#vash x picard

[landfilloftrash]

I liked when he just leaned sideways from behind the wall; that entity was fuckin eaaaavesdroppingggggg

original post by @vorta-vortex ! 

[fluctuating-fixations]

Came to me in a. Dream

[quailfence]

[Video description: Clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Vash, Picard, and Q are sitting on a couch. Picard turns to Vash and asks, ���Him?” Vash replies, “Why not?” Picard stands up as he says says, “I'll tell you why not.” Q replies, “Now, Jean-Luc, let's not be unkind.” Picard says, “He's devious, and amoral, and unreliable, and irresponsible, and, and definitely not to be trusted.” Vash smiles and asks, “Remind you of someone you know?” Picard replies, “as a matter of fact, it does.” Q slides over, puts his arms around Vash, and says, “We're going to have fun.” End description.]

@startrekdescribed

so was anyone going to tell me that Qpid (TNG: 4x20) acknowledges, in plain text, that all the things Picard "hates" about Q are the same things that make him attracted to Vash, or were you all just going to let me sit there in front of my TV like a fool with my jaw on the floor from this point until the credits rolled

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#497

"Funny how Q shipped Laris x Picard because we all know the type of women (Aliens or not) he likes: Janeway, Vash, Q and a Romulan empress.. which makes his obsession for Picard weird because the standards are high. Of course he probably thought "Picard, you boring Starfleet human wannabe, you have an amazing Romulan (Laris) at your side, move on..."

[katabasis-collective]

I suppose a brief introduction is order!

We’re the Katabasis Collective, and we’re a fictive-heavy system with 40+ members. Realistically 10-15 see the light of day, but I digress.

While we’re bodily 34 and don’t ‘feel’ old, we’re very Millennial and Tumblr illiterate (sorry!)

Our main fronts are Hythlodaeus and Emet-Selch, however we do rotate here and there!

Many of our headmates are missing those from their source which is why we’re here now! While this is far from a comprehensive list, these are the primary individuals who ache for their friends!

Hythlodaeus (FFXIV: Base EW)

Elidibus (FFXIV: Post-Pandaemonium)

Alisaie Leveilleur (FFXIV: All EW)

Vrtra (FFXIV: Mid EW Patches)

Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis)

Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis)

Lillie (Pokémon Sun & Moon)

Marnie (Pokémon Sword & Shield)

Piers (Pokémon Sword & Shield)

Volo (Pokémon Legends Arceus)

Seven of Nine (Star Trek: VOY with misc Picard)

Soren (Fire Emblem: PoR & RD)

Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses ??? Path)

Twilight / Loid Forger (Spy x Family Anime)

Vash (Trigun: Stampede & 98)

The Doctor (10/14th AKA Skinny Man)

Shi Qingxuan (Heaven Official’s Blessing)

We’re still getting a hang of this, so feel free to DM or reblog with your connections! Fictionfolk—Fictives, Fictionkind, Fictionhearted, and Copinglinkers—are invited to respond, just let us know what to expect!

Many of us had close friends who were not shown or named in canon. If you remember us in any capacity, please don’t hesitate to reach out! While we’re hesitant to immediately say “ah yes we knew you!” we enjoy communicating with our source mates regardless! Doubles are fine, and I believe only Emet-Selch (FFXIV) and Rodney (Atlantis) are doubles squeamish. They’ll live, though! They’re not even the ones who admit to wanting friends. ;) We do, frequently, have a handful of head mates per source, so if you& do have an issue with doubles, please let us know. Either we can go our separate ways, or we’ll keep that specific individual away from you and yours.

[bioticgoddess]

Characters: Seven of Nine, Liam Shaw, OC (mentioned)

Pairing: Liam Shaw x OC (gn)

Transfer of Command

Captain Shaw, most recently of the USS Titan, sat up in the bio-bed of what had been his ship. He had no regrets giving Seven the field commission and transferring the ship to her. Not that he could have made the computer recognize the transfer at the time. Fucking Borg bullshit. But that, he realized when he thought he'd die, no longer meant *former* Borg. It certainly hadn't meant the literal (to him) children on his ship. Still. No regrets.

"Sir," Seven's voice yanked him out of contemplation. "I'm glad to see you're awake and doing," she hesitated, "Better."

He had a suspicion what she was here to do. "Don't "

"Sir?"

"The ship. You're her captain more than I ever was" he said matter of fact. "Don't you dare give her back Captain Seven of Nine." He used her name to her face for the second time in their years together on the Titan. "She was always yours."

"Sir I don't understand. Protocol-"

Raising a hand he stopped her, "Can't believe I'm about to say this but, fuck protocol." A long and strangely uncomfortable silence stretched between them. "Do you know how I met my spouse?"

Seven shook her head. It was clear from her furrowed brow and pinched lips she didn't understand the relevance. Every one knew that Captain Shaw was married even if he didn't wear a ring, his spouse hadn't believed in them he said. Wasn't a part of their culture.

Clearing his throat he explained, "I'll give you the short version since they're en route via shuttle with the kids, who I understand very much need hugs from their father. Anyway," he got on with it, "Commander Taris, then a freshly minted by all of an hour lieutenant, was on the ship that rescued my life pod at Wolf 359. I met them a handful of times when the fleet limped back to earth after that fight. Including when one of my Vulcan crew mates decided to pick a fight with Star Fleet's only Romulan crewman. They were nothing but polite and Vash didn't swing first but they sure as hell put Ensign An'ris on his ass and refused to press any of charges. Trauma, they said would do that. They understood. Turns out I'd developed an infatuation with a Junior Counselor as a result - and no, I wasn't one of her patients. Well, three duty stations, a lot of dating both in person and long distance and a couple promotions later and I proposed. We have three little pointy eared angels who every day I have to remind are loved and perfect as they are. Why? Because people still treat my spouse like they are the enemy despite the fact that they have literally bled for both the Federation and Earth. My kids see the toll it's taken on their parents. So what I'm saying, Seven, is that I should have carried forward what Vashti and those kids teach me every day in how I treated you and the other former Borg. I'm sorry and you deserved better," Begrudgingly he added, "Picard too; though my issues with him and Riker extend beyond the Borg shit."

