P/C: our thread is eternal

Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by Naraht, Oct 16, 2006.

  1. Dancing Doctor

    Dancing Doctor Admiral Admiral

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    :guffaw:

    If it looks like a hooker, and dresses like a hooker, and acts like a hooker...it's a "professional companion"
     
  2. Whoa Nellie

    Whoa Nellie Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    The story you co-wrote with Mackillian did indeed win a 2006 ASC award. For anyone interested below is the entire post with the list of the 2006 ASC award winners. (This list can also be found on this message ASC Awards - The Envelope, Please on the ASC Awards yahoo group or just do a google search on alt.startrek.creative.)

    Congratulations to both of you! :)

    Warmest Wishes,
    Whoa Nellie
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    For each series, stories are listed in the order of first, second and
    third place finishes.

    And now, the moment you've all been waiting for.....(drum roll)

    2006 ASC Awards Winners


    TOS Drabble
    Peeping Jim by Ventura33
    Where No Man Has Gone Before by Rocky
    K is for Klingon by Cait N.

    TOS General Pairing
    That's What Big Girls Are Made Of by Lyrastar
    Out of the Desert by Ster Julie
    An Angel in My Arms by Ster Julie

    TOS General Story
    Shanghai Shimmer by Ventura33
    The Chapel of Love by Starshadow
    Time to Say Goodbye Suite by Ster Julie

    TOS Humor
    The Peep Within by Lyrastar
    Snakes on A Starship Series by Lyrastar
    Tableau by Ventura33

    Spock Pairing
    The Waking Man by Wildcat
    The Other Side Of Paradise by T'Lin
    Revelation by Rolletti

    Kirk Pairing
    Hallowed Blessings by IDIC
    Star Bright by IDIC
    Welcome by T'Len

    Kirk Spock Pairing
    Musical Interlude by T'Lin
    Rejuvenation Of The Soul by T'Lin
    Amok Time by Starshadow

    TOS Author
    Ster Julie
    Wildcat
    Starshadow

    TNG Drabble
    8 x 2 Rule by Ke Roth
    I is for Iconian by Cait N.
    U is for Ullian by Cait N.

    TNG General Story
    The Feast of Losses by Lori
    Hello, My Name is Michael by mackillian
    Back Home to Me by KyRoka

    TNG Picard Crusher Pairing
    Born to Endless Night by mackillian and rosyrock
    Gut Level Reactions by Spaceman
    New Beginnings by Louise Ellis

    TNG Author
    Whoa Nellie
    Heather Smyth
    Ke Roth

    DS9 Drabble
    Pun-ishment 34 by Gojirob
    T is for Trill by Cait N.
    5 Drabbles by Mark Russel Stanley

    DS9 Garak Bashir Pairing
    Collecting Bones by dilly r
    One Moment by Mark Russel Stanley
    Tryst by dilly r

    DS9 General Story
    A Glass of Synthohol by Ventura33
    Moments of Weakness by dilly r
    State of the Federation by Sisko2374

    DS9 Author
    dilly r
    Mark Russel Stanley
    Ventura 33

    VOY General Story
    Timeslip by Seema
    Great Expectations by Rocky
    Best Woman Wins by Cait N.

    VOY Janeway Chakotay Pairing
    Epistemology by Kelly Chambliss
    Impatient by Rocky
    Sands Of Time by Whoa Nellie

    VOY Author
    Rocky
    Seema
    Kelly Chambliss

    ENT Author
    KayJay
    T'Lin

    MIS Filk, Poems, Drabbles
    Imitation by Rocky
    The Fanboy And The Shipper by Whoa Nellie
    The Search for Spock with feeling by Starshadow

    MIS Story
    2005 ASC Awards Dinner by Rocky & Alex Voy
    All Wet or Why Marrissa Should Never Repair Anything by Stephen Ratliff
    Sheep's Clothing by Bill Livingston

    MIS Author
    Rocky & Alex Voy
    Cait N.
    Paul Gadzikowski

    Alara Rogers Best Author
    Whoa Nellie
    dilly r
    Cait N
     
  3. Dancing Doctor

    Dancing Doctor Admiral Admiral

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    Argh...I'm stuck. On ...Is Not Gold.

    The Funeral Scene. All I have down for it so far is:

    “Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    :scream:

    I've been doing other stuff fine, it's just this. Plus, Death in Winter has distracted me...again. Oy.
     
  4. rosyrock

    rosyrock Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    thank you Whoa Nellie... It's nice to know I didn't dream it!!
     
  5. Naraht

    Naraht Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Congratulations, rosyrock and mackillian! I really should get around to posting some of my stuff there--it scares me for some reason.
     
  6. Whoa Nellie

    Whoa Nellie Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    :) You're very welcome! You deserved it. Born to Endless Night was a well-written, enjoyable story. I hope to see the two of you collaborate more on ASC. If you want to read this year's comments they can be found here Trekiverse: ASCAwards. With the ASC awards being feedback based and with the voting over, each category has all the comments made in that category listed.

    No, you didn't dream it. :) I know what you mean though. I felt the same way with this year's Alara Rogers Award. The TNG Author Award was enough of a surprise but the Alara Rogers Award threw me for a complete loop. That morning as I looked at the screen I called my husband at work and made him look it up on his computer at work to double check. :lol:

    Warmest Wishes,
    Whoa Nellie
     
  7. Dancing Doctor

    Dancing Doctor Admiral Admiral

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    What exactly is it about P/C that brings us back to this thread, time and again?
     
