Subject: Huh.
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Posted on: 2013-06-01 19:10:00 UTC
I've... never noticed that before. Despite the fact that I've either seen (or heard about) every single Star Trek Original Series episode, I've never noticed that.
Funny. But no, I've not seen any parody Sue's like that.
...do a lot of the early episodes of the Original Series for Star Trek remind anyone of Suvians?
The first episode's about a creature that can assume the form of anyone else (and throws them out of character). The second is about a human teenager with mind powers and not enough emotional maturity to handle them wisely (thus forcing everyone on the Enterprise to cater to his whims for a bit). The third is also about a man who develops god-like powers (which also forces everyone on the Enterprise to deal with him, although they seem to have learnt from Charlie and don't readily play along). The fourth is about a virus that makes everyone OOC (or removes their inhibitions to the point where they seem OOC). The fifth is about the "impostor", or the evil!Character Replacement-like doppelgänger. The sixth features three women who use something akin to Aura of Smooth.
I mean, with all of that canonical experience with Sue-like powers, I find it unsurprising that the Lieutenant Mary Sue/Ensign Sue originated in that fandom. I bet it'd make for a really entertaining TOS-verse Sue parody (and if you've read one, could you send it my way? Thanks).
The pilot episode with Captain Pike almost reads like a deconstruction of the concept of a Sue. Pike meets the last survivor of a population who is an unbelievably beautiful woman, and he ends up trapped with her in a series of idyllic fantasy worlds. However, nearly every part of this scenario is an illusion engineered by creatures who wish to study him rather than by the woman herself, and in the end they're quite easily overcome when their weaknesses are discovered.
And the woman choosing a world of happy fantasy over the less-perfect real world at the end can't help but draw comparisons with Suethors.
At least nobody fell in love with them (with the possible exception of Charlie). Everyone else could tell that they were omni powerful or OOC
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I wonder what their reaction would be to a fic written along similar lines.
I've... never noticed that before. Despite the fact that I've either seen (or heard about) every single Star Trek Original Series episode, I've never noticed that.
Funny. But no, I've not seen any parody Sue's like that.