Subject: I'm going to start using it...
Author:
Posted on: 2013-05-06 15:49:00 UTC
...when I next write with a character who could conceivably use it. Hm, do you think a Klingon agent would say "Picard in a dune buggy"?
Yeah, I guess a new thread would be a good idea.
~DF
Finally. Look carefully, Nora notices at the end of the chapter.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8528580/10/The-Official-Fanfiction-Academy-of-Starfleet
You did not just give me a fanbrat application that requires me to acknowledge the existence of Star Trek: Nemesis. It only exists so that I can deny its existence and its impact on canon. And you want me to be as mean as I want? You have no idea of what you have unleashed. Feeding her to the Borg is just the beginning.
Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. Some people might like Nemesis, and I don't want to alienate fans. But I loathe despise dislike Nemesis. So getting to torture her will be fun! I'll try not to go too overboard.
To be fair, a ten-minute William Shatner reaction shot would be hilarious. Especially if it was partially in slow motion.
I would have written a scene involving agents bringing up the "Picard in a dune buggy!" curse in this post, but I couldn't concentrate because I kept imagining Picard driving around in one, in full uniform, with this dead serious expression on his face. It's hard to write when you keep laughing as you're trying to type.
This is happening. Where do we take a vote on adding this to the Creative Curses used by the PPC? This is too hilarious (and awesome) not to add.
...how does this work? Do we take a vote, or something?
~DF
I don't know. But I am in support of it. In fact, I think I'm going to use it in the Star Trek mission I'm working on.
...when I next write with a character who could conceivably use it. Hm, do you think a Klingon agent would say "Picard in a dune buggy"?
Yeah, I guess a new thread would be a good idea.
~DF
There was just this huge empty space. It's bugging me. Was it an error?
Well, since Uhura was a redshirt and never died, and Scotty was a redshirt and was brought back to life after his death, I think the redshirt effect can be canceled out by a significantly powerful countering force, such as plot armor or possibly this incredibly safe captain's chair. I don't know anything about how the chair was used, though, so I don't really have any conclusive information about how powerful it is.
It was my attempt at making it hard to read the spoilers by accident.
That's why I mentioned 'other than the captain/command team', as in proper redshirts only (rather than people who wear red shirts, but are immune to the effects).
Does this mean , however, that you reckon the protection of the captain's chair would outweigh the effect of being a (proper, non-resistant) redshirt?
Hmm, maybe the bridge chairs are the root of that resistance?
no spoilers, I just thought there might be.
I might want to submit one at some point. (ponders which fanboy-like tendencies could be most easily exaggerated to badfic-writer levels)
You sending in an application now squashes my idea that you had been involved earlier as the fangirl-Borg later named Eight of Nine. But, since that was based solely on you liking the Borg and following OFAS, I'm not at all surprised that it turned out to be wrong. It was more a hypothesis than a theory or a real guess, since my only evidence was in pre-established opinions.
I wonder who it was that submitted that fangirl-Borg now.
According to Hermione of Vulcan's author's notes in OFAS, the fangirl-Borg was her own idea. (In fact, said Borg student had already appeared in OFAS by the time I found out OFAS existed. It was Hermione's idea, but seeing as I had been plotting the exact same thing before I read that part, if she had not got there first, I would have submitted one. So, yours was a good hypothesis.)
However, I am the guilty party concerning the idea to have the Borg Queen teaching.
Meanwhile, the nature of the staff wing defenses was something else that Hermione and I both thought of independently of one another.
Clarifying: "the movie" is the 2009 film. Maybe that should have been Xed; I didn't realize that that might be a film.
Was the result of a brainstorming session for OFAS between me and my sister. We tried to think of the race that would be least likely to be submitted, that would be most unattractive to Suethors, and one of us - I don't know who - said "Borg!" And then we came up with Eight. Apparently we were wrong to think no one would submit a Borg student.
The Borg Queen teaching has turned out to be such a brilliant idea. I can't think what it would have been like without her. Less conflict, less awesome. I thank you.
I like it. I dooooo.
And I was so sure I got everything. Especially the spelling error. With the formatting, I can just say that's what happens when you type it in an email, then copypaste it to a Word Document, then upload it to FFN's Document Manager. I'm lucky more formatting didn't get vaporized in transition. But spelling. I'm good at spelling.
Glad you liked it! I was worried I couldn't write the Borg Queen, since I haven't seen First Contact or any of the Voyager episodes recently.
And I will take you up on that offer, thanks. I think you gave me your email a while back, so I'll send it that way when I have something.
I'm no expert on Star Trek, but this is hilarious and enjoyable even though it's like the original series for me (I'll say wikipedia and my Tolkien read friends are my life savers and leave it at that). Hehe! I love it.