  8. mon capitaine

    mon capitaine Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    For me it's become a little community thread. I'm all P/Ced out really. I feel sorry for people who join thinking 'at last some intelluctual discussion about my favourite couple' and then have to read us blithering on about Bevhair, Action Picard and whether that Vash gal was a good thing too far.

    How do we compare to other pairing threads? The Enterprise ones always look a bit brutal because of the triangle around T'ThinWomanWho'sNameEscapesMe - but I could be wrong. Do the other forums have anything similar?
     
  9. Dancing Doctor

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    The Enterprise forum, from what I can tell, has shipper threads about Trip/T'Pol (which leads to someone saying "Let's hope he doesn't trip over t'pol on the floor" or something similar), Archer/T'Pol, and then just threads on how dreamy Trip and/or Reed and/or Archer and/or Mayweather are.

    The Voyager forum has Janeway/Chakotay, although I'm not sure if there's a thread currently active. There's also Harry/Seven, if one were to start a thread, Doctor/Seven, Neelix/Kes, and so on.

    The DS9 forum might have Odo/Kira (one of my favorite ships), and...Ezri/Bashir or Jadzia/Bashir or just plain Dax/Bashir, and not much else.

    The TOS forum could potentially have Chekov/Uhura, Sulu/Uhura, Kirk/Uhura, Kirk/Chapel, Spock/Chapel, Kirk/Spock, McCoy/Spock/Kirk, and so on (yes, I'm getting slashy).

    TNG...well, we're really the only shipper thread active, really. But, if one were to start a thread...
     
  10. Naraht

    Naraht Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Friends.

    They certainly were brutal back when the series was still on--which was the last time that I bothered to look at them. They were always banning shipper discussion from other ENT threads--a sort of demilitarized zone--and I think once they even went so far as banning shipping threads for a brief period in order to force people to cool off. It didn't work.

    Apart from the ENT forum, I think that we're the only long-running shipping thread out there. I don't recall ever seeing a proper shipping thread in the TOS forum, come to think of it. And in a way I respect them for that.
     
  11. Dancing Doctor

    Dancing Doctor Admiral Admiral

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    Well, TOS never really went into much romance or anything, so most shipper threads in that forum would be pure speculation and sniping.

    And the ENT shipper threads have apparently become fortress-like, with other shipper threads springing up to discuss a certain ship specifically, or so I've heard.

    I have to admit that, in my little over one year here, the P/C threads have been the one constant. They're also the one place I return to, time and again, to post.
     
  12. mr.peany

    mr.peany Commodore Commodore

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  13. Naraht

    Naraht Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    You tell the Kirk/Spock shippers that. :borg:
     
  14. Dancing Doctor

    Dancing Doctor Admiral Admiral

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    And get my head bitten off? No thanks.
     
  15. Whoa Nellie

    Whoa Nellie Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    And then run! Run fast, run far. :lol:

    Warmest Wishes,
    Whoa Nellie
     
  16. rosyrock

    rosyrock Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    I don't know about you guys, but I guess for me the allure of P/C has always been the 'what might have been' moments (Like Picard's mad rush to gather Beverly up and hug her after she finds her way back from the never, never in 'Remember Me') These little pieces of almost unconscious affection between my favourite two created many a fantasy in my head about how it should have happened between them.
    I had no idea that anyone shared this little foible of mine and I kept my dreams to myself for many years (and I MEAN many. I saw the first screenings of all those TNG episodes way back when..)
    When I finally put pen to paper I was totally blown away to find that there were other fanatics out there.. and I've never looked back.
    I love the camaraderie here. I like the people, the talk, the odd point of view every now and then that arises and gives a new wider angle to my P/C world.
    The P/C thread is a great place to visit and while we keep chatting about our obsession ('til we are old and grey) we keep the magic alive and my heaven is complete.
     
  17. Naraht

    Naraht Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    One of the things that I really like about P/C is the subtlety of the relationship. It's there onscreen in a multitude of episodes, but it's never made into a big dramatic thing. Just, as you say, these little pieces of almost unconscious affection, the little moments and exchanges of dialogue. You can watch and read so much into them. At the same time, though, it's not all in the heads of the fans and I like that too.

    Another good thing is the long-term nature of their friendship. I love the idea of them having been apart for ten years at the beginning of Encounter at Farpoint, and then coming back together and having to deal with those feelings all over again.
     
  18. Gold Grizzly

    Gold Grizzly Vice Admiral Admiral

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    I think that this thread makes welcome posters of all shipping orientations, which makes it more of a community thread than a shipping thread (or half and half at least), hence the longevity.

    Re the Kirk/Spock threads, I think that they were stopped about 5 years ago, as they were dominating the forum and getting a lot of posters warnings.
     
  19. Whoa Nellie

    Whoa Nellie Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    :thumbsup: I agree. Very well said.

    Warmest Wishes,
    Whoa Nellie
     
  20. trampledamage

    trampledamage Clone Admiral

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    Certainly it's the fun discussions you guys have that draw me back to this thread.

    But the nature of the P/C relationship lends itself to discussion - there's so much history there, and so much possibility for a future and yet nothing actually happens. Perfect for creating new stories of our own!