Writers Favourite Races
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^^Gee, that post would sound really disturbing if it weren't in a Trek context... 
To be honest, I think my favorite alien species to write for have been the ones I've created or developed from bare bones -- Irriol, Choblik, Manraloth, Mabrae, Carnelians, Pa'haquel, Betelgeusians, Megarites, etc. I get to make them more exotic than most onscreen aliens manage to be. Of onscreen races, my favorite to write for has been the Tamarians; I had great fun figuring out the specifics of their language and culture for "Friends With the Sparrows." In general, it's the species that haven't been well-developed onscreen that I gravitate toward.
I've long wanted to do the definitive First Federation novel. I'd also love to develop the Deltans further.
I like humans, but that's just purely selfish self-interest. 
Word of advice, Christopher, don't leave yourself wide open and paint a neon-colored target on your forehead like that begging for someone to take the shot.
Because the litany of smartass remarks that just leap to the top of my head pales in comparison to some of these nutters around here, I swear.
Since I still technically qualify, I guess.
1) Bajorans, hands down. With the Dremans a close second, since I had a hand in developing them from what Melinda Snodgrass gave us.
2) If I were to write another Trek story, I'd like to go back and bring the Dremans from where we left them in "Pen Pals" to where we meet them again in Progress. They had an interesting few years, subjugated by a group of Remans, finding the probe casings from the Enterprise, rising up and retaking their planet. I'd love to tell that story, to be quite honest.
In Trek, the Klingons, Borg, and those glass spiders that Diane Duane created (Hamalki? It's been a while since I read The Wounded Sky)
Sadly, no real preferences in Trek, my only alien species ambition is about the Daleks...
Well, OK, there is that Planet Of The Tribbles pitch, but I've always been sufficiently convinced that it's too wacky to fly and therefore I don't need to worry.
Yep, those would be Hamalki, and I loved them too.
And they also feature in some of Duane's other books...
That would be a valid wisecrack if I'd said something like "I'd love to explore the Deltans further" or "I'd love to delve into the Deltans" or something like that. As it is, you're reaching.
(i'm a assuming fan-fic writers count)
1)Andorians and Klingons.
2)I'd love to write a Caitians book and take them beyond being a bunch of cat-joke aliens. (PAD, I'm looking at you...)
1)Andorians and Klingons.
2)I'd love to write a Caitians book and take them beyond being a bunch of cat-joke aliens. (PAD, I'm looking at you...)
Can't really say that I have any one favorite, at least among the usual suspects. As for races created in the fiction, I'd like to do something else either with the Payav from the Mere Anarchy mini-series, or perhaps the Dokaalan from our A Time to... books.
Hm, doing a novel entirely in LOLspeak with them might be interesting!
^ WIN
It's my understanding that "exploring" or "delving into" the Deltans is actually fatal for non-Deltans. Or am I misremembering...?
Well, my fondness for the Klingons is fairly well documented at this point.
I also had a great time with the Ferengi (Satisfaction is Not Guaranteed), the Bajorans (Demons of Air and Darkness, Horn and Ivory), the Cardassians (The Art of the Impossible), the Betazoids ("The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned"), the Vulcans (The Brave and the Bold), the Romulans (Articles of the Federation, A Singular Destiny), the al'Hmatti (Diplomatic Implausibility), the Damiani (Perchance to Dream)....
I also admit to a fondness for what TerriO did with the Dremans, what Heather Jarman did with the Nasat and the Bynars, and what Allyn did with the Tellarites, all in SCE, and what me, Dayton, Kevin, Christopher, Dave G., and the two MWBs did with the Payav in Mere Anarchy.
Oh, a few, but I'd rather not say just yet..........
Not fatal, but psychically and emotionally overwhelming to a dangerous degree. It's a mental as well as physical union, and the risk is that one can become so immersed in the joining that one can't stand to be without it, or that one loses one's own sense of identity. So the risks are more along the lines of addiction or insanity. Basically the same as the dangers of a mindmeld, except the physical component of the melding is, err, rather more involved.
The T'Kon, the Suliban and my own Seleneans.
And humans, frankly. I like us a lot.
And humans, frankly. I like us a lot.
The perfect environment for an erotica writer. Reminds me of stories a couple of friends have written, actually.
I never pictured you as an erotica writer, Christopher.
And Dayton? EPIC WIN.
Well, you've never understood me at all.
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