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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?

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Date: 2008-02-03 01:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com
I'm sure there's all sorts of subtlties I missed the first time around. I really must investigate further. God knows I enjoyed seeing that ep again - the visual style of original Trek just hits this primal nerve for me, I think.

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