fandom meme?

[melannen]

It's a weird day, y'all, and it's been awhile since I've done something like this, so: have a shipping meme.

Give me a fandom in the comments and I will tell you which pairing or poly ship in that fandom:

1. Is the forever ship of my heart
2. Is the one I don't have a lot of feelings about but know I can always go back to for long comfort fic
3. Has the best porn
4. Is just NO

(Caveat: fandom must be large enough to have significant amounts of fic for at least four pairings)
(Caveat 2: it does not have to be a fandom you have heard me talk about much or recently, because let's face it, if it has that much fic I have probably read enough to be able to answer these, although that is not a dare.)
(Caveat 3: all answers to 4 are in the spirit of ykinmkato because I am enough of an Old to believe in that.)

Comments

[hannah]

Star Trek, all Treks.

[melannen]

Oh jeez can't y'all narrow it down some.

1. The crew of the original Enterprise NCC-1701/Their Ship. Or Spock/McCoy, if that's cheating.
2. Kirk/Spock (Okay I have feelings about Kirk/Spock as an epic friendship, but I am take-it-or-leave it about it being an epic romance, and also without McCoy (and Uhura and Scotty) along part of the heart is gone.)
3. Q/Picard
4. Spock/Chapel, I guess? (So I've seen this done well, but mostly I am super uninterested in your standard "I am the one girl in all the world who will be able to teach Spock about ~lurve" storyline, as played by multiple minor female character and many, many OFCs over the years.)

(It has been so long since I've watched or read much DS9 or VOY that I don't have any strong feelings on ships, beyond "I would like everyone on DS9 to be happy forever" and "I would like the crew of Voyager to have fewer plotlines lifted from daytime soaps", and I haven't watched ENT or DISCO at all, so this is what you get.)

[hannah]

Q/Picard falls under the "when the actors ship the ship, the ship's canon" banner, and I love it so.

[melannen]

I don't really read much in ST outside of TOS (as you can probably tell) but every so often I just have to go looking for Picard/Q again. (I don't even remember how much of it is explicit-rated, because if Q and Picard are in the same scene it feels like it's porn *somehow*.)