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

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee. Not that you and Toys are sick. That's terrible, and I wish you both a speedy recovery. But the Sulu revelation. I didn't notice it myself, as I watched the first time it all was broadcast (why, yes, I am that old), but in retrospect? And having seen a few eps recently with my son? Total slashability, baby.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I have to re-watch this series. Sulu was always t eh seXXors, but I don't remember that bit.

Get well soon!

[fredsmith518.livejournal.com]

I did watch the first time round - was very young! Didn't notice.

Am watching the odd DS9 at the mo, very good, I had forgotten how good

symapthies on the ill, we are just reaching the end of 3 weeks of serial ill

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm sorry you're both so sick. I called but missed you. Feel better!

[cordykitten]

I don't remember which episode I saw first but I know I was very young because it was scary. Not so much in the re-watch years later.
*sends get well wishes to you*

[fishsanwitt]

Everyone seems to be sick!

I *was* old enough to watch 'Star Trek' the first time around :) but I was clueless - LOL!

[rahirah]

Ah, Trek Classic, my first fannish obsession. ::remembers fondly::

[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

[herself_nyc]

Many are dim about Sulu.

I wish I was in SF so I could come over and mop your brows!

[tabaqui]

Oh, the salt vampire scared the crap out of me! I love old Star Trek. We'd beg and plead to stay up Saturday nights to watch it and *promise* we'd get up for church without any crankiness the next day if we could.

That and 'The Avengers' and 'The Return of the Saint'. Wheeee!

Hope you guys feel better. This creeping crud is just knocking *everybody* flat.
*pet pet pet pet pet pet*

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Hope you and Toys are feeling better soon. And I'm hoping, hoping, hoping I get to see you next month. =)

[toysdream.livejournal.com]

I think the crowning glory of that episode was the bit where the callow young crewman drops by Sulu's room to seduce and desalinate him, only to be chased away by Sulu's totally awesome houseplant, which is pretty clearly the fuzzy pink gloved hand of a production assistant lying under a table.

And if everyone sees the Salt Vampire in the form of what they most desire, then what does it tell us that Kirk sees it as a matronly old woman? Is the heartbreaker of the galaxy secretly longing for a mommy figure? The psychological implications are fascinating...

[green-maia.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry you're sick!! I hope you feel better soon!!

{{{*Hugs*}}}


Ah, classic Star Trek...LOVE IT!!!

[greboguru.livejournal.com]

Yes, sick. Ugh. I started feeling ill at your guys' place, a week ago, late that night. Ergh. 7 whole days later, I feel better. Not 100%, but better. This thing -- this DEATH PLAGUE -- is a nightmare. It's like some kind of deep lung rot or something. Ick! I'm sorry you guys have been going through it. I think it's been hitting just about everyone. Man, it sucketh.

Kinda like the Super Bowl. It sucked too. Boring! The Puppy Bowl was much better.

[framefolly.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feeling better...((hugs))

[danceswithwords.livejournal.com]

I'm commenting incredibly late--so late that I hope you're both over you flu and on the mend by now. Feel better!