The Star Trek Meme
Jun. 8th, 2015 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathleen_daileyI've been semi-following the Star Trek meme. When I saw the questions about least favourite character, etc., I remembered something I'd amost forgotten. While I was writing, I forced myself to grit my teeth and pick and choose the elements of each of the characters that I hated and use them in a way that I thought might possibly advance or illuminate my own version of the major characters and the ST universe.
For example, Sybok. I completely understand why fans dislike that character--I have nothing positive to say about the concept, the writing of the character, or the actor's execution. And yet Sybok was a handy means to an end for me: a closely held, deeply secret part of Spock's history that Spock hadn't shared even with his best friends. So I used Sybok to show how a person newly in love might summon up the courage to confide a deep secret, which he'd shared with no one else, to his beloved. Sybok worked as a short but (I hope) evocative plot device.
Same thing goes for the Delta Quadrant, Sela, "Unification," and all the rest of the uninspired or outright offensive stuff that the latter-day PTBs perpetrated. Bend them to your own ends and you can't do any worse than the creators did. Or at least that's my justification, and I'm sticking to it (for now).
For example, Sybok. I completely understand why fans dislike that character--I have nothing positive to say about the concept, the writing of the character, or the actor's execution. And yet Sybok was a handy means to an end for me: a closely held, deeply secret part of Spock's history that Spock hadn't shared even with his best friends. So I used Sybok to show how a person newly in love might summon up the courage to confide a deep secret, which he'd shared with no one else, to his beloved. Sybok worked as a short but (I hope) evocative plot device.
Same thing goes for the Delta Quadrant, Sela, "Unification," and all the rest of the uninspired or outright offensive stuff that the latter-day PTBs perpetrated. Bend them to your own ends and you can't do any worse than the creators did. Or at least that's my justification, and I'm sticking to it (for now).
