He Aint Here, But He Sure Went Past

Title from the Clash's Jimmy Jazz song.

I've been watching reruns of the Star Trek show, the original one, and really appreciating it and what it did for generations. I'm not going to go into the whole technological aspect of it, and the fact that it was years ahead of its time with its portrayal of women and its willingness to have people of different races in prominent roles, its all been said and explored and done. I found this site that does a really good job of listing the different women and the different ways that they were considered strong women and I like to read it and see what characters I have yet to see and adore.

The site is Star Trek Women: The Women of TOS Its a fascinating read and I like to skim through it, and read about the different personalities and learn how Roddenberry dealt with them.

I remember, as a kid, watching my generation's Star Trek,TNG, wondering why the moment a woman showed up and was confident and was boss and was, basically, a strong woman, they died, or transferred, or left in some form, or was quickly rewritten to be more gentle, more..weaker..I still don't know why. I liked Troi and I love Beverly, but Troi was dressed so inappropriately for someone in her professional field, so I was conflicted. Beverly was just bombastically kick ass. She was my first exposure to doctors in Star Trek and I loved her, so well rounded and so competent yet not too masculine, in that she could straddle the line between being boss and being a woman so well that I doubt anyone could use the usual go-to terms to degrade a woman in position to refer to her. In case that last sentence didn't make sense, I mean, usually, when people are intimidated by a woman in an authority role, they refer to said woman as a bitch, whore, cunt, other degrading terms tailored specifically for a woman. I doubt any one could call Dr Crusher those words! But I've heard people refer to Troi as a whore..I liked her. Lt. Yar was a strong woman too, a strong force. And I realize the actress quit, but I wonder if maybe she quit because she knew the writers wouldn't treat her character well and wanted to go to a different show where she could be a strong female role character without worrying about being suddenly demoted or sexualized.

Well, that went off into a tangent I didn't mean to go off into.

I was only going to talk about how I like Star Trek and enjoy when they have Bones and Chekov in scenes together. Bones was always my favorite from when I was little and saw the movies, and seeing the new movie made me really adore and love Chekov (probably mostly based on how he was portrayed by Anton Yelchin, that is one awesome guy-I've read interviews with him, he seems like a guy I'd love to buy a drink for.Once he's 21, that is.-)So to see the original show and to see my two favorites, Long Time Fav. Bones and Newly Admired Chekov in scenes together makes me giddy. All they needed was to add Nurse Chapel in the mix and I'd have been ecstatic!

I LOVE NURSE CHAPEL!

I've only seen her in one episode but I already love her. Must be something about women medical officers.

Also, can anyone believe that Nurse Chapel and Luxuwanna Troi are the same woman? They are, and I can't believe it! She looks so vastly different from one show to the next!

I really hope she's in the next Star Trek movie, and I really hope the actress they pick is able to capture her...Chapel-ness..You know, competent but compassionate, a good natured foil to Bones' irascibility, and rocking the blue uniform. Also, I really hope, if she is in the next movie, they don't reduce her to a romantic interest for anyone, like they tend to do for other movies. She's cool enough to be a single gal among good looking men. Yes ma'am

I Jumped Through Time

The title's from a song by Abney Park, called Post-Punk Apocalypse. Its a pretty cool band and song,I dig the whole visual style they've got going.

Anyways, so I've been kinda wasting my vacation, reading fmylife.com and reading the stories on the Star Trek XI kink meme.

I have so much unrestrained love for the new Chekov it's not really that funny. Except to E. it is.I made her drive me to Toys R Us so I could get a Chekov doll,who now rides around in my purse with me. I plan to get a Bones at some point too. I grew up on the star trek stuff, and Bones was my favorite on TOS, which set a precedent for me,I guess, all my favorites on the following Star Trek series were doctors: Crusher,Bashir,the Doctor.I didn't watch Enterprise but I'm sure the doctor on that show would have been my favorite.

So its a surprise that I'm head over heels a Chekov fangirl.Although,well...not that surprising..Look at him!

As a result of me liking imdb.com, I then sought out other movies the actor,Anton Yelchin,has been in.I've seen Star Trek,Terminator:Salvation, Alpha Dog and Charlie Bartlett back to back. I liked Star Trek and Charlie Bartlett best.

I then found a site that had a lot of Adam Hughes's stuff and so I've been stockpiling on his works.He's so awesome,I would die happy if I could ever get to be as good an illustrator as he is.

Which reminds me,not that I forgot. But I swore to myself I'd start working on my comic,but I haven't.But I guess I can justify it by saying I want to wait until I write all 24 scripts for the book,and I can't start on the second books til I get my 1st books back from my dad with his corrections to the reality of the characters,for continuity reasons,so..yeah. I want the book to be as good as it can possibly be,so I want to get all the minute details out of the way, the details that tie the world to the real world to make readers feel like they know the universe my characters are in. I want to get everything fleshed out and written out and perfect and seamless before I start illustrating,so that the visual clues and contexts are matching.

So that's out of the schedule until I see my dad and get his painstakingly poured over and written out notes and corrections. I love that I have my dad to check and correct my story's background.

But even if I have these reasons/excuses I still feel guilty and shamed.

I think next post I'll try to write about something of value.