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Hi! I am still way behind on internets stuff (I have something like twenty fic tabs up, and yes,

damned_colonial, I'll do those AoS posts eventually), but I did at least catch up on comments to my own posts, and related things.

It's been ages since I had a post with collapsed comments; I forget how much sheer *time* it takes to stay abreast, not to mention social energy. And I now have more people watching this account than I had watching my LJ at any point over the five years I had it. So - hi? I have no idea how people with hundreds of circle people do it.

I also read a bunch of the other 13th Child posts, and all the ST responses I had open, commented on a bunch of them, and then rapidly lost track of which ones I needed to reply back to. Oops.

But! The poll has spoken!

starry_sea exists! If you want to get in on me trickling out fair copies of all the pirate TOS e-books I torrented, you should join. Also you should join if you want to talk about ST:TOS, the Star Trek books, why the new movie missed the point but was fun anyway, and the other sorts of ST things I tend to maunder on about. Also if you would like to come on as a co-mod, please speak up; I tend to be very laid-back about modding and co-modding. I will hopefully have an intro post up by tomorrow, and some book re-read stuff shortly thereafter.

Also, one thing I kept seeing in the movie reaction posts was people who liked the movie but had no inspiration to write fic about it. I had the opposite reaction: I never had much inspiration to fic for the original continuity (well, except in Rihannsuverse), partly because there was so much already there. But the movie hit that balance for me of "this is fun and full of interesting bits, but it's actually really terrible" that makes me want to fic it.

So here, for sharing, are the stories I now want to write about ST:Reboot. Please write them (or link me to them), so I don't have to:

1. The one where Young Spock mind-melds with Kirk in order to find out more about Spock Prime, only to realize from the remains of Spock Prime's mind-meld that they had a mating bond, and then very quietly and subtly freaks out. (This one doesn't have to be reboot-verse Kirk/Spock - it might almost be cooler if it wasn't - but I want that story.)

2. The one where Ambassador Spock and Ambassador Sarek lead the refugee Vulcans to make a new home - on ch'Rihan. They come to the Romulans in humility and asking only for condescension, the Romulan goverment gloats like mad and gives them land on ch'Havran and totally fails to understand the depth of social engineering that a bunch of pissed-off homeless Vulcans led by Ambassador Spock are capable of. Also Spock marries the Romulan Commander and Sarek marries Ael and she gets to be Ruling Queen after all, or at least Head of Surak's House after T'Pau, which by that point is basically the same thing.

3. The one where Number One comes back from her year-long sabbatical on, I dunno, Hamal, takes one look at the Enterprise's new bridge crew, and goes totally righteous on their asses. (Preferally a Number One of color, as was originally planned, because, srsly, kickass.) Also, work in the story of Captain Pike as disabled veteran - either doing the hard work of rehab, or, y'know, learning how to continue to be an active-duty starship officer despite the changes in his capabilities, because it seems to me that a ship designed to accomodate all six-hundred-eighty-three species of humanity in all of their infinite diversity ought to be the very definition of fully accessible. Also, Pike/Number One.

4. The Awesome Academy Adventures of Kirk & McCoy, BFF (plus the story of Uhura and her roommate and Spock the dishy TA. It would be a story that was all about gender and how a woman can never not be about sex, even in this future, and a lot about Orion society, and exactly how much it must have changed in the 25 years since the reboot started for a woman to be in Starfleet Academy.)

5. The one where, before he leaves Earth, Spock Prime goes to England and says hi to the Slash Dragon. (Oh, c'mon, don't claim you weren't thinking it. And Spock & company totally met Merlin - or at least someone who was ripped off from tOaFK Merlin - in "Strangers from the Sky".)

6. The one where the reboot Doctor detects a temporal anomaly, Spock Prime becomes a companion, and there is lots and lots of gratuitous endangered species mind-sex. Luckily,

stellar_dust is on this already, and you should all go and volunteer to beta for her, so she isn't stuck with me doing it again!

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Tell Stellar_Dust I will give her *cookies* for writing that last story.

I also like the first and the third story quite a bit. You should do them.

(I like the rest of the ideas too, but those are my favourites)

Stellar_dust has written chapter one, which has lots of temporal engineering, and no telepathic sexings at all. She thinks she is going to get away with calling that finished.

*calls it finished*

*slinks away quietly*

Oh my god, I would give anything to read #3. *fans your brain with palm fronds and offers peeled grapes*

Edited 2009-05-12 07:49 (UTC)

I so want to see it! But it would be very, very hard to write. But awesome if somebody did!

