SPN Star Trek reference

[feliciakw]

I completely forgot about this, and was reminded just now:

You know how Bobby said he only watched DS9?

Jim Beaver's late wife Cecily was on DS9.

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[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

That was a nice little shout-out, wasn't it?

The Muse and I are still working on how Dean managed to see (and adore) Star Trek IV, and Sam didn't. There's a story in there somewhere.

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

Which one was still in school at the time?

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

It came out in 1986, so Dean was 7 and Sam was 3. So they (or Dean, at least) probably saw it on TV.

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

It could've always been a secret like of Dean's. He teases Sam so much about being a geek, he's not going to admit to liking sci-fi. Specially not that Star Trek (the women weren't particularly hot in it, IIRC).

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

I'll agree with you about the women. Catherine Hicks? Meh. And Nichelle Nichols was getting a bit older at that point (no longer wearing the micro-mini).

But I think Dean's movie-and-TV-loving geekery would have been in full - and obvious - bloom pretty early on. Watching TV in the room probably occupied a lot of their time growing up. Let's see - maybe Sam was occupied with soccer at the time the movie was showing on HBO. Or some school project.

Or maybe wee!Sam got all upset when they killed Spock, then got so angry at the cheat of bringing him back that he refused to watch any Star Trek ever again.

Or maybe he decided to become a Star Wars fan and disavowed all things Trek.

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

It'll have to have something to do with a girl, and not just Sam being bitchy about things. But I like the last one and can see it happening.