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The Red Shirts Challenge

captcalhoun

Admiral
Admiral
Closing date: March 3 2007

Word Limit: 5000

There will be a public vote and i will also pick my favourite. The vote winner, and my choice (providing their not the same) will, with the author's permission, be posted on my site WITH FULL CREDIT and be part of my 'universe'. in the event the public and i agree on the best, the 2nd place story in the vote will be added.

EDIT: forgot to say, it'd help if entries are linked in this thread after posting, as with the usual challenges.

Stories MUST:
*be set between 2265 and 2270 (the time of TOS and TAS, when security guards wore red shirts)

*be centred on 2 starfleet security officers of 2 different species

*be consistent with on-screen Trek, TAS may be referenced.

*be PG-13 rated.

Stories MAY:

*be any of the following: courtroom drama, murder investigation, crime-scene investigation, battle against pirates/klingons/orions/tholians/nausicaans/gorn^

*be set on a colony, starbase or starship

*feature any of the following races: humans, andorians, vulcans, tellarites, rigelians, saurians, efrosians, nasat, caitians, denobulans, axanar, kretassan or arkenites

*be consistent with events depicted in my stories, but this isn't a hard rule: see the timeline for details.

*reference events from novels where not contradicted by canon

stories MAY NOT:

*be set on Antalus, Tells Prime or Starbase 25 as they are the locations for my RS stories.

*be entirely based around a relationship. IE no shippy fic.

other than that it's up to you.

^FOOTNOTE. You may involve the Romulans, but of course bear in mind the fact you've got extra hoops to jump through to avoid an all-out war by either side crossing the neutral zone.
 
Pinning this for now - as per request: Calhoun reckons he has half a dozen interested. However, if this thread fails to generate much response, I will drop it down to 'kept' status in a week or two. That way once everyone has seen it, it will still be safe from pruning but not stuck at the top of the forum. Hope that's ok.
 
any one got any questions, queries or problems?

i am willing to negotiate if need be on any problems people foresee...
 
^What he said!
Can you give us an explanation, please Dream? Otherwise I shall be forced to issue a spamming warning.

In other news, I am un-pinning this thread, as agreed, and marking it to be 'kept' instead.
 
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