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

[lotesse]

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.)

Comments

[slashfairy]

I'm curious to read that post about Star Trek needing a hard reboot, but it's not public. Do you think she'd mind making it more available?

[lotesse]

Should be relinked now - she blogs at Obsidian Wings, I had linked to her dreamwidth reposting, which was locked, whoops my access checks.

[surexit]

I like remembering that we have a history, that fandom is actually a thing with roots.

[lotesse]

God so much this. And I love being a part of such a tremendous lineage.

[esteven]

I would be interested to read mecurtin's post, but it is not available. Maybe you would get permission to quote a bit more fully from her post unless they are inclined to make it more public?

Oh, early K/S is wonderful, and some of Ms Fish's stories are still all-time favourites. One of hers came up with the best reason for slash I've ever read.*G*

[lotesse]

I relinked it; the post should be accessible.

It's so interesting reading the really early K/S stuff, because in so many ways it feels so very familiar, but it's not informed by the decades of history that K/S has accumulated by this time.

[esteven]

Thank you. :)

And a lot of it still reads fresh.