Sometimes I try to explain a Star Trek plot to my friends, like the Fuck Or Die episode or the one…

jaimehwatson:

Sometimes I try to explain a Star Trek plot to my friends, like the Fuck Or Die episode or the one where some aliens abduct Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov and put shock collars on them and force them to be gladiators, and they say “haha that sounds like fanfiction.” And while it makes sense that a modern audience would react that way, I think it’s kind of getting it backwards. A lot of the tropes that we recognize as characteristic to fanfiction today developed in large part because of Sta...