syredronning

Must-have: time lapse video of how the bar scene between Pike and Kirk came to pass, from "let's take a room and build a bar" to the shooting and the dismantling in the end:

http://badrobot.com/TrekBehindScenes1/

So there is that interview at trekmovie.com in which Bruce states he sees Pike as essential for the next movie.

I've got to say, I'm really torn about that. I loved Pike - pretty obviously, as the only other guy I ever wrote about book-size was McCoy (ah, my adored DeForest Kelley). However, this is a bit too much cheerleading for me: I don't see Pike as essential, and I'd rather take a one-time appearance than bad follow-ups.

So here the trekmovie poll PLUS a fourth choice entered by me, which pretty much sums up my feeling. Every vote is okay and will not be interpreted as more or less Pike love :)

[Poll #1607252]

Without any guarantee at all - what would you like to see in fic right now? In Pike fic in general, and in Draws specifically, if you feel inclined. Characters, species, plots, TOS stuff, etcpp.

I think I asked something similar a while ago, but as I use too many tags, I never find such things again.

Indulge me... (meta and tangents and comment spam welcome).

Menagerie stuff... I partly fast-forwarded through it *cough*

I'm actually not totally sure why I dislike it so much. I think it's got to be a mix of:

a) Spock would find a better solution than stealing Jim's spaceship. My Spock is cleverer than this! (Yes, I started out as Spockie ages ago. He.)
b) Convoluted setup with what they see, too much dragging on (okay, it was an emergency reuse of material and for that it was okay, but still not loving it).
c) The Pike thing hurts, and the beep thing is illogical (though I tried to explain it in my tiny ficlet lately).

Good things:
a) McCoy totally defending Spock when Kirk suspects the Vulcan plays a foul game. Beautiful insight into McCoy's true opinions about Spock.
b) Dress uniforms ftw! ;)
c) Great tension between Kirk and Spock here. Having your first officer and friend stealing your ship has got to hurt like hell. Some good stories came out of it.
d) Oh, and this whole "Spock is extremely loyal to his commanding officer" thing - another story plot feeder.

...a Pike/No1 icon! Because clearly the world me needs it.

I like the picture, but the icons don't really work, somehow...( manips and stuff )

And now I really feel the need to make something more productive because honestly, I'm bad at composing this stuff :/

God, what an exhausting day! It was okay, result-wise, but I'm DONE.

But still, a brief rec - Have In Mind Pike/Jim Kirk, hot with authoritative Pike and all. And yes, by now I check out the Pike comm before the Kirk/McCoy comm. Doom, I tell you!

The pic was snatched from a wonderful Greenwood pic spam posting and I titled it "Pike thinking" because I imagine him to make that face whenever he thinks about the thing with Kirk and McCoy, a certain "what the hell did I get myself into" attitude. He.

Unrelated: Thought about whether I had some prompt material for the Space Married Comm but woah, the prompts already posted are so great, I just want to read all the resulting fic *G*

Pike/McCoy story is at the beta. I'm not 100% happy with it but found that it resisted any more changes. Pike/Kirk is still in work. Maybe I'll tackle other challenges first, to avoid mixing those different pairings.

A series I enjoyed just right now:
Open Sign 'Verse K/S (non/dub-con), K/Mc (established relationship), now moving towards K/S/Mc