and no one is more qualified to have written it than you, my dear. Although I was a bit startled to find out how much older than you I must be, lol, since I was 20 or so when 'The Entropy Effect' was published.
At any rate, I came early to fanfic but late to discovering slash, and as I've mentioned to you before, the first slash story I ever read was 'Full Circle', which lead me to 'Turning Point' (yes, bass-ackwards, I know, but here in Oklahoma we Cherokee have a running joke about being backwards). I'll be forever in your debt for changing my world-view as well as my 'Trek-view', not to mention, inspiring me to write slash, too, lol.
Wonderfully written piece of work here, thank you for presenting such a cogent and well-developed arguement. Now I have something to point to when people say 'I just can't see it'. Heh.
An absolutely brilliant essay
At any rate, I came early to fanfic but late to discovering slash, and as I've mentioned to you before, the first slash story I ever read was 'Full Circle', which lead me to 'Turning Point' (yes, bass-ackwards, I know, but here in Oklahoma we Cherokee have a running joke about being backwards). I'll be forever in your debt for changing my world-view as well as my 'Trek-view', not to mention, inspiring me to write slash, too, lol.
Wonderfully written piece of work here, thank you for presenting such a cogent and well-developed arguement. Now I have something to point to when people say 'I just can't see it'. Heh.