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ontd_startrek brings amazing spork hilarity.
"SPORK! AN EROTIC LOVE STORY Did you ever notice that the Star Trek audiobook could be edited together in such a way as to make it sound like Kirk and Spock are fucking? Surprisingly graphically?" says cirrocumulus
Sulu: ”We’ve been caught in a… we’ve been caught in a blizzard.” [Chekov blows on the communicator, simulating wind noises] XD
I always loved that scene in which Sulu and Chekov get lost in the woods in Star Trek V…….. so I drew a reboot version of it… ^-^
Sulu and Chekov in Starfleet Academy ^-^
Yeah, Chekov has books. He’s old-school! XD
also on society6 now! :)
A Double Dactyl
I love double dactyls; they are my favorite comic poetic form.
Noonien Noonien Benedict Cumberbatch pastiest Khan that you ever did see
Infiltrates Starfleet, then hies himself Kronoswards pseudocanonic’ly trolling Jim T.
Okay, but why does Into Darkness try to deal with like 10 different things at once?!
I don’t think its issue is being a bad remake because that usually comes to misunderstanding the original and just remaking it without knowing why it worked in the first place.
I think ID gets the emotional arc of The Wrath of Khan well enough. It knows what changes need to be made so it works for this Spock and this Kirk (the one who doesn’t seem to get that having good intentions doesn’t absolve you of the consequences).
But that is kind of the only thing it gets right because then it’s also trying to deal with terrorism and politics of a destabilised Federation and revenge and the Spock/Kirk friendship and playing god and and there just isn’t enough time?
Look, TWoK has dozens of hours of preceding material. ID has one movie and half of that one is basically just a backstory, which results in things like there being little emotional weight behind Spock’s grief; we never truly experience his friendship with Kirk so his reaction to Jim’s death doesn’t feel deserved. We don’t get to enjoy the utopia of the Federation so we don’t really understand what is at stake. And so on and so on.
So you basically just end up with a movie where, to fully appreciate what it’s trying to do, you need to already be familiar with Star Trek (mostly TOS specifically). But if you are, then you mostly just see how much better it could be. And if you aren’t, well, tough luck, you don’t have the context to properly enjoy it.
And none of this is me saying ID is terrible, I think it has some cool ideas worthy of being explored, but that just makes it all the more frustrating when it fails to deliver.
This would honestly deserve a proper essay-style post (and it’s the reason this is like my 6th attempt at writing this) but I am really trying to just keep this a silly little fan blog but also - I am fascinated and I have thoughts so we shall see.
I really hate that “Professor Spock” and “Vulcan robes” combined in my mind, for some reason, into a mixture between Leonard Nimoy’s Spock and Alan Rickman as that mean alchemy teacher and now that is the only way I can imagine Spock looking no matter the context.
Like I keep a tab of fanart open just to remind myself that Starfleet uniform is a thing in Spock’s life.
Semi-based on that reboot elevator scene and also just my love for Uhura and the need for her and Kirk to be friends.
I don’t even think it matters which one of them is currently dating Spock, these two need someone who understands.