In the Air Tonight
| Title: | In the Air Tonight |
| Creator: | T'Rhys |
| Date(s): | 1994 |
| Medium: | songvid |
| Fandom: | Star Trek, Blake's 7 |
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T'Rhys's In the Air Tonight was the first computer vid of slash fandom. Created out of stone tools and bear claws before modern computers really had the speed, the RAM, or the storage capacity for video editing, T'Rhys created an complete Star Trek/Blake's 7 crossover narrative.
To the amazement of the audience at the VirguleCon II (1994) vidshow, T'Rhys created a constructed reality vid that actually included clips that showed the Enterprise crew looking through their view screen at the Blake's 7 ship, The Liberator! More than that, all of the technical wizardry was placed in support of a fabulously over-the-top slash narrative: Avon shoots and kills Spock, and Kirk, driven mad through his pain, presses the self-destruct on the Enterprise and kills them all.
The vid was too long (done to a dance-extended mix of an already long song), and the pixelation was almost painful to watch, and none of that mattered to the cheering crowd.
It would be five years or more before computer vids were the norm at convention vid shows. T'Rhys was way before her time.
