So... Incredibly... Sick

[thedeadlyhook]

This has got to be the worst case of flu I've had since childhood. Toys has it too. We are the house of the supremely ILL.

As a mild plus, I've gotten to watch a lot of random odd-hours television while laid up and woozy, and the discovery that TV Land plays classic Star Trek at 6:00 am has to be worth something. And nostalgic, too - the other morning, they were playing "The Man Trap," one of the first ST episodes I ever saw at age... 10, 11? (In reruns - I'm not quite old enough to have seen it first run.) I was immediately hooked, and in those days before videotape, you had to take what you got whenever it was offered - I used to comb through TV Guide looking for showings - late, early, whatever - which I would set my alarm to get up for, if need be. Yes, folks, Star Trek was LOVE.

Anyway, "The Man Trap." So bleary-eyed, Toys and I are watching this while coughing and snuffling, and we can't help but note the absolutely simmering sexual tension in this ep. The Monster of the Week, a salt-sucking vampire creature, can read your mind and take on a form that gets under your defenses, typically a member of the opposite sex.

For Sulu though, the creature didn't change to a woman. It went after him as a man.

Was Sulu's slashability always so freaking obvious, and I was just dim? Or is it just my fever talking?

Comments

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, Crewman Green as I remember! Perhaps there was a message to any who wanted to hear it, the times were not conducive to an actor coming out. Yes, I was a Star Trek geek from the start. I even went to hear Gene Roddenberry speak at Indiana University after the original was cancelled...this is in the days before con's. I went to a few of the early cons too when they came to Indianapolis (where I grew up). Met Jimmy Doohan (darling man), Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koneig, and Mr. Roddenberry at them. Still love my Star Trek even if I think Generations was the best of the lot.

{{{hugs}}} from a safe distance on the flu plague. Nasty thing the flu.

Kathleen

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was Crewman Green - great memory you've got there! I so envy you getting to hear Roddenberry talk. I've seen George Takei in person, but he's the only one of the original cast I've heard speak - this is one of the places where my actor phobia doesn't serve me well, as it keeps me from attending shows where I might, eek, come face to face with an idol of the screen, sigh. (Although I swear, if I'd seen Nichelle Nichols in person as a teenager, I probably would've fainted - I thought she was the epitome of beauty as a girl, and it killed me to realize I'd never grow up to look anything like her.)