thoughts on a dominant theme in McCoy/Chekov reboot fic, with obligatory TOS timeline footnote

[eliyes]

In the 2009 movie, from the end of Act I onward, Chekov is 17*, and McCoy is 31. Subsequently, a lot of the McCoy/Chekov ficcers out there have McCoy agonizing about having to wait until Chekov's 18 to make any kind of move on him (and several artists have made this a not-very-funny running gag).

What they aren't taking into account, apparently, is that a) we have no official "age of consent" ever specified in Star Trek (although 15 was mentioned for Human males in TNG -- or at least for Riker), and that b) right now in the real world the age of consent in the country of Russia AND the American State of Georgia is 16.

So really, they're good to go.


*which is nonsensical, since Chekov was 22 in "Who Mourns for Adonais?" which took place in late 2267 and therefore he should have been 13 in 2258 (which is when he said he was 17, since Pike met Jim in 2255 and everything from the Kobayashi Maru test onwards happens "Three Years Later"), and there is no reason whatsoever that the Kelvin's encounter with the Narada and all the changes that wrought on Jim Kirk's life should have caused Pavel Andreievich Chekov to be born four years early!

Comments

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

Wow, timeline inconsistencies make an ely do SCIENCE research! :D

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Yes?

[jo-the-phoenix.livejournal.com]

That seems to be a consistent theme in several (read: all) pairings with Nu!Chekov. I find it slightly irritating.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Only slightly?

[jo-the-phoenix.livejournal.com]

I tend to understate things.... it is so irritating that I want to rip my hair out while screaming at the top of my lungs at all of the "Chekov turns 18" fics.
'Kay, maybe not /that/ irritating..... but I think your icon says it all.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Ah. Understatement is a skill I admire but don't always catch in text.

It's pretty irritating. And I tend to think that people nearly twice his age have better things to do than wait until the instant he's legal to jump him.

[imasupermuteant.livejournal.com]

Really what we have to surmise from all this is that nu!Chekov is obviously lying about his age and using some kind of genetic voodoo to make himself go through puberty early and that McCoy (who is the only one who could potentially find out about said voodoo) still has to wait two years.


....That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

It's as good an explanation as any.