Holmes Was A Tall Man, With Long Fingers And Curiously Pointed Ears.

I am at ms_treesap's house at present, struggling with the tiny keyboard of her Eee! Yesterday, I came here to watch the original series of Star Trek with her, rhaegal, fera_festiva and heyorion, all of whom were delightful.

The extent of my Star Trek knowledge prior to this experience:

- There is a spaceship.
- There is someone named Kirk.
- There is someone named Spock, who is half something called a Vulcan.
- There is someone named Chekov, and if he had a Pokémon it would be an Eevee.
- The characters wear differently-coloured uniforms, which, according to freakish_geek, represent the Hogwarts houses into which they were sorted.

So, yes, I went in with very little idea of what to expect.

My first observation: yes, I can see why Kirk/Spock was the pairing that gave birth to slash. I have seen only six episodes, but there has already been plenty of homoerotic wrestling and Spock placing his hand tenderly on Kirk's face, and there is a great deal of emphasis on the fact that their minds are linked, and unless circumstances have conspired to separate them they are more or less always together.

Other thoughts:


- Kirk always looks a bit pregnant. I don't know why. Is it the clothes? Is it that he is a bit pregnant? (I have learnt very quickly that nothing is entirely impossible in Star Trek.)

- I like Uhura very much! She is an intelligent, sensible woman who occasionally wrestles guns off people. Thumbs up.

- The first half of 'Amok Time' seemed so like the setup for a slashfic. Oh, no, Spock will die if he doesn't have sex! Kirk's superiors will not allow Kirk to redirect the ship to Vulcan so Spock can take a wife! Whatever will Kirk do?

- In 'The Naked Time', there is no reason for the 'oh no we're all going to die' plot whatsoever. Just admit that you wanted to make an episode about all the characters acting drunk, writers. The ship doesn't have to be in deadly peril.

- I bet the sole reason tribbles are named 'tribbles' is because the writers really, really wanted to make that 'no tribble at all' pun.

- McCoy is a terrible doctor. He seems to diagnose people by merely glancing at them and saying 'HE'S DEAD.' His accuracy rating in this does not appear to be terribly high. Yes, all right, sometimes he's deliberately giving a fake diagnosis of death, but I am still not terribly impressed by his doctoring skills.

- In 'Mirror Mirror', the Evil Mirror Universe episode, Evil Mirror Spock backs someone up against a wall and electrocutes him.

It's sort of hot.


ms_treesap and I also watched the new film today, and Spock quoted Sherlock Holmes, and had I not already fallen a little in love with him that would have been the moment. Of course, Sherlock Holmes was exceedingly logical, so it makes sense that Spock would admire him.

PERHAPS SPOCK IS SHERLOCK HOLMES. Time travel is canonical! Is it not plausible that Spock might have travelled back in time and become the greatest detective ever to live? (Well, one of the greatest, at least. I can't really see Spock travelling back in time to become L.)

Hang on, does this make Watson Kirk? I do so hope it does.


(Due to ms_treesap and the extremely odd communities on her flist, my first experience of Star Trek fanfiction involved a woman's pubic hair being described as 'soft as a baby tribble'.

Thanks, ms_treesap.

Thanks.)