ignorance. Confidence that our destructive emotions can be mastered without denying us the benefits of more saintly ones like loyalty and love." Rejecting mainstream cynicism, the franchise presented the future Earth as a peaceful, egalitarian planet. The original series presented a utopian future for humanity, to the point that conflict and allegory often had to be inserted through encounters with less "enlightened" nonhuman races that stood in, from the series' perspective, as didactic proxies for disfavored aspects of 20th-century culture. Some fans took the egalitarian nature of the show a step further. The unofficial homosexual pairing “Kirk/Spock” (or “K/S”) slowly became popular within fan spaces, particularly with female fans. This led to the production of an abundance of fanworks centered around the pairing, including stories, poems, and art. Most widely believed to be the first K/S fan fiction is a 40-page privately-circulated novel written in 1968 by Jennifer Guttridge titled “The Ring of Soshern,” which was later printed in the highly controversial fanzine “Alien Brothers” without the author’s knowledge and soared in popularity and notoriety within the fandom. The genre of “slash fiction” is considered to have originated or at least been popularized by the K/S fanbase, with the “slash” in the pairing lending itself to the genre’s name. Over time, slash fiction has spread to other fandoms and remains popular in fan spaces to this day. Well-known phrases like "Beam me up, Scotty", "Resistance is futile" (from the Borg), and Treknobabble have also managed to enter the English vernacular. Beyond this, "Trekkie" is the only fan label listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, and words from the series including Klingon have also been added to that dictionary. Klingon has actually spawned a life of its own, going on to garner its own grammar and vocabulary and dedicated speakers from across the globe. A broad consensus amongst fans is that the Star Trek franchise became formulaic and mediocre in the 1990s on account of over-exploitation of the franchise by Paramount and production of multiple spin-offs and movies, though fans do not necessarily agree as to when this began (some adult viewers of TOS felt it also could be formulaic and repetitive). The release in May 2009 of Star Trek, a reboot involving characters from the original series and set in an alternate timeline, was developed with the partial hope to resurrect the franchise. Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly, in reviewing