Quote from NCIS 7.01 -- 'Truth or Consequences' and ramblings....
"Some idiot smuggled a koala onto a submarine."
It was intended as a non-sequitur, but damn, the Voyage fan in me jumped up and did handsprings.
An idea for a Nexus Cycle/NCIS crossover has been percolating in my mind. It's logical, considering that JAG already exists as part of Nexus. Chip and Lynn would be retired from NIMR at this point, running Diamond Shamrock Farm for Dietrich and Bridey (who'd both be up in years at this point). Brian would be in pre-vet at UPENN, Michael would be out of Annapolis and either at NUPOCS or assigned to a submarine, and both Andrea and Shawn would have graduated college and be working the farm with their parents. (For those of you who don't know, Diamond Shamrock Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding farm, and made its first appearance in The Last Ride Raid, a Rat Patrol zine novel set toward the end of WWII, which I cowrote with L C Wells).
This is tentative now, but I'm thinking Lynn would receive a death threat from an organization like the Animal Liberation Front, or an actual attempt would be made on her life. Now, would NCIS come in as a result of Chip being a retired admiral (2-star), or as a result of there being a death threat on the family of a serving Naval officer (Michael)? Or would Harry Nelson just pull strings?
I can see Lee Crane putting together a detail (Sharkey, Riley, Kowalski) and flying them to the farm on FS-1 as a protection detail -- would there be a bit of friction between them and the NCIS team?
Would Gibbs drink all of Lynn's coffee supply? (That would be like drinking the Pacific dry...)
With Tim's dad being Navy, I can see a possibility of a connection. We don't know what he did (other than Tim's statement that he lived The Great Santini -- ouch), so maybe he TDY'd at NIMR, then was hired by Nelson for his particular skills. Tim is of the age to have gone to school with Lynn's older brothers younger kids -- and her brother owned a computer game company at that time -- so maybe this is where the young Tim was exposed to computers?). Jack's oldest daughter is a former NIMR public information officer who marries an astronaut, and has written two successful technothrillers (Crash Dive, set on a submarine, and Night Trap, set on a carrier) -- maybe she and Tim have the same agent?
These are the kind of ideas that rumble through my brain (brain and brain -- what is brain?) as I clean out the basement and pack.
It was intended as a non-sequitur, but damn, the Voyage fan in me jumped up and did handsprings.
An idea for a Nexus Cycle/NCIS crossover has been percolating in my mind. It's logical, considering that JAG already exists as part of Nexus. Chip and Lynn would be retired from NIMR at this point, running Diamond Shamrock Farm for Dietrich and Bridey (who'd both be up in years at this point). Brian would be in pre-vet at UPENN, Michael would be out of Annapolis and either at NUPOCS or assigned to a submarine, and both Andrea and Shawn would have graduated college and be working the farm with their parents. (For those of you who don't know, Diamond Shamrock Farm is a Thoroughbred breeding farm, and made its first appearance in The Last Ride Raid, a Rat Patrol zine novel set toward the end of WWII, which I cowrote with L C Wells).
This is tentative now, but I'm thinking Lynn would receive a death threat from an organization like the Animal Liberation Front, or an actual attempt would be made on her life. Now, would NCIS come in as a result of Chip being a retired admiral (2-star), or as a result of there being a death threat on the family of a serving Naval officer (Michael)? Or would Harry Nelson just pull strings?
I can see Lee Crane putting together a detail (Sharkey, Riley, Kowalski) and flying them to the farm on FS-1 as a protection detail -- would there be a bit of friction between them and the NCIS team?
Would Gibbs drink all of Lynn's coffee supply? (That would be like drinking the Pacific dry...)
With Tim's dad being Navy, I can see a possibility of a connection. We don't know what he did (other than Tim's statement that he lived The Great Santini -- ouch), so maybe he TDY'd at NIMR, then was hired by Nelson for his particular skills. Tim is of the age to have gone to school with Lynn's older brothers younger kids -- and her brother owned a computer game company at that time -- so maybe this is where the young Tim was exposed to computers?). Jack's oldest daughter is a former NIMR public information officer who marries an astronaut, and has written two successful technothrillers (Crash Dive, set on a submarine, and Night Trap, set on a carrier) -- maybe she and Tim have the same agent?
These are the kind of ideas that rumble through my brain (brain and brain -- what is brain?) as I clean out the basement and pack.