December Challenge 2007: The New Era
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mine's done, dusted and just going through my sister's grammar checking proof-read.
Hmm... perhaps I could do change regarding the destruction of the Enterprise-D and the creation of the Enterprise-E? Would they have had a party or something for the comissioning of the new ship? Also, is there any canon mention of what the crew was doing during the time between the D's destruction and the E's comissioning? (Just so I'm aware of what was going on during that year). Did they see much of each other during that time?
The reason why I was hoping for a Christmas theme was because I already have a fic in the works. Basically, a TNG version of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Coming up with all those rhymes is friggin HARD!
Snow Is Falling said:
Yep - nothing like Christmas to make people realise how much things have changed, and maybe plan for a better future...
Just an idea
The reason why I was hoping for a Christmas theme was because I already have a fic in the works. Basically, a TNG version of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Coming up with all those rhymes is friggin HARD!
As so long as it occurs beyond the stated date (see above posts by me) I'm fine with that. As far as I know, there has not been any canon reference to the changeover to the D to the E - so you could do that. You could also note the changing of technologies on the E or any change whatsoever with that crew that notes an alteration of perception by X person or what not.*
*On a side note, it could even encompass the X-mass spirit if you so wish - as so long as it covers the said theme and of "The New Era" (or preferably "Year" but I'm already stretching the (broad) theme way off course...)
The E-E was launched 1 year before FC in 2372. the DW kicked off in 2373 the same year as FC, but after it. INS takes place during the DW in 2375. the war ended in 2375.
the crew spent a year together doing a shake-down cruise from the ship's launch to FC.
the stories must take place after INS.
the crew spent a year together doing a shake-down cruise from the ship's launch to FC.
the stories must take place after INS.
Well how can I do a fic about changing from D to E if it HAS to take place after 2374??????? I'm really only capable of writing TNG fanfics, as that's the series I'm most familiar with, and there are no big changes for them after that date unless I do a post-Nemesis "Data's dead, Riker's a Captain, etc, etc." fic? And as I know next to nothing on the topic of love and marriage, it would be hard for me to do a Riker/Troi wedding proposal fic.
IMO, destruction of D/commissioning of E is really the only kind of fic I could feasibly write. After all, that does mark a "New Era" for the TNG crew, though it may not be the era you're looking for.
IMO, destruction of D/commissioning of E is really the only kind of fic I could feasibly write. After all, that does mark a "New Era" for the TNG crew, though it may not be the era you're looking for.
All right - for those limited by the series that they are fans of, I will amend the contest theme so that it can address the theme "The New Era" so that others can partake in the competitioin. Butthis is only for the fans who are limited by the series they know.
Again, to outline the addition that for those whom are only limited by the series they know, they can only write about that series in addressing the theme of "The New Era". Those writers _cannot_ miss that fact..
I know that this may sound unfair to those whom have already have plans for Dominion War fan-fictions - but it is X-mass around the corner and I don't want to exclude anyone from the contest by being to specific.
So - as an amendment for those that are only restricted to the series they know - please see the amendment above.
Please accept my apologies if any unintended insult was derived from my posting.
I'm also sorry if it seems like I've been complaining too much as of late, but the thing is I like these competitions and want to participate. However, the last few themes we've had were topics I either really didn't like or knew jack squat about, which is pretty frustrating to me.
The amendment was nice of you to add. Guess this means I HAVE to make an entry now
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Now I just gotta figure out what the crew was up to during the time period between D's destruction and E's commissioning...
The amendment was nice of you to add. Guess this means I HAVE to make an entry now
.Now I just gotta figure out what the crew was up to during the time period between D's destruction and E's commissioning...
Oh for goodness sake, you could do any number of stories about the TNG crew and change wrought by the dominion.
Hell what incident prompted Will to finally take his own command and finally marry Deanna?
All it takes is some imagination, it doesn't even have to be depressing. Heck look at the Picard we saw at the start of Nemesis, didn't he seem to have more of a spring in his step? Why was that? what had happened?
The whole point of a challenge is that it is a challenge
Sorry, I don't mean to rant, I just don't think it should be one challenge for one and another for someone else that's all.
It's your challenge at the end of the day though Timmy, so your rules.
I already have a Vesta story perculating in my brain
Hell what incident prompted Will to finally take his own command and finally marry Deanna?
All it takes is some imagination, it doesn't even have to be depressing. Heck look at the Picard we saw at the start of Nemesis, didn't he seem to have more of a spring in his step? Why was that? what had happened?
The whole point of a challenge is that it is a challenge
Sorry, I don't mean to rant, I just don't think it should be one challenge for one and another for someone else that's all.
It's your challenge at the end of the day though Timmy, so your rules.
I already have a Vesta story perculating in my brain
Aw, c'mon. The Hoary Cliche had lots of opportunities for light-hearted TNG banter, did it not?
