#star trek novels fanfiction

[elephant-in-the-pride-parade]

WIP BIG BANG 2023 Done

Story Title: The Universe to Mend Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy, Star Trek Novels (Beyer) Link: AO3

Summary: A few years after the events of the books Eternal Tide and A Pocket Full of Lies, a grieving Q teams up with a temporally displaced Kathryn Janeway and resurrects Hologram Janeway and the USS Protostar in order to investigate the reappearance of the universal crisis that killed his son. But when they discover the Krenim Imperium, Kathryn’s most terrifying adversary, are behind it, will these two displaced Janeways and one exiled Q be enough to stop it? Warnings: torture, child loss, canonical character death, smut Characters: Denzit Kathryn Janeway, Hologram Janeway, Q, Mollah Janeway, Maquis Chakotay, Lady Q, assorted Voyager characters. Pairings: Denzit Kathryn Janeway/Q, Hologram Janeway/Maquis Chakotay

When I Started: This idea crept up on me earlier this year and before I knew it I had 8,000 words comprising a solid beginning and a solid ending, but no idea how to thread my way through the middle. How I Lost My Shit: This stagnated for a time early on, as aside from one direct message thread with @theredheadedcaptain who generously indulges my flights of fancy, I knew it wouldn't have the usual incentive - reader engagement - to bring me to the finishline. The fact that it was shaping up to be another near-novel length story was similarly daunting. I plucked away at the structure of it here and there and wrote the key scenes that caught my attention most, but with life as busy as it currently is, I needed something to really light a fire under me if I was going to actually write the thing in full. How I Finished My Shit: entering the @wipbigbang and having a deadline gave me the push I needed. I made a writing schedule for the first time ever. I used the average word count of my finished chapters to game plan how much time i would need to write the others, then i threw that out the window when five chapters in a row clocked in at over 5K. Writing sprints with writing friends also majorly helped me meet my goal. I had to revise my due date once, and wound up posting the last four on a plane where it was still my posting date where I had started, but borderline not my posting date when I landed. It was a nail biter, but now it is all posted and I couldn't be happier with the journey this story took me on! So shout out to @wipbigbang for providing the deadline-motivation that got me to the finish line.

[stra-tek]

One of the things I love most about Star Trek is that is goes on forever. You like a character? Beyond the episodes, there's more than likely at least dozen novels about them. Not enough? Have a ton of comic books where they go on even more adventures. Still need more? Here's a thousand fanfics. Here's a background graphic from an episode seen for 0.2 of a second detailing their education and qualifications. Horny for them? There's art for that, fic for that and maybe even naughty photos of the actor. Starships your thing? Here's a technical manual explaining how things work, and a set detailed floorplans. Want more? Here are books on the histories of the pretend starships, with endless variant designs and backstory for their creation. Still not enough? Walk around the ship on the laptop or computer as if you're there. You like the aliens? Here's a novel detailing their backstory. Here's a pretend travel guide to their planet. Still not enough? Here's an old Star Trek book with details about their anatomy. Still want more? Here's a fan diagram of the alien's penis.

[spirk-trek]

Promises to Keep | Shelley Butler, 1995 Read Jenna Sinclair's full novel, which this art was created for, here! I cannot recommend it enough :)

[makkis-meanderings]

sometimes I lie awake at night wondering if I'm the blue-coded character or just some other basic ass color

[whothehellisspock]

Me, to my partner: See, I have this idea for a fan fiction… *monologues for a while* Like I’m not gonna write it, it’s just cool to think about.

Me, a day later: So, here are some more ideas for the fanfic that I’m not writing.

Me, another time: Maybe I could like, make it into a prompt/request?

Me, again: So, remember the fanfic I am not writing?

My partner: *gives me a very dubious look*

Me, the hundredth or so time: So, I wrote this bit for the fanfic I’m not writing, do you want to read it?

My partner: *exasperated*

Me: So, about that fic I’m not writing…

My partner: …

Me: …

Me: So, I’m writing this fic…

[happypeachsludgeflower]

I plop down at my computer screen with a fresh mug of tea and say enthusiastically, “I’m going to get so much work done on my WIP!” I open said WIP and begin adding a few notes before recalling the SVSSS prompt I thought up the night before.

“Oh, I’ll just jot a short paragraph for that real quick in my MXTX folder. Won’t take, but a second!!” I hum quietly to myself as I open a new document and start writing. The cats watch on in judgmental silence.

I type a quick paragraph, but I have more ideas swirling around my head. I should write them down right now, I think, or I’ll forget them and they’ll be lost to the wasteland of time which would be sad.

It won’t take long, I reassure myself.

So I type another, and another.

Soon, a beautiful plot summary in unraveling before my eyes and I am three pages deep in single spaced, 12 Times New Roman font. I have ten tabs open for various research purposes. I have drunk my cup of tea, made another, and drunk that too.

Startlingly, my alarm goes off. I glance at the clock.

It is time for bed. It has been three hours.

