if you would only stand as one, this world belongs to you

mecurtin just wrote pretty much the definitive "Star Trek in the Twenty-First Century" post, Star Trek Could Use A Hard Reboot (pull quote: The thing about ST:TOS that you whippersnappers may not realize is that it was both radical and transformative. I can talk for hours about Gene Roddenberry's many faults, but he actually had a political vision with Star Trek. He wanted to show a universe -- a future -- in which peace, diversity, and rationality are not only desirable, they are *possible*, we *can* get there from here). She's on fire.

eta: relinked to her public posting at Obsidian Wings, rather than her locked journal entry.

(anyway, I owe mecurtin a huge debt of gratitude for her work on the Foresmutters Project back when, which gave us the ability to read Leslie Fish K/S online, and thus made my life infinitely richer. I super love early K/S because of how creative everyone gets with genitals; there's so much deeply nonheteronormative sex going on, with Fish's floral-metaphor tentacles being a case in point. Not only is it early m/m, it's often actively transcending that label by redefining biological sex.)