Blame It on the Stardust: A Star Trek Vid Album

[beatriceeagle]

Title: Blame It on the Stardust

Fandom: Star Trek (all series)

Music: Rainbow by Kesha

Summary: Sorry if you're starstruck, blame it on the stardust.

Notes: This vid album is three years in the making. Over that time, a lot has changed in the Star Trek landscape (I think anyone looking at "Boogie Fleet" or "Let 'Em Talk" or "Mm Yeah" would be able to tell that the first drafts of those vids were made in 2019.) But Star Trek remains its beautiful, optimistic, strange, humanistic, flawed self, and I hope that I've captured that. Some of the vids in this album are silly, some are serious, some are celebratory, some are critical. Rainbow is a beautiful and eclectic album, and Star Trek is a beautiful and eclectic franchise, which is why (I hope) they go so well together.

Blame It on the Stardust would not exist, or would exist in a deeply inferior form, without the support and commentary of aceofwands, thirdblindmouse, LittleRaven, dirty_diana, and my wife and sister. Thank you so much to everyone who helped in the creation of this project.

Warnings: See warnings for individual vids below.

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Track Listing and Links to Individual Vids:

1. Boogie Fleet: Join Starfleet! It's a non-stop dance party!


2. Let 'Em Talk: Don't listen to those Starfleet drones! Dance your own way!


3. Mostly Tame: Julian and Garak are in love! What can possibly go wrong?


4. Everything Stops: The single-episode love stories of Star Trek.


5. Can't Hold a Candle: Starfleet captains in love with their ships.


6. Finding You: Kirk/Spock in every universe.


7. Rainbow: A Sylvia Tilly character study.


8. Praying: Some things only God can forgive. (Kira and Dukat)


9. Learn to Let Go: A Ro Laren character study.


10. Hunt You Down: Starfleet really, really, really wants the Maquis to stay.


11. They're Coming Back for Me: Fuck the Prime Directive.


12. Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down: A vid for the underserved and screwed-over characters of Star Trek.


13. Mm Yeah: Fifty years of women in, and despite, Star Trek.


14. Blame It on the Stardust: This is a hymn for the hymnless.


15. Emotional: The Vulcan bonus track (password "loseit").

Content Notes:

Boogie Fleet - quick cuts
Let 'Em Talk - quick cuts
Mostly Tame - violence, torture, domestic violence
Everything Stops - minor character death
Can't Hold a Candle - none, I think!
Finding You - quick cuts, major (temporary) character death
Rainbow - flashing lights
Praying - character death, implied sexual assault, violence, flashing lights
Learn to Let Go - character death, torture, violence
Hunt You Down - minor character death, violence, mild gore, flashing lights
They're Coming Back for Me - death, violence
Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down - major character death
Mm Yeah - major character death, violence, sexual assault, flashing lights
Blame It on the Stardust - quick cuts, violence
Emotional - death, violence, alien blood, quick cuts

Comments

[raven]

This is INCREDIBLE. just WOW. I look forward to watching all these glorious vids and I'm sorry, I know I should probably watch them in order but I knew "This is a hymn for the hymnless" would slay me and I'm happy to report that it did, in fact, slay me. Just incredible.

[beatriceeagle]

Thank you so much! Don't worry too much about watching them out of order--I wanted these to work as individual vids as well as in the context of the album, which is why I published them as a playlist instead of one long vid.

("Blame It on the Stardust" and "They're Coming Back for Me" are the reason this album exists. I had the idea for the vid to "Godzilla," and then I immediately got the idea for those two vids and was emotionally destroyed over them, and after that I had to do it.)

[yourlibrarian]

Neat!

[beatriceeagle]

Thanks!

[kuwdora]

dfsadfjlsadlfkjasl ki only watched hte first vid so far but omg i will leave feedback on the AO3 page when i get through each vid because HOMG what an incredible project !!!!

[beatriceeagle]

Thank you so much! This was, as you can probably tell, an enormous effort (of love!), and feedback on it is incredibly meaningful to me.

[such_heights]

What an amazing idea! I love Kesha’s album and really excited to check all of these out.

[beatriceeagle]

Thank you! I hope you enjoy.

[tafadhali]

I've been excited about this since you posted the first couple vids (love this album, love Trek, LOVE a vid album!) and it is TERRIFIC. Accidentally watched "Blame It on the Stardust" first because it popped up on my YouTube feed and I got very wibbly, but was glad to go back through everything else in order after that and I'm sure I'll revisit many of these many times. I really appreciate both how many big picture vids there are that give a sense of the breadth of Star Trek, but also the times when you zoom in on a smaller story ("Mostly Tame" cracked me up, "Praying" destroyed me, etc.). Anyway, thank you so much making and sharing!

[beatriceeagle]

Thank you so much! I really wanted to get a variety of kinds of vids in here--Star Trek is such an expansive source, so if I was doing a whole album about it, why not really spread out and show a lot of the different kinds of stories it's told?

What an achievement!!

[brainwane]

I had seen a few of these as you posted them (particularly remembering "Mm Yeah") and each one was neat or fun or inspiring. I have now watched the whole playlist and it is monumental. What a tower, what a synthesis, what a kaleidoscope of reflections on a canon that is deeply important to me.

May I link elsewhere, such as on MetaFilter?

Re: What an achievement!!

[beatriceeagle]

Thank you so much. Star Trek is also deeply important to me, and I'm just so happy that I finally get to show these vids to people.

And yes, please, link anywhere you like!

Re: What an achievement!!

[brainwane]

Thank you! Linked.

[rivkat]

This is great! Unsurprisingly, my favorite is Finding You--I love your use of additional footage--but the whole thing is amazing.

[beatriceeagle]

Thank you!

(I try not to play favorites with the vids in this album, but I'm really happy with how Finding You turned out.)