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fyereSaw "Star Trek" a few days ago:
(Squeeful spoilers await!)
Right, now, *that* was made of awesome. OMG. Spock. SPOCK BEATING KIRK UP. EVERYBODY beating Kirk up. Kirk being a totally charming heroic asshole. Uhura all "bitch, please, why would I want your skinny farmboy ass when I've got a Vulcan Zachary Quinto to make out with?". Which was so sweet, by the way - I didn't see that one coming at all. I was having slightly cringing visions beforehand of young!Kirk and young!Uhura getting it on in their dorm room to a "Gossip Girl"-like soundtrack, and I am oh, so relieved that did not come to pass.
And McCoy's horrible bedside manner! He *was* DeForest Kelley except young and hot! And Sulu being a ninja and and Chekov and his tiny adorable self! Scotty! Scotty had an Ewok sidekick! Scotty had a TRIBBLE! CARSON BECKETT IN A DORKY STARFLEET HAT!! (He wasn't the tribble, he was just there. ;D)
And shit blowing up! Shit blowing up in the atmosphere! Blowing up on the planet! Blowing up in space! Blowing up in a black hole, which J.J. Abrams appears to have confused with "wormhole", but that's okay, I'll forgive it, because he got the 'hole' part right at least, and the rest was omfg, so awesome.
And (I'm so, so sorry for starting every sentence with 'and') a realization hit me not too far into the film which distracted me for quite a while. This probably makes me a lousy Trekkie, but - young Kirk and McCoy? ARE MY CAM AND DANIEL FROM THE 200-STAR-TREK-VERSE. Which I love and still muse over though I've only finished two ficlets in it.
CUT FOR A LOT OF BACKSTORY WHICH IS SUSPICIOUSLY SIMILAR TO FILM EVENTS
Really, they so are, except Cam is less of an asshole than Kirk and Daniel is perhaps slightly less hypospray-happy. Cam is this farmboy fromIowa Tennessee, whiling away his days joyriding in his hovering motorcycle and hanging out at the local bar flirting with the cadets from the school nearby. There's this cute blonde one he has his eye on, until he gets a little too friendly and she punches him in said eye, and then he leaves her alone. Anyway, one day he decides he doesn't want to be a farmer like all his family so he runs off and enlists in Starfleet GATEFLEET.
And on the ship out to wherever this guy sits next to him, who looks slightly too old to be a cadet and isn't wearing a green cadet uniform, and it's Daniel! Daniel's an archeologist with a half-finished medical degree (he decided to be rebellious and be a doctor instead of following his parents and grandparents, but he came back from med school three years in and went into archeology after all because he realized he loved it too much to escape it in the end). His ideas were slightly too 'radical' for the old fogeys back at the institute he was working at, which made for some unpleasantness and made him really bitchy and in a perpetual bad mood, so he decided to joinStarfleet Gatefleet, where he could finish up his degree since he hates leaving things hanging and he knows it looks bad on his record, and then maybe he could prove himself and get some respect and an actual research team or something and go off to some nice unexcavated planet somewhere.
Daniel spends the time until takeoff muttering to himself about how unsafe this piece of junk looks and informs Cam of all the awful things that would happen to them if the cabin depressurized. And Cam notices his white knuckles on his harness and is all "Man, what the hell are you enlisting in Gatefleet for if you can't even stand flying?" And Daniel is all "I'm an archeologist, not a pilot. I'll probably be working on the ground, going through actual Stargates. They won't have any need for my line of work on a starship." And Cam is like, "I wouldn't count on it." And Daniel gives him the stinkeye and is like "What would you know about it? You just enlisted. Let me guess - farm boy, high school education, never been off this rock before, trying to escape a life of cowboying and cow-milking and thinking Gatefleet's gonna be some grand adventure? I've met your type before. As far as I could tell they all ended up working as minimum-wage assistants on my dig sites."
And Cam is like, "Yessir, that about sums me up. Cam T. Mitchell, nice to meet you."
And Daniel looks skeptical but shakes his hand - "Daniel Jackson. Doctor." And because he can't help himself, he's like, "What does the 'T' stand for?"
All Cam does is SMILE MYSTERIOUSLY.
Then Daniel asks "What the hell happened to your eye?"
All Cam does is BLUSH MYSTERIOUSLY.
Then they end up being friends and room together in the dorms even though they're not technically supposed to, since Cam's in the Command track and Daniel's in Medical. Cam drags Daniel away from his texts and out to shindigs and gets him drunk and makes him make friends, though most of the cadets are at least 4-5 years younger than he is, and takes him out flying to help him get over his astrophobia, and Daniel shoos the blue seductresses who are always after Cam - he attracts them for whatever reason, they like to take his pants as trophies - away and helps Cam pass his Chemistry and Biology exams, and no, that is not ALWAYS a double entendre. Cam is the best pilot and most promising future Captain material in his year but he sucks at science.
Then they graduate! And Cam has managed to stay out of fistfights for the most part, so he gets assigned to the USS ODYSSEY, the shiny new flagship of the fleet! Daniel requests a posting at a research outpost on Unnamed Planet P7X-218, which has some interesting ruins, but The Powers That Be are like, "NO." And Daniel is like "What the f- um, why, sirs? I have been teaching classes at the Archeological Institute in my spare time. You should use me as an archeologist, or even a translator. I have a great deal of experience -" But The Powers That Be say, "Sorry, son, but we're a little short on medical officers at the moment, and both your written and your practical exams were very high-scoring, so you're being assigned to the infirmary under Dr. MacKenzie on the shiny new USS ODYSSEY. CONGRATULATIONS, NOW GO."
