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Jun. 3rd, 2013 10:52 amVia ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thingswithwings, a Star Trek Into Darkness fic recommendation.
Midnight Judges
Brilliant piece of fix-it fic for the movie, set in the two weeks after the movie but before the coda.
It doesn't quite hold together as a piece of fiction. The writing feels rushed, sloppy, clumsy, and a part of me hesitated to recommend it so loudly because of that. But as a piece of fanfiction it is brilliant, because it does a great job of standing on canon and adding something substantive to the conversation.
I particularly commend to you the conversation with Admiral Agarwal, because not only is it a great subversion of the movie's idea of how Starfleet works, it's also a great subversion of a hoary fanfic fixit trope, where the author's Mary Sue runs around fixing problems that for some reason only the Mary Sue can see. HPMOR, for example, revels in this trope. But it's not for "Midnight Judges," where the character runs around fixing problems that ze thinks only ze can fix, until ze runs into Admiral Agarwal, and the story sets it up as yet another subtrope of that trope, where a wrongheaded man in power tries to tell the Mary Sue that the status quo can't be changed, and then he says "No, you're not the only one who sees the problems, and no, you certainly can't fix them all by yourself." Aaaah, I love it. I love how great a representation of the Starfleet ethos it is.
And I love that it ends with James Kirk, convincingly the Kirk from the movies and yet somehow way less insufferable because of context.
thingswithwings, a Star Trek Into Darkness fic recommendation.Midnight Judges
Brilliant piece of fix-it fic for the movie, set in the two weeks after the movie but before the coda.
It doesn't quite hold together as a piece of fiction. The writing feels rushed, sloppy, clumsy, and a part of me hesitated to recommend it so loudly because of that. But as a piece of fanfiction it is brilliant, because it does a great job of standing on canon and adding something substantive to the conversation.
I particularly commend to you the conversation with Admiral Agarwal, because not only is it a great subversion of the movie's idea of how Starfleet works, it's also a great subversion of a hoary fanfic fixit trope, where the author's Mary Sue runs around fixing problems that for some reason only the Mary Sue can see. HPMOR, for example, revels in this trope. But it's not for "Midnight Judges," where the character runs around fixing problems that ze thinks only ze can fix, until ze runs into Admiral Agarwal, and the story sets it up as yet another subtrope of that trope, where a wrongheaded man in power tries to tell the Mary Sue that the status quo can't be changed, and then he says "No, you're not the only one who sees the problems, and no, you certainly can't fix them all by yourself." Aaaah, I love it. I love how great a representation of the Starfleet ethos it is.
And I love that it ends with James Kirk, convincingly the Kirk from the movies and yet somehow way less insufferable because of context.