Introduction!

[melannen]

Hello everyone, and welcome to starry_sea! I'm still working on icons and layout and things (though if you would like to help or make icons, I would love the help.)

In the meantime, let's have introductions! Leave a comment here to let us know something about you and your relationship with Star Trek.

Here's some questions to get us started (not required, but fun):
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?
3. What do you consider part of your personal canon? What's your personal fanon?
4. For you, what is the most essential thing about Star Trek that makes it Star Trek to you?
5. If you could rec us only one book/episode/comic/movie, which would it be?
6. Link us to a fic, website, discussion post, or community - yours, or someone else's - that we should all check out.

I, your friendly mod, will start things off in the first comment. And will probably strain DW's comment limits in the process.

Comments

[inchainz]

Hi everyone,

I'm never sure how to jump in & introduce myself — thanks for making it so easy! :)

1. Who are you? What are you looking for in this community?

I'm looking for people who like to talk about Star Trek, and book (& possibly fic) recs.

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 Trekkie for 35 years, since my cousin sat me down and said: You have to see this (re-run of The Trouble With Tribbles). I fell in love with Captain Kirk & the rest is history. 99% of my involvement w/fandom has been in r/l, I've been to a bunch of cons, most with my (now grown) daughter who's also a Trekkie/Trekker.

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

TOS & TNG, early books, the first nine movies. I watched TAS first-run, but don't remember much about the episodes I don't currently have on tape (yes, VHS :)).

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

The stories, at their core, are all about the evolution of human beings. When the world tries to make me believe it'll never happen, I have my own proof that it can; humans can evolve beyond greed and violence.

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

ST: TOS is my favorite show of all time, but the writer in me has to rec Darmok [ST: TNG 5x22]. The commitment to communication, the creativity in all aspects of that ep still floor me every time.

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

I wish I had a good one, but besides Memory Alpha I've been very careful surfing for Trek lately. It's not safe out there for anyone who's not into ST: AR09.

Thanks for the book recs, I've missed some of DD's novels & need to go back & catch up.
~C

[melannen]

I am glad you felt comfortable jumping in! I stole the idea of the intro post from the LJ community best_enemies, but the mods there are much better at stopping by and welcoming people in a timely manner. But I'm trying! So welcome.

Darmok has some plot problems, (especially as relating to linguistics,) but it's one of the only TNG episodes that's really sunk into me. That story happened, even if none of the rest of TNG did!