Escape Route

There's a reason I gave up newspapers and TV a few years ago. If you don't want negativity in your life, and don't want to hear sad news, it's only logical to do that.
Some sad news, though, transcend even my self-imposed ban. And those really shouldn't be ignored.

I'm not a first generation trekkie - East Germany didn't lend itself to me being one and neither does my birth date - but once I'd discovered Vulcans, I was pretty die hard. Especially because it was frowned upon and sneered at. What an incentive! And entirely logical to react with disdain and vigour.

So I owe Leonard Nimoy many good memories, a few revelations and a lesson or two. And even though fanfiction as it is now didn't exist when I was growing up, I did have aspirations to write a bona fide, published Star Trek novel one day. (The draft still moulders in a drawer somewhere, I'm sure)

And now I have a pressing urge to re-read the 60-odd Star Trek novels in my library purely to remember my favourite Vulcan.

May you sleep well and wake in bliss.
RIP Leonard Nimoy

Hubby just alerted me to the fact that Professional's star Lewis Collins has died.

I first came across him way before fandoms and the internet - and had a major crush on the character he played. Growing up in East Germany, and watching the series on "western" TV... was a treat, in a way, as TV here and TV there were two such very different beasts.

I never shipped the two leads until I was much older, but their bromance kept me sane through a winter in Moscow (I still have the story) and helped me survive one of the scariest nights of my life. And even now, too many years later I remember mercenaries, snark, politics and Bodie going all protective hanging off a building. I remember motorcycle gangs and death wishes and a man who was told he was of no use if he couldn't hold a gun. Most of all, I remember stubborness and a smirk to die for.

I never watched the remake and I never will - the original was / is in a class of its own. Even if of the three, only one now remains.

RiP Lewis Collins.