cosmic_llin

So having watched the vid another couple of times, I feel like I should be able to come up with more concrete comment than the kind of broken-hearted keening I had to offer after the premieres show? To get the obvious out of the way, I love this vid: I love the warmth and heart of it and how clear your love for this whole universe is. But after some thought, what I think makes the vid as amazing as it it is - the tears, the keening! - is the way you get to the key notion expressed in the song, we will be remembered. Star Trek has that beautiful, brain-expanding dichotomy of being a history of the future, and yet, part of our own history: we have plaques in our world commemorating the little towns James T. Kirk and Montgomery Scott will be born in; we have that famous detail about Nichelle Nichols being asked to carry on as Uhura by Martin Luther King Jnr; we have iPads and 3D printers because of inventors who grew up on Star Trek; we have the space shuttle Enterprise, named after the Enterprise-D, and the Enterprise NX-01, named after the space shuttle Enterprise. That's my favourite thing about Star Trek, and that's what this vid evokes for me: that hand by hand, person by person, this is the world that we will build. That moment where Scotty and Kirk becomes Scotty and Data, on "the end of a decade but the start of an age" - that shift into the future that is at once thirty years and a century gave me chills. And it's just a toast, a little bit of kindness between the two of them, because the great history of the future was as much a history of shared drinks and cosplay and dancing and romance and drunken sing-songs of Jerusalem as it was a history of great deeds and ships called Enterprise. That's what shines so clear and bright in this vid. Thank you, my friend.