I've been gleeful over exactly this ever since seeing it Wednesday evening. It becomes pretty clear that the bad guys are time travellers five or so minutes into the story and it's just yes and OMG and AU LOVE. It shows a respect and love for the original universe that no remake could ever achieve, because they're not remaking at all, they're doing exactly what fans do.
The thing that makes fanon so important to canon is that we get to break things, we get to go off on tangents, explore the AU, dive right into the multiverse - commercial creators really can't do that, they are *always* chained to some kind of format. To see a realized AU on screen is fucking brilliant, and everything else pales against that.
And that Tasha Yar storyline is some of my favorite story-telling in any medium. Time travel, alternative universes and Tasha Yar - there is nothing that beats that, anywhere, ever.
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The thing that makes fanon so important to canon is that we get to break things, we get to go off on tangents, explore the AU, dive right into the multiverse - commercial creators really can't do that, they are *always* chained to some kind of format. To see a realized AU on screen is fucking brilliant, and everything else pales against that.
And that Tasha Yar storyline is some of my favorite story-telling in any medium. Time travel, alternative universes and Tasha Yar - there is nothing that beats that, anywhere, ever.