[jeandejard3n]

STAR TREK: PRODIGY | Ambient Music

[hauntedvulcan]

I feel like B'Elanna Torres would have an ao3. I think she'd love fanfiction

[ur-friendly-nbhd-cardassian]

A comment! A comment on The Casualty! My "little" 128k-words-long novel baby got some attention! ...Someone... Wanted... MORE!... I'm feaking out of my skull!

It's been soooo loooong... With the target audience being like 50 people all over the world... And the last time I got a comment was from my friend - who I actually found thanks to publishing this story on AO3, and thanks to the first friend who read it and brought me to a community of DS9 lovers <3

So yeah, believe it when authors of anything say they love getting comments - because it's true!

Just in case you were wondering if it's worth the read » link. Who knows, maybe you'll like it too.. :)

[avacolemanplsbebi]

Just the plans of mine for the next month. I'll still be posting For Your Love, but the writing is going to be rather slow. I'll be having surgery on my wrist on the 17th, but I will try my best to get the promised stories out!

[elephant-in-the-pride-parade]

It's DONE

The Universe to Mend

Summary: A grieving Q teams up with a temporally displaced version of Kathryn Janeway, offering her a way out of exile in exchange for her help investigating a threat to the universe's existence. Aboard the resurrected USS Protostar, along with Hologram Janeway, they investigate the cause. And when they discover the source of the crisis - the Krenim Imperium - and the scale - a multiverse ending event, will an exiled Q and two lost souls be enough to stop it?

The final four chapters were posted on the 14th, just in time for my Big Bang deadline! 80,834 words in total! It feels so good to be at the end of this one! My favorite that I've written in a while.

The Universe to Mend

1. High above the worlds you tread... 2. When the Fateless Soul and the Faithless God 3. Steal and Unturned Thread. 4. Slipped from her spool, the Fallen Star 5. Ventures where space is fraying, 6. Time unraveling, 7. Paths of unmade lives unweaving. 8. They will the universe to bend. 9. Here, nothing is whole. 10. But hope begins to spin once freed, so 11. A hand takes up a needle. 12. She sews a golden seam. 13. Tatters stitched into tapestry. 14. Now to defy the end. 15. When the Fated God and the Faithed Soul 16. Gather the universe to mend.

[rainbowresurrection]

Me at 15: Star Trek canon means almost nothing to me

Me some years later: Hm Star Trek actually does have canon and also official non-canon works. There is some rhyme and reason to what is considered "canon"

Me at 24: Star Trek canon means almost nothing to me

[agent-troi]

Fic stats game

Thanks for the tag @doctorbeverlycrusher !

rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and finally the fic with the least words

I did this once before, but some of my answers will definitely have changed since then so let's see what we've got!

most hits: Platonic Procreation

Originally a one shot that became a multi chapter fic by popular demand (and somehow became my most popular fic to date- this one also has the most kudos, second most comments, second most bookmarks, and the most subscriptions!), this is an AU where the IVF worked but Mulder and Scully still insist they're just friends (because of course they would lmao)

second most kudos: Eden

I wrote chapter four of this collaborative fic that I worked on with @katy-kt-katie, @tofuttim, @incidental-ao3, and @baronessblixen! This one takes place post-One Son, and Mulder and Scully talk about... well, everything 🙃

third most comments: Eden again- so I'm gonna link number four, which is The Only Answer, a Scully-Diana bodyswap fic I wrote in an attempt to flesh out Diana's character and give her more of a backstory

fourth most bookmarks: The Amazing Muldeeni

Another collab fic! This one I wrote with @incidental-ao3, @katy-kt-katie, and @tofuttim ☺️ My contribution was chapter two (which I just noticed is the only one without a title lmao 😅). Mulder has a surprise for Scully post-The Amazing Maleeni ❤️

fifth most words: Life Lessons

Wow, it's been a long time since I thought about this one😅 This was my longest fic for years, and it's still my longest Star Trek fic. It follows Riker and Troi's daughter Tasha from the novels through a few key moments in her young adulthood, and it was gonna be the jumping off point for a series of stories featuring her Starfleet adventures before I ran out of steam (and then I discovered TXF, so when I picked up steam again it was in a different direction lmao). I'm still pretty proud of this one, especially since they killed the novel-verse and we'll never see her again except in fic (technically my fic, since I think I'm the only person who's ever actually written about her lol)

least words: First Date, New Life, and Fresh Air

Three Riker/Troi drabbles- their first date after getting back together, the moment they find out they're going to be parents, and their reunion on the Ba'ku planet at the end of Insurrection 🥰

Tagging anyone who sees this and wants to do it 😊

[castyells-yeehaw]

Idk which writer needs to hear this but:

Write what you wanna read

Write for yourself! Write something that you can re-read every two months and will still make you feel everything as openly as it did the first time, because I can guarantee, THAT is gonna be a story worth remembering.

The only way to become a writer is by writing, so write until your wrist hurts, and then write some more :)

[pigeonwithaknife]

Found a piece of fanfic history at Free Comic Book Day :D

[addio-anushka]

Star Trek: Killing Time has gotta be one of the most gay books I have ever ever read.