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Entry tags:	movies, star trek

Star Trek and I
I am officially in love with the new Star Trek movie—if you guys weren’t already aware of that from my last post. And it has sucked me into the Star Trek fandom. Not that I haven’t always been a fan of Trek. I grew up on Voyager and reruns of TOS and TNG. In fact, Voyager was probably the first show I actually was a “fan” of—meaning it was the first show I watched regularly that wasn’t a cartoon or children’s show. And even those I only watched whenever, whereas I looked forward to Wednesdays every week for Voyager. I was totally in love with Tom Paris and Harry Kim and was a complete Janeway/Chakotay and Seven/Doctor shipper (even though I didn’t know that’s what you called it back then). I also had a completely embarrassing crush of Captain Kirk from TOS. And I loved watching reruns of TOS and TNG with my father. I fact, I once remember asking to watch TOS with him even though I was grounded at the time and wasn’t technically allowed to watch TV. He let me.

I also remember going to see Generations when it first came out in theaters. Trek was a family thing; everyone in mine watched in. A new Star Trek movie meant a trip to the movies together. Nothing’s changed. When I went to see this one Thursday night, it was with my family. It’s been years since all of us went to the movies together. So I’ve seen all the TNG movies in theatres growing up. And my dad had all the older films on VHS. I’m pretty certain I’ve seen them all, but some of them were when I was very young. I only have hazy recollections of them. I remember The Voyage Home the most since it was my favorite of the originals.

Suffice to say that Star Trek was a big part of my childhood. I’ve been a fan since long before I became cognizant of the concept of fandom in terms of active communities of fans.

Then came Stargate (in particularly, Atlantis) during my senior year of high school, and I became an active member of a fandom for the first time, diving into its wild, crazy, and completely awesome world. Since then, I have entered several fandoms (most prominently Robin Hood, Torchwood, and Merlin), but Trek was never one of them despite watching (or re-watching) the complete series of Voyager, DS9, and Enterprise in college.

But this movie has changed all that. I’m obsessed with it. I came out of the film with an intense desire for fanfic, and I immediately started searching for icons the minute I got home. I want to discuss it with pretty much everybody who’s seen it, and I’ve been telling everybody who hasn’t seen it to go see it. I even took a friend of mine who actually doesn’t like Star Trek to go see it. She liked it—which made me extremely happy. I’ve seen it three times. It’s only been out what? four days? Not to mention I have no money, but I’ve seen it three times already! It’d be a really sad state of affairs if the movie wasn’t so damn good. I LOVE THIS MOVIE! It has officially won the title of my favorite movie. And if I’m not careful, I can totally see this movie taking over my life. If it weren’t for Heroes, I’d probably have spent all weekend absorbed in complete Trek-nerdiness. As it is, I didn’t sleep at all last night because I needed to find out what happened next. But now that I’ve finished season one, I want to obsess over Trek again. It’s a very sad state of affairs indeed.