"A Trekkie's Tale" is a parody Suefic in the Star Trek continuum. It was written by Paula Smith in 1974, originally published in the fanzine Menagerie. It is considered a good parody fic. "A Trekkie's Tale" is a very short story about Lieutenant Mary Sue, who upstages the entire crew of the USS Enterprise and then dies tragically. The Mary Sue in the story is a parody Sue rather than a straight version, and is responsible for nearly single-handedly raising awareness of the Sue problem in fanfiction. Before Lieutenant Mary Sue, some authors protested against unrealistically beautiful, skilled, characters who twisted the plot out of shape; but the phenomenon was not well known (except to the Flowers). The creation of Lieutenant Mary Sue coincides with the Star Trek fanfic explosion, an event
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| - "A Trekkie's Tale" is a parody Suefic in the Star Trek continuum. It was written by Paula Smith in 1974, originally published in the fanzine Menagerie. It is considered a good parody fic. "A Trekkie's Tale" is a very short story about Lieutenant Mary Sue, who upstages the entire crew of the USS Enterprise and then dies tragically. The Mary Sue in the story is a parody Sue rather than a straight version, and is responsible for nearly single-handedly raising awareness of the Sue problem in fanfiction. Before Lieutenant Mary Sue, some authors protested against unrealistically beautiful, skilled, characters who twisted the plot out of shape; but the phenomenon was not well known (except to the Flowers). The creation of Lieutenant Mary Sue coincides with the Star Trek fanfic explosion, an event
- A Trekkie's Tale was an immortalized short piece of satire written by Paula Smith in 1972, and published in Menagerie #2. The piece defined what a "Mary Sue" was in fan fiction and possibly canon works as well: a beautiful female archetype of perfection and idealization - someone who sweeps the hearts of the main characters and becomes a focus in story. A Mary Sue represents an author's (possibly a male author) idealistic vision of an author's dream girl, and allows the author to experience adventure with her through his main character. There may also be a male version of a Mary Sue.
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| - The Nobel Peace Prize, the Vulcan Order of Gallantry, and the Tralfamadorian Order of Good Guyhood.
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| - Namesake for the term "Mary Sue"
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| - Undescribed, but contains a hairpin which she uses to pick a lock.
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| - Kirk, Spock, Bones, and Scotty
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| - Admired by the entire Enterprise crew. Kirk falls in love with her, but she turns down his advances.
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| - A Trekkie's Tale was an immortalized short piece of satire written by Paula Smith in 1972, and published in Menagerie #2. The piece defined what a "Mary Sue" was in fan fiction and possibly canon works as well: a beautiful female archetype of perfection and idealization - someone who sweeps the hearts of the main characters and becomes a focus in story. A Mary Sue represents an author's (possibly a male author) idealistic vision of an author's dream girl, and allows the author to experience adventure with her through his main character. There may also be a male version of a Mary Sue. The story was written to mock a genre of Star Trek fan fiction that featured female characters who would save the day when Kirk and company weren't able to. It quickly centered around Lieutenant Mary Sue, a fifteen and a half year old Starfleet officer who was also part Vulcan.
- "A Trekkie's Tale" is a parody Suefic in the Star Trek continuum. It was written by Paula Smith in 1974, originally published in the fanzine Menagerie. It is considered a good parody fic. "A Trekkie's Tale" is a very short story about Lieutenant Mary Sue, who upstages the entire crew of the USS Enterprise and then dies tragically. The Mary Sue in the story is a parody Sue rather than a straight version, and is responsible for nearly single-handedly raising awareness of the Sue problem in fanfiction. Before Lieutenant Mary Sue, some authors protested against unrealistically beautiful, skilled, characters who twisted the plot out of shape; but the phenomenon was not well known (except to the Flowers). The creation of Lieutenant Mary Sue coincides with the Star Trek fanfic explosion, an event much like the later, larger Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Twilight fanfic explosions in that it swamped the PPC with badfic; but thanks to the popularization of the Mary Sue concept, the PPC was able to recruit more World One natives than it ordinarily would have, and keep up (to some extent) with the sheer volume of badfic. The PPC has not yet encountered her; she may be in hiding, or the records of such a meeting may simply be unavailable. Given "A Trekkie's Tale" is considered goodfic, encounters with her are unlikely.
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