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

[stellar_dust]

1. Who are you? What are you looking for in this community?
I'm stellar_dust, and it's about time I got around to filling this out. I'm melannen's sister which means I totally have an in with the mod *cough*

I want an excuse to re-read and glee over Star Trek books, because it's been way way waaayyy too long.

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 remember being terrified of the show (melannen and I had some good times in that closet!) and I remember being crazy obsessed, but I don't remember what came between! It was probably around 1993, though, same as melannen cites.

Anyway, I taped what I could get my hands on of the shows that were on at the time, especially TOS reruns at 3 AM, and read all the novels the libraries had. I liked TNG and DS9, and I loved Voyager but school intervened and I didn't catch the last few seasons. I've never really been in fandom, except with melannen, though I was always super-jealous of the group that met at the library before my Girl Scout meetings!

3. What do you consider part of your personal canon? What's your personal fanon?
I'll take anything as canon if I can make it fit, but where there's a contradiction, the books win. :D Oh and, I don't necessarily accept *everything* in them, but the Shatner Kirk novels are my canon insofar as Kirk didn't stay dead after Generations, because Captain Kirk is never allowed to die. (I go back and forth between considering that a really great thing and a really terrible thing.)

4. For you, what is the most essential thing about Star Trek that makes it Star Trek to you?
Star Trek taught me about friendship and compassion and integrity. Eternal optimism for what humanity can accomplish and become, and dedication to scientific discovery. There's no such thing as a no-win scenario. Um, everything on my "All I Need to Know I Learned From Star Trek" poster, which I need to remember to grab from mom's house before I move this fall.

5. If you could rec us only one book/episode/comic/movie, which would it be?
It's been so long that it's hard to remember! Wounded Sky has already been mentioned, and I have a very special place in my heart for Shadows on the Sun, because Bones-whumping is something I can never get enough of. :D I last read it about 3 years ago - wasn't *quite* as good as I remembered, but still very good. Oh and I'm enjoying listening to Zachary Quinto read the audiobook of the new movie!

6. Link us to a fic, website, discussion post, or community - yours, or someone else's - that we should all check out.
You should go read We Has Tribbles And Also Troubles.

[melannen]

"Closeted fans" has a special meaning for us, doesn't it? :D

Also, you need to remember to get your Star Trek poster from Mom's house before you move.