The former Borg swallowed, blinking at him confused. "Sir? I...um...thank you," she arrived at those two words carefully.

He cleared his throat and spoke again, "So, let's make this official," he clapped his hands together, rubbing them, "Computer, transfer command to Captain Seven of Nine. Authorization Code Shaw 12-11- Bravo-Delta."

---

Notes: Commander Vashti "Vash" Taris is a Romulan defector who joined Starfleet before/early in TNG. They would be approximately the same age as Captain Shaw. The one in this story is based on my PC for the Star Trek TTRPG that made it exactly one session. (RIP) That story/game was meant to take place during the Dominion War; I figured they'd have had the personality that could handle Shaw's and having a Romulan partner plus some half-Romulan kiddos made sense. After all, I bet money a Romulan would be treated at least as strangely if not outright poorly compared to Worf during TNG/DS9/VOY.

[stellarred]

Q is SO jealous and thirsty for Picard SO much, that Q creates freaking Sherwood Forest and this huge production with swordfights, chopping blocks, etc, only to eventually steal Picard's girlfriend away from him to keep Picard single!

Q goes hard, doesn't he?

Q (throwing a tantrum because his boyfriend has a girlfriend): I came here to do you a favor! And now this! Fuck you you're robin hood now. You need to see you can't trust her!

[siskolesbian]

rewatching qpid and I think beverly and vash hooked up

[doctorbeverlycrusher]

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4x20 Qpid

“I’m surprised he never mentioned you.”

[wordsmithcreations]

What canon muses do you have?

Agents Of Shield

• Grant Ward

• Deke Shaw

Angel

• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Being Human UK

• John Mitchell

Bones

• Vincent Nigel-Murray

• Lance Sweets

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

• Greg Sanders

Cyberpunk 2077

• Johnny Silverhand

Death Stranding

• Higgs Monaghan

• Sam Bridges

Detroit Become Human

• Connor

Doctor Who

• Tenth Doctor

Dollhouse

• Topher Brink

Dragon Age

• Alistair Theirin

Dragon Age 2

• Anders

Fallout 4

• Danse

Firefly

• Jayne Cobb

Game Of Thrones

• Jon Snow

Loki

• Loki Laufeyson

Lucifer

• Lucifer Morningstar

• Chloe Decker

Mass Effect

• Kaidan Alenko

• Garrus Vakarian

Mob Psycho 100

• Reigen Arataka

• Serizawa Katsuya

Preacher

• Proinsias Cassidy

Quantum Break

• Jack Joyce

Red Dead 2

• Arthur Morgan

Shadow And Bone

• Aleksander Morozova

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

• Julian Bashir

Star Trek: Picard

• Cristobal Rios

Star Trek: The Next Generation

• Data

Stardew Valley

• Shane

Supernatural

• Castiel

• Mick Davies

Sword Art Online

• Ryotaro Tsuboi “Klein”

The Boys

• Jack Wilson “Lamplighter”

• Billy Butcher

The Elder Scrolls: Online

• Fennorian

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

• Bishop

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier

• James Buchanan Barnes

The Following

• Mike Weston

The Originals

• Elijah Mikaelson

• Niklaus Mikaelson

The Orville

• Gordon Malloy

The Walking Dead

• Shane Walsh

• Daryl Dixon

Torchwood

• Owen Harper

• Ianto Jones

Trigun

• Vash The Stampede

Uncharted

• Samuel Drake

Westworld

• Logan Delos

• Hector Escaton

• Lee Sizemore

• Caleb Nichols

What We Do In The Shadows

• Nandor

X-Men Movies

• Logan

• Bobby Drake

You

• Joe Goldberg

[pixiedane]

Jean-Luc Fashion Project

Date Night (Allegiance, Lessons, Attached)

Jean-Luc definitely knows what he likes and feels best in, and he wears it to make a good impression with his ladies. 

Top left caps, with Beverly Crusher, is a doppelgänger, but he’s wearing the clothes in Jean-Luc’s closet and that blouse is either nearly the same, or actually the same, shirt he wears while wooing Nella Daren. Same with the green in the middle two caps with Nella, it’s either nearly the same or actually the same as the one he wore on vacay with Vash.  The bottom four caps, again with Nella and Beverly, respectively, are definitely the exact same shirt. 

He’s definitely going for the soft romantic gentleman-scoundrel cover of a romance novel effect: comfortable silks in eye catching hues or patterns that emphasize his chest and waist. 

[captainbeverlycrusher]

Happy Pride Month!

I’d like to take this time to say:

Beverly Crusher is bisexual and you can’t convince me otherwise :)

Allow me to demonstrate.

Exhibit A:

That time she barges in on Picard and Vash’s breakfast date knowing it would catch Picard off guard and make him lose his shit and THEN she proceeds to flirt with and actually STEAL his girlfriend lmaoooo

(GIF via https://captainbeverlycrusher.tumblr.com/post/81020051500)

Plus in the same ep, the time when Worf looks at Vash and says "Nice legs ... for a human" and then Beverly ogles Vash as she walks away and then does a double take to check out her legs and wasn’t subtle about it at all!!!

Bev x Picard x Vash totally happened that night!

Exhibit B:

Let’s not forget that THIS was her reaction to seeing THEE Lwaxana Troi in all her nude glory. She simply doesn’t know what to do with herself! I believe this is what they call “gay panic” lololol Couldn’t be more obvious that Bev loves hot women as much as she loves her man Picard. Yes Bev, don’t suppress your feelings!

(GIF via https://raffaela-musiker.tumblr.com/post/80734287387)

Exhibit C:

And finally there’s this ... wherein her reaction to having her wrist so lovingly kissed by her former male lover in a new female body makes her pause and consider “Hmmm am I really straight? Probably not”. I like to think of this as when she was in her early baby bi days, coming to terms with her sexuality and challenging all her beliefs about herself and about love <3

(GIF via https://sapphicstartrek.tumblr.com/post/172940945260/requested-by-anon)

Not to mention all the tenderness she shows to the women in her life, the touches, the caresses, the knowing looks and soft smiles. The signs are all there. So.

