*shifting gears*
Sep. 1st, 2009 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedibuttercupI didn't finish the next chapter of "No Place Like Eureka" in time to post last night; ah, well, I'll do that today, and then it's back to Trek for me (hopefully). I think I ended up posting for the crossover daily challenge 24 out of 31 days overall. Not an official winner, but considering I did clear a record 50,000 words (counting the Eureka and Angel-verse stuff I also wrote) in August, I'll call it a success. *grin*
In other fandom notes, my reabsorption of TOS continues with episode 2.9: Metamorphosis. *scratching head* How on Earth did Kirk get "love" from a cloud of sparkly lights flowing around Cochrane? Tsk, tsk, Captain; even McCoy gave you a weird look at that little 'intuitive' leap, especially since you were talking about the cloud, not Cochrane.
Some interesting emphases in this one; Kirk once again claiming responsibility for the wellbeing of everyone under his 'command', even when one of those people is a commissioner suffering from an illness she contracted before he ever picked her up-- to the extent of him claiming she's "dying because of me". And also-- McCoy chiding Kirk for being a soldier so often he forgets he was also trained as a diplomat. Welcome character depths after the wackiness of the previous two episodes.
It does have a squidgier dimension, though; the whole plot is based on the supposed universality of 'the concepts of male and female', which other Trek media later retracted-- and the resolution hinges on Cochrane's rather xenophobic reaction to finding out the Companion loves him, and its ensuing decision to join with the poor dying virgin human female in order to be closer to him. I guess I found his immediate turnaround in outlook afterward a lot more romantic when I was a kid. Now, I can't help but wonder about the war the commissioner was supposed to stop, and whether a woman with that much drive and education is going to be happy stuck on a rock with no communication with the outside, no library, no nothing, just the man the other half of her has been obsessed with for the last hundred-fifty years. Hnh.
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In other fandom notes, my reabsorption of TOS continues with episode 2.9: Metamorphosis. *scratching head* How on Earth did Kirk get "love" from a cloud of sparkly lights flowing around Cochrane? Tsk, tsk, Captain; even McCoy gave you a weird look at that little 'intuitive' leap, especially since you were talking about the cloud, not Cochrane.
Some interesting emphases in this one; Kirk once again claiming responsibility for the wellbeing of everyone under his 'command', even when one of those people is a commissioner suffering from an illness she contracted before he ever picked her up-- to the extent of him claiming she's "dying because of me". And also-- McCoy chiding Kirk for being a soldier so often he forgets he was also trained as a diplomat. Welcome character depths after the wackiness of the previous two episodes.
It does have a squidgier dimension, though; the whole plot is based on the supposed universality of 'the concepts of male and female', which other Trek media later retracted-- and the resolution hinges on Cochrane's rather xenophobic reaction to finding out the Companion loves him, and its ensuing decision to join with the poor dying virgin human female in order to be closer to him. I guess I found his immediate turnaround in outlook afterward a lot more romantic when I was a kid. Now, I can't help but wonder about the war the commissioner was supposed to stop, and whether a woman with that much drive and education is going to be happy stuck on a rock with no communication with the outside, no library, no nothing, just the man the other half of her has been obsessed with for the last hundred-fifty years. Hnh.
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