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Aug. 10th, 2009 05:05 amI'm visiting Nora and her mother in Montana at the moment, and yesterday we wondered briefly--but, I think, seriously--if people would start adopting the Vulcan salute instead of the handshake in order to slow down disease-spreading.
Yeah. Meeep, my poor skewed perspective. (Well, who knows, maybe the Obama-is-a-Vulcan idea *will* bring it about!)
We've been watching at least one Star Trek episode a day, and I've read "Spock's World" by Diane Duane (wow, not a Wizard book, for the most part quite good though), not to mention fanfiction (the good ones often beat the show)...help! I continue to like the acting a lot--I love the characters!--and love to make fun of the effects and the plastic boulder and so on. My addiction all started with the new movie this spring, and so did Nora's, and I hadn't seen much of the original series before that.
I know I raise my eyebrow sometimes, but if I do it too often, or I do one and then both (not a meaningful expression on me, yet), or God forbid I start thinking about dressing up in Starfleet uniform, someone, please pull me back to reality. Of course I admire Trekkies' invention and the consistency fans and later writers have managed to give to the canon, but I am alarmed by my own possible rate of adoption of fannish behavior. I already find myself wanting an IDIC pendant, and maybe a "What would Spock do?" T-shirt, though the former is also pretty. Actually I think it would be quite amusing and maybe effective if Star Trek were to start a "Dear Spock" column, or "Dear [Vulcan]", it'd produce better advice than "Dear Abby". And the first movie is terrible and I riff it but I'm too attached to want to see it destroyed. ([filler] /Oh no! It's moving so fast the Doppler effects are producing music!/ /Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the fourth Screensaver Concert of the movie.../
"How do you define 'unwarranted'?" /You need an extra-special warrant to search a cloud!/)
I mean, this is fun and the personalities really are appealing. I also really like the philosophies that are avant-garde in many ways. But I want to keep the rest of my life, thank you very much, and quit worrying about whether T'Khut counts as a moon for Vulcan. I don't like seeing my behavior so easily influenced by addiction.
...comments? Does this surprise you?
Yeah. Meeep, my poor skewed perspective. (Well, who knows, maybe the Obama-is-a-Vulcan idea *will* bring it about!)
We've been watching at least one Star Trek episode a day, and I've read "Spock's World" by Diane Duane (wow, not a Wizard book, for the most part quite good though), not to mention fanfiction (the good ones often beat the show)...help! I continue to like the acting a lot--I love the characters!--and love to make fun of the effects and the plastic boulder and so on. My addiction all started with the new movie this spring, and so did Nora's, and I hadn't seen much of the original series before that.
I know I raise my eyebrow sometimes, but if I do it too often, or I do one and then both (not a meaningful expression on me, yet), or God forbid I start thinking about dressing up in Starfleet uniform, someone, please pull me back to reality. Of course I admire Trekkies' invention and the consistency fans and later writers have managed to give to the canon, but I am alarmed by my own possible rate of adoption of fannish behavior. I already find myself wanting an IDIC pendant, and maybe a "What would Spock do?" T-shirt, though the former is also pretty. Actually I think it would be quite amusing and maybe effective if Star Trek were to start a "Dear Spock" column, or "Dear [Vulcan]", it'd produce better advice than "Dear Abby". And the first movie is terrible and I riff it but I'm too attached to want to see it destroyed. ([filler] /Oh no! It's moving so fast the Doppler effects are producing music!/ /Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the fourth Screensaver Concert of the movie.../
"How do you define 'unwarranted'?" /You need an extra-special warrant to search a cloud!/)
I mean, this is fun and the personalities really are appealing. I also really like the philosophies that are avant-garde in many ways. But I want to keep the rest of my life, thank you very much, and quit worrying about whether T'Khut counts as a moon for Vulcan. I don't like seeing my behavior so easily influenced by addiction.
...comments? Does this surprise you?
