I hear the call of another meme...

[selenak]

...spotted at various places. Bear in mind that just as I don't 'ship that many pairings in the romantic sense (though of course if I'm familiar with the fandom, chances are I like some of the relationships therein, be they friendly or adverserial), I don't have that many DO NOT WANT anti OTPs, either. Some, but not many. So I'll have to default on that option a lot of the time.

Give me a show/movie/fandom and I'll tell you:

my favourite female character
my favourite male character
my favourite book/season/etc
my favourite episode (if it's a tv show)
my favourite cast member
my favourite relationship
a character I'd die defending
a character I just can't sympathize with
a character I grew to love
my anti otp

Comments

[rembrandtswife]

Original Trek?

[selenak]

my favourite female character: Uhura, unless we're counting the movies as well, in which case it's Saavik.

my favourite male character: Spock.

my favourite book/season/etc: can't choose between s1 and s2. S2 has Chekov, but also already reduced screen time for the ensemble when compared to the big three.

my favourite episode (if it's a tv show): Journey to Babel because Spock's parents vying with The Trouble with Tribbles, because hilarity. Also ensembleness.

my favourite cast member: having read everyone's memoirs and been to a couple of conventions - either George Takei or Walter Koenig. Can't decide between these two.

my favourite relationship: Kirk/Enterprise. A lot of other Captains in other sci fi sagas (looking at you, BSG) were supposedly married to their ships, but Kirk (Kirk Prime, that is) is the only one who really sold that idea to me. Kirk's "My God, Bones, what have I done?" when the Enterprise blows up in ST III is so much more meaningful than Bill Adama's drunken self pitying rages in s4, I can't tell you.

a character I'd die defending: doesn't apply for this show.

a character I just can't sympathize with: hm, there isn't one?

a character I grew to love: can't think of a surprise sneak up in love. I mean, I had phases of not liking Kirk, but that came after originally liking him, and evened itself out with liking him again. Not really the same.

my anti otp: don't have one in TOS. Wait, I was really against Vonda McIntyre letting Saavik and David Marcus hook up in the novelizations of Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock, because why, and also, ugh, David Marcus. But only on screen canon counts, and so that didn't happen.

[rembrandtswife]

I don't know what fictional universe Macintyre was writing in those books, but it wasn't Star Trek.

Also, I think I'm working up to a rant (for general audiences) on how Vulcans do so have emotions, that's why they *control* them.