{"id":820,"date":"2010-04-17T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/17\/comic-book-report-star-trek-spock-reflections\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:38:00","slug":"comic-book-report-star-trek-spock-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/17\/comic-book-report-star-trek-spock-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Star Trek: Spock &#8211; Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8NNx8edA9I\/AAAAAAABAPA\/AvXdmpFbtuc\/s1600\/startrekspock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8NNx8edA9I\/AAAAAAABAPA\/AvXdmpFbtuc\/s320\/startrekspock.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459292693745959890\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This, in my opinion, is a rare example of good fanfic.  As the title indicates, it&#8217;s a very introspective story about everyone&#8217;s favorite Vulcan, and it succeeds by using small moments in Spock&#8217;s life to build up a larger, character-revelatory narrative.  There&#8217;s not a lot of action here, but it&#8217;s not that kind of story.<\/p>\n<p>This book also manages to hit every single major <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Star Trek<\/span> era in flashback (you can keep score by looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-spike.org\/pages\/uniforms\/uniforms.htm\">uniforms<\/a>) without feeling like it&#8217;s running through a checklist, and that is largely due to authorial restraint.  Not every supporting character needs to be plucked from established continuity, and not every significant event needs to be a &#8220;shadow&#8221; of canon.<\/p>\n<p>The point of writing an original story is to add something new to this universe.  The contribution may only amount to one pebble on a mountaintop, but that is the scale at which we humanoids appreciate most things.  Don&#8217;t worry about the mountain.  Just make sure your rock is the same color.<\/p>\n<p>Here endeth the lesson, before my faux-zen metaphors get out of control.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1600105904?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1600105904\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, in my opinion, is a rare example of good fanfic. As the title indicates, it&#8217;s a very introspective story about everyone&#8217;s favorite Vulcan, and it succeeds by using small moments in Spock&#8217;s life to build up a larger, character-revelatory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,62,53,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-startrek","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}