Golden Girls/Star Trek/Final Fantasy

What I was dreaming when the alarm went off:

Doing a fashion shoot with Captain Sulu while down one level of escalators, Bea Arthur was driving away a wraith-hydra thingy by the power of her disdain alone.

I don't know why it is...

I seem to be constitutionally incapable of watching William Shatner sing.

Hm.

Well, never mind. Hey, want fic where Jessica Fletcher is Rodney McKay's Aunt Jess? Of course you do! Here, read these and tell Chandri to keep on with the series:
Knitted Goods (short, cute, pre-slash)
Casting On (much longer, still cute, actual sex scenes)

"What?" Rodney asks, blinking his way back up into non-physics reality with everybody else. Sometimes this takes a minute.

"Why does the creator not respond?"

So, I watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture this evening, mainly because I couldn't really remember what happened.

And now I can safely forget it all over again!

Good lord in a red evening gown, that movie is boring. There's a lot of long sequences of special effects, cut with brief reaction-face shots. Bones walks onto the bridge, stares at the viewscreen in momentary shock, shoots Kirk a meaningful look and leaves without saying anything... four times. And Kirk isn't really Kirk until the last 2 minutes. And I don't care about Will Decker, really.

We're lucky they ever made another one at all.

Okay, there were a few tiny moments I liked. Chekov's obviously hurt feelings when Spock snubbed him, lingering into sulky frowning by the time he got back to the bridge. Spock's return-from-Vulcan outfit, which is basically the real reason I watched the movie at all. Rand. Chapel. The whole "I need you" scene. That moment Scotty and Kirk shared as they circled Enterprise was probably my favourite part of the whole thing.

*sigh* And I must be some kinda masochist, because next, I plan to watch 5. *cringing* And then I never have to watch it again! I live in the happy land where 2-4 is one big long episode to roll around in forever, with Sister Sledge performing "We Are Family" in the background.