Prompt Submission

[nestra]

Prompt submission is open!

The full details are in the Guidelines post, but as a reminder, please list your prompts in this format:

Book title, character or pairing, prompt or Book title, character or pairing, prompt (reboot).

We'll collect prompts until June 21. Ask if you have any questions!

Prompts are now closed!

Comments

Shadows of the Sun, McCoy/Jocelyn Treadway, McCoy/Kirk

[thedrummertobeat]

So I think that, in the reboot, McCoy's trip to Ssan still happened, just a couple years later than it did in the original timeline. I want to see how McCoy, now involved with Kirk in the reboot, deals with seeing his ex-wife again, married to her other high school sweetheart. Special admiration for including stuff about how McCoy dealt with the questioning of his Hippocratic oath (versus the Ssani right to die) in the face of his father's euthanasia.

Best Destiny, George/Drake

[thedrummertobeat]

Because I am shameless, George/Drake ftw 4ever. Winona and George agree that their marriage is better from a distance, and when George is off-planet on a mission, he's with his partner, his best man, Lt Francis Drake Reed. Can be pre-Best Destiny or post.

Enterprise: the First Adventure, by Vonda N. McIntyre

[rachelmanija]

Whatever happened to Stephen after the events of the book?

Re: Enterprise: the First Adventure, by Vonda N. McIntyre

[cofax7]

Now, that is a good question.

New Voyages 2/"The Procustean Petard", Kirk, Doesn't go back

[grey_bard]

I think it would be awesome to see female-bodied Kirk - who really is Just That Hot - not able change back, and instead prove that Kirk's newfound superhotness isn't actually that much of a handicap. And enjoy the hell out of it.

Bonus points for other males and former biological males being astonished at Kirk pulling it off.

Gen, het, femslash, getting it on with other former biological males (Is that slash, het or f/f? Or some combination of them all?) I do not care.

Prime Directive, Spock, flower children

[melannen]

Prime Directive, Spock, Spock's Extended Adventures Among The Hippies (I mean, "student radicals".)

I would especially love if there is also mention of Professor Grayson from "Strangers from the Sky". (Spock seems to have some sort of affinity for flower children....)

Re: Prime Directive, Spock, flower children

[rhivolution]

I think the hippies are my favorite part of that whole book. That, and the opening.

Killing Time, Praetor Thea, What next?

[grey_bard]

So the redoubtable Praetor Thea's brilliant time travel/Universe switching plan goes south. But presumably since she's from Timeline One, she remains unchanged at the end of the book. So she's still a hugely ambitious Secretly Female Romulan Praetor with an itch to change the Empire. Plus, she's still got Sarela as her partner in crime.

Does this or does this not look like plot waiting to happen?
What on Earth - or, rather, in the Empire, do they get up to?

Crisis On Centaurus, Kirk/someone, Garrovick Valley

[acroamatica]

Kirk has this cabin. McCoy learns about it first - after having spent seven months with Jim as his pet patient - and he's Kirk's first guest there. Alternatively, he invites Spock there at the end of the book and Spock mentions that he thinks he will like the river. Or have him bring someone else there! For whatever reason! I just want cabin!shenanigans.

Death's Angel (Sarek, Karhu)

[graycardinal]

Does anyone else remember this Bantam-era novel with as much fondness as I do? Lots of entertaining ambassadors (particularly the supersized blue crocodile), interesting locked-room murders, and a more-serious-than-usual romance for Jim Kirk.

The prompt, however, is this: we're told that Sarek & Ambassador Karhu (essentially, a giant sentient koala bear who absolutely hates being told how cute he is) are great friends of long standing. I want to know how they got that way. Bonus points for reasoned discussion of the differences between Karhu's people and Vulcan sehlats....

Re: Death's Angel (Sarek, Karhu)

[stellar_dust]

OMG I REMEMBER THAT. Crocodiles and koalas and murder! Wow, ok, I need to reread it NOW.

Uhura's Song (Stiff Tail)

[graycardinal]

Possibly the most underrated -- or unexplored -- character in the book, and the one whose story we know least about. What happened to make Stiff Tail so very reluctant to help Kirk and the Enterprise crew? And how might she finally move past whatever that old burden is after contact with the Eeiauoans is reopened?

Spock, Messiah, Spock/Uhura, reboot

[yahtzee]

Spock, Messiah! Spock/Uhura, reboot -- As bad as this book is, the central idea of the Doppelgangers is intriguing. I'd like a reboot version of this story (minus the insane levels of sexism and racism) that has both Spock and Uhura using Doppelgangers on an away-team assignment and having the personalities enjoying their OWN version of a relationship, with potential new twists and turns and kinks along the way.

[nestra]

Uhura's Song, Brightspot, Another StarFreedom, Tail-Kinker. Ennien is where they go to celebrate Festival. Maybe Sunfall of Ennien joins them one year.

[multiple novels/comics], Harb & Moira, Getting There is Half The Fun (reboot)

[ljc]

I want to see Harb and Moira in the AOS 'verse. (Bonus points for added Guinan.)

