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So I've mentioned that Galaxy Quest is a much more entertaining movie when you know something about Star Trek, yes?

The other thing I realized is that the movie already addresses shipping, in a tangential way, with the Taggart/Madison fangirl asking Gwen if she and the Commander "had a thing". If we extend our understanding of fandom into this alternate universe, shipping is presumably a large part of the fannish community, there are probably zines and fanworks and rec.arts.gquest listings and all that.

Which means, if we draw the logical parallels between Galaxy Quest and Star Trek, in the movie's verse, Taggart/Dr. Lazarus was the most prevalent ship and the first to coin the term "slash". There are probably piles of mostly-regrettable zinefic and less-regrettable Nine Inch Nails vids.

Jason Nesmith probably knows all about it. Hell, he's probably shown it to Alexander.

I'm not sure why this amuses me so, but the other conclusion I drew from watching the movie was that shipping Jason Nesmith/Alexander Dane would essentially be writing Shattner/Nimoy RPS with the serial numbers filed off, and I needed to find something less brain-breaking to latch onto fast.

(Though I do wonder at how the Uhura stand-in being a white woman would have affected shipping trends, given that the main reason Uhura wasn't given a romantic subplot in Star Trek: TOS was because the studio execs forbade an interracial romance on TV. It's possible that within the Galaxy Quest universe, the Taggart/Madison subtext was much more played up and much more textual - unless the racial issues weren't a factor in the alternate 70s, but that might be too much to hope for.)

Things like these probably shouldn't be what I ponder in the early morning.

And now, I must check the anthills, and then panic about my

dw_femslash ficathon story. Don't suppose anyone would be up for futher brainstorming?

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Ahahaha. I'd only ever given the briefest of thought to the shipping involved, but you just KNOW that there are epic fan wars over the series revival at the end of the film.

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But see, this revival uses all the original actors, so there wouldn't even be wank about them damn teenyboppers who were just here for the pretty boys. Unless the now-legal Laredo and Roc Ingersol drew a lot of fangirl attention. Or the trouble instead was the damn fanboys lured in by the shiny special effects who can't appreciate the bublblewrap monsters we had, the whippersnappers.

At least they didn't go the Battlestar Galactica route.

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Yep, skip 60 on my flist is reminding me to panic about my

dw_femslash story. Apparently they're due to the 13th, not the 15th as I have mistakenly believed. Which is five days time. And I'll be travelling that day. And my story is nothing but a vague idea.

This is usual.

So, naturally, I should be wondering what fandoms to pick for Yuletide.

Um...you have the appropriate tag? I was going to say something else in this comment...

Oh, if you still want to talk, and I'd be any use, I'm here.

Aside from the traveling, that's my situation exactly. Including the "vague idea" bit. And it looks like it's going to be another sprawling, 5,000 word Thing, which, while okay for Remix, is not so good for something I need to do in the next two days. While I've got schoolwork to finish. Eeer.

Can I use the e-mail listed on your profile, or is there a different address you'd like me to use? PM me if that's the case. Thank you so much; I've been getting a touch desperate, as you might be able to tell. :D

The Hotmail email listed on my profile is just fine!

The Galaxy Quest show-within-the-movie is far too '70s for me to consider a proper TOS-analogue. Does that make sense in any way? That it was more of a cheesefest on the order of the original Battlestar Galatica, than the ultra-earnest Star Trek (not that TOS couldn't be a cheesefest as well as earnest, especially towards the end!).

On a related note, I saw Alien for the first time last month, so other parts of GQ are starting to be clearer to me!

I haven't seen the original Battlestar Galactica, so I don't have that point of comparison, but given that what we see of the show is primarily the late seasons, I thought it might match up to late-era TOS. But even then, I was more using the alien costumes and the massive, devoted fandom to correlate it to Star Trek, given that they were still holding a huge portion of a convention for a canceled 20-year-old show.

I still can't watch Alien. I made it through Aliens, but that was with someone telling me when to cover my eyes because I can't even look at the chestbursters or facehuggers that's how bad they terrify me. But Sigourney Weaver is brilliant in it, and it was awesome seeing her playing a more serious character when all I'd really seen her do beforehand was Gwen DeMarco and computer voices.

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I wonder why I didn't notice that before.

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