SICKBAY’S EMPTY, BONES. I KEEP TRACK.
I KEEP TRACK.
At “Out of Ambit”: The Starship and the Upstairs Flat
Some thoughts about an old fictional relationship that’s suddenly grown a touch warmer.
Sherlock and Spock. I’ve been a friend of the one since my teens — maybe earlier — and an off-canon chronicler of the other for twenty or thirty years. As such, the confluence of the two universes was hardly news to me: Star Trek (and Star Trek writers) have had the hots for Holmes for a long time, and dialogue references and outright cameos are commonplace. …There’s no denying that 1701/1701A and 221B are thematic and spiritual neighbors. The Trek universe has been nodding amicably toward Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation for many years.
But this was the first time the other universe, in mass media at least, had ever nodded back…