Daniel is even bitchier after this and makes this face: >:(
But when Cam hears, he makes this face: 8D
And then they meet Sam and Teal'c and have some adventures which I will write about later because I'd like some coffee right now. END.
(Squeeful spoilers await!)
Right, now, *that* was made of awesome. OMG. Spock. SPOCK BEATING KIRK UP. EVERYBODY beating Kirk up. Kirk being a totally charming heroic asshole. Uhura all "bitch, please, why would I want your skinny farmboy ass when I've got a Vulcan Zachary Quinto to make out with?". Which was so sweet, by the way - I didn't see that one coming at all. I was having slightly cringing visions beforehand of young!Kirk and young!Uhura getting it on in their dorm room to a "Gossip Girl"-like soundtrack, and I am oh, so relieved that did not come to pass.
And McCoy's horrible bedside manner! He *was* DeForest Kelley except young and hot! And Sulu being a ninja and and Chekov and his tiny adorable self! Scotty! Scotty had an Ewok sidekick! Scotty had a TRIBBLE! CARSON BECKETT IN A DORKY STARFLEET HAT!! (He wasn't the tribble, he was just there. ;D)
And shit blowing up! Shit blowing up in the atmosphere! Blowing up on the planet! Blowing up in space! Blowing up in a black hole, which J.J. Abrams appears to have confused with "wormhole", but that's okay, I'll forgive it, because he got the 'hole' part right at least, and the rest was omfg, so awesome.
And (I'm so, so sorry for starting every sentence with 'and') a realization hit me not too far into the film which distracted me for quite a while. This probably makes me a lousy Trekkie, but - young Kirk and McCoy? ARE MY CAM AND DANIEL FROM THE 200-STAR-TREK-VERSE. Which I love and still muse over though I've only finished two ficlets in it.
CUT FOR A LOT OF BACKSTORY WHICH IS SUSPICIOUSLY SIMILAR TO FILM EVENTS
Really, they so are, except Cam is less of an asshole than Kirk and Daniel is perhaps slightly less hypospray-happy. Cam is this farmboy from
And on the ship out to wherever this guy sits next to him, who looks slightly too old to be a cadet and isn't wearing a green cadet uniform, and it's Daniel! Daniel's an archeologist with a half-finished medical degree (he decided to be rebellious and be a doctor instead of following his parents and grandparents, but he came back from med school three years in and went into archeology after all because he realized he loved it too much to escape it in the end). His ideas were slightly too 'radical' for the old fogeys back at the institute he was working at, which made for some unpleasantness and made him really bitchy and in a perpetual bad mood, so he decided to join
Daniel spends the time until takeoff muttering to himself about how unsafe this piece of junk looks and informs Cam of all the awful things that would happen to them if the cabin depressurized. And Cam notices his white knuckles on his harness and is all "Man, what the hell are you enlisting in Gatefleet for if you can't even stand flying?" And Daniel is all "I'm an archeologist, not a pilot. I'll probably be working on the ground, going through actual Stargates. They won't have any need for my line of work on a starship." And Cam is like, "I wouldn't count on it." And Daniel gives him the stinkeye and is like "What would you know about it? You just enlisted. Let me guess - farm boy, high school education, never been off this rock before, trying to escape a life of cowboying and cow-milking and thinking Gatefleet's gonna be some grand adventure? I've met your type before. As far as I could tell they all ended up working as minimum-wage assistants on my dig sites."
And Cam is like, "Yessir, that about sums me up. Cam T. Mitchell, nice to meet you."
And Daniel looks skeptical but shakes his hand - "Daniel Jackson. Doctor." And because he can't help himself, he's like, "What does the 'T' stand for?"
All Cam does is SMILE MYSTERIOUSLY.
Then Daniel asks "What the hell happened to your eye?"
All Cam does is BLUSH MYSTERIOUSLY.
Then they end up being friends and room together in the dorms even though they're not technically supposed to, since Cam's in the Command track and Daniel's in Medical. Cam drags Daniel away from his texts and out to shindigs and gets him drunk and makes him make friends, though most of the cadets are at least 4-5 years younger than he is, and takes him out flying to help him get over his astrophobia, and Daniel shoos the blue seductresses who are always after Cam - he attracts them for whatever reason, they like to take his pants as trophies - away and helps Cam pass his Chemistry and Biology exams, and no, that is not ALWAYS a double entendre. Cam is the best pilot and most promising future Captain material in his year but he sucks at science.
Then they graduate! And Cam has managed to stay out of fistfights for the most part, so he gets assigned to the USS ODYSSEY, the shiny new flagship of the fleet! Daniel requests a posting at a research outpost on Unnamed Planet P7X-218, which has some interesting ruins, but The Powers That Be are like, "NO." And Daniel is like "What the f- um, why, sirs? I have been teaching classes at the Archeological Institute in my spare time. You should use me as an archeologist, or even a translator. I have a great deal of experience -" But The Powers That Be say, "Sorry, son, but we're a little short on medical officers at the moment, and both your written and your practical exams were very high-scoring, so you're being assigned to the infirmary under Dr. MacKenzie on the shiny new USS ODYSSEY. CONGRATULATIONS, NOW GO."
Daniel is even bitchier after this and makes this face: >:(
But when Cam hears, he makes this face: 8D
And then they meet Sam and Teal'c and have some adventures which I will write about later because I'd like some coffee right now. END.