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fangirling: Spock
May. 9th, 2009 11:09 amfrom http://io9.com/5244572/the-sexualization-of-spock#c
"When celebrated science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. (AKA Alice Sheldon) started watching Star Trek in the 1960s, she wrote in letters to her friends about how the one aspect of the show that truly fascinated her was Spock. She wrote a fan letter to Leonard Nimoy, explaining that his sexual magnetism came from humans' natural exogamy, their urge to marry outside their own groups. An alien would be the ultimate outsider, the ultimate object of desire.
Tiptree's renegade nerd sexual desires have now gotten a lot closer to being the desires of the mainstream. Zachary Quinto's new Spock still has a thin, trembling body and the squint of a scientist, but he's emerged into this special-effects blockbuster of a film as a leading man, competent, virile, and sexually desirable. This triumphant sexualization of Spock could only have happened in the early 21st century, when geeks are culture heroes.
In this version of Star Trek, there is no contradiction between geeky logic and sexy action."
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20049407,00.html Interview with JJ Abrams, Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto
http://zach-quinto.com/the-romance-that-changed-star-trek-forever/
Cool. I saw the new TREK movie last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. IMHO, it was a decent sci-fi action space opera; it didn't spoil any of my nostalgia for classic Trek, and at the same time was fresh.
"When celebrated science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. (AKA Alice Sheldon) started watching Star Trek in the 1960s, she wrote in letters to her friends about how the one aspect of the show that truly fascinated her was Spock. She wrote a fan letter to Leonard Nimoy, explaining that his sexual magnetism came from humans' natural exogamy, their urge to marry outside their own groups. An alien would be the ultimate outsider, the ultimate object of desire.
Tiptree's renegade nerd sexual desires have now gotten a lot closer to being the desires of the mainstream. Zachary Quinto's new Spock still has a thin, trembling body and the squint of a scientist, but he's emerged into this special-effects blockbuster of a film as a leading man, competent, virile, and sexually desirable. This triumphant sexualization of Spock could only have happened in the early 21st century, when geeks are culture heroes.
In this version of Star Trek, there is no contradiction between geeky logic and sexy action."
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20049407,00.html Interview with JJ Abrams, Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto
http://zach-quinto.com/the-romance-that-changed-star-trek-forever/
Cool. I saw the new TREK movie last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. IMHO, it was a decent sci-fi action space opera; it didn't spoil any of my nostalgia for classic Trek, and at the same time was fresh.