In conclusion, Bisexual Bev is canon!!!

[tparadox]

My essential Star Trek episodes

@velociraptors-in-hats asked me for a list of essential Trek, and this is gonna be way too big for a text message, so here we go.

The Original Series (TOS)

While a lot of the show holds up surprisingly well for being over 50 years old, the pacing and aesthetic is incredibly dated. There’s a lot you can skip here.

Highlighted episodes:

“Charlie X”: If anyone tells you Kirk is a womanizer, point them at him teaching found teenager Charlie to behave himself.

“The Corbomite Maneuver”: If you wanna see Kirk do what Kirk is best at, this is a good place to start.

“Balance of Terror”: an antiracist cold war submarine drama in space (borrows heavily from movies like Run Silent, Run Deep)

“The Menagerie”: This was an excuse to recycle the unaired pilot, but the unaired pilot is a pretty good story and it’s framed by courtroom drama and Spock going rogue for a good cause.

“The Galileo Seven”: another really good drama centered on Spock.

“Space Seed”: I know I already said that this isn’t necessary to understand Wrath of Khan, but it’s a great episode anyway. If you have an opportunity to watch Ricardo Montalban act, it is best not to miss it.

“City on the Edge of Forever”: arguably the greatest Star Trek episode of the entire franchise.

“Amok Time”: You wanna see Kirk and Spock wrestle in the sand. You know you do.

“The Doomsday Machine”: more great writing.

“I, Mudd”: illogic bombs everywhere.

“Journey to Babel”: Father and Son drama, the beginning of “Spock doesn’t talk about his family until they’re standing in front of you”

“The Trouble with Tribbles”: the biggest space romp ever.

“Patterns of Force”: one of many Space Nazi episodes (there’s even more than one with literal Nazis), but the best one.

“Spock’s Brain”: there’s probably a drinking game for this one. Do not follow any rules about drinking for the word “brain” or you will die.

“The Enterprise Incident”: It’s hard to remember this is third season TOS because they were actually still trying here.

“All our Yesterdays” is pretty cool sci-fi. Time travel, marooned, going native-ish.

The Next Generation (TNG)

The first two seasons are the most skippable Star Trek has ever been, but if you wanna get a sense of it, I recommend considering any of “Lonely Among Us”, “The Battle” (gets a sequel seven years later), “The Big Goodbye”, “Datalore”, “Too Short a Season”, The Arsenal of Freedom”, and “We’ll Always Have Paris” from the first season, and “Where Silence Has Lease”, “Elementary Dear Data”, “The Measure of a Man” (civil rights courtroom drama, referenced heavily in the recent Picard series), “Q Who” (first Q episode I actually recommend, introduces the Borg), and “The Emissary” (starts an arc with Worf that will last into Deep Space Nine).

I do not recommend “Shades of Gray” unless you are really interested in what you missed from skipping the first two seasons. It doesn’t even have the So Bad It’s Good that The Enterprise Incident does.

I’m gonna have to get really discriminating here or this is gonna get really long now. I grew up with TNG and more than half of the episodes are ones I have some reason to love. (narrator voice: he did not get more discriminating)

Probably any Q and Borg episode from here.

“Yesterday’s Enterprise” is an alternate universe drama where we shift into a darker timeline where the Federation is losing a war with the Klingons (who are our friends now normally).

“The Offspring” - Data makes a child and it goes better than could be expected until it doesn’t.

“Sins of the Father” - this is where Worf’s arc really gets going.

“Allegiance” is just a good episode.

“Captain’s Holiday” is a bit pulpy. It was written because Stewart was complaining that the captain doesn’t do enough shooting and screwing. But it’s fun. Vash is fun.

“Sarek” has a great scene for Patrick Stewart showing Picard have another man’s breakdown for him.

“The Best of Both Worlds”: for the best effect, watch part one, then wait three months before watching part two.

“Family”: partly an epilogue to Best of Both Worlds, but a great story for Picard. And I think it’s another one in Worf’s main saga.

“Brothers”: this is the quintessential Data episode. If you only watch one episode with Lore, watch this one.

“Reunion” seeds the Klingon Civil War arc.

“Final Mission”: you are probably not going to see Wesley at his worst, but this episode is Wesley at his best. It is his final episode as a regular.

“Data’s Day”: literally a day in the life story, but Data is a lot of fun.

I personally really like The Nth Degree.

“The Mind’s Eye” is an “It’s very good but I would rather not rewatch it please” episode, but as with Chain of Command, torture stories are not a good time for me.

“Redemption” 1 and 2 brings home the Klingon Civil War and also ties in Yesterday’s Enterprise.

“Darmok”: Good science fiction predicts the internet. Great science fiction predicts communication through memes.

“Unification” 1 and 2: remember how the Vulcans and the Romulans look alike? This is important.

“Ethics” is well-written moral drama, but one of the two debates it engages with is assisted suicide, so you specifically will probably want to pass.

“The Inner Light” is a bit of a one-off, but you get to experience a man’s entire life as Picard experiences it.

A lot of people will tell you that “Time’s Arrow” is the weakest season cliffhanger, but I just think that running around San Francisco in the time of cholera with Mark Twain and Jack London is a lot of fun.

“A Fistfull of Datas”: Would you like to watch a spaghetti western where every character is played by Brent Spiner? Of course you would!

“Ship in a Bottle”: a sequel to “Elementary Dear Data”

“Tapestry”: possibly not actually a Q episode. Picard gets to face an old regret and see how his life would be different if things had gone another way.

“Frame of Mind” is a psychodrama where Riker’s reality falls apart.

I like high concept stories about time. “Timescape” is Clockstoppers before Clockstoppers.

Watch “Attached” if you find yourself shipping Jean-Luc and Beverly.

“The Pegasus” sees Riker forced to face the ghost of a past shame he thought was buried.

“Sub Rosa” is another one that everyone hates that I like. I’m just a sucker for the Scottish Highlands In Space setting, but to be fair to its detractors it was literally plagiarized from an Ann Rice paranormal romance novel.

