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And now I really will stop spamming and go to bed, but: a lovely gen ensemble piece of Trek fic, as the new crew of the Enterprise shake down. It's by loneraven, and is funny, touching at times, and both of new canon and recognisably our heroes, who are brilliant, even if new canon has rather foregrounded their eccentricities: some things James Tiberius Kirk does not understand about the Enterprise's crew.

I'd forgotten how much I loved the crew of the Enterprise.

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Um. Have been browsing the Vulcan language dictionary; the religion section in particular is fascinating; though it's not clear what's archaic and what isn't. It looks as if Vulcan started out as polytheists and became monotheists; but rather surprisingly, they appear to have a concept analogous to angels (I'm thinking Platonic intelligences), and also to sin and redemption. Though it's not clear precisely what that would mean to a Vulcan, and to what extent this is the result of a lexicographer from a Jewish or Christian background trying to put things in his own terms...

I have also been trying to work out how you would express 'detachment', in the Ekhartian sense, in Vulcan.

Furthermore, I have discovered the lexeme Vashaya, and have decided that this is the term by which Vulcans will describe the catastrophe we see in the latest movie.

And, yes, I do have other stuff to do....