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ysobel(or maybe several)
... the unresolved/unprocessed grief thing I mentioned earlier is about Vulcan; I just didn't want to bother spoiler-cutting it.
I want to fic. I really, *really* want to fic. I want to write young Spock. I want to write Saavik (who was totally a co-crush of mine, back during my JH/HS obsession, except for the part where I was so clueless and naive I didn't realize girls could have crushes on other girls, but that's a story for another time). I want to write Sarek, back when Spock was born. I want to write Sarek post-movie. I want to write Spock Prime post-movie. I want to write Spock and Uhura in Academy years. I want to write Spock post-movie, alone or with Uhura or with Kirk or with Spock Prime (...not "with" in that way, gutterbrains :P :D).
... except I can't. Because I don't know the canon well enough. It's been ages since I've watched TOS, and longer ages since I've read any of the books. I still *have* the Vulcan-related ones, at least some of them, but I don't know where they are and don't know if I have them all and I'm paranoid about getting it wrong. And I haven't seen any of Enterprise and I don't know if they're using it in reboot canon.
The thing is, the rebootverse *could* (in theory) be just a one-point divergence: identical to primeverse, until the momentAhab Nero comes through and destroys the whassisface (Kelvin?), at which point it diverges based on that; fractally, non-minimally, but still based on Nero and his actions and the fallout. In theory.
Except it's so clearly not. Because the Vulcans are edgier, more xenophobic; IDIC doesn't seem to exist in the rebootverse. Sarek is more accepting of Spock, probably in part *because* of that xenophobia and because of his experience with humans. Spock is ... okay, he wasn't exactly at ease with himself and with his dual nature even in primeverse, and maybe I'm just misremembering, but reboot-Spock is edgier. (Plus, he wasn't in a relationship with Uhura.)
(If Enterprise is Reboot canon, I may need to get ahold of it and watch it. argh.)
and I also haven't figured out if the surviving Vulcans will be more or less xenophobic post-movie, particularly wrt human hybrids. Because on the one hand, they were so very OMG RACIAL PURITY *before* most of them got killed, and so they may want to preserve that even at the cost of the species (unless there's mandatory "all purebloods must have pointy-eared babies with as many other purebloods as possible" repopulation stuff); but OTOH they may start considering partbloods to be Vulcan. (Though it's hard to say where the line would be drawn; Spock going boinkers with, say, Uhura, would get quarter-bloods, and *their* children would be somewhere between 1/8, if offspring by non-Vulcans, and 5/8, if by pureblood Vulcans; if 1/8ths, are they Vulcan? if 1/16th, if 1/64th?)
(Interestingly, my brain has totally glommed on to the idea of Spock/Uhura. While at the same time maintaining Spock + Kirk + McCoy = BFF. ... well, not literally at the same time, as I haven't gotten SKBU foursome ideas, but, y'know.)
... the unresolved/unprocessed grief thing I mentioned earlier is about Vulcan; I just didn't want to bother spoiler-cutting it.
I want to fic. I really, *really* want to fic. I want to write young Spock. I want to write Saavik (who was totally a co-crush of mine, back during my JH/HS obsession, except for the part where I was so clueless and naive I didn't realize girls could have crushes on other girls, but that's a story for another time). I want to write Sarek, back when Spock was born. I want to write Sarek post-movie. I want to write Spock Prime post-movie. I want to write Spock and Uhura in Academy years. I want to write Spock post-movie, alone or with Uhura or with Kirk or with Spock Prime (...not "with" in that way, gutterbrains :P :D).
... except I can't. Because I don't know the canon well enough. It's been ages since I've watched TOS, and longer ages since I've read any of the books. I still *have* the Vulcan-related ones, at least some of them, but I don't know where they are and don't know if I have them all and I'm paranoid about getting it wrong. And I haven't seen any of Enterprise and I don't know if they're using it in reboot canon.
The thing is, the rebootverse *could* (in theory) be just a one-point divergence: identical to primeverse, until the moment
Except it's so clearly not. Because the Vulcans are edgier, more xenophobic; IDIC doesn't seem to exist in the rebootverse. Sarek is more accepting of Spock, probably in part *because* of that xenophobia and because of his experience with humans. Spock is ... okay, he wasn't exactly at ease with himself and with his dual nature even in primeverse, and maybe I'm just misremembering, but reboot-Spock is edgier. (Plus, he wasn't in a relationship with Uhura.)
(If Enterprise is Reboot canon, I may need to get ahold of it and watch it. argh.)
and I also haven't figured out if the surviving Vulcans will be more or less xenophobic post-movie, particularly wrt human hybrids. Because on the one hand, they were so very OMG RACIAL PURITY *before* most of them got killed, and so they may want to preserve that even at the cost of the species (unless there's mandatory "all purebloods must have pointy-eared babies with as many other purebloods as possible" repopulation stuff); but OTOH they may start considering partbloods to be Vulcan. (Though it's hard to say where the line would be drawn; Spock going boinkers with, say, Uhura, would get quarter-bloods, and *their* children would be somewhere between 1/8, if offspring by non-Vulcans, and 5/8, if by pureblood Vulcans; if 1/8ths, are they Vulcan? if 1/16th, if 1/64th?)
(Interestingly, my brain has totally glommed on to the idea of Spock/Uhura. While at the same time maintaining Spock + Kirk + McCoy = BFF. ... well, not literally at the same time, as I haven't gotten SKBU foursome ideas, but, y'know.)
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Date: 2009-05-22 02:23 pm (UTC)As for Enterprise, honestly? FUCK CANON, FANON MAKES MORE SENSE. Sorry to fans of that show but it makes me clutch my head.
I promise I will make the post I've been putting off, sometime today.