Zelig
>Sure, what do you want to know? K/S is a sub-genre of Trek fan lit in
>which Kirk and Spock are in love. It is a highly feminist and female
>phenomenon. The love affair is definitely between men, as far as bodies
>go, but it bears more than a passing resemblance to a female ideal of love.
>
>Basically, K/S stories are about everlasting love between equals and
>heroes, a thing almost impossible in more mundane love stories.
A good overview of the slash subgenre of fan fiction can be found in
article <1992Apr19....@mont.cs.missouri.edu> titled "Welcome
to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk: Slash and the Fan Writing Community" in
newsgroup misc.activism.progressive. The article contains an essay
extracted from Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and
Participatory Culture (forthcoming summer 1992).
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Betsy Ramsey, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Internet: ram...@cuavax.dnet.cua.edu, Bitnet: ramsey@cua
Opinions expressed here are my own.
>>Sure, what do you want to know? K/S is a sub-genre of Trek fan lit in
>>which Kirk and Spock are in love. It is a highly feminist and female
>>phenomenon. The love affair is definitely between men, as far as bodies
>>go, but it bears more than a passing resemblance to a female ideal of love.
>>Basically, K/S stories are about everlasting love between equals and
>>heroes, a thing almost impossible in more mundane love stories.
>A good overview of the slash subgenre of fan fiction can be found in
>article <1992Apr19....@mont.cs.missouri.edu> titled "Welcome
>to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk: Slash and the Fan Writing Community" in
>newsgroup misc.activism.progressive. The article contains an essay
>extracted from Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and
>Participatory Culture (forthcoming summer 1992).
It's also interesting to note that there is an APA (Amateur Press Association)
entitled "K/S and Kindred Spirits" (as I recall). It's been listed in the
APA directory The New Moon Directory a couple of times, I think.
Other relevant points of note include the large number of fans who disagree
with the K/S interpretation of the characters (gee, what a surprise; I can't
say I could possibly envision a Kirk/Spock romance by any stretch of my
own imagination, though), and that it is rumored (but unconfirmed) that
Paramount cracked down on the creators of K/S at one point.
...just more useless info from the encylopedic mind of...
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Michael Rawdon
raw...@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department, Madison, WI
"...I guess I'd rather have mediocre Star Trek then none at all."
- A friend, about the ST:TNG episode "Legacy"