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[drakyndra]

Firstly, a confession to make: Despite having been in the Uni's Star Trek club for, oh, four and a half years now, I am not actually a Star Trek fan. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Trek - in fact, most of what I've seen I liked even if some of it was for the lulz more than anything else - but it's always been something I've only really had a casual interest in, as opposed to my active fannishness. I know the basics and the broad ideas, but not much of the little stuff.

Also I've been in both Star Wars and Doctor Who fandoms. Trek is the enemy like twice over.

...Which is basically just a really long way to say that I went and saw the new movie with a bunch of people from Star Trek club this evening, and I really enjoyed it. It was fun and funny and had some really nifty moments and I really liked the characters, and I was amused at the in-jokes (well, the ones I actually understood, anyhow.)

And now I want to read fic of it. Dear Lord. *facepalm*

Anyone up to chatting about it? I've sort of being skimming over people who mentioned it on my flist prior to watching.

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[marymac.livejournal.com]

We were rationalising it that if they were being commissioned properly, he'd have had time set aside to train it up properly, but given the unexpected activation plus the stress, hasty upload of whatever voice recognition record he had from the Academy was doomed to fail.

I've apparently been underestimating how much boys being thwarted by technology is attractive to me.

But goodness, yes, Spock. Or McCoy. I didn't fancy Urban as Eomer, but borderline alcoholic space phobic snark doctor? Right there.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Ah, the good ol' fannish skill of handwave. Whatever would we do without it.

I wouldn't say I fancy McCoy, but his snarktastic skills were highly entertaining.

[marymac.livejournal.com]

Wailing 'But it doesn't make sense' a lot more...

The snark was glorious. I wish Spock and McCoy had got more snark time with each other, actually, because while the Kirk & McCoy snark was a thing of beauty and a joy forever, McCoy & Spock snark is what TOS was built on.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah.

Is this the bit where everyone starts the call for a sequel film, just so it can have all the good stuff people missed out on?

[marymac.livejournal.com]

Probably. Its not like they didn't just set it up completely anyway.

I don't think they could carry a film on snark alone though, happy fangirl though it'd make me.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, no, plot is still a necessity. But a healthy dose of snark makes plot much more fun.