1. Who are you? What are you looking for in this community?2. How long have you been a Star Trek fan? How did you first become one? How would you describe your previous involvement with the fandom? Birth. ::laughs:: My Dad was a Trekkie, so it was kind of natural; we were watching Star Trek my whole life pretty much. I can't say for sure when I first became one. My previous involvement with the fandom has been wonderful -- I didn't get into the actual fandom itself until I was online at seventeen, and didn't actively stop lurking until 2001ish. I drift in and out, but almost always come back.
3. What do you consider part of your personal canon? What's your personal fanon? Canon for me is everything that aired, pretty much, though I'm not sure where TAS fits in. Regardless, I do honor some things that came up in it. Like Scotty singing in Welsh. ::grins:: My personal fanon is canon, with the addition of the novels Kobayashi Maru and Vulcan's Glory, and then my own Arc of the Wolf.
4. For you, what is the most essential thing about Star Trek that makes it Star Trek to you? Oooh. Tough question. I suppose that it has to feel like Trek, if that makes sense, for it to be Trek. Very metaphysical, but I can't actually explain all that well what I mean.
5. If you could rec us only one book/episode/comic/movie, which would it be? The Wrath of Khan. Musically, artistically, thematically, it was just a stellar movie. It was far better than people give it credit for outside of Trek circles.
6. Link us to a fic, website, discussion post, or community - yours, or someone else's - that we should all check out.
Ad Astra's the archive I founded on the heels of the demise of the Hope Station site. For a Trekfic archive/community, it's been absolutely one of the most happy things I've done. It has authors from all over the place -- OmegaSector, TrekBBS, TrekUnited, ASC, LiveJournal -- and a really wide range of amazing talent. I'm more than lucky to have this site. It's based on the idea of community and interaction, which is why we have the incredible stats of 1571 reviews for 342 stories (as of now) and a lot of people who would have never met because of where they are in fandom have gotten together there. We have forums, review hunts, a two-week challenge and stuff for just about any kind of fan.
For a site that's not even a year old, I'm crazy proud of it. ::laughs:: Obviously.
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Date: 2009-06-22 05:43 pm (UTC)Birth. ::laughs:: My Dad was a Trekkie, so it was kind of natural; we were watching Star Trek my whole life pretty much. I can't say for sure when I first became one. My previous involvement with the fandom has been wonderful -- I didn't get into the actual fandom itself until I was online at seventeen, and didn't actively stop lurking until 2001ish. I drift in and out, but almost always come back.
3. What do you consider part of your personal canon? What's your personal fanon?
Canon for me is everything that aired, pretty much, though I'm not sure where TAS fits in. Regardless, I do honor some things that came up in it. Like Scotty singing in Welsh. ::grins:: My personal fanon is canon, with the addition of the novels Kobayashi Maru and Vulcan's Glory, and then my own Arc of the Wolf.
4. For you, what is the most essential thing about Star Trek that makes it Star Trek to you?
Oooh. Tough question. I suppose that it has to feel like Trek, if that makes sense, for it to be Trek. Very metaphysical, but I can't actually explain all that well what I mean.
5. If you could rec us only one book/episode/comic/movie, which would it be?
The Wrath of Khan. Musically, artistically, thematically, it was just a stellar movie. It was far better than people give it credit for outside of Trek circles.
6. Link us to a fic, website, discussion post, or community - yours, or someone else's - that we should all check out.
Well, I guess it's probably the right thing to do: http://www.adastrafanfic.com/
Ad Astra's the archive I founded on the heels of the demise of the Hope Station site. For a Trekfic archive/community, it's been absolutely one of the most happy things I've done. It has authors from all over the place -- OmegaSector, TrekBBS, TrekUnited, ASC, LiveJournal -- and a really wide range of amazing talent. I'm more than lucky to have this site. It's based on the idea of community and interaction, which is why we have the incredible stats of 1571 reviews for 342 stories (as of now) and a lot of people who would have never met because of where they are in fandom have gotten together there. We have forums, review hunts, a two-week challenge and stuff for just about any kind of fan.
For a site that's not even a year old, I'm crazy proud of it. ::laughs:: Obviously.