THAT FOURTH ONE YES PLEASE.

Because you *know* Orion chick has to be insanely intelligent to have gotten into the Academy in the first place. And she's all, "Yup, I do sleep with a lot of guys. But I kicked your ass on that last test."

YES YES YES.

I would so, so kill for this. You are so right about Orion-chick. (Also, Spock as the dishy TA!!)

You know, I would have said that, except that apparently all you have to do to get into the Academy in this universe is stumble drunkenly up to a shuttlecraft on the right day...

Edited 2009-05-12 18:27 (UTC)

I am going to pretend that he had to pass at least a *couple* of aptitude tests between enlisting and entering the Academy.

Didn't Pike say something about having seen Kirk's records? So in my head, he got to San Francisco and like, took some entrance exams or something before entering.

Actually, in my head, Pike went to Iowa specifically to get Kirk to join Starfleet, because hell if I can figure out why else he took a bunch of freshman on a field trip to the Midwest.

I got the impression that Iowa was actually a spaceport/Starfleet base (it makes sense; reasonably predictable weather, lots of cheap flat land, no neighbors to complain about the noise, explains why Commander Kirk settled there), so Starfleet people being around was pretty normal.

And, yeah, Pike mentioned aptitude tests, but it's Starfleet! You're supposed to have to work to get in! Anyone with half a braincell can ace the ASVAB. (Perhaps I will fanwank it that this Starfleet Academy has legacy admissions.)

You don't have to actually beta! You just have to tell me if it makes any sense at all and is good enough to reasonably post!

Also, please write the others, especially 1 and 4 kthx.

Edited 2009-05-12 19:36 (UTC)

It makes perfect sense! It is good! You should add some telepathic sexings, and then post it!

The part with the two of them in it was the hardest to actually write, and the last part I actually wrote, and Spock kept being too perceptive so the Doctor couldn't bring half the parallels he wanted to mention without being even more awkward, and, arg! Of course this just means they will be awesome for each other once they get past the awkwardness. That would have to be in a sequel, though, because i don't think there is room for telepathic sexings as it is. But I'm not writing it! I don't have time to write it! And even if I did have time I have other things I'm supposed to write!

I'm finding anything with young!Spock really hard to write (and most of what I've read- not counting yours - rings slightly wrong.) Because Vulcan is gone.

And the Doctor, and Princess Leia - I can write them, because they deal with it dysfunctionally and badly and with lots of denial and compartmentalizing, so I can write around it, or put it in the cracks instead of the foreground. But that's not what Spock would do.

No, Spock would keep it in the foreground! He got distracted by the shiny TARDIS, but that won't last. Having Spock around is going to be a lot more difficult than the Doctor realized, I think.

What rings right about mine, btw? I was worried he would seem flat and out of character, because I've never written him before, and also I didn't feel like the Doctor was totally in character for that scene. *bites nails*

Edited 2009-05-12 20:01 (UTC)

He will probably push at the Doctor unmercifully until the Doctor starts dealing with it himself. Which would be *interesting*. And also help distract Spock...

I think 'flat' actually works for him, in that place and time. It's the people writing him as perfectly normal, post-movie, that I can't quite get with. And Ten was being Ten. Ten is Ten is Ten is Ten.

Unrelatedly -- Do you want to claim any of these?

I'm tempted to say yes to the Tolkien biography (have you read it? Is it any good?), Battlestar Galactica, and the Franken, but I wouldn't cry over any of them, and honestly I really don't need any more books.

I haven't read any of them, actually -- part of this purge is books I've been carrying around for years and will probably never actually read. (Of course, with that criteria I should probably toss out many more, but, but *cry*)

BTW, I am watching TOS while messing with ceramics? ~~Mirror, Mirror~~Enemy Within is thoroughly skeeving me out. D: Janice needs to sue the entire Federation, omg.

(*cheers for comment editing!*)

Edited 2009-05-14 02:19 (UTC)

Number 3 sounds so awesome. I would attempt to write it but I have no grasp on Number One's character at all.

I think it would be possible to write reboot Number One as essentially an original character - we see very, very little of her in original canon, and you have 25 years of altered backstory to play with. (She only appears in the two-part episode "Menagerie", though according to Memory Beta she got a comic-book series as well.)

In other words, you should write it. :P

It is on my list of things to write. As is a fic in which Pike is a woman (I'm thinking Torri Higginson for girl!pike) and she and Number One go around the universe being awesome together.