Star Trek: Enterprise re-write with Vulcans as colonizers

[beatrice_otter]

I spotted a link to this on a Discord, and was fascinated. It's a re-write of Enterprise (just the first episode, for now, but the author is hoping to do more), where the colonialist implications of the way the Vulcans were written in that show get explored instead of glossed over. Now, I have major problems with the ways Vulcans were written on that show, and have a hard time reconciling it with how they're written in any other Trek media. (For example, the idea that use of their telepathy is illegal, do you mean to tell me that they just stopped transferring katras for people who died? It makes zero sense.) But this is an interesting exploration of what if you take all the issues and run with them. (Also, Trip is a trans lesbian.)

I Can Reach Any Star

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[sixbeforelunch]

That looks interesting. Might check it out later.

It occurs to me that if I'm going to use anti-meld prejudice as a plot point in my novel, I need to figure out a way to make it make some sort of sense. I'm thinking of reframing it as a sort of weird, extremist fad that got traction among certain parts of the population, but that the vast majority of the population just side-eyed and then totally ignored. That's sort of my go-to when a bit of canon worldbuilding doesn't make sense. Since I already figure there's a plethora of cultures and subcultures and religions and philosophies, it's easy to think that some people like to pronounce that "Vulcans do X" while most of them are going "uh, yeah, we need to all about the lack of qualifiers in that statement".

[beatrice_otter]

Well, I mean, the majority of practicing Christians in the US are in favor of abortion being legal. And yet its the loud extremist nuts who have for the last four decades defined what "the Christian position" on abortion is, just because they're loud and aggressive.

[sixbeforelunch]

Yeah that’s what I’m thinking, a minority taking control of the narrative and gaining outsized control in the government. Might be an interesting idea to play with.

I haven’t seen Enterprise and I’m not really concerned with being totally canon compliant with it, but I’ve absorbed through fandom osmosis that Vulcan politics got messy around the time of Enterprise, and I like the idea that they’re still deal with some of the fallout from that.

[mindstalk]

Interesting fic!

[beatrice_otter]

I thought so!

[brainwane]

Oh wow, super interesting ..... thanks for the link!

[beatrice_otter]

You're welcome!