1. My name is Capella, and I am so excited to find a place where I can squee about Trek novels and not be the only person I know who reads them. Also there appears to be a ton of Rihannsu love here and OMGRIHANNSU.
2. I have been a Star Trek fan as long as I can remember. Literally. I know I was reading Trek novels by kindergarten because I had my copy of Best Destiny taken away because I was being disruptive in class by ignoring the teacher and reading (no, really). I had to see TOS and TNG via reruns, so actually most of my early exposure to those two was novels not eps. DS9 was the first Trek I saw almost all of airing.
3. Personal canon is TOS to Voyager, show-wise. Of movies, TOS has all but 5, and the only TNG movie was First Contact and they never made more because it sucked. Reboot and Enterprise are not my Trek, which does not mean I hate them, they're just not in my canon. Also, TNG and DS9's portrayal of Romulans is really a warlike splinter faction and most of them are awesome and honorable and good Rihannsu. <3 Oh, also, I love the four-gendered Andorians of Heather Jarman's DS9 novel work, I want this to be canon!
4. IDIC and optimism for the future. Jadzia kissing Lenara in DS9 helped me come to terms with my own queerness, and about a decade later helped my mother come to terms with it. To me, that's the essence of Trek; one day, in the future, we will be better than our current prejudices and fears. We will believe that all lives are sacred, and that love is love no matter how expressed.
5. If you could rec us only one book/episode/comic/movie, which would it be?
Book: Diane Duane's The Romulan Way.
6. Link us to a fic, website, discussion post, or community - yours, or someone else's - that we should all check out.
uhm uhm I actually don't have anything for here :(
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2. I have been a Star Trek fan as long as I can remember. Literally. I know I was reading Trek novels by kindergarten because I had my copy of Best Destiny taken away because I was being disruptive in class by ignoring the teacher and reading (no, really). I had to see TOS and TNG via reruns, so actually most of my early exposure to those two was novels not eps. DS9 was the first Trek I saw almost all of airing.
3. Personal canon is TOS to Voyager, show-wise. Of movies, TOS has all but 5, and the only TNG movie was First Contact and they never made more because it sucked. Reboot and Enterprise are not my Trek, which does not mean I hate them, they're just not in my canon. Also, TNG and DS9's portrayal of Romulans is really a warlike splinter faction and most of them are awesome and honorable and good Rihannsu. <3 Oh, also, I love the four-gendered Andorians of Heather Jarman's DS9 novel work, I want this to be canon!
4. IDIC and optimism for the future. Jadzia kissing Lenara in DS9 helped me come to terms with my own queerness, and about a decade later helped my mother come to terms with it. To me, that's the essence of Trek; one day, in the future, we will be better than our current prejudices and fears. We will believe that all lives are sacred, and that love is love no matter how expressed.
5. If you could rec us only one book/episode/comic/movie, which would it be?
Book: Diane Duane's The Romulan Way.
6. Link us to a fic, website, discussion post, or community - yours, or someone else's - that we should all check out.
uhm uhm I actually don't have anything for here :(