So, those crazy sci-fi crossover stories...

[selenak]

The identities of the authors for Multiverse 2004 have now been revealed, so we can all come clean. My two contributions were:

1) "The One Who Got Away", a DS9/Farscape crossover. Which was great fun to write, not only because Quark/Chiana doesn't require much of a stretch of the imagination but because when pondering it I recalled the Farscape episode Scratch 'n Sniff and suddenly had the idea of imitating the framing-backstory narration. So Quark would be recounting his time with Chiana to someone else, a very sceptical listener, as Crichton does to Pilot in the Farscape episode. Who? Odo, of course. Which practically asked for an Ascent setting. The ensuing Quark 'n Odo bickering practically wrote itself.


2) "Crossroads": a Star Wars/ Star Trek: TNG crossover, this time of the ampersand (= no sex, no romance) kind. If you've followed these ramblings for a longer time, the fact I have a thing for Anakin Skywalker and the SW prequels won't surprise you. I also like TNG, though not as passionately as DS9. The person Anakin was supposed to encounter in the challenge was Wesley Crusher, possibly even more disliked than good old Anakin in his fandom. (Personally, I wasn't exactly a big fan but had no problem with him, either. I thought Wes was treated unfairly. The true Marty Stu of TNG was Data.) However, it had been some days since my last TNG watching, so I plopped some tapes in which caused some hours of pleasant nostalgia, and then concluded that Anakin and Wesley did have issues in common after all. Also, it occured to me that we see Wesley during the Troi/Riker wedding in Nemesis, so that story might as well provide an explanation why he stopped gallivanting about with the Traveller.

As I really enjoyed writing the challenges and as andrastewhite was so fabulous in organizing the archive and seeing it through, I told her a thank you in the form of another Multiverse story would only be appropriate. Which I've written. Stay tuned...

Comments

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

very cool stories,... and I had the same idea, the same plan and am working on another multiverse story as well...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and the multiverse is, to quote the film I saw yesterday, an awfully big adventure, isn't it?

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

exactly

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Chiana/Kira. *thud*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I thought you might like that part.*g*

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Would it amuse you to know that the fingers trailing blood on Julia's cheek in this icon belong to Garak?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Well, Andy Robinson did play a serial killer or two in his time.*g*

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Nothing like raising a little hell. *g*

[bethos.livejournal.com]

I loved that Quark/Chiana fic. I rather suspected it was you. Not many people give Quark that good. XD

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Well, he's my boy (one of them anyway*g*). Thank you - and thanks for the original feedback!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

'The One That Got Away' was great fun to read too. I loved the humour (e.g. a taciturn guy named Pryce whose name had endeared him to Quark at once) and the characters were absolutely spot-on. An excellent story.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Given all the angst I usually dish out left, right and center in hapless Centauri, Cardassians and occasionally Ferengi, too, it was a great relaxing exercise to write a comedy.*g*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You and Astrogirl are both angst-fiends who really ought to write more comedy; you're very good at it.

And I adore your Londo.

[muffinmonster.livejournal.com]

You're so mean! *L* Here I'm rambling all the time about multiverse and the great story I got, and now it turns out that you were the one who wrote it?! *chuckles*

Thanks again, because I really enjoyed it :) Pairing these two most-hated teenagers of the SciFi universe ever seemed to be an interesting concept, and I'm glad you showed us both their weaknesses and their strengths!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Well, I couldn't reveal that little detail earlier, since Andraste swore us to silence for a week.*g*

And thank you for the idea. I liked your other combinations as well, but this one, given my devotion to underdogs of fandom in general and Anakin S. in particular, just called out to me. BTW, if you're interested in another story in which Wesley Crusher is taken seriously and paired up with an unexpected yet sense-making character, try this one (http://www.alara.net/trek/oneliving.html). It's part of alara_r's terrific series of vignettes set in a universe where the civil war between the Q isn't used for comic relief but played out the genuine thing, ripping apart the galaxy. One of the consequences is that humanity is "grounded" on a (consequently overpopulated) Earth, not able to star travel again, and that's all you need to know of the premise to understand the story.

[bimo.livejournal.com]

I told her a thank you in the form of another Multiverse story would only be appropriate. Which I've written. Stay tuned...

Well, these crossovers can be quite addictive, can't they ? *g*

I absolutely adored Crossroads. Reading Wesley's observations on the sociological structures of the GFFA and his increasingly accurate evaluation of the relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan was priceless.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are. The third one involves your guy Obi-Wan with.... a Farscape character. (In an ampersand, not romantic way.) I'm just waiting for the beta to get back to me. Guess whom?

I absolutely adored Crossroads. Reading Wesley's observations on the sociological structures of the GFFA and his increasingly accurate evaluation of the relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan was priceless.

*beams*
Thank you. It's one thing which occured to me during writing - Wesley, being trained for first contact situations, would automatically try to analyze the GFFA in these terms.

[bimo.livejournal.com]

You are writing "Obi-Wan meets Farscape" ? Squeee!

I'm just waiting for the beta to get back to me. Guess whom?

Puh, that's a tough one *g*

My first guess would be Aeryn, my second our dearly departed Zhaan, and my third one Pilot.

Good luck with seducing muffinmonster :-)

As far as suitable seduction episodes are concerned: if the two of you had plenty of time my advice would be "start with a slightly more unconventional route". Pilot, Thank God It's Friday Again, Rhapsody in Blue. But your latest entry sounded like that wasn't really an option, so it's probably just the classics. Pilot, Human Reaction, Nerve, Hidden Memory, Family Ties.

I hope the Temporary Bad News really prove to be temporary.

All the best wishes,
Bimo

[selenak.livejournal.com]

My child, thou thinkest not darksidish enough. Not that any of these couldn't be interesting, but check out the request lists over at Multiverse 2004 (http://www.suberic.net/multiverse), and thou wilst find out whom thy Knight will encounter.

Thanks for the tips,

me