Things I've been doing (mainly geeking about Star Trek)

[eliyes]

Watching Ava Gardner clips on YouTube was followed by about 2 days of watching Kirk/Spock fanvids on YouTube, which lead to me Googling "Kirk/Spock" to find a) there's a wikipedia entry for Kirk/Spock and b) there's an All-Ages Kirk/Spock Archive. You guys, there is a fanfic on there written by a five-year-old, and you know what? It's more in character than a lot of other K/S fics I've seen! (Including ones on that site.)

I have been fighting off an urge to write a story about Federation Ambassadors, primarily because I can't decide who would be more fun to play with Lwaxana Troi: Sarek or Spock. I think I am losing this fight. ;_;

(For those in the know: comparison of meaning between t'hy'la and imzadi? Anyone? Bueller?)

{I'd be better off writing "Lwaxana Troi meets Lady Alys Vorpatril", honestly. They'd try to get Ivan hitched to Deanna, it would be an utter disaster! "No, dear, not Betan -- Betazoid. And Mister Homn is not a mutant -- his whole species looks that way."}

I decided to go to Memory Alpha and find out how old Kirk and Spock are (comparatively and in general), and also to find out if it's true Kirk started at Starfleet Academy when he was 15. (Kirk's entry broke my browser it is so hyoooooojuh! ;o;) Answers: Spock is 1 year older than Kirk, and 155 when he was shunted to the altered/alternate timeline seen in the new movie. And nobody knows how the hell old Kirk was when he started at the Academy! He was older than 13, certainly, since he was on another planet when he was 13 witnessing horrific genocide and saving small children, but he was definitely there by the time he was 17, at which point he was "a Lieutenant" and may have been an instructor or student-instructor, rather than just a student, it's really not clear. *grumps*

I have also been fighting off an urge to write stories where new!Uhura gets to keep new!Spock because new!Kirk is really far more interested in/emotionally attached to old!Spock. My attempts to fight this one led to me writing new!Spock waking up in old!Spock's body at some point in the past -- and also in old!Kirk's bed. I gave that up and caved to writing n!Kirk and n!Uhura stuck in a cave-in, and Jim somewhat deliriously explaining his love for Spock to her. It's really terrible.

*sigh* I seriously need to stop falling in love with Shatner, I really do.

Comments

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure that th'y'la means something close to "soulmate," whereas "imzadi" is a term for a first love, or the deepest love one feels over a lifetime, though not necessarily a soulmate.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Found this: "t'hy'la", a Vulcan term for friend, brother, and/or lover that originated in Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. -- which explains the popularity of it in Kirk/Spock.

I guess I always though imzadi meant more than it does? Memory Alpha claims it commonly translates as "beloved", and "most basically translates as "First", signifying the first person with whom one has shared not only physical intimacy, but spiritual as well. "

*stares at these two words for a bit*

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

where new!Uhura gets to keep new!Spock because new!Kirk is really far more interested in/emotionally attached to old!Spock.

I would read this. I like Uhura/Spock very much.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I like Uhura/Spock too, actually, although in this story the emphasis wouldn't so much be on them. (I wonder if the new one makes up songs about Spock like the original one did (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Oh,_On_the_Starship_Enterprise) (YouTube'd! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxLqDt2QVA)) -- she seems a little ...uptight.)

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I think she just doesn't like Nu!Kirk's antics. Her scenes alone with Spock are very warm.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I -- *attacked by a plot-bunny* @_@ ...I will refrain from commenting extensively at this time....

[ladymoondancer.livejournal.com]

I've got to admit I don't remember original!Uhara very well, but I love nu!Uhara. ^_^

I went to that archive and read the five year old's story and it was the cutest thing EVER. "Spock thought it was illogical because fish don't talk." =D

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Go to YouTube, search Uhura, and check out anything that has the words "badass", "Antares", or "chit-chat" in it sez I!

Did you like how she snuck a reference to "The Search For Spock" in there? 5 year old girl knows continuity! :D