What road would lead Harb and Moira to this Enterprise? Who would they meet upon that road? Does the post-Kelvin Starfleet even have Rec Officers on starships? And how would AOS McCoy react to Harb being assigned to the ship, with his sentient AI in tow?

Final Frontier & Best Destiny, Robert April & Sarah Poole, Family (reboot)

[ljc]

Okay, so... we've got Enterprise now launching in 2258, instead of the events of Final Frontier.

What I want to know is, how did Robert April meet Sarah Poole in the reboot 'verse. Did they still serve together? Get married? Where were they, when the Kelvin was attacked? Did they even know George and Winona Kirk? Were they a part of Sammy and Jimmy's lives at all?

[nolivingman]

Sarek - Valdyr/Peter Kirk, The Wacky Adventures of Diplomats in Love (reboot or OS).

So in my mind, Peter and Valdyr got married and lived happily ever after. And my fic idea here is that we see the wedding, and that the wedding itself didn't go off exactly as Emily Post would want. Like maybe there's some diplomatic intrigue that only the combined skills of the happy couple could solve and they have to do it while picking out china patterns and ceremonial weaponry for the wedding. Or maybe there's family "issues". But yeah, show me the wedding.

(Truthfully I would read ANYTHING at all featuring these two and love it to pieces).

[graycardinal]

Ummm...

I don't recognize the novel from which this arises. Title, pretty please?

[liviapenn]

Star Trek: Academy, Collision Course, Kirk and Spock-- Kirk has one more thing to do before he can totally let go of his Tarsus IV issues, and that's to tell Spock about it somehow. (Or maybe Spock finds Kirk just too puzzling and contradictory, and figures it out himself somehow?) Whatever, I just want teenage rebels Kirk and Spock talking about Tarsus IV. Can be gen or slashy or outright K/S, I'd be thrilled with anything.

[Note: IMO, this book totally makes NO SENSE in terms of actually being a plausible version of how canon!Kirk and Spock actually met-- seriously, it's more like an alternate Reboot!verse, in a lot of ways. But OH MY GOD, I've been wanting Tarsus IV angst FOREVER and if you have too, you should totally read this. And then write me fic from it. And don't be scared that it's by Shatner! I liked it.]

[liviapenn]

Sarek - Valdyr and James Kirk, family history

Prompt: I totally think it worked out for Peter and Valdyr, those two crazy kids! I'd love to see Valdyr being curious about the family she's marrying into, and going to Jim for the whole story on Peter's parents & what happened to them.

[nestra]

How Much for Just the Planet?, any. Write another meta chapter, like the "Dilithium and You!" section.

[liviapenn]

*dies laughing* A-are you guys all right down there, with the glass?

[liviapenn]

Uhura's Song, Spock/Uhura

Even before Reboot put the idea of Spock/Uhura in my head, I thought the scene in this book where Uhura tries to act less emotional, out of concern for Spock's feelings, and he tells her that she doesn't have to, was completely adorable. I'd love to see post-book (or maybe a missing scene during the book?) Spock/Uhura, where a connection between them is sparked by things they learned or realized about each other while on this mission.

[liviapenn]

How Much For Just The Planet? T'Vau, logic fails

I have to know more about T'Vau. Why on earth would Sarek and Amanda let Spock socialize with such an oddball? Also, she'd be what, the 2nd Vulcan ever in Starfleet? Possibly the first female Vulcan? What led her in this direction? Did she and Spock meet on Vulcan or on Earth or what? Basically, even a drabble about T'Vau would make me happy to an illogical degree.

Prime Directive, Talin Ambassadors, their perspective on events

[katharos]

Something from the Talin Amabassadors' perspectives. How did they meet, how did they come up with their desperate plan, what was their reaction to meeting Spock, how did they feel in that moment when they first stepped out and saw the full Federation Council and all its different species of humanity? And what happened to them next?

Prime Directive, McCoy&Uhura, creating Dread Pirate Black Ire

[katharos]

What it says on the tin!

Diane Duane 'Verse(s), Any, crossover

[katharos]

A crossover between a Diane Duane influenced version of Star Trek and one of her other series. For example, Young Wizards - the Federation could belong to a different 'sheaf' of universes, Tale of the Five - could be a planet, or a fusion if you would prefer! AOS or Prime as you choose

Re: Diane Duane 'Verse(s), Any, crossover

[nestra]

Though this is a great idea (I'm reading the Young Wizards books for the first time right now), Ellen and I decided that we're going to limit the prompts to the Trek novels and not include crossovers from other fandoms. Hope you understand.

The Rhihannuu/Feline Wizards, Ael and the Cats,

[katharos]

I think the prompt is mostly in the characters! On errantry, the cats stumble into Ael and her ship. I can't help but think they'd get on rather well. *grin*

Wounded Sky, Scotty/K't'lk, breaking up the universe together, AOS

[katharos]

Scotty and K't'lk meeting in the rebooted universe. Bet together they could really put one small disappearing Prize Beagle into perspective...

[thedrummertobeat]

Yesterday Saga, Zar/Wynn and uneasy alliances.