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ILL of IGHTZ.
Here is HIGH ART depicting the USS Bill of Rights:
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sally, and yesterday was my birthday. Sole responsibility for the cake, however, lies with stellar_dust.)
More cake picures, this time involving daisy-chained fuses and suprisingly large fireballs, because my mother find the best birthday candles ever:
You see here that the candles are connected by a strip of fuse paper, the idea being that you light one, and they all go up. I was convinced this would not work.
I was wrong. Also, there was a lot more flamey-ness than I expected in the process. The fire even handily jumped centimeter-wide gaps where we had used more than one string of candles. Here is the cake about halfway through the process:
...PS in case you missed it, there is fic about Captain Maddow & Co. happening in the comments to that last entry. Right now mostly by me, but this universe is as open to other authors as Spock is open to mind-melds with random strangers. Just in case you were interested. :P
So far we've got:It's Not That Jim Kirk *Dislikes* Captain Maddow, Seriously, Don't Ask About the Ears, A Short Summary of Lieut. Commander Olbermann's Starfleet Career, Why Rachel Wears the Go-Go Boots, and Rachel's Kobayashi Maru (+ The Tale of Rear Admiral Buchanan).
There will probably be more, unless I have a sudden attack of sanity. (Currently top of the list: "Life on the Bill of Rights is one long series of Moments of Zen," "How the Heir of Clan Cuper ran away from home and joined Starfleet", "That time Keith and Stehpen and Jon got totally blitzed and blinged out the ship", and "Jim and Rachel vs. the Orion Pirates")
Also as part of birthday celebration,stellar_dust brought over her original Star Trek DVDs, and we watched the first disk while sitting out on the screen porch in the rain. The DVDs are in airing order, and this is really the first time I've watched in any order at all (and the first time I've watched most of them in any format other than "really bad reception on Channel 50".)
And I've changed my mind on Spock/Uhura. The YouTube clip shows are one thing, but in the first two aired episodes? ("The Man Trap" and "Charlie X") Spock and Uhura not only have chemistry, they have basically the same chemistry they do in the new movie. I would buy, based on those episodes, any of a) UST that will be resolved any moment, b) a long friendship based on mutual flirting, c) currently not together but with an epic History, or d) snogging in the turbolifts between scenes.
It's not even subtle, ya'll. I was wrong. Mea culpa.
Also, watching these episodes again, many of them for the first time since I was pre-adolescent, it's making me realize the difference between the adult and child mind, because I had not remembered the ship being drenched in so much sex. The new movie's everybody/everybody shipping possibilities, again, are totally based in TOS canon; Kirk really does lose his shirt every episode, and spends lots of time hitting on inappropriate people and wrestling while half-naked; Janice Rand is made of win and filmy pink nightgowns (it now makes more sense that I wanted to be her when I was wee, because she's awesome); and Kirk/Enterprise is literally the most canonical relationship on the show. (Please tell me the fic exists where she gets to be a human for a day, and they go on a long walk on a beach together. Please???)
Also, everybody on the Enterprise is utterly incompetent at their jobs, except McCoy and possibly Spock, and Fleet procedure makes no sense - another verification of new movie stuff that I had been skeptical of. Here I am reminded of why I liked the books better; in the books, things are done logically and people are actually good at their jobs.
I think I like the original Enterprise sets better than the movie ones, though. Watching the episodes through snow and with color cutting in and out (and half the time, on the radio in Mom's sewing room that picked up UHF audio) I'd never really gotten more than a vague impression of them. They're very roomy and simple and clean, which granted was probably a budgetary thing as much as anything, but it makes it look actually alien in a way the modern futurism doesn't, and as Ael would say, the sheer waste of space is a large part of what makes the Enterprise impressive. Even if the people running it demonstrably *aren't* streamlined, organized, efficient, and very good at what they do, the ship looks like *she* is.
...here is some fanart with a half-naked Orion woman.
(Yes, I am
sally, and yesterday was my birthday. Sole responsibility for the cake, however, lies with stellar_dust.)More cake picures, this time involving daisy-chained fuses and suprisingly large fireballs, because my mother find the best birthday candles ever:
You see here that the candles are connected by a strip of fuse paper, the idea being that you light one, and they all go up. I was convinced this would not work.
I was wrong. Also, there was a lot more flamey-ness than I expected in the process. The fire even handily jumped centimeter-wide gaps where we had used more than one string of candles. Here is the cake about halfway through the process:
...PS in case you missed it, there is fic about Captain Maddow & Co. happening in the comments to that last entry. Right now mostly by me, but this universe is as open to other authors as Spock is open to mind-melds with random strangers. Just in case you were interested. :P
So far we've got:It's Not That Jim Kirk *Dislikes* Captain Maddow, Seriously, Don't Ask About the Ears, A Short Summary of Lieut. Commander Olbermann's Starfleet Career, Why Rachel Wears the Go-Go Boots, and Rachel's Kobayashi Maru (+ The Tale of Rear Admiral Buchanan).
