Slashtastic: 'Star Trek' is Full of 'Common People'

unk L Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 08:32 AM EST

Photographic evidence of Kirk/ Spock romance.
http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=436

Ep Sato Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:10 PM EST

Does anyone do reality tv slash? I'd love to read about the fan written shenanigans that occurred at the Joe Schmoe house...

cranberry Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:10 AM EST

Hey!!! I love to read slash. Although some of it is so incredibly horrible and apparantly written by 13 year old girls, some of it is better than some popular novels out there. Just pick your favorite tv show - there is probably someone slashed. : )

Tony Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:00 AM EST

That was some funny stuff.

The album that's on, Shatner's "Has Been," is actually surprisingly good.

RP Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:36 AM EST

There are two reasons to avoid googling slash (or het for that matter):
1) NSFW
2) It will probably destroy your childhood.

Never for get Rule 34 of the Internet. If it exists, there is porn of it.

fkessy0905 Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:31 AM EST

He is a great player. His blog and photos were found at wealthy men for beautiful women personals site "M e e t i n g W e a l t h y.c o m" last week. Is he single now? Just curious.

sam Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:19 AM EST

marc, don't be hatin on the slash! it gets me through all those lonely winter nights...

Nix Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:47 AM EST

"invariably sucks". I'm gonna zap some popcorn and watch the sparks fly. (I'm tempted to agree, but boy, all the little girls on LiveJournal are so gonna be all up your a.)

yep Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:23 AM EST

Slash originated with Kirk/Spock, but to imply that's the extent of it is ludicrous. It's everywhere- in the LOTR fandom, in HP fandom, in BtVS fandom- and those are just 3 I follow personally. I personally don't read it, but it's kind of hard to ignore its prevalence or think that it's contained just to Star Trek, and just to one particular pairing.

c'mon now Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:16 AM EST

Meredith's right -- you've got it wrong.

Meredith44 Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:10 AM EST

I didn't actually watch, as I am not a fan of that pairing/fandom, but I think you are a bit misplaced in your ideas of "slash". In most fandoms I've been in, pairings are called "ships" (short for relationships), male/male pairings are slash, female/female are femmeslash, and male/female are het. Also, slash is nowhere near only in sci-fi fandoms; it is prevalent in (almost) every fandom. On LiveJournal (where a lot of decent fanfiction is found) there are a ton of slash pairings in nearly every show you can think of. (Nick/Greg is almost as popular a pairing as Grissom/Sara for CSI, Danny/Martin was as popular as either of the main het ships of Jack/Samantha and Martin/Samantha, Sports Night's main pairing was Dan/Casey, despite the onscreen Dana/Casey, and more).
I don't tend to slash characters, but as a lot of my friends are slashers, and it is so incredibly popular online, I just felt I had to comment.