“Lower Decks”: the characters we usually spend time with are up in the stratosphere in terms of the hierarchy on the ship. This episode takes the perspective of some junior officers.

“Masks” because Brent Spiner needs to set records for “most characters played in a single episode”.

“Emergence” is a creepy weird high-concept episode I really like.

“All Good Things” is unmissable. When you feel like you’re at home with TNG, watch the finale.

Deep Space Nine (DS9)

Again, the first few seasons are a bit awkward before the show finds itself. However, “Emissary” is possibly the best series premiere the show has ever done. This is a highly serialized show (for its time), so the deeper into the show, the more you should really watch them in order.

“Move Along Home” is another in the “so bad it’s good” pile. Get to know the show before you watch it.

Most people will tell you that “Duet” is one of Deep Space Nine’s best episodes. What would you do if you just arrested Josef Goebbels?

“In the Hands of the Prophets”: the Scopes Monkey Trial in space kind of.

“Whispers”: creeeepy. O’Brien is firmly cemented as the show’s designated sufferer.

“Shadow Play” is one of the early episodes that probably would’ve worked better for TNG, but I kind of like it.

“Blood Oath”:probably the beginning of Jadzia Dax being everyone’s favorite lesbian (/bi/trans) icon.

“The Maquis” two-part story is kind of a mission statement for the show.

“The Wire”: one of the two most Garak/Bashir episodes of the entire run.

“The Search” is a big reveal that has consequences for the entire rest of the series.

“The House of Quark” is a really fun episode pairing Ferengi and Klingon culture like oil and vinegar making salad dressing.

“Equilibrium” is a great episode for getting into the whole deal with Dax’s Trill gimmick.

“Civil Defense:” they trigger a lockdown protocol the Cardassians meant to use to suppress a Bajoran riot.

“Past Tense”, two parts. Please oh please don’t let the real 2024 look like this. One of DS9′s most prescient episodes (inspired by the Rodney King riots).

“Destiny” is one of the best episodes in the “Sisko has to reckon with being the Bajorans’ messiah figure” arc.

“Improbable Cause”/”The Die Is Cast” (DS9 is a bit averse to putting the same title on every part of a multipart story): dark, plot-heavy, and pretty important to what’s coming up soon.

“Family Business”: I think this is the introduction of Quark’s mother, the Ferengi feminist.

“The Adversary” is big for Odo.

“The Way of the Warrior” is basically the show’s second pilot episode.

“The Visitor” is a one-off story about the bond between Ben and Jake Sisko.

“Rejoined”: Give Jadzia A Girlfriend

“Little Green Men”: a one-off romp at the 1947 Roswell crash.

“Our Man Bashir”: Bashir and Garak are gay at each other while larping Bashir’s James Bond fantasy, only it turns deadly because the camera wandered into the holodeck again.

“Homefront”/”Paradise Lost”: again, a very Relevant episode where a terror attack on Earth causes the enactment of martial law.

“Bar Association”: Quark’s brother reads Das Kapital and starts a union. No seriously, that’s the episode.

“Body Parts”: Quark gets misdiagnosed with a terminal illness, sells his remains as is the Ferengi custom, and hijinks ensue (possibly triggering because he considers putting a hit on himself to get out of his dilemma).

“Broken Link”: this is a very big Odo story.

“Apocalypse Rising”: carries on from the not-really-a-cliffhanger in “Broken Link”, but it’s more about going undercover in the Klingon empire.

“Trials and Tribble-Ations”: Let’s go full Back to the Future Part 2 on a fan favorite TOS episode.

“For the Uniform”: explores the lengths Sisko will go to against a traitor.

“Doctor Bashir, I Presume”: Julian Bashir gets outed. The basis of the “Julian is transmasc” theory/metaphor.

“Children of Time”: high concept morality play. The crew meet their descendants from the crash they haven’t experienced yet.

“In the Cards”: notably, the A story is a breather romp and the B story is Plot Arc stuff.

Take “Call to Arms”, “A Time To Stand”, “Rocks and Shoals”, “Sons and Daughters”, “Behind the Lines”, “Favor the Bold”, and “Sacrifice of Angels” as a six-part arc. It’s not exactly one long story, but they were written as a short arc and play through each other.

“You are Cordially Invited”: Klingon Bachelor Parties are almost as bad as Klingon mothers in law.

“Statistical Probabilities”: following on from what we learned in “Doctor Bashir, I Presume”, Bashir tries to help some institutionalized augments find a greater purpose than being locked up in an asylum.

“Far Beyond The Stars”: a one-off where Sisko has a vision of being a pulp sci-fi writer in the 50s trying to get a story about a black man commanding a space station published.

“One Little Ship”: just some fun with a negative space wedgie that shrinks people.

“Wrongs Darker than Death or Night”: Kira learns what her mother did to keep her family safe.

“Inquisition”: Bashir gets accused of having been brainwashed into an unwitting spy.

“In the Pale Moonlight”: how many lines will Sisko cross in order to win the war?

“His Way”: Odo gets mentored in dating by a 50s lounge singer hologram.

“Valiant”: a crew of cadets that think they can do anything go cultish when their senior officer dies and they have to run the ship by themselves behind enemy lines.

“Take Me Out To the Holosuite”: the war is pretty grim, let’s play baseball against Sisko’s academy days bully.

“Treachery, Faith, and the Great River”: Odo escorts a defector who sees him, like all of Odo’s kind, as a god (because that’s how Odo’s people control them).

“The Siege of AR-558″: the War is Hell episode of the War Is Hell series.

“It’s Only a Paper Moon”: Quark’s nephew escapes reality in the 50s lounge singer’s world after losing a leg in the war.

“Prodigal Daughter”: It’s season seven, so Ezri Dax gets a lot of focus because they only had one season to get to know her. But this is one of the best Ezri episodes.

“Badda Bing, Badda Bang”: Deep Space Nine does Ocean’s Eleven.

The ten episodes after that are the Final Chapter arc, which ties up all the stories they had in the air for the last seven years.

Voyager (VOY)

“Caretaker” sets up a lot of things, some of which will even actually be followed through on.

“Faces”: an alien scientist splits the half-Klingon/half-human engineer into her human and Klingon halves.

