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[doyle]

One of the best things about having forgotten most of Star Trek: The Original Series is that when I pick episodes off my DVDs at random they can turn out to be fabulous surprises. Like Planet of the Gangsters, or The One With Space Hippies and David Bloody Soul or Sulu Gets Taken Over Or Stoned Or Something and Goes Crazy (Again). The one I picked this morning had the less than inspiring name The Lights of Zetar but proved its fabulousness within the first five minutes, with Kirk's captain's log entry entirely dedicated to "Scotty has a new girlfriend and she's TEH AWESOME". The line "his heart throbs only to the Enterprise engines" is seriously used. Call me a bluff old traditionalist but isn't this log-a-ma-gig for recording ship's business for Starfleet Command, or something? Is Kirk the 23rd century equivalent of Carrie from Sex in the City? (Thousands of admirals are probably dying for the next installment and speculating as to who on Earth 'Mr Pointy' could be)

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[lifewithlogan.livejournal.com]

There's a reason why ST:TOS is the show that pretty much started the whole fan fiction phenomenon ... back in the days when people actually had to print out fanzines and mail them to other people because there was no World Wide Web or e-mail or LJ. (Yeah, we who are in our forties sound like people's great-grandmothers, don't we?) Gotta figure, if people actually started writing fanfic (K/S or otherwise) long before they could post it online - there was a damn good reason. (evil grin)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

My first intro to fandom was through TOS zines and I read the few I could get my hands on till they were falling apart (I was about 11, didn't get net access till about 14, whereupon I could well have gorged myself to death on the amount of fanfic I found). I was only able to get flyers for slash zines - the ones I did have were secondhand and gen - but I could probably still reproduce them word for word. Gosh, what a little perv I must have been. I blame the parents. ;)

Early fanfic (pre-internet)

[lifewithlogan.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed to find that one of my favorite lines - the addition of the phrase "when the time comes, I shall seek thee out, from whatever distant hill my camp is on" to the Vulcan betrothal/marriage ritual - was actually fanon, not canon. I still haven't found the name/nickname of the fan author who wrote that addition. It's a lot easier to identify authors now, at least by nickname, since so much is online.