An Interview with kira-nerys
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | An Interview with kira-nerys |
| Interviewer: | Lyrastar |
| Interviewee: | kira-nerys |
| Date(s): | 2004 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
| External Links: | Interview with kira-nerys, Archived version |
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An Interview with kira-nerys was conducted by Lyrastar in 2004. It was posted to Lady Kardasi's Domain.
Another 2004 interview is Questions and Answers: kira-nerys (2004).
Excerpts
Lyrastar: What makes K/S distinctive in your mind from the slew of other slash fandoms you are involved in?
Kira: I think K/S is the only fandom where the pairing really does feel like a couple of lovers, where I don't have to put on some form of "slash tinted" glasses to make it seem like they truly love each other romantically. I never have to come up with excuses or change their personalities, histories or anything to make their love seem real. It's easy to incorporate canon in the stories. They just ... love each other very much. Belong together. It's natural. Logical even...
Lyrastar: How did they do later on? Do the movie Kirk and Spock seem to you to have the same chemistry as the five-year mission fellows?
Kira: I think that the movie Kirk and Spock in some ways have a better relationship than they did in the five year mission. Spock is mellower and allows his softer, more human side to surface – especially after The Motion Picture.
The Undiscovered Country is another thing altogether, and sometimes I feel as though there’s more basis for K/Mc than K/S in that one, and that kind of makes me sad. I would most likely have changed the story to have K and S end up in Rura Penthe rather than K and Mc If I could have had my own way with them. Just think of how many wonderful stories we could have written with that kind of canon to play with…
Come to think of it - that actually would be an AU I would love to read…
Lyrastar: I was stunned to realize that you are doing your K/S writing in a second language. What can you tell me about that?
Kira: Oh dear. Yeah, I'm Swedish through and through. Most people seem shocked when they find out I'm a Swede and that Swedish is my first language. Thing is, I've always been interested in English. I've had pen-pals since I was old enough to write, in England, Australia and the States. That means using my English a lot from when I was maybe 10-11 years old. Being fed with English on TV, through music and reading helped of course. And then ... for some strange reason I started writing stories in English when I was like 14-15 years old. My first "fan fiction" I'd say. I was utterly infatuated with Paul Stanley when I was a young, impressionable lass, and I wrote horrible Mary Sue stories about meeting Kiss....
Lyrastar: What led you to K/S in the first place?
Kira: I started out reading Cardassian stories (Kira/Dukat to start with) and then went looking for more Cardassian stories. All that I could find were slash stories with Garak/Bashir and that made me go "Woah? What's this??? Ew ..." Then I read a couple one day when I was bored and got hooked pretty quickly. After going through an unbelievable amount of G/B, stories I started branching out, stumbled across Kirk/Spock. Killa's stories were the first ones I stumbled across. After reading those, I was completely in love with Kirk and Spock. I wrote my own first K/S story not long after, after only seeing a few episodes of TOS, and the movies. I wrote it because there was nothing left online to read and I wanted more...
Lyrastar: Is that also what started you running fests--getting more stories to read?
Kira: No, actually. What got me started on the fests are a story in and of itself … There was a flame war or at least a very heated discussion on ASCEM a few years ago. There was a person who claimed that Spock was not a sexual creature. Me, Laura Valentine and Hafital were among those who strongly objected to that. Laura quipped that we should all start writing Spock stories where he got to have sex with everyone in Trek and then some. Hafital said that we should do a fuh-q-fest. I took that particular ball and ran with it – thus started the “Spock Fuh-Q-Fest” and then came the K/S Online festivals … and so on and so on …
Lyrastar: Do you have any thoughts on K/S stories with explicit sex scenes as opposed to those without?
Kira: Well, personally I've been very open with the fact that I prefer adult stories above those who are PG rated or below. BUT, the thing is -- if a story is well written, emotionally satisfying or exciting--it doesn't really matter. I've read PG stories that have been a whole lot more satisfying than the hottest NC17 story. It all depends on how the author handles it. I guess the truth is, a good story is a good story whether or not there is explicit sex in them or not.
Lyrastar: So, do you like AU stories in K/S? Is that any different from your taste for them in other pairings that don't seem as real in canon?
Kira: I’m not a huge fan of Alternate Universe stories, no. As in all genres there are some that are better than others though. I usually don’t like slavery stories, and I prefer AU’s as opposed to MU’s, since MU’s are often very violent and the Kirk and Spock that appear in "Mirror, Mirror" is not the K/S I know and love.
In other fandoms, I can really enjoy Alternate Universes, but generally I prefer the stories that mainly stay in that fandom’s particular canon universe, because most often that’s why I fell in love with them in the first place.