spaceships: the final frontier.
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fannish5: Name your five favourite starships.
Ugh, so hard!
1. Serenity. She's such an intrinsic part of the lives of her crew; she's beloved, and home, and family, and absolutely irreplaceable.
2. Enterprise, NCC1701-D. This was the Enterprise I fell in love with, the Enterprise that got me hooked on Star Trek. Even now, of all the fictional ships in the multiverse, she's the one I'd want to serve on.
3. Moya. Everything I said about Firefly and then some. ♥
4. Heart of Gold, because she's elegant and whimsical and is capable of miracles.
5. Enterprise, NX-01. Because I thought the production designers did an excellent job of creating a pre-UFP aesthetic; she really feels like the first, prototypical Enterprise. You can see how later ships developed from her template.
My one ridiculous ambition is to see the Earth from space before I die, and of all the fictional 'verses out there, if I could live in any of them, it'd be Star Trek, TNG-era, working in Starfleet.
Which, actually, makes me think ofleupagus's excellent Star Trek Reboot AU, Only Good For Legends, which she just finished. It was a fantastic story, but I had real troubles with the ending, which felt very unsatisfying to me. In the story, a major character (who is part of the Enterprise crew in canon, but is not in Starfleet in the AU) is given the opportunity to go into space as part of their career, and they turn it down. (And two characters leave Starfleet for civilian life, too.)
It makes sense, mostly, given the characterisation in the story, but it really struck a flat note for me when reading, and it wasn't until later that I worked out why. Going into space, exploring, doing all the things Starfleet does -- that, to me, is the best of all possible lives, and I can't empathise with a character who is offered that and doesn't want it. I just... how do you not want that?
I'm not sayingleupagus did it wrong, far from it; it's an excellent story. The flaw is mine, I suppose; I'm so in love with the idea of being able to do that that I just can't grasp why everyone else isn't. :)
In other news, I'm coming down sick with a cold, which explains why I'm spending a ridiculous amount of time sleeping lately. So I'm going to retire with some Star Trek DVDs, in honour of this post, and glut myself on spaceships.
fannish5: Name your five favourite starships.Ugh, so hard!
1. Serenity. She's such an intrinsic part of the lives of her crew; she's beloved, and home, and family, and absolutely irreplaceable.
2. Enterprise, NCC1701-D. This was the Enterprise I fell in love with, the Enterprise that got me hooked on Star Trek. Even now, of all the fictional ships in the multiverse, she's the one I'd want to serve on.
3. Moya. Everything I said about Firefly and then some. ♥
4. Heart of Gold, because she's elegant and whimsical and is capable of miracles.
5. Enterprise, NX-01. Because I thought the production designers did an excellent job of creating a pre-UFP aesthetic; she really feels like the first, prototypical Enterprise. You can see how later ships developed from her template.
My one ridiculous ambition is to see the Earth from space before I die, and of all the fictional 'verses out there, if I could live in any of them, it'd be Star Trek, TNG-era, working in Starfleet.
Which, actually, makes me think of
leupagus's excellent Star Trek Reboot AU, Only Good For Legends, which she just finished. It was a fantastic story, but I had real troubles with the ending, which felt very unsatisfying to me. In the story, a major character (who is part of the Enterprise crew in canon, but is not in Starfleet in the AU) is given the opportunity to go into space as part of their career, and they turn it down. (And two characters leave Starfleet for civilian life, too.)It makes sense, mostly, given the characterisation in the story, but it really struck a flat note for me when reading, and it wasn't until later that I worked out why. Going into space, exploring, doing all the things Starfleet does -- that, to me, is the best of all possible lives, and I can't empathise with a character who is offered that and doesn't want it. I just... how do you not want that?
I'm not saying
leupagus did it wrong, far from it; it's an excellent story. The flaw is mine, I suppose; I'm so in love with the idea of being able to do that that I just can't grasp why everyone else isn't. :)In other news, I'm coming down sick with a cold, which explains why I'm spending a ridiculous amount of time sleeping lately. So I'm going to retire with some Star Trek DVDs, in honour of this post, and glut myself on spaceships.