“The 37s”: I don’t remember much of this one aside from they find Amelia Earhart and others from that time cryogenically frozen on a planet on the other side of the galaxy, and we get to see the ship land for no particular reason.

“Projections”: Doctor episodes are great in general. This one has the Doctor’s reality breaking down.

“Twisted”: weird space stuff warps space inside the ship.

I really like the Q episodes on Voyager, but if discussion of suicide is triggering, you should know that “Death Wish” is about a Q (not The Q, another one. They’re all named Q and so is their species) who wants the right to end his immortality.

“Deadlock”: Voyager is duplicated by a negative space wedgie, but only one can survive because reasons.

“The Thaw”: a great episode about facing Fear. Guest starring Michael McKean as a personification of Fear.

“Resolutions”: Hey, did we set up romantic tension between the captain and her first officer? Let’s put that to bed.

“Flashback”: Janeway and Tuvok go inside Tuvok’s memories of the five minutes Sulu was in The Undiscovered Country.

“Sacred Ground”: this episode kind of defines how I see the relationship between faith and skepticism.

“Future’s End” (two parts): Remember The One With The Whales? We’re doing it again twelve years later, but with Sarah Silverman instead of whales.

“The Q and the Grey”: Q (yes actually that one) gets Janeway involved in a Q Civil War because somehow making a Q baby is going to end it and he wants Janeway to be his baby mama.

“Coda”: Janeway gets stuck in dying dream after dying dream.

“Before and After”: Kes is jumping backwards in time.

“Worst Case Scenario”: episodes where the cast get to play evil versions of their characters are fun.

“Scorpion” (2 parts): Janeway makes a deal with the devil.

“Year of Hell” (2 parts): they wanted to do an entire season of this, which in turn was inspired by what they’d originally planned for the show all along before the suits decided it should be a safe TNG knockoff.

“Message in a Bottle”: They find a way to send transmissions across the galaxy, but for Reasons, text and video messages can’t get through, but a hologram can, so the Doctor has an away mission to the Alpha Quadrant.

“Living Witness”: a one-off episode with a backup copy of the Doctor in the far future setting the record straight on Voyager’s involvement in a war between two planets.

“Timeless”: Chakotay and Harry made it home, but the rest of the crew died in a crash. So now they’re on the run from the law to send a message back in time to put it right.

“Latent Image”: the Doctor’s memories have been tampered with.

“Bride of Chaotica!”: a holodeck Buck Rogers fantasy goes off the rails.

“Course: Oblivion”: the ship and crew start to fall apart.

“Someone to Watch Over Me”: Voyager does My Fair Lady.

“11:59″: As an Indiana native I am legally obligated to recommend this story about what Janeway’s ancestor was doing on New Year’s Eve 1999.

“Relativity”: Time chase. Somebody’s trying to blow up Voyager in the past.

Equinox (Two parts): What if Voyager hadn’t held onto its ideals in their quest to get home?

“The Voyager Conspiracy”: good sci-fi anticipates the internet. Great sci-fi anticipates people finding patterns that don’t exist in the information overload.

“Pathfinder”: Remember Barclay? His latest awkwardness is his obsession with Voyager.

“Fair Haven”/”Spirit Folk”: these aren’t directly paired, but they’re both set in holographic Ireland. In the first one, Janeway tailors her holographic boyfriend to exactly what she wants, in the second, the characters have been running for so long they start to get the sense that there’s something strange about the out of towners.

“Life Line”: The Doctor gets transmitted across the galaxy to save his creator from an illness. 

“The Haunting of Deck Twelve”: Neelix tells the Borg Children a ghost story that maybe really happened.

Unimatrix Zero (two parts): I don’t remember much of this, but it’s one of the biggest Borg stories in a show that overused the Borg.

“Imperfection”: Seven of Nine is practicing being human on the holodeck and starts to have a systems failure.

“Critical Care”: the Doctor gets captured by an alien hospital and fights against the stratification of their healthcare system.

“Inside Man”: Barclay again. He sent a hologram of himself to help Voyager get home.

“Flesh and Blood”: a hologram rights story.

“Shattered”: the ship is fractured in time, and Chakotay is roaming the ship through different time periods trying to reintegrate it.

“Lineage”: B’elanna goes a little overboard tinkering with her baby’s genome.

“Q2″: It’s a Q episode, and nobody’s suicidal.

“Renaissance Man”: The Doctor does more than he was ever designed for.

“Endgame”: the end.

Enterprise (ENT)

I’ve only watched most of these once. I really don’t know the show that well.

I can tell you that the first two seasons are a bunch of one-offs with the major theme being “we’re out here to make friends and introduce ourselves to the neighborhood”. The third season is Star Trek’s answer to 9/11 and it goes really Jack Bauer. There are some one-offs, but it’s very focused on the Xindi threat. The fourth season is short arcs where they got around to being a prequel show and did a lot of the good kind of callbacks to TOS.

Discovery (DIS, Disco, DSC, definitely not ST:D)

Modern-era Star Trek is very serialized. It would take less time to say which episodes of Discovery are skippable. I’ve only seen the first season once, and I’m still not done with the second season. Captain Pike from the original TOS pilot is the captain in the second season and he is the best thing about modern Trek.

Picard (PIC?)

There’s only one season so far, and it is 100% serialized. It doesn’t have filler episodes, it has filler spread out through all the episodes. They told a four or five episode story in ten episodes. Though really not much happens between the end of the first episode and when they pick up Seven of Nine. The stuff on the Borg Cube is highly skippable until episode 6.

Lower Decks (LD?)

This is currently in its first season. It’s an adult-oriented animated comedy by the guy who did TNGs8 on Twitter and his most notable professional work before this is Rick and Morty. It’s a loving tweak on the nose of Star Trek.

The future

There’s a Nickelodeon show coming up called “Prodigy” that we don’t know much about. It’s animated, it’s for kids, and it’s about a ship crewed by cadets.

Discovery season 3 is coming very soon, again going in a completely new direction from the first two seasons.

Picard is going to get a second season eventually. It doesn’t seem to have been part of the plan, but there it is.

