( My thoughts on ST:Reboot fanfic, with lots of references to the movie (mostly regarding Kirk, Uhura, and Spock) )
And in non-spoilery news, am I the only person who's a little...disconcerted by the excess of bad language in some of the recent stories? I mean, it's not that I have problems with colorful language, when it's in character. But I can't see Kirk or McCoy casually using the word "fuck" three times in a single sentence. Yes, McCoy curses a fair bit in TOS, but it's generally when he's angry or frustrated, not just as punctuation in his ordinary speech. And Kirk's characterization makes him a better candidate for using bad language on occasion than most of the characters, but I just can't see him doing it to such an extreme. He's an adult--one, moreover, whose career requires him to speak with a fair amount of clarity, precision, and intelligibility--not a performative, rebellious teenager.
And in non-spoilery news, am I the only person who's a little...disconcerted by the excess of bad language in some of the recent stories? I mean, it's not that I have problems with colorful language, when it's in character. But I can't see Kirk or McCoy casually using the word "fuck" three times in a single sentence. Yes, McCoy curses a fair bit in TOS, but it's generally when he's angry or frustrated, not just as punctuation in his ordinary speech. And Kirk's characterization makes him a better candidate for using bad language on occasion than most of the characters, but I just can't see him doing it to such an extreme. He's an adult--one, moreover, whose career requires him to speak with a fair amount of clarity, precision, and intelligibility--not a performative, rebellious teenager.
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