Ya know, it's the alternate universe, spinning off an entirely new timeline that saves it for me. Because I *love* original Trek with a deep and abiding passion. I grew up on it. It got me through crappy grade school angst and broody high school angst and made me friends in university. If they'd pretended that they were going back and doing a definitive version of that Spock and that Kirk, I probably would have ended up very, very angry about the whole thing.
But spin it off, pretty much from the start, take the same characters in very different, if still orbiting, directions and see what happens? Suddenly I'm okay with it. Because they haven't destroyed my Trek, but they've created a whole new sandbox to play in. A sandbox with interesting new configurations and implications. And if that means that Kirk is a juvenile offender and Spock clocked a kid in grade school, that's fine. It is an AU, though an official one, and it means everyone can play happily, side by side. (Well, okay, fandom being fandom, people probably won't play happily. But a girl can dream, can't she. *g*)
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Date: 2009-05-12 12:54 pm (UTC)But spin it off, pretty much from the start, take the same characters in very different, if still orbiting, directions and see what happens? Suddenly I'm okay with it. Because they haven't destroyed my Trek, but they've created a whole new sandbox to play in. A sandbox with interesting new configurations and implications. And if that means that Kirk is a juvenile offender and Spock clocked a kid in grade school, that's fine. It is an AU, though an official one, and it means everyone can play happily, side by side. (Well, okay, fandom being fandom, people probably won't play happily. But a girl can dream, can't she. *g*)
Definitely need a McCoy icon.