Just look at all those episodes where Data tries to get his humanity and don't tell me there aren't a few teeny cliches therein. Most of the entries were comical (except, I guess, Dulak's, which was practically an experiment in form) and Camelopard's was restrained but hilarious.And as someone who wrote a story, made an effort to shoehorn it into the challenge, and then found the rules changed... I still liked the challenge the shoehorning presented, and amendments aren't that bad.
I will make an entry this time, too. It's soundly post-Dominion War, ne'er fear.
True. The reason why I put the amendment is the apparent cutting out of K-Star's involvement. I didn't want to sound mean - so thus why if someone isn't familiar with the Dominion War and only of one series - then they are limited by that "fandom". I hope I wasn't too lenient or strict in the same breath.
Maybe K-Star, in order to be fair, could you put something about the Dominion War (for you, it's coming up) in your entry? It can only be a byline - something to the effect that...
DATA: Oh did you hear about the Dominion?
RIKER: What is this Dominion?
DATA: ....blah blah blah blah...
It maybe a byline but at least it is mentioned...
(Alas they don't have a shrugging shoulders smile icon here)
Maybe K-Star, in order to be fair, could you put something about the Dominion War (for you, it's coming up) in your entry? It can only be a byline - something to the effect that...
DATA: Oh did you hear about the Dominion?
RIKER: What is this Dominion?
DATA: ....blah blah blah blah...
It maybe a byline but at least it is mentioned...
(Alas they don't have a shrugging shoulders smile icon here)
QFT
jeez, there's a world of stuff you can do with 'new era' and pre-NEM TNG crew.
why's Worf back in the fleet?
why's Data got no emo-chip?
why was Wes back in uniform?
why did riker and troi get hitched?
why did riker take the Titan captaincy?
christ, they even did a frigging 9-book series of novels aobut it FFS!
QFT? What's that mean?
Quoted for truth.
Another way of saying 'I agree'. I think in retrospect this maybe should have just been about change (perhaps a specific kind of change, like political or the end of an era). Difficulties about where to draw the line, which last happened with Dulak's Mirror, Mirror, seem to occur when you have precise challenges.
Another way of saying 'I agree'. I think in retrospect this maybe should have just been about change (perhaps a specific kind of change, like political or the end of an era). Difficulties about where to draw the line, which last happened with Dulak's Mirror, Mirror, seem to occur when you have precise challenges.
hellsgate
Commodore
K-Star: Or, you could go with an entirely new idea that's never been done. (2380 & Beyond.)
[*] A story with a new class of prototype vessel that ties up the baffling mystery of the disappearance of an NX-Era vessel with all hands about two hundred years ago.
[*] A new class of ship or a kitbash with an interesting back-story & untested crew in a nightmarish new reality, that find themselves going up again the Hur'q from "Star Trek: Invasion", The Borg, (or one of the species Voyager pissed off by messing with Species 8472.)
[*] An old enemy that's decided to rear their ugly little heads for reasons yet to be discovered.
(In example: The alien parasites called "Bluegills" from Trill that infiltrated Starfleet Command in "Conspiracy".)
[*] An alternate universe where Tasha Yar survived to serve on DS9 instead of Worf, while Worf's serving as the temporary C.O. of the U.S.S. Typhon (from "Star Trek: Invasion",) & Geordi's been hanging on by his fingernails trying to defeat the Borg (since "Best Of Both Worlds",) & Miles O'Brien is serving as his X.O. of the Legacy-Class U.S.S. Enterprise-E, (the Sovereign-Class was shelved for reasons left up to the fic writer, & the Legacy-Class was dispatched in its place.)
Meanwhile, Picard's been irreversibly assimilated as Locutus of Borg & Data's gone M.I.A.
[*] A story with a new class of prototype vessel that ties up the baffling mystery of the disappearance of an NX-Era vessel with all hands about two hundred years ago.
[*] A new class of ship or a kitbash with an interesting back-story & untested crew in a nightmarish new reality, that find themselves going up again the Hur'q from "Star Trek: Invasion", The Borg, (or one of the species Voyager pissed off by messing with Species 8472.)
[*] An old enemy that's decided to rear their ugly little heads for reasons yet to be discovered.
(In example: The alien parasites called "Bluegills" from Trill that infiltrated Starfleet Command in "Conspiracy".)
[*] An alternate universe where Tasha Yar survived to serve on DS9 instead of Worf, while Worf's serving as the temporary C.O. of the U.S.S. Typhon (from "Star Trek: Invasion",) & Geordi's been hanging on by his fingernails trying to defeat the Borg (since "Best Of Both Worlds",) & Miles O'Brien is serving as his X.O. of the Legacy-Class U.S.S. Enterprise-E, (the Sovereign-Class was shelved for reasons left up to the fic writer, & the Legacy-Class was dispatched in its place.)
Meanwhile, Picard's been irreversibly assimilated as Locutus of Borg & Data's gone M.I.A.
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