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[wiseheart]

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Man, but I'm being talkative today! Ah, well, come and see my dirty secrets!

FAVOURITE THINGS:

Star Trek Series: Original series

Star Trek Movie: don't particularly like them. TMP was beautiful but lacked an intelligent plot, and all the others were too militant for my taste. Reminder: ST movies ended for me with the TOS movies. The TNG movies were... well... crap.

Star Trek Character: Uhura, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, Sisko, Chakotay (the one he could have been), Sulu, Chekov, Data, Jadzia Dax, Number One (from the TOS pilot - she might not have a name but she rocked!), Picard (before he became a sticker-to-idiot-rules)

Star Trek Pairing: erm... don't shoot me, but I'm a sucker for really bad, sappy Chakotay-Paris stories.

Alien Race: Bajorans

Alien World: Bajor and Romulus, as it appears in Diane Duane's novels

Federation Class Starship: TMP Enterprise. It was a thing of beauty.

TOS Episode: "For the World is Hollow and I've Touched the Sky". I still cry sometimes watching that one.

TNG Episode: "Lower Decks" I liked the junior officers and that they, too, get their episode - besides, it prepared the viewer for the final tragedy of Sito.

DS9 Episode: "Rapture". I'm a sucker for Bajoran mysticism - hey, I even wrote texts for Bajoran mysticism, plus Sisko-as-a-father was, once again, very touching in this one.

VOY Episode: "Tattoo". It wasn't a grand one, but if focused on my beloved Chakotay. Yes, I'm shallow that way.

ENT Episode: Gave up on it after a few painful episodes

Star Trek Quote: Any one by McCoy, starting with "I'm a doctor, not a..." [insert profession of your choice; he's said it]



LEAST FAVOURITE THINGS:

Star Trek Series: Enterprise - I hate the canon rape!

Star Trek Character: Kirk. Janeway is second and Riker is third. I don't particularly like any of the Crushers, either.

Star Trek Pairing: Kirk/Spock. No. Just no. Or should I say Hell, no!?

Alien Race: Talaxians in general and Neelix in particular

Alien World: several TOS worlds that happened to look just like Earth. I know it was a budget problem, but still... Yeah, I'm petty.

Federation Class Starship: The ones in the 6th movie that seemed to go suddenly at least a hundred years back technically, putting a kitchen onboard and sending junior officers to shared dormitories.

TNG Episode: Any one where Wesley saves the day while adults are standing around like idiots. But before all else "Preemptive Strike" - it made me hate Picard.

DS9 Episode: The one where Kira and Odo became lovers. That one ruined the whole rest of the show for me.

VOY Episode: "Equinox", where Janeway went out of her way to destroy a fellow abducted Starfleet ship, no matter what they've done. Or "30 days", where he put Paris into the brig for something everyone else would gotten away with.

Star Trek Quote: I don't really have one


CHOICES:

Trekkie or Trekker? Trekkie

Kirk or Picard? Picard

Defiant or Delta Flyer? Defiant

Tribbles or Targs? Tribbles

Coffee, Black or Tea, Earl Grey? Raktajino

Porthos or Spot? Spot

EMH or Data? Data

Pah-wraiths or Prophets? Neither. They were both self-centered idiots.

TNG or DS9? DS9. Definitely. Despite the Kira/Odo "romance", despite the fact that Sisko became obsessed with destroying Eddignton, despite the idiocy of making Sisko a Prophet, just so that they didn't have to allow a Starfleet officer to become a religious leader in the long run.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm a sucker for Bajoran mysticism

One of the threads in DS9 I most loved was the Bajoran history/religion. I wished they'd shown more; it seemed to get a bit sidelined in later seasons.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally agree! They just had to bring in the Klingons and shift the whole thing out of its original focus, hadn't they? Personally, I find Klingons great fun, but I'd have enjoyed a lot more if they would just have stuck to the whole Bajoran-Cardassian-Federation triangle, with the Dominion added for good measure.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

I second the Bajor-love! We so rarely got to see any significant nonhuman cultural developments in Trek; it's a real pity they didn't do more with this. And it was great to see a planet regarding admission into the Federation as very much a mixed blessing rather than an unmitigated Good Thing.

[jen-rock.livejournal.com]

"Alien Race: Talaxians in general and Neelix in particular"

I agree. Neelix just annoyed the hell out of me as did Wesley. And I didn't care for Kes either. The Ocampa were a pretty poorly thought-out species. They only live nine years? What the hell? How do they get anything done? Ugh.

My favorite Trek species are the Romulans, Bajorans, and Andorians. Not much has been done with that last one unfortunately but the other two are both great.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... it seems I'm the only person in the fandom who actually liked Kes. *g*

No, seriously! I was outraged when they replaced her with the Big Boobs of Doom!

But you're right. The Ocmpa weren't thought out properly. In my "Alternate Caretaker" story I tried to right the living-only-nine-years problem by assuming that it was a result of the Caretaker screwing up their planet completely.

As how they got anything done, perhaps telekinesis was a main factor in it, before they declined to the state they were in at the beginning of the series.

[jen-rock.livejournal.com]

Seven-of-Nine had an interesting storyline at times. The idea of an ex-Borg trying to fit in with the crew was a good idea. It's just a shame that they had to cast her as a Baywatch extra. It probably would have been even more interesting if she were played by a plain actress or an older one. And she could have been an alien species rather than human. How would a Vulcan or a Bajoran react to being a Borg and having their mind part of a Borg collective? How would it affect a Vulcan's self-control or a Bajoran's faith? That could have made for some very different storylines than the ones they did that simply played off of Jeri Ryan's looks.

Then again, I also thought they didn't do enough with the Maquis having to work with the Starfleet crew. It seemed too seamless on the show. I've toyed with the idea of writing a fic where a Bajoran Maquis member refused to fit in. Not by not doing work but by refusing to wear the uniform or practicing some other forms of passive resistance. But it's not a fully developed idea so I've never done anything with it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I agree about the Seven-of-Nine storyline per se. I just don't like the fact that it's all about Jeri Ryan's boobs. The irony is that the actress is actually good - have you seen the episode where Seven's Borg memories got out of control and Jeri played a dozen different personalities in rapid succession, and each very convincing? Too bad that the show deteriorated to depend on her Wonder Nanobots (TM) that solved every frigging problem in the later seasons.

There was one episode with a former Borg who was a Bajoran... but sadly, only one. You're right; it would have been much more interesting if Seven were of some other species. As "Enterprise" showed us, even Vulcans can have Big Boobs of Doom (T'Pol anyone?).

I also agree with the Maquis vs Starfleet thing. I mean, there was some reluctance in "Learning Curve" for what? Twenty minutes? And then all four rebellious Maquis got completely brainwashed? And Chakotay hitting one of his men to make him obey Starfleet? Oh, please!

Too bad you never wrote that story. I'm working on something similar in my "Alternate Voyager" series, assumed it will ever be written beyond the half of the pilot episode that already exists. (on ff.net and otherworlds_lib) I got a lot of grief for that story, so I lost inspiration for a while, but I intend to continue some day. If I manage to write more, there will be a serious breach betwen the two crews eventually, open hostility and even character deaths.