cimorene

You know... Chekov didn't join TOS until season 2. Although if that's the only quibble, I think I'll be quite pleased. I love the cast and the idea of making a prequel, it's just... I hate JJ Abrams a lot. But then, plenty of asshats have made good movies, so that alone shouldn't preclude liking it. I really really want to like it.

One of the wips that K'Sal, my beta/writing partner in TOS fandom, never finished dealt extensively with Kirk's childhood and his brother. It was one of her longest unfinished fragments, too. (I'll probably never forgive myself for having lost it in the shuffle between computers - I switched main computers three times around her period of highest productivity and, what with my Dad's car crash and my non-functional psychiatric medication and undiagnosed anxiety issues, I wasn't as... together as I needed to be at that time. Her writing was far from the only thing I lost in that period - just the thing of greatest emotional value). I remember that it was engrossing and mysterious and exciting - I love K'Sal's Kirk characterisation like nothing else - and kind of revelatory, too. I don't remember it well enough to mentally reconstruct it, but that glimpse of baby!Jim in the trailer, and the mischief in his eyes, reminded me powerfully.