Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

Vid
Title:	Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Creator:	Killa
Date:	June 2005
Format:	digital video
Length:	2:27
Music:	Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Cake
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	ST:TOS
Footage:	ST: TOS
URL:	YouTube
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Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps was the last original Star Trek vid that Killa made, and the first she made by ripping DVD disks. ^{[citation needed]} The vid was discussed by Steve Anderson on the Critical Commons website where he said that discussed by Steve Anderson "the video remains a classic of the slash genre".

The video has been discussed in the 2012 article A history of subversive remix video before YouTube: Thirty political video mashups made between World War II and 2005 by Jonathan McIntosh:

This slash vid hints at a romantic relationship between Captain Kirk and first officer Spock using footage from the 1960s television show Star Trek and the song "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" by the band Cake. The Star Trek media franchise now includes six television series and 12 feature films, all without even one openly gay or lesbian main character. The Kirk/Spock relationship, however, has a long, vibrant, and complex history in fan works. Killa's remix is a playful meta comment on and celebration of that long-standing fan fiction tradition.

In reaction to this, a fan commented:

Ha! Political Remix included one of my favorite Star Trek slash vids, "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps," by Killa, as part of their history of political remix before youTube--Killa made it in 2005, the same year youTube launched, so it just made the cut-off:

I had to think a minute why it was political. I mean, that wasn't fandom's main motivation in editing together clips of Kirk & Spock giving each other come-hither looks, but sexuality is inherently political. I've just gotten so used to LGBTQ+ being part of pop culture, even if on the edges, I've started to take it the slightest bit for granted. But equality seems awfully shaky all of a sudden...

Until January 20, 2017, I'd been writing about fandom with the young Tumblr users I got to know last summer in mind. Tumblrites are not representative of all fandom (hardly!), but I did write as if young fans' (and my) general comfort with fluid identity and its concern with social justice were normal.

When I was working on the ms before the presidential inauguration, that all felt normal--the inevitable evolution of a democracy founded on the ideal of liberty and justice for all. One (1) minute after inauguration, however, I felt like I was writing a radical political document.

I was talking to bink about this, and she said, "It's all resistance now."