Hey, Diane

I'm officially going on hiatus for a while to focus on other art projects. I am closing commissions but the prints and tshirt shops are still open.

Here's my compilation page with posts about Vulcan culture if you need to find anything:

And my Vulcan language resources:

John describes the production as having an “identity crisis,” because we’re talking about an abandoned dollar store filled with handmade sets built by volunteers and starring an Elvis impersonator.

And eventually, they found themselves some real Hollywood writers, designers, actors, and producers – some of whom worked on the original Star Trek series.

“When New Voyages started, they had several people behind the scenes, like Doug Drexler (VFX guru who worked on TNG and Battlestar Galactica), helping out with the production,” John says. “By the time I joined, Walter Koenig had been cast as Chekov, an original cast member reprising his role for the first time since Star Trek: Generations in 1994. This was a pretty huge deal … Now when we got to ‘World Enough And Time,’ the episode with George [Takei], that’s when the stakes were raised even higher. Hollywood producer Marc Zicree (Babylon 5, TNG, Sliders), and Michael Reeves got involved.”

We’re talking Emmy and Oscar winners working out of a dollar store alongside fans with no experience.

From March 25, 2015.

Based on the Shirley Maiewski (Grandma Star Trek) story, 'The Mind Sifter," first published in the zine Showcase #2 in 1975 (after the first three issues of Showcase, the story was removed, though the art remains), and was later reprinted in an edited version in the official collection The New Voyages.

When the crew of the Enterprise is forced to accept the death of Captain Kirk, Spock and McCoy must come to terms with their own grief.

When Spock discovers a plot by the Klingons to send Kirk back in time in order to destroy the Federation, it will take all the courage and abilities of the crew of the Enterprise to rescue their beloved Captain in time before he succumbs to the horrific torture of the Mind-Sifter.

Backyard Blockbusters: extended interviews - James Cawley

If someone posts a fic on Ao3 with the Kirk-era characters where it can be read as either the original series version or the reboot movies version without impacting the story, how would you prefer they tag it?

If I am writing AOS Kirk, you should be able to tell. If I'm writing AOS Spock, or Uhura, or McCoy, or Scotty, you should be able to tell. (Chekov and Sulu are admittedly more difficult due to smaller amounts of screentime in both timelines). I should be able to drop a scene on you, unlabeled, and have you know who these characters are.

Which Kirk is this?

In the officer's mess that evening, Jim flung himself into a chair between Spock, who was reading a paper draft from Astrophysics, and McCoy, who was reading a novel on a padd. Sarek took a much more sedate seat across the table. "So," Jim said, taking an obnoxious crunch from an apple, one arm across the back of Spock's chair. "Ambassador. Want to tell me why you threatened the Romulans earlier?"

If you know both timelines' Kirks, this should be easy to answer. This scene technically could fit into either timeline -- Sarek could easily be on the Enterprise for a diplomatic mission involving the Romulans in either one. No one's eye color comes up. No one, aside from Kirk, is doing anything out of place for either timeline....but Kirk is. He is wildly out of character for one timeline, and not at all out of character for the other, even though both Kirks would say what he is saying here. It is in how he says it, what he does surrounding that question. You should be able to tell, and in fact, if you know both canons, I will be very very surprised if you can't.

These characters overlap, which means that for varying lengths of story, they might be so similar that it's hard to tell -- but they're not the same. Kirk is by far the most distinct, but all the others have noticeable differences that make their interpersonal dynamics different, their word choices different, etc. AOS Spock is more volatile than TOS Spock, probably because of (a) trauma and (b) being almost a decade younger. AOS McCoy is less racist about Vulcans in general and is less pissed off at Spock in particular. AOS Uhura has a much bigger chip on her shoulder and is hostile to Kirk most of the time; TOS Uhura and Kirk are solidly mutual friends.