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Leighton ([personal profile] leighton) wrote in [community profile] starry_sea 2009-05-13 02:49 am (UTC)

1. Who are you? What are you looking for in this community?
Name's Leighton, and I joined this community because I love discussing the themes and cultural impact of the show and its mythos.

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?

I've been a Trek fan since my early teens, when I watched The Next Generation whenever I could. I tried getting into Deep Space 9 and Voyager, but they just didn't do it for me. I recently rekindled my interest in it after I wrote a paper on race in science fiction for a graduate class. That led me to watch the original series, and now it has devoured my soul.


3. What do you consider part of your personal canon? What's your personal fanon?

The original series and The Next Generation. I try to deny that Star Trek V and the Next Gen movies happened.

4. For you, what is the most essential thing about Star Trek that makes it Star Trek to you?

Hope, optimism, faith in human ingenuity, Jim Kirk as an ideal of heroic masculinity, perpetuating the American mythos of a compassionate, uniting superpower envied by its enemies

5. If you could rec us only one book/episode/comic/movie, which would it be?

I'm partial to The Menagerie (both parts).

6. Link us to a fic, website, discussion post, or community - yours, or someone else's - that we should all check out.

I'm going to cheat here and link to a book that critiques the show's purported colorblindness: Star Trek and History: Racing Towards a White Future
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-History-Race-Ing-Toward/dp/0813524660/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

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