As decreed by sg-fignewton, today is Gen Fic Day. Alas, I became informed of this event far too late to prepare for it properly, so instead of a fic, I bring you a fic rec in keeping with this week's Star Trek kick:

Keeper of the Katra, by Chris Dickenson

It's eighteen years old, but for me, it's the only thing that justifies the existence of The Final ( Read more... )

I'm making this post public because I want as much input as possible.

I have convinced myself (with a little encouragement from grey_bard) to run an unofficial reading party at this year's Dragon*Con (probably on the Marriott's tenth floor) celebrating the worst media tie-in novels ever written. I already know that I want to treat you all to some dramatic ( Read more... )

Continued from here.

Monday morning, I went to see LeVar Burton and was utterly impressed by how smart and centered he appeared to be. Being a child of the 80’s, I knew LeVar from Reading Rainbow before I was aware he was on Trek, and I did in fact take the opportunity to thank him for his commitment to that project, which I’m convinced did a lot ( Read more... )

Trekkie Nerd
Congratulations! You scored 80%!

Congratulations - your designation as a Trekkie Nerd means that you are statistically more likely to be a virgin, socially inept, live at home in your mother's basement and have no chance of scoring a chick like Seven. Still, if knowledge of temporal paradoxes, the repercussions of the Janeway ( Read more... )

I've never been terribly enamored of Enterprise, but Twilight tonight was fascinating and fantastic. Suddenly, I was thrust back to my sophomore Neurobiology class, particularly the Friday afternoon seminars on Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. AlternateUniverse!Archer was "The Lost Mariner," anterograde amnesia shattering his ( Read more... )