1d4chan.org is a great place to find 40k fanfics.

The ones I would recommend are Love and Krieg (and the Love and Krieg spinoffs. L&K is extremely sweet, and made of cute and d'awww. In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium, there are two pwople who have found happiness)

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/LoveandKrieg
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/LoveandKriegSpinoffs


The Tales of the Emperasque (The Emperor takes over the body of a D&D Tarrasque, goes on a hilarious, galaxy-spanning, shit-wrecking quest to find the Lost Primarchs and tear Chaos a new one. Cameos by Ursakar Creed, Commissar Yarrick, and Ciaphas Cain. Made of hilarity and awesome. Also, there's some fanart).

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Emprahsque

Love Can Bloom (Also made of sweet. Imperial Assassin sent to kill an Eldar Farseer, can't bring himself to do it. Heresy, d'aww, and blowing up Slaaneshi daemons follow. Also, the two eventually have a child, Lofn, and all three of them feature fairly heavily in Tales of the Emperasque, so I would recommend reading this first).

<a href="http://1d4chan.org/wiki/LoveCanBloom">http://1d4chan.org/wiki/LoveCan_Bloom

There are a couple other things there, but be careful. The three I've mentioned are SFW, but some of the others are not. Really, REALLY not.

Has anyone sporked the first Mary Sue fic? If not, sombody needs to. And that person cannot nor should be me.

All right, here is my actual response to your post. I've been busy, with sporadic Internet access, so I wanted to wait until I had some time to sit down and really come up with my ideas. It's probably overkill, but I'm splitting this into two parts--the canon and the fandom.

Star Trek Canon 101
There are five television series and eleven (twelve in May) movies that are part of Star Trek, as well as games and novels. The series are, in order of air date: Star Trek (called The Original Series, abbreviated TOS), Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9), Star Trek: Voyager (usually just Voyager, but sometimes VOY), and Star Trek: Enterprise (usually just Enterprise, but sometimes ENT). The first six movies deal with TOS, the seventh is a canon crossover of TOS and TNG, the next three are TNG and the eleventh is the reboot movie that came out in 2009.
The Trekverse is a hypothetical future, where Earth is united and part of the United Federation of Planets, an organization dedicated to peace between all its members. Its military/exploratory organization is called Starfleet, and most major characters are officers in Starfleet. The series focus on Starfleet ships and in DS9's case, space station. The Trekverse is populated with a wide range of aliens, the most famous of which are the stoic and highly logical Vulcans. There are horrific and mind-boggling sci-fi dangers, but overall, Star Trek is a positive view of the future. Just look at the words of the opening of TNG:
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
A brief overview of each series:
TOS: The famous one with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, its premise was simply a ship exploring space. It created modern fandom, despite running for only three seasons with an incredibly limited budget.
TNG: Like TOS, it focused on the adventures of an Enterprise, only a hundred years later, so the ship is actually the Enterprise-D. The second most famous, it introduced recurring Star Trek concepts such as the Borg and Q. Its captain, Jean-Luc Picard, has contributed his facepalm to Internet memes, and created the split among Trekkies of Kirk vs. Picard. It ran for seven seasons.
DS9: Set aboard a space station instead of a starship, it had a long, overarching storyline and more focus on emotional relationships than any other series. Consequently, fans are split, with some loving it and some hating it. The only Star Trek series with a black captain. It ran for seven seasons.
Voyager: Focuses on the adventures of the starship Voyager when it is thrown 70,000 light-years from Federation space and has to make the supposedly 70-year journey home (though, like TNG and DS9, it ran for seven seasons). It was the only series with a female captain, Kathryn Janeway. Also famous for Seven of Nine, a character that somehow managed to be drop-dead gorgeous and an interesting, well-rounded character. Voyager also, curiously enough, has the most fanfiction on fanfiction.net of all the Star Trek series.
Enterprise: Set chronologically before TOS, it details the voyages of the first ship called Enterprise, which is exploring the galaxy with literally no idea what's out there. It only ran for four seasons, and, like DS9, the fandom is split on its quality.

Fandom coming tomorrow!

I loved the great mouse detective as a kid. Unfoutunately, not exactly apropriate for what I am wanting to present in the class. Still, oh the nostalgia! Never knew it was in book form though, I'm going to have to find that.

Thanks for the Holmes suggestions, though I must ask about the fandom. Where can I get information on them? Fanfic, fan art, music, fannon and otherwise, because that is half of the point of the exersise.

Thanks for the help!

Lemme add a few: Code Geass, Princess Mononoke, Claymore, Gunm...

Ooh, and Fate/ Stay Night, if you've ever wondered what would bappen if Medea of Colchis, Gilgamesh, Cu Chulainn, and a genderbent King Arthur got in a fight. I recommend it highly. I don't usually watch anime, but Fate is a huge exception. I expect Lielac'll probably agree, if/when she sees this.

Am I that obvious? ^////^

Anyway, I have found play through videos for raids - lots of player-to-player interaction in those, because everyone needs to be choreographed, so to speak. If those don't work, I'll see if I can find quiet videos for you. :)