There’s also Strange New Worlds, a... Discovery spinoff? Centering on Discovery’s version of Pike commanding the Enterprise with Number One and Spock, and it’s planned to be more episodic. Also coming whenever the world isn’t on fire.

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Star Trek tng

put a fandom in my ask and i’ll answer:

otp - Why. Did. Beverly. and. Picard. Admit. Their. Feelings. and. then. do. nothing??  

favourite canon pairing - this is hard, there are so many alien of the week that are good.  Wait.  It’s Picard x Q because I adore that Q is a god just...obsessed with this random earth captain.  I love his aim.  

worst pairing ever - Geordi and Leah Brahms.  What the fuck was that?  Why?  No.  He was so creepy!  And then she had to apologize for not liking that he made a hologram of her and fell in love with it!  Eww!  Also, Geordi is gay, so...

guilty pleasure pairing - I don’t hate Deanna x Worf, ok?  I like Deanna x Worf.  Fistful of Datas is *chef’s kiss*.  Deanna x Beverly has appeal too.  Oh, and Beverly and her grandma’s ghost lover.  Sub Rosa is my life.  

a pairing you want to see more - Honestly anything involving Yar.  Gone too soon.  

that pairing everyone likes but you’re like “lol no” - Picard x Vash.  I get that Vash was an independent female character with her own drives and it was the late-eighties and that was good but she does not respect archaeology and I feel like she also doesn’t respect Picard’s slutty Risa outfits.  

favorite non-romantic pair - Data and Guinan have a special bartender mojo and I love it.  

Send me a fandom! 

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Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

I was tagged by @weimarweekly (thanks for that!) and well, my wip titles are pretty boring but here goes:

“prime” (all my star trek wips live here, it’s called “prime” because the first thing I put on there was the beginning of a crackfic about the prime universe version of Captain Lorca, who is the softest dork imaginable and gets zero respect from his crew)

“alt_dml_au” for the David Mellenby Lives AU

“changeling story” for a Gravity Falls AU with changelings that I never finished

“ford possession angst”

“mothman...” (a taz Amnesty story about Indrid Mothman)

“xreader” (a Stanford Pines x reader fic I also never finished)

“misc johnchurch” (a BUNCH of taz fic ideas that never saw the light)

“let’s fuckin do this” (post-canon johnchurch fic, never ended up fuckin doin it)

“pqv” (Picard/Q/Vash threesome smut)

“HBOwar” (a folder of mainly Pacific AUs I didn’t finish, some BOB)

“fic4ham” (yeah, I know)

“subject ares verse” (a post-canon dghda fic where Friedkin becomes a subject in Ken’s Blackwing, mostly angst, slightly gay)

“CotL stuff” (very old folder, for when Children of the Lamp was my fandom, until I realized these books are unpopular for several good reasons)

I tag @jtownraindancer @cenedrariva @expectedbehavior aaand I don’t know any other writers but if you feel like doing this thing, please go ahead!

[mia-cooper]

Fanfiction Questions

from here

Fandom Questions

1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?

Involved as in ‘frantically read every book I could get my hands on, daydreamed about being part of that universe and wrote stories/made art inspired by the books, if not actual fanfiction’? Mm, probably The Chronicles of Narnia when I was six or seven. The next great obsession was The Silver Brumby when I went through my horse stage around age 12, and then Sweet Valley High when I was 15. Hahaha.

2. What is your latest fandom?

Marvel! I’m not into comics and I’m definitely not interested in consuming every last bit of canon material or memorising the variations of every universe, but I love (most of) the movies and Agents of SHIELD is pretty cool.

3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?

Star Trek Voyager. No contest. I venture to suggest that the older fandoms, the ones that are all about defunct shows, are a hell of a lot more chilled. Maybe because we’ve come to terms with our shitty canon endings and learned that liking the ship you hate doesn’t make someone problematic, unlike some newer fandoms I could name (Yes I’m talking about you, Game of Thrones fans. What the fuck.)

4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?

I’ve dipped a toe into one or two fandoms for shows or books I’ve really enjoyed and backed the fuck out when the vibe gets weird (oh hey, it’s GoT again), but nope. No regrets.

5. Which fandoms have you written fanfiction for?

All the Star Treks except TOS, and a Trek/MCU crossover. I’d like to write more for MCU someday. Plus I’ve written longhand entire notebooks full of teen romance shit that bore an uncanny similarity to SVH, and my first short story was a fantasy fic that featured a girl whose guardian was a wise talking lion who led her into mystical secret worlds, which is kind of familiar.

6. List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

Wow. I’m going to define ‘involved in’ as ‘cared enough about to have an OTP’, but I’m guaranteed to forget a ton. In no particular order:

Voyager: Janeway x anyone who can get her off

Discovery: Lorca x Cornwell or Pike x Tyler x Burnham (or any combination of)

DS9: Kira x Jadzia Dax

TNG: Picard x Vash, I guess? I don’t really have any TNG ships

ENT: T’Pol x Trip x Hoshi (or any variation therein)

MCU: Cap x Widow

AoS: Coulson x Skye... no May... no Skye... I don’t know

CAOS: Madam Satan x Zelda

Timeless: Garcy

The Good Place: Eleanor x Tahani

The 100 (shut up): toss up between Clarke x Bellamy and Kane x Abby

Veronica Mars: Veronica x Leo (first run), Veronica x Logan (s4)

Orphan Black: Cosima x Delphine

BSG: Apollo x Starbuck

SG1: Sam x Jack

Arrow: Olicity (so over the show now though)

This Life: Milly x Egg

Yeah you know what... I’m drawing a blank. I can’t think of any other shows where I’ve been invested in The Romance that much.

7. List your NoTPs from each fandom you’ve been in.

I’m too tired to do every fandom, and besides, I can come around to almost any ship if the headcanons (or fics) are convincing enough. I do have a few hard no-gos, but they might be someone else’s OTP so I’ll shut up about them.

8. How did you get involved in your latest fandom?

Reluctantly. The MCU movies are not something I ever thought I’d enjoy beyond a dull evening’s entertainment. I never expected to get attached to the characters. And yet.

