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(Tagged by ymfaery)

Total number of fandoms I like: I don't have that many fingers.

My first fandom ever: The Questor Tapes.

My most recent fandom: House, I suppose, with Lost coming from the outside.

Five fandoms that mean a lot to me: Questor, Monty Python, Noir, X-Men, Randall and Hopkirk (deceased). Star Trek should be on that list, but isn't.

Tag five people: susanmgarrett, cybertardis, gkkstitch, cocoajava, nitasee.

Comments

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Heck, a lot of early Trekkies loved Questor Tapes. Peter David wrote Questor fanfic before he went pro.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

The Devil's War!

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Gah. There's still a copy of that buried somewhere in the house.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

I was an early Trekkie™ but most of my other Trekpals didn't know or didn't care. I wouldn't know about Peter David but then again, I try to avoid anything/everything he's done. (No offense meant towards PD fans. I just can't stand him.)

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Well, there was this phase when some fans were going absolutely bonkers for anything Roddenberry did (we were young, it was the seventies, what did we know?) so Questor was like gosh!wow! (as was *shudder* Genesis II) and of course there were zines. (PD was just another fanboy. I've read very little of his pro stuff.)

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was like that too, being the Teenage Trekkie™ that I was at the time. Luckily I got better. Yes, Genesis II (and whatever the follow up was)...eeeeeek!

I've read some PD pro-stuff and honestly don't understand why people think he's the greatest writer ever. He's also a semi-local sort so he shows up at local cons and he just grates on me but that's just me.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I think his original stuff sucks. His Trek novels are, considering Paramount and Pocket's commitment to dullness, surprisingly readable. Even when they're stupid.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

He has all the grace and style of the proverbial lead balloon, as a writer, but he can do interesting plots, at least in Trek. I can't get into his original stuff.