I <3 Wil Wheaton?

[proggrrl]

OK, now I am not a ginormous Star Trek fan.  Sure, I adore TOS, and the first taste I ever got of slash was Kirk/Spock...but I'm not a huge fan of the rest of the franchise shows and films.

But as you flisters know, I am a very big fan of Fandom 2.0 and the cool new ways the IP owners are trying to catch up and deal with fandom.

So this video of Wil Wheaton reading bits of Kirk and Picard dialogues, as written by fans submitting to the Kirk vs. Picard fanfic contest, fills me with META-JOY.

I can only pray that my real fandoms might have a few actors who will be willing to do this sort of thing in the years after the show ends.  Can you imagine Aaron Douglas doing something like this?  Michael Trucco?  *bouncy*

(Props for the link from SF Signal, a fun blog I found today.)

If you are a ST fan, you will enjoy the adorkable promo they made for the contest...

Comments

[cordwainer.livejournal.com]

Speaking of K/S slash, it's really reached its apex on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxTpyCdriY

[proggrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that's a classic. There were years and years of K/S vids made on VHS 'back in the day' before iMovie and Quicktime files and YouTube. Boggles the mind.

When I first encountered K/S in high school in the 80's I laughed my ass off - but in college I happened to stumble into the classroom of Constance Penley...and my mind was blown out about it.

After that I've never been able to watch TOS quite the same way. The slashy subtext is obvious too me.

[cordwainer.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting article on Constance Penley. I've never ready any slash. But, there must be something about Shatner, because even on Boston Legal the relationship between Denny Crane and Alan Shore (James Spader) plays out like a same sex marriage.