Hee ... see, I identified with Chekov! Not that I pretended I was him or anything like that, but he was a junior crew member, and I could see myself in that role. And slashing him with Spock was a way of toying with that dark, sinister Saturnine male being ... a fascination that extended to Tanith Lee's exorcist Parl Dro (Kill the Dead - an excellent short novel) and Freddie Mercury of Queen! ( ... who was himself the basis for one of the imaginary characters who starred in my late-adolescent theater-of-the-mind fantasy psychodramas.)
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Hee ... see, I identified with Chekov! Not that I pretended I was him or anything like that, but he was a junior crew member, and I could see myself in that role. And slashing him with Spock was a way of toying with that dark, sinister Saturnine male being ... a fascination that extended to Tanith Lee's exorcist Parl Dro (Kill the Dead - an excellent short novel) and Freddie Mercury of Queen! ( ... who was himself the basis for one of the imaginary characters who starred in my late-adolescent theater-of-the-mind fantasy psychodramas.)