Comments | mijan: Fic: "No Man's Land" (2/?)

mijan

Fic: "No Man's Land" (2/?)

Apr 27, 2011 10:56

Title: “No Man’s Land”
Authors: gone_ashore and mijan
Rating: R
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Word Count: 10,000 for part 2.
Warnings: Triggery. References to alien experimentation, graphic descriptions, mpreg.
Summary: A mission gone wrong puts Jim at the wrong end of alien observation, captive to a species that uses him as a lab rat. Helpless and defenseless for nearly a ( Read more... )

rating: r, fanfic, star trek, kirk/mccoy

Comments 15

syredronning April 27 2011, 17:42:09 UTC

I read and commented on the first part in gone_ashore's journal a few days ago.

This is an awesome and painful story. The things the aliens do to Jim reminds me of various X-Files episodes, brrr. Unfortunately it's rather realistic that scientists would do such experiments on specimen even if they knew they're sentient. (Let's face it, Nazi Germany doctors did that on fellow human beings without any qualms :/)

I'm very curious what will happen in part three...

mijan April 27 2011, 21:15:48 UTC

Yay! You're reading!

I used to like the X-files, but I didn't get to watch it as much as I would have liked. But yes, I could certainly picture an alien species examining and experimenting a captive human. We can't even begin to understand their sense of ethics (if they have one), or even if they feel pain the way humans do, so anything is possible. Something they've never seen before... so poke it. And the intent that gone_ashore and I had with this was to have an mpreg story that didn't gloss over stuff, and that with "sci-fi technology" could actually be feasible. And, of course, to put Jim through the ringer.

Part 3 should be up soon! I hope you'll let us know what you think. :)

scarlet_malfoy April 27 2011, 20:46:17 UTC

So I haven't read Star Trek fic in WHO KNOWS HOW LONG (a really really long time, btw) but I decided to give this one a try, because it seemed different and intriguing, and it's in part written by YOU, so of course I knew it was going to be well-written! :) But oh wow, was I blown away by this fic. In the past day or so I've checked my flist like 300% more than I usually do, just in hopes of seeing the third part posted.... I can't wait to read it. :) This is such a great take on mpreg, which has never been my favorite genre, and I love what you guys have done with it. God I love Jim... poor, poor Jim. I can just tell, I'm going to be emotionally blown away/devastated in the next part. And I can't wait for it!!! <3 <3

mijan April 27 2011, 21:18:29 UTC

LOL... I'm glad you gave this a try! I don't particularly like mpreg as a trope myself... mostly because it seems to most often be written as some young woman's baby-making fantasy, and they gloss over the impossibilities and make it seem all happy and wonderful. I just can't buy into that sort of thing. So, we're writing this to see what would happen if we attempt to "keep it real." Hopefully, we'll succeed!

The next part should be up tomorrow. :)

treksnoopy April 28 2011, 03:23:04 UTC

I'm still with you darlin'. Damn intense and fucking awesome. I have a feeling this DNA development is going to complicate the hell out of this.

mijan April 28 2011, 04:51:55 UTC

YAY, you're still with me! We're pretty much ready with Part 3, and plan to post it tomorrow. We've already started on part 4.

The DNA thing... it's definitely going to mess with Jim's emotions... not that we haven't already put him through the wringer WITHOUT that. We're so mean to poor Jim.

treksnoopy April 28 2011, 05:50:53 UTC

It's going to throw a whole new light on this for Bones too.
*nibbles nails*

and...OMG what are we still doing up at this hour? LOL!

jademac2442 April 28 2011, 04:19:28 UTC

OOOOH, now I'm hooked. Excited to read more.

mijan April 28 2011, 04:52:24 UTC

Hehe... glad to have hooked you! There shall hopefully be more tomorrow. :)

shagungu April 28 2011, 04:37:52 UTC

I did read the first two chapters like I said I was going to, and I like your realistic approach. I like all the bio details -- I am a neuroscientist so I know the brain pretty well but I am rather ignorant of the rest of the body.

I also like the characterizations, especially of Jim. I like the development of the Jim/Bones relationship, particularly that they were at the beginning of the sexual side of it and hadn't figured things out before this rather major complication happened. Lots of potential in the story line, which I look forward to following in the later chapters.

mijan April 28 2011, 04:50:22 UTC

I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far! Mpreg is definitely outside of my normal realm of fanfiction tropes, but... I figured this is a slightly different angle than most fics would take. I'm a biologist (not a neuroscientist, although I do know several neuroscientists in the labs, who also happen to be Trekkies), so I've got enough of a grasp of general physiology to be able to get technical. I'm glad you're enjoying the biomedical details ( ... )