9. What are the best things about your current fandom?

Voyager is my forever fandom and the only one where I’ve really interacted with other fans. The best things about it? In general, everyone is just cool, accepting, open and basically awesome. And talented. I love my Party Bus people.

10.  Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in?

Sure. The 100, Veronica Mars and Agents of SHIELD are the ones I’d dip into more frequently. I really enjoy crossovers between Trek and BSG or the Stargate variants, too.

Ship Questions for your Current Fandom

11. Who is your current OTP?

Janeway x Chakotay.

12. Who is your current OT3?

Janeway x Chakotay x Paris.

13. Any NoTPs?

A few.

14. Go on, who are your BroTPs?

Janeway & Tuvok! Also Torres & Chakotay, and I’d have killed for more Janeway & Torres in canon. (If they kissed sometimes that would be okay too)

15. Is there an obscure ship which you love?

Yeah. Paris x Seven. There are like two fics in existence, and yet ... the potential! (Sorry, B’Elanna)

16. Are there any popular ships in your fandom which you dislike?

Nope.

17. Who was your first OTP and are they still your favourite?

Janeway x Paris. And they’re still way up there, but not quite at the top.

18. What ship have you written the most about?

84% of my fics feature Janeway x Chakotay as either the primary or secondary pairing... holy shit.

19. Is there a ship which you wished you could get behind, but you just don’t feel them?

Paris x Torres. I mean, I feel them. I just don’t generally feel the need to write about them.

20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking?

Chakotay x Seven. In another universe, it could’ve been beautiful.

Author Questions

21. What was the first fanfic you ever wrote?

Actual story that was clearly fanfic? A farcical drunken romp told in the 24th century equivalent of email format called PADDemonium (see what I did there?)

22. Is there anything you regret writing?

Lol, a few things that should probably have never seen the light of day for various reasons, some of them leola related. But I’ve only deleted two fics that I can recall.

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.

Relieved. It’s a 30k AU Chakotay moral dilemma backstory that brings in DS9 characters, Section 31 and his longstanding history with AU Janeway. I did so much research for it (way back in the days before memory alpha and chakoteya.net) and I’m really proud of how I wound in canon stuff across series but changed a few key bits and pieces. Only problem is, it’s a sequel to ...

24. What fic do you desperately need to rewrite or edit?

... Pressure, which I can’t even read without cringing. My characterisation of Janeway, even Angry Maquis AU Janeway, is way over the top and there are moments that verge on Mills and Boon and give me first, second and third hand embarrassment. God, I’d love to rewrite it. Actually, that’s a lie. I want someone else to rewrite it so I can read it without covering my eyes and moaning.

25. What’s your most popular fanfic?

Desperate Measures, by about 70,000 light years, lol. Although Fragile Things beats it on bookmarks.

26. How do you come up with your fanfic titles?

You know what? A fair percentage of the time, I think of the title first and come up with a plot second. Aside from that, I prefer shorter, punchier titles that clearly tie into the story (Flight Risk, Speechless), though sometimes it’s song lyrics (Burn Our Horizons, your body like a searchlight) or a literary quote (Required to Bear, All the Devils are Here) or a turn of phrase from the story itself (The Prisons You Inhabit). Hey that was fun. Thanks for letting me pimp the shit out of my stories.

27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?

Ugh, it depends on the day. Summaries are harder, I think. I never want to give away too much of the plot, but there has to be enough there for people to know whether they’ll bother clicking. Funny story: I actually ran the stats on this a few months back. Here they are for your edification:

Fics with a one line plot summary = 54%

With two or three line plot summary = 18%

With a short snippet directly from the fic = 16%

With a snippet + a one line explanation = 3%

With a one line plot summary plus a line to date the fic (eg "set in season 3", “episode tag to Worst Case Scenario") or the fic prompt = 7%

And finally, a quote from something other than the fic = 2% (that's only 3 fics).

28. If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of?

Ooh. I’ll say the final scene in Explosive.

29. Do you have a beta reader? Why/Why not?

I used to regularly ask @jhelenoftrek​ and @littleobsessions90 to beta for me, and both of them are brilliant at it. Lately I’ve been posting without sending my stuff off for editing. This is partly because I’m impatient to get stuff out there, partly because I don’t have as much time to write/edit, and partly because I’m a little less focused on improving my writing and more on enjoying it for its own sake.

30. What inspires you to write?

Little bits of episode dialogue I haven’t noticed before, other people’s fanfiction, stray conversations, fic prompts, song lyrics, random headcanons, fever dreams, dares ...

31. What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?

I’ve been really lucky with comments on my fic. The least helpful comment I’ve ever received was on one of my early 30k fics and all it said was “Did you have to take the name of the lord in vain?” Which is kind of funny. The nicest thing anyone’s ever said? I’m very partial to the feedback that starts “I don’t even like this pairing/genre/trope/show but you made me love it”, and particularly “I’ll read anything you write, I don’t care what it’s about.” But all comments are gold. The little heart button is cool too.

32. Do you listen to music when you write or does music inspire you? If so, which band or genre of music does it for you?

I’m not someone who can tune out music I love, or leave it in the background to inspire me. If it’s on, I’m fully invested in it. I’m that annoying person in the car who flips radio stations every three seconds until I find something I like and then it’s on 11 and I’m singing along to it. I’m also really picky but extremely eclectic, although there are genres I can’t stand (anything with autotune makes me stabby). That said, sometimes I find a song that I can’t stop listening to for weeks and often that perfect combination of music and lyrics will inspire me to write a fic. For example, I just plotted out an entire J/C story because of this song.

33. Do you write oneshots, multi-chapter fics or huuuuuge epics?

All of the above. Although I’m not sure if my longest epic is huuuuuge or just huuuge.

34. What’s the word count on your longest fic?

101,467.

35. Do you write drabbles? If so, what do you normally write them about?

I have two drabble collections. One is all J/C, full of responses to random prompts and I add to it sporadically. The other is episode additions set on Kathryn Janeway’s birthday (May 20) and added to annually.

