Ok, _r_ is experienceing technical difficulties, so I'm posting this.
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery.
This November we won't be challenging our own works, but how we may have captured the voices of our favourite Star Trek writers. We are to write stories under the guise of the Star Trek scribes through the ages.
We are to write an original work. Could be from any time period, fan fic or so on. As long as it is Star Trek and as long as we imitate a scribe from Star Trek. It could be a work of honour, like many who have imitated Ian Fleming's writing, you could continue Gene Roddenberry's cadence, style and vision in a small story in 2009. Or on the other scale, I expect many satires: a Brannon Braga and Rick Berman take on your universe, or your short story could purposefully fall apart under the unstable imagination of Ronald. D. Moore (and even if it does, retain a little smugness :P) or Manny Coto it up... even pick an unknown or far back scribe. Why not let Jane Espenson have a go at your fan fic
I'm expecting to see satires and very much interesting creative pieces of work, where the quality on how the challenger's have evoked that writer will depend on the rest of you to vote. So if Count has Manny Cotto'ed her story, where it feels a bit a shallow, empty and dissatisfying, it's meant that way and it's funny, so give her the vote. Or If someone else captures Gene Roddenberry you feel at your finest, vote away.
There's no word limit. Post a link to your story in this thread when you are done. The deadline is December 2nd midnight CET. Good luck.
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery.
This November we won't be challenging our own works, but how we may have captured the voices of our favourite Star Trek writers. We are to write stories under the guise of the Star Trek scribes through the ages.
We are to write an original work. Could be from any time period, fan fic or so on. As long as it is Star Trek and as long as we imitate a scribe from Star Trek. It could be a work of honour, like many who have imitated Ian Fleming's writing, you could continue Gene Roddenberry's cadence, style and vision in a small story in 2009. Or on the other scale, I expect many satires: a Brannon Braga and Rick Berman take on your universe, or your short story could purposefully fall apart under the unstable imagination of Ronald. D. Moore (and even if it does, retain a little smugness :P) or Manny Coto it up... even pick an unknown or far back scribe. Why not let Jane Espenson have a go at your fan fic
I'm expecting to see satires and very much interesting creative pieces of work, where the quality on how the challenger's have evoked that writer will depend on the rest of you to vote. So if Count has Manny Cotto'ed her story, where it feels a bit a shallow, empty and dissatisfying, it's meant that way and it's funny, so give her the vote. Or If someone else captures Gene Roddenberry you feel at your finest, vote away.
There's no word limit. Post a link to your story in this thread when you are done. The deadline is December 2nd midnight CET. Good luck.
I personally have two or three different authors in mind for a tribute act...
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