You receive a lot of hate from us for the way you’ve handled (or mis-handled, or refrained from handling) our OTPs. But I recognize what you were secretly doing, and I’d like to take the unpopular position and say thank you.
I’m GLAD that Picard and Crusher never got together. Janeway and Chakotay. Garak and Bashir. Kirk and Spock. Jadzia and Kira. Janeway and Seven. Guinan and Q (oh, just me on that ship? Yikes). Icheb and Naomi. Data and Geordi… the list goes on.
You give us JUST enough metaphorical wood to build our ships, but then you never set them out to sail.
And some people hate you for it.
Some people mis-interpret this as you not caring about our beloved pairings – but I see the truth. You left the ships unguarded in the harbor, left them open for us to take the wheel and steer them off into the sunset.
Because we fucking do it better.
Star Trek is a science fiction show that’s quite openly aimed at a male audience. Bottom line… you could never give our OTPs the kind of ending they all so deserve. It actually horrifies me to think about what would have (realistically) been done with my OTP – Janeway and Chakotay. It certainly would be no where near the epic resolution that they always receive in my head, that after all the shit they went through they most certainly deserve. And if they HAD gotten together on the show? Well, I would have cried in joy and hugged a pillow and gone about my life feeling warm and fuzzy.
For a while.
But I wouldn’t still be talking about them almost two decades after “Resolutions”. Certainly wouldn’t still be reading or writing fan fiction – there would be no point; they’d have already been together. I wouldn’t love the show any less, in fact I might even love it MORE, but I wouldn’t be still declaring my allegiance to the ship, surrounded by a wide-reaching community of fellow devoted shipmates.
You give us an inch and we want a mile. (To the non-Americans out there…uh… you give us a centimeter and we want a kilometer?)
But I’d like to take the unpopular stance and say thank you, TPTB, for only giving us that inch… /centimeter.
Because of you, we’ve set our ships to sail in every direction imaginable. We’ve re-defined their stories, re-created the apex of their consummations time and time again and we’re STILL not tired of them!
THANK YOU for laying the groundwork for us, so we could release our inner artists and finish the stories the way we see fit. Thank you for creating them, but then handing them over to us. Thank you for entrusting us with their happily-ever-afters. Thank you for caring about them enough to let US handle the finer points of their relationships.
Because we do it better.
☝️ still true
As much as I would have love to see a J/C kiss, the fact that we have a blank slate for fanfic and the movies in my minds eye is kind of beautiful.
Dear “The Powers That Be”,
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