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May. 15th, 2009
A sidestep about my fannish history: I found Star Trek sometime in, er, junior high maybe? Before DS9 came out, so it was just TNG and TOS, and I obsessed over both of them. TNG made an easier obsession because it was running on network tv every day (quite an incentive to finish my homework *cough*) and I got to the point where I could see a short clip (sometimes as short as a single camera shot or a line of dialogue; longer if it was just "stock shot of Enterprise going vwoosh") and instantly be able to name the title, season, and plot summary. (And could also give title/season for any plot summary and vice versa.) TOS made an awesomer obsession because it had Vulcans. (I ... er ... totally do not admit to having a period of time where I claimed to be half-Vulcan.) I also devoured a lot of the novels, leaning towards TOS (especially Vulcan-related) with a bit of TNG on the side.
(Amusingly, the concept of fanfic had not occurred to me -- I encountered it in college and went "oh!" -- so instead I had what was basically origfic with the serial numbers filed off, but it was definitely TOS-based -- there was always a Kirk-equivalent and a Spock-equivalent and a Bones-equivalent, regardless of whatever else -- and while slash, also, had not occurred to me, in retrospect it was totally a three-way BFF situation.)
And then there came DS9, and Voyager, and my obsessions turned to other things, because I was *finding* other things, and finding fandom (I ... will also totally not admit that it was a stunning revelation when I found out that other people liked Star Trek too), and because the franchise was kind of dissolving, and I watched about half an episode of Enterprise and gave up because it wasn't what I loved.
( and then there was this. )
(Amusingly, the concept of fanfic had not occurred to me -- I encountered it in college and went "oh!" -- so instead I had what was basically origfic with the serial numbers filed off, but it was definitely TOS-based -- there was always a Kirk-equivalent and a Spock-equivalent and a Bones-equivalent, regardless of whatever else -- and while slash, also, had not occurred to me, in retrospect it was totally a three-way BFF situation.)
And then there came DS9, and Voyager, and my obsessions turned to other things, because I was *finding* other things, and finding fandom (I ... will also totally not admit that it was a stunning revelation when I found out that other people liked Star Trek too), and because the franchise was kind of dissolving, and I watched about half an episode of Enterprise and gave up because it wasn't what I loved.
( and then there was this. )