July Writing Challenge - Major Malfunction
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Our challenge theme for the month of July is "Major Malfunction." The challenge is to write a story where something goes terribly wrong: a ship suffers a major system breakdown, a character suffers a severe physical, emotional, or psychological breakdown, etc. In short - something gets broke! Whether or not it gets fixed is up to you.
The rules: (Yada, yada, yada)
Any Star Trek era is acceptable, whether canon or your own created characters. Word limit is 3000. A link to your entry must be posted in this thread to qualify. Please submit original work only, not a story that has been previously posted.
Deadline for submission:
31 July at 11:59 p.m., GMT.
Oh, my goodness, I have a 2,446 word excerpt from a larger story I'm still working on that is perfect for this -- is that allowed? It hasn't been posted anywhere yet ... but it is an excerpt, not a whole story.
hellsgate
Commodore
"Star Trek: The Captain's Table"
"The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Men"
2260 ENT/TOS-era Adventure featuring a well-rounded starship captain on a not-quite-pivotal 'First Contact'-gone-somewhat-awry. Subspace amplifiers have been 'twitchy' along the Klingon Frontier. Captain Cross of the Daedalus-Class U.S.S. Crichton has been deployed to find out what the hell's going on. Only to discover that the fledgling Federation is being investigated by a small computer-dependant bipedal species, The Binars, attempting an awkward 'First Contact'.
The story he's trading for good food & companionship of fellow Captains at The Captain's Table, is that story.
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=98935
"The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And Men"
2260 ENT/TOS-era Adventure featuring a well-rounded starship captain on a not-quite-pivotal 'First Contact'-gone-somewhat-awry. Subspace amplifiers have been 'twitchy' along the Klingon Frontier. Captain Cross of the Daedalus-Class U.S.S. Crichton has been deployed to find out what the hell's going on. Only to discover that the fledgling Federation is being investigated by a small computer-dependant bipedal species, The Binars, attempting an awkward 'First Contact'.
The story he's trading for good food & companionship of fellow Captains at The Captain's Table, is that story.
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=98935
Our challenge theme for the month of July is "Major Malfunction." The challenge is to write a story where something goes terribly wrong: a ship suffers a major system breakdown, a character suffers a severe physical, emotional, or psychological breakdown, etc. In short - something gets broke! Whether or not it gets fixed is up to you.
The rules: (Yada, yada, yada)
Any Star Trek era is acceptable, whether canon or your own created characters. Word limit is 3000. A link to your entry must be posted in this thread to qualify. Please submit original work only, not a story that has been previously posted.
Deadline for submission:
31 July at 11:59 p.m., GMT.
Oh, my goodness, I have a 2,446 word excerpt from a larger story I'm still working on that is perfect for this -- is that allowed? It hasn't been posted anywhere yet ... but it is an excerpt, not a whole story.
As long as it hasn't been previously posted or published, an excerpt is fine.
perhaps not the strictest interpretation of the topic-but here's mine.
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3234061#post3234061
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3234061#post3234061
I think I should have a story for this challenge - it's been giving me no end of trouble, but I think I've thought of a way to get it finished. Just hope I have time!
Ok. I bit the bullet and did it, my first fanfic ever. The story woke me up in the middle of the night, and wouldn't leave me alone.
Enabran Tain wasn't always the head of the Obsidian Order. Nor is any armor truly unbreachable. The story takes place in Prime Cardassia, several years before this imposing Cardassian gained his full power and reputation and a few months before a life-changing event would alter his path forever.
His Strongest Weakness has a word count of 1874. http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3247817#post3247817
Enabran Tain wasn't always the head of the Obsidian Order. Nor is any armor truly unbreachable. The story takes place in Prime Cardassia, several years before this imposing Cardassian gained his full power and reputation and a few months before a life-changing event would alter his path forever.
His Strongest Weakness has a word count of 1874. http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3247817#post3247817
Okay here's mine
Not Everyone's Happy
It's set after Star Trek XI.
Technically it doesn't fit the challenge, because there isn't actually a malfunction - they fix things to avoid the malfunction. I'll let The Lone Redshirt (or the voters) decide if it's valid.
I apologise in advance for the complete lack of scientific accuracy. I just make this stuff up.
Not Everyone's Happy
It's set after Star Trek XI.
Technically it doesn't fit the challenge, because there isn't actually a malfunction - they fix things to avoid the malfunction. I'll let The Lone Redshirt (or the voters) decide if it's valid.
I apologise in advance for the complete lack of scientific accuracy. I just make this stuff up.
This is mine. I wrote it it fifteen minutes. It's kind of far-fetched, though.
It doesn't take place in any particular time period. Its total fiction.
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3249823#post3249823
It doesn't take place in any particular time period. Its total fiction.
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=3249823#post3249823
I've really enjoyed reading the entries for this challenge. I decided not to enter my excerpt because even though it's been cut from my story, it's full of spoilers for it. So I'm just happily reading all these great entries and feeling oh-so-untalented in comparison! This has been great. I can't wait to see what the next challenge is!
Aww, man, I was hoping we'd get to see it, but I can understand not wanting to give away spoilers from the greater context.
