Trek (any), any, Section 31 )

note: the icon is labeled sarcasm, but it is the only DS9 one i have.

i dreamed that they had found lost episodes of TOS and were airing them n TV.

the first had kirk and spock on some planet for negotiations. spock what thankful there there were vulcan food rations; some kind of yogurt with chunks of what looked like gram cracker crumbs. it had hints of kirk/spock ship.
the second had uhura being challenged to some kind of drinking contest by a woman who was the leader of the planet of the week.
the third had kirk and spock travel back time to some inner city in the U.S. in the early '70s. kirk didn't know much about that era and was having spock explain the history of the time.

it wasn't until after i work up that i realized that kirk's comment about how he knew canadian history of the time, but not U.S. history of the era was weird because kirk was from iowa. and yet funny because shatner is from canada.

Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
so many but i like reed's line of: "I've invested FAR too much time trying to figure you out, Mr. Tucker... I'm not about to accept that it was all for nothing." in the episode shuttle pod one.

Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series
i really don't know. i go back and forth between TNG, VOY & ENT. but the honest answer, if i'm honest with myself, is whatever one i'm watching at the time.

Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
never seen it.
but i'd like to substitute the animated series in place of it for this one. (it's like the old star trek magazine said, it's the forgotten trek show.)

yesteryear, where mucking around with the guardian of forever erases spock from the timeline & spock has to save his younger self. you see the kahs-wan maturity test and some of spock's boyhood. like all of TAS probably not canon.

Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
i'd say risa, but that's like las vegas times 20.

explanation of this & the list of topics found here.

Day 5 - Saddest Event
yar's death tied with dax's.

Day 6 - Happiest Event
kirk not being dead in amok time. even spock thought so.

As for the bonus, found this on youtube. it's a segment from the old "new magazine" series prime time live from 1990 with deforest kelly talking about trek making a comeback.

found via rthstewart who got it from corvidology

If fandoms were lovers...

The one who seduced you and screwed you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it.
bones.

The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets.
stargate: sg-1.

The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized they really were fucking crazy.
buffy or hercules & xena during the dahak thing.

The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to get together with again although you're relieved they don't actually live in town.
maybe hercules & xena.

The Steady.
the amelia peabody series by elizabeth peters (mostly because i'm on like my 3^RD re-read)

The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never got really serious with.
glow.

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good friends because the friendship is there but the chemistry isn't.
the lord of the rings.

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems really cool except it's never really gone anywhere.
stranger things.

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How did they land all these utterly fabulous people?"
game of thrones.

The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and who you measure all other potential partners against.
star trek (not the new stuff)

The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better and who you think you might have a crush on.
i'm not sure there is one.

The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they cleaned themselves up a bit.
friends, maybe?

Your hot new flame.
not new but NCIS: NOLA

The one who stole your people's hearts.
golden girls.

And a bonus courtesy of syrena_of_the_lake
The one you’re embarrassed to admit you like, because your friends will all say you’re too good for them.
i don't think there is one.

from rthstewart this is back from march because i don't check out her DW often.

If you’ve not followed the epic rants on Twitter, a white male pro author (who is apparently pretty good) and the Guardian suddenly discover Narnia fan fic and wildly praise his scintillating tale of the years before Jadis’ rule and the creation of the Stone Table. The article and a separate opinion piece bemoan that this brilliant story cannot be published nor the author compensated for his amazing work because there is that crotchety thing known as property rights in copyrighted material, in this case owned by the Lewis estate. But, the praise continues, this fan fic is SO good, maybe it's time to re-examine copyright laws!

Oh such a tragedy. Men extolled for writing fan fic (so much so that his friends start lobbying for the law to be changed) and women mocked.

she suggested that those who have written fan fic for a long time (or in my case, just dabble a lot) write a "few hundred words extolling your virtues as a fan fic or other creator in fandom."

so i did

portrait of an obscure writer by jo king

you may have stumbled across her work, but may not know her name. i met up with the the internet user known as archersangel at a local panaera bread where i find that she has entered into a self-professed "goth phase" dressed in all in the requisite black; tail coat, t-shirt, leggings, socks, converse high-tops & a piece of black lace holding back her long, wavy, chestnut hair sprinkled with silver. including round, black frame glasses. plus a fair amount of silver jewelry.

aangel, as she is sometimes known, got her start writing in the old sg1_five_things community, a.k.a the pentangular gate on live journal in in august 2007. "started as an anonymous poster & then used my blogspot open-id." where she would write 195 "more or less, i messed up on the numbering." pieces. mostly sg-1, but on occasion something for atlantis or universe. she was devastated when the community folded in november 2012 "i'd pour one out, but i don't drink." she commented sadly.

she admits that she was not the most popular poster, with a disregard for punctuation, capitalization & grammar. "i did get some nice replies & one person admitted to tearing up over 2 recurring dreams & 3 recurring nightmares janet fraiser has so i guess that was something."

during her time posting 5 things in 2009 aangel got a dreamwidth account and stumbled across synecdochic 's challenge to put her original character of jd neilson (the young clone of sg-1's jack o'neill from the episode fragile balance) into other fandoms while hitchhiking. she wrote 2 such stories, numbers 7 & 22 on this list.

after her five things run ended, archersangel resigned herself to never posting fic again. but then discovered a 3-scentnce fic-a-thon run by rthstewart in early 2013 and later that year one run by .caramelsilver aangel confesses to stretching the rules a little. "a run-on sentence is still a stenence." she has written about 3 dozen between the two over the years in a long list of fandoms; star trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, but as of now not ENT) star wars (the original trilogy & the prequels), stargate: sg-1, harry potter, the mummy (1999), a the mummy (1999)/amelia peabody crossover, real person fic "more like historical fiction really.", greek myth, batman (TAS & the burton era movies), buffy the vampire slayer tv series, little women (novel), & even a laura ingalls wilder/wild wild west (tv series) crossover.

after she comes back from refilling her black iced tea, i ask archerangel what other fandoms she might try her hand at. she thinks a moment while tapping a finger with an ebony colored fingernail against ink-stained lips. "maybe the mrs. murphy series by rita mae brown, the midnight louie series by carole nelson douglas, the cat who... series by lillian jackson braun, the sarah kelling series by charlotte macleod, the roma sub rosa series by steven saylor. ncis: new loreans, quantum leam, pehaps the amazing race." she shrugs her shoulders & shakes her head. "and whatever else catches my interest. i guess we'll see."

yes. i'm sure we will.