There will probably be more, unless I have a sudden attack of sanity. (Currently top of the list: "Life on the Bill of Rights is one long series of Moments of Zen," "How the Heir of Clan Cuper ran away from home and joined Starfleet", "That time Keith and Stehpen and Jon got totally blitzed and blinged out the ship", and "Jim and Rachel vs. the Orion Pirates")
Also as part of birthday celebration,
stellar_dust brought over her original Star Trek DVDs, and we watched the first disk while sitting out on the screen porch in the rain. The DVDs are in airing order, and this is really the first time I've watched in any order at all (and the first time I've watched most of them in any format other than "really bad reception on Channel 50".)And I've changed my mind on Spock/Uhura. The YouTube clip shows are one thing, but in the first two aired episodes? ("The Man Trap" and "Charlie X") Spock and Uhura not only have chemistry, they have basically the same chemistry they do in the new movie. I would buy, based on those episodes, any of a) UST that will be resolved any moment, b) a long friendship based on mutual flirting, c) currently not together but with an epic History, or d) snogging in the turbolifts between scenes.
It's not even subtle, ya'll. I was wrong. Mea culpa.
Also, watching these episodes again, many of them for the first time since I was pre-adolescent, it's making me realize the difference between the adult and child mind, because I had not remembered the ship being drenched in so much sex. The new movie's everybody/everybody shipping possibilities, again, are totally based in TOS canon; Kirk really does lose his shirt every episode, and spends lots of time hitting on inappropriate people and wrestling while half-naked; Janice Rand is made of win and filmy pink nightgowns (it now makes more sense that I wanted to be her when I was wee, because she's awesome); and Kirk/Enterprise is literally the most canonical relationship on the show. (Please tell me the fic exists where she gets to be a human for a day, and they go on a long walk on a beach together. Please???)
Also, everybody on the Enterprise is utterly incompetent at their jobs, except McCoy and possibly Spock, and Fleet procedure makes no sense - another verification of new movie stuff that I had been skeptical of. Here I am reminded of why I liked the books better; in the books, things are done logically and people are actually good at their jobs.
I think I like the original Enterprise sets better than the movie ones, though. Watching the episodes through snow and with color cutting in and out (and half the time, on the radio in Mom's sewing room that picked up UHF audio) I'd never really gotten more than a vague impression of them. They're very roomy and simple and clean, which granted was probably a budgetary thing as much as anything, but it makes it look actually alien in a way the modern futurism doesn't, and as Ael would say, the sheer waste of space is a large part of what makes the Enterprise impressive. Even if the people running it demonstrably *aren't* streamlined, organized, efficient, and very good at what they do, the ship looks like *she* is.
...here is some fanart with a half-naked Orion woman.
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The only problem is that the kids are getting old enough that sooner or later we're going to have to teach them what "interrogating the text" means (well, if I taught Herself "imperialism" and "colonialist enterprise" last week in response to her Schoolhouse Rock DVDs, that should be manageable....)
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this universe is as open to other authors as Spock is open to mind-melds with random strangers
la la la, I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
Although I'm going to feel bad in 8.5 hours when I don't have fic for your![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lgbtfest prompt, so I have to make it up to you somehow and...no. No no no. *returns fingers to ears*I had not remembered the ship being drenched in so much sex.
Seriously! I had much the same reaction recently.
Edited for HTML FAIL.
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And srsly, don't worry about the lgbtfest fic on my account, I know what defaulting on ficathons is like. <_< (I have a fic due next week, but what I am writing? Star Trek crossovers.)
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My husband, bless his heart, heard people didn't like Uhura/Spock in the movie and launched into a spirited defense of it citing the original series. He'd even remembered (as I hadn't, until someone linked an interview with Nichelle Nichols) that she was the only non-Vulcan on the Enterprise who could play the Vulcan lute.
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But it is very cute! I kind of want TOS established Spock/Uhura now.
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Hee, I know.
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Upload some of that tasty looking cake? :D?
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This means I DO NOT HAVE PICTURES TO POST including THE ADORATION.
THEREFORE YOU MUST POST IT.
grrrrrrrrrrr.
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grr.
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d-:
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I lol'ed.
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Happy Birthday!
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I ♥ the candle fuse, that whole cake is made of awesoem & win.