Spaceship View & Character Detail Meme

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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a video arranging photographs by the Cassini spacecraft into views of what flying towards/by Saturn would look like. It's stunning and inspiring.

Meanwhile, I do so love memes, not least at moments right now when I'm afflicted with Writer's Slowdown or something. I got this from the incomparable igrockspock: Ask me about a pairing (or character) I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet or a song that is CLEARLY THEIR SONG or what they order from the Chinese place down the street, etc, etc.
ETA sharpestscalpel wrote an absolutely gorgeous ficlet about Gaila taking McCoy flying, and Gaila and her life.

Comments

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

McCoy/Uhura :)

That video is very cool. In my head, I started hearing Patrick Stewart going, "Space. The final fron-tee-yah..."

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

AHAHAhee.

I bet the first time he saw her after the Riverside Shipyard Shuttle Ride he blushed and was his gentlemanly best, and although she's generally given to retaining her first impressions, she's also open to new information, and was very charmed.

(If I had the writing ability I would totally write the story where they end up on the planet where the Black people are in charge and the White people are an underclass, because I would have so much fun writing both of them as being utterly baffled by that arrangement. But that would be shamelessly Doylistic, and I am not Gene Roddenberry, so I won't try it.)

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

I would love to read it if you did ever write it. *sigh*

I'd also love to read about their first meeting after the shuttle ride, if you ever decided to write that. I bet it would be adorable. I mean, she must have heard everything he blurted out to Jim.