Shipping meme: Star Trek TOS

[amatara]

Oh, hard, hard. Because this is the ur-slash-shipping fandom, and there aren't that many het pairings in there.
I'm going to include the TOS movieverse too, if you don't mind, just to make it a little easier on myself.

+ OTP:  Spock/Saavik, how they were presented in the novels. Not in a "predestined" or "I couldn't see Spock with anyone else" OTP kind of way, but they are a gorgeous couple: rational enough to still be Vulcan, yet with that base of respect and yes, love. And I adore how Saavik can match Spock in anything: wit, intelligence, and sheer strength of character. Also, platonic Kirk/Spock/McCoy: because those scenes where one of the three is either dead or dying, and the other two grieve or care for him just make me swoon. And in a somewhat different category: Kirk/Enterprise. Because this man really does love his lady. :)
+ Runner-up:  Sarek/Amanda; Spock/that female Romulan captain from "The Enterprise Incident" he seduces in order to get to her cloaking device (if that doesn't suggest a double meaning, I don't know what does *g*) because the UST was just dripping of the screen. Yep, I do have it in for the Vulcanoids. Also Kirk/Edith Keeler from "City of the Edge of Forever" since it's Kirk's only romance from the three-year run that made a lasting impression on me and felt as if it could've been something profound.
+ Honorable mention(s): Kirk/Janice Rand. Didn't always like how it was handled, but a nice bit of continuity and they really had their moments of being hot together.
+ Crack pairing(s): Scotty/Uhura. Because, no matter how much I disliked Star Trek V, the idea of these two having a thing for each other simply melted my heart into a puddle, and made an odd kind of sense too.   
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't: Non-platonic Kirk/Spock/McCoy in any combination. Because the sex doesn't push my buttons in this case, but also because I need all three for the dynamic to be complete, and slashing them would involve moving one of them to the sideline. Unless you'd go for the entire threesome, but non-platonic threesomes are generally a bit too kinky for my tastes. *g*

Comments

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay for Sarek/Amanda! I love that pairing so much. And I always have a soft spot for Edith--I rewatched "City" recently and was impressed with how she's presented as so much more than eye candy, she's a visionary and humane woman and you really feel like she's a woman in the wrong time and Kirk's equal. Okay, I also love how she recognizes the bond between Spock and Kirk, too. :)

Scotty/Uhura! I'll admit I didn't much go for Spock/Uhura in the reboot, but not all of it was because it messed up the slash (Reboot K/S does almost nothing for me, as it turns out)--a lot was because it messed with Scotty/Uhura as well (I mean, it doesn't make it impossible, but you know what I mean).

[amatara.livejournal.com]

What I like most about Sarek/Amanda is that they're never idealized; Sarek is very Vulcan, and the show never tries to downplay that side of him in order to make the relationship seem sweeter or more acceptable to human norms. For example, how, in "Journey to Babel" he chides Amanda for contradicting him in public - that was a moment where I positively went "ouch", yet despite the "ouch" moments they're still wonderful together.

Heh, I thought Scotty/Uhura was really far-fetched, but apparently not so much. :) I have to say in the reboot I don't quite see it, mostly because reboot!Scotty, while funny, didn't really feel like Scotty to me (too funny, and too much of an ego, to have a link with the original Scotty). My initial reaction to Spock/Uhura was also a doubtful one, but upon rewatch I did grow to like it.

[mithen.livejournal.com]

*nods* I agree very much with your assessment of reboot-Scotty. Of all of them, he felt the most off to me--I mean, Pegg did a good job with it and brought a lot of panache to the role, but to me Scotty's never been about panache so much. :)

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree with almost all of this. I love Spock and Saavik, and Spock and the Romulan commander. And Edith Keeler was a great match for Kirk.

I had forgotten all about the Scotty/Uhura thing (and much of the rest of ST:V).

[amatara.livejournal.com]

Spock and the Romulan commander: that broke my heart, in a way. So much the same, those two; in other circumstances, I felt they really could have been lovers.

Scotty/Uhura I recall as one of the sole redeeming features of ST:V - perhaps that's why it made such an impression on me. ;) The story I think was that something Spock's crazy half-brother did to them made them go all emotional and start to act on their impulses, and as it turned out Uhura's impulse was to go and hug Scotty. The fact that this involved an aged chubby Scotty and an aged but still gorgeous Uhura made it even sweeter...