The Anti-Trek?
Hi everyone!
BSG has been called the anti-"Star Trek," but I thought it would be fun today to have a little cracky fun imagining the two coming together. Use the plot generator I've put under the LJ cut below (taken and mildly adapted from Justin B. Rye's Do-It-Yourself Star Trek Script Flowchart) to design your own BSG/Trek lovechild of an episode. Illustrate your episode, or any individual item on the list, with appropriate screenshots (frak-that.com is a good resource for caps), or write a ficlet or caption, or just giggle about the things you would never see on Galactica, or -- if you're like me -- be surprised at just how many of these things they actually did on Galactica!
Design your own episode:
1) Whilst…
boldly going where no one has gone before
discussing / demanding / debating / corrupting / idealizing politics
on Cloud 9
carrying out a vital mission of mercy
taking a shortcut
investigating a doomed world / strangely familiar world / time warp / space warp / form of energy never previously encountered / distress signal
2) Kara
Lee
The crew of Galactica
The cylons
Ensemble member of your choice
3) falls in love
gets brain- washed
is put on trial
starts aging rapidly
apparently dies
falls ill
gets lost
3) ...when the Galactica encounters an apparent…
conman
monster
madhouse
paradise
horde of little things
gang of superbeings
captain with a grudge
computer
duplicate of: Kara / Lee / an old friend / Abraham Lincoln / some historical period on Earth / the Galactica
3a) …which is in fact not what it/he/she seems.
4) It/he/she...
ambushes them
tries to ingest: them / everything
pisses them about: as a test / for fun
drains the algae supply
hijacks the Galactica
picks off the security guards
isolates the landing party
depletes the FTL to 5%
5) But their opponent turns out to be…
mad
all alone
well meaning
misled
just a kid
6) ...and vulnerable to…
gibberish
a show of emotion
a cunning bluff
a good talking to
violence
7) ...and…
dies
leaves
8)... once…
A secondary character dies a heroic death
Kara delivers a right hook
Lee delivers a speech
Cottle develops a vaccine
Chief jury-rigs the engines
Gaius does/says something which makes no sense
Roslin opens the airlock
9) So in the end everything turns out okay…
and the planet is saved in the nick of time
give or take a few personal tragedies
and everybody forgets it ever happened
though a few regulations have been broken
and they all have a good laugh
BSG has been called the anti-"Star Trek," but I thought it would be fun today to have a little cracky fun imagining the two coming together. Use the plot generator I've put under the LJ cut below (taken and mildly adapted from Justin B. Rye's Do-It-Yourself Star Trek Script Flowchart) to design your own BSG/Trek lovechild of an episode. Illustrate your episode, or any individual item on the list, with appropriate screenshots (frak-that.com is a good resource for caps), or write a ficlet or caption, or just giggle about the things you would never see on Galactica, or -- if you're like me -- be surprised at just how many of these things they actually did on Galactica!
Design your own episode:
1) Whilst…
boldly going where no one has gone before
discussing / demanding / debating / corrupting / idealizing politics
on Cloud 9
carrying out a vital mission of mercy
taking a shortcut
investigating a doomed world / strangely familiar world / time warp / space warp / form of energy never previously encountered / distress signal
2) Kara
Lee
The crew of Galactica
The cylons
Ensemble member of your choice
3) falls in love
gets brain- washed
is put on trial
starts aging rapidly
apparently dies
falls ill
gets lost
3) ...when the Galactica encounters an apparent…
conman
monster
madhouse
paradise
horde of little things
gang of superbeings
captain with a grudge
computer
duplicate of: Kara / Lee / an old friend / Abraham Lincoln / some historical period on Earth / the Galactica
3a) …which is in fact not what it/he/she seems.
4) It/he/she...
ambushes them
tries to ingest: them / everything
pisses them about: as a test / for fun
drains the algae supply
hijacks the Galactica
picks off the security guards
isolates the landing party
depletes the FTL to 5%
5) But their opponent turns out to be…
mad
all alone
well meaning
misled
just a kid
6) ...and vulnerable to…
gibberish
a show of emotion
a cunning bluff
a good talking to
violence
7) ...and…
dies
leaves
8)... once…
A secondary character dies a heroic death
Kara delivers a right hook
Lee delivers a speech
Cottle develops a vaccine
Chief jury-rigs the engines
Gaius does/says something which makes no sense
Roslin opens the airlock
9) So in the end everything turns out okay…
and the planet is saved in the nick of time
give or take a few personal tragedies
and everybody forgets it ever happened
though a few regulations have been broken
and they all have a good laugh