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

[melannen]

Yeah, that was the first way I heard about it too; but when you see the real thing, it was clearly done as parody. (It's possible that there was an actual mary-sue named mary-sue that she got the name from, but I've never seen a reference for it.{

[klangley56]

I realize this little conversation is eons old, in 'net terms, but I only now have gotten myself a Dreamwidth account . . .

No, Paula did not base her Mary Sue on another character with that name. I could ask her specifically, if you like, but I expect it's just that Paula, who has always been a *fiend* at parodies, found the name appropriate for her story.

Are you still doing introductions here?

[melannen]

Introductions are ongoing! I'll try to remind people periodically to check by this post, too.

The Mary Sue story is amazing. :D