36. What’s your favourite genre to write?

Angst, definitely. Sometimes it’s smutty angst or fluffy angst or hurt/comfort angst, but often it’s just fucking unrelenting angst. And I’m okay with that.

37. First person or third person - what do you write in and why?

I did the stats on this once, too, haha. Pretty sure I came out fairly even on first and third person with a smattering of second person in there. I’m probably even-ish on present vs past tense, too. I make it a point to mix it up to avoid my writing getting stale or same-y. And sometimes a fic doesn’t really click for me until I try it in a different POV or tense or from a different character’s perspective.

38. Do you use established canon characters or do you create OCs?

I mostly write for canon characters - the fun is in all the different ways you can interpret and imagine them - but I’ve been known to throw in the odd OC, or focus on a character who only got a brief cameo appearance, or write about someone who only appears in beta canon, or who only rates a mention on screen.

39. What is your greatest strength as a writer?

Oh, wow. I’m not sure. I guess the thing I value most about my own writing is my willingness to try different styles, characters, pairings and so on. The thing I strive for most is characterisation that feels true, and I really love it when I get comments on that. Exploring a character in a way that rings true with a reader is the best thing ever.

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

Overly long sentences and adverb abuse, haha. No, truthfully, there comes a point in most of my fics, particularly the longer ones, when I really just want to scrap it because in my heart I know it’s dreadful. Usually that passes once I slog through the ‘I don’t wanna’ stage because I’m a bloody-minded bitch, but sometimes fics do get left in the dust half-written. Honestly, though, they’re the ones that probably should stay there.

Fanfiction Questions

41. List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

This is hilarious because I was just talking on discord about my problematic ‘to read’ pile. My unread AO3 subscription emails currently number 29 and my phone browser has 71 tabs open. So here are 5 random picks from that list of exactly 100 fics I should be reading:

Sex on the Beach (E, Janeway/Chakotay) by @traccigaryn​

The Ruby Ring (T, Janeway/Chakotay, Janeway/Tighe) by @trinfinity2001​

Earth is But an Idea (T, Janeway/Chakotay, Carter/O’Neill) by @caladeniablue​

Home (E, Janeway/Chakotay) by Cassatt

Wise Up (E, Janeway/Chakotay) by KimJ

42. List and link to 5 fanfiction authors who are amazing:

Only five? Shit. Okay. In no particular order, these are five of the writers I keep coming back to:

quantumsilver (also here)

northernexposure

LittleObsessions

Helen8462

Cheshire

But there are so many others. My chosen fandom is chock full of amazing talent.

43. Is there anyone in your fandom who really inspires you?

All of the authors above for various reasons, but also august because her writing is so spare and delicate and devastating, and runawaymetaphor because she writes the most delicious Janeway/Paris, and @seperis​ because I read In the Space of Seven Days literally 20 years ago and I still haven’t recovered, and I could be here all night raving on this topic but there are still many questions to get through.

44. What ship do you feel needs more attention?

Janeway x Paris. I’m so happy there’s been a little bit of a resurgence in J/P fics lately. Thanks, @curator-on-ao3​, you’re doing the lord’s work.

I’ll also take Janeway x Johnson content any day of the week.

45. What is your all time favourite fanfic?

What the hell? I can’t pick just one! Ugh!

... but okay, here’s the first one that came to mind when I tried to think about this: if you came this way by tree. I’m not sure I’d call it my favourite, but it’s one I revisit often. Ugh, there are so many other fics I’m thinking of now that I really want to list.

46. If someone was to read one of your fanfics, which fic would you recommend to them and why?

Oh, that’s hard. I should probably pick an angsty smutty J/C because that’s a fair proportion of what I write and it’s good to let a new reader know what they can expect. But honestly, I think the best fic I’ve written is The Uncharted Sea. (It’s safe for work. Maybe not for makeup.)

47. Archive Of Our Own, Fanfiction.net or Tumblr - where do you prefer to post and why?

The Archive, of course. Where else can I find ad-free hosting on a stunningly user-friendly interface with absolutely no moralising content restrictions and the world’s best tagging system? That Hugo award is well deserved.

Tumblr is good for headcanons and meta and gifsets and a few other formats that I’m less likely to post on AO3 because I’d feel like I was pissing off people who subscribe to me by giving them some random garbage.

I also have my own website, but I’m not really sure why. Sometimes I post fic there that doesn’t make it to tumblr or AO3.

48. Do you leave reviews when you read fanfiction? Why/Why not?

I try to. Honestly I do. I love it when I get reviews, so I figure paying it forward is the least I can do. I’m less scrupulous about leaving comments when I’m busy or reading on my phone.

49. Do you care if people comment/reblog your writing? Why/why not?

I mean, I love it when people reblog, but I certainly don’t expect it. @arcadia1995​ is amazing for reblogging stuff *blows kisses*

Nobody owes fanfic writers shit, but I feel like there’s a tacit agreement that if you like what you just read for free and you’re on a platform that makes it easy to do so, you leave a review or at least a kudos, because I’m not gonna lie, posting a fic you’ve worked super hard on and seeing it get very few kudos or comments is a bit deflating. I’m sure a lot of us have been there.

50. How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction?

During Voyager’s original run I was trawling the internet for Endgame spoilers (I don’t know why; I usually love surprises) and I guess I googled (or whatever the 2001 equivalent of googling was) something like “how does voyager get home” and somehow I stumbled across Revisionist History. At first I had no idea what I was reading - was this a lost story pitch that somehow got leaked? A professional novella commissioned by the showrunners?

Then I started following links and discovered yahoo groups and webrings and Trekiverse and fanfiction.net and all sorts of incredible things I’d never guessed at, including the now defunct ‘archipelago of angst’, a collection of Voyager writers who focused mainly on a darker Janeway than most of the other fic writers I was encountering, and I was hooked. So I wrote a few of my own pieces, and then I lost interest for 15 years. I’m still not sure how I got dragged back in.

51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

Honestly, in what other way can I indulge my obsessions, hone my skills and talk about it endlessly with like-minded people? Where else can I instantly find a plethora of fiction about the exact topic I feel like reading about on my mobile device and for free? Fanfiction is fucking amazing and I’m so glad it exists in my life.