You can help raise money for earthquake relief in Haiti by bidding on fiction and other offerings from your favorite Star Trek fic authors. Place a bid in the comments for the entry before noon eastern on Wednesday. Choose a charity and send proof of donation, and get your reward by February ( Read more... )

 I recently saw a video of Bill Shatner and Chris Pine together and was most struck by the big difference in their heights. This should not cause a problem in real life because I seriously doubt we'll ever see Shatner in any of the new series of films (nor will we likely see Nimoy again.) Still, I love the presence of the "Primes" in reboot fanfic ( Read more... )

Author: Fair Hearing

Title: Untitled 1
Characters/Pairings: Kirk with implied Kirk/McCoy and Kirk/Everyone
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Sexy thoughts, uncensored Kirk
Summary: For the prompt "Can someone please write a fic where Kirk loses his brain filter and says what he thinks? Only (in addition to his slight obsession with sex) he reveals how smart and ( Read more... )

I wrote this as an response in a thread, and thought, hey stop threadjacking ( Read more... )

I came across some meta on Kirk's childhood here, dealing with the possibilities of abuse (or lack thereof), and waht either option means for Kirk and writing him in fic.

Excerpt: "One thing that occurs to me now is so much of the fandom is focused on Kirk's issues with his father, while his mother is pushed to the side, like all her importance in ( Read more... )

Andrew Sullivan, a conservative Blogger, had this link entitled Captain Kirk's bakrub on his page today.

Dear goodness, fandom, has now made appearances on political pages! Yikes!

Here's Andrew's page here. Oh, my, oh my, Andrew!

In the interests of fan-fictional accuracy, I went through the film Star Trek carefully and documented every affliction Kirk suffers on the fateful day that takes up most of the movie.  (Heavy spoilers, of course.)   In the interests of sharing the fruits of my labors, well, here ya go:

( Stardate 2258.42... )

Ok, had this thought. Does anyone remember the Next Gen episode where Worf was coming back from a ba't'leth competition and passed through some sort of twist in time and space. Once back on the Enterprise he kept jumping back and forth to different realities. One of those realities had a Cardassian on the bridge ( Read more... )

Rather than criticising an entire story, what I am going to point put a few details as pertains to Trek fic (or really any reality based speculative fiction) that will make your stories read more in tune, more in balance. I will make these posts every so often, so that I keep honest and you guys can make your stories better ( Read more... )

Title: [Intercepted Transmission]
Author: Fair Hearing
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Chekov/Sulu
Summary: Sulu warns Chekov to stay away from that kink meme everyone's been talking about, and Chekov demands to know why. In detail.
Warnings: Meta, overuse of html, explicitly quoted sex, strongly suggested one-handed typing.
Notes: From this prompt at the kink ( Read more... )