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...