fic: With Your Empty Smile and Your Hungry Heart (ST: TNG)

[thistlerose]

Title: With Your Empty Smile and Your Hungry Heart
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
Rating: teen
Characters: Tasha Yar
Contains: assault, attempted rape
Notes: 1,060 words. For hc_bingo (prompt: assault). References the episodes "Where No One Has Gone Before" (S1) and "Legacy" (S4).

Summary: Turkana IV was going to kill her, she knew, if she didn't get out. Soon.

Comments

[thistlerose]

Thank you!

I loved Tasha. I don't blame Denise Crosby for leaving in the middle of S1, but I wish she'd stuck around.

[thistlerose]

I wish they hadn't killed her a second time. "Yesterday's Enterprise" is still one of my all-time favorite Trek eps. It would have been so neat, seeing her on Romulus, maybe joining a resistance cell, giving Spock a hand when he shows up to reunify. In my head!canon, Sela lied. I mean, why would she tell Picard if her mother was alive?

[rubynye]

Thank you for reminding me all over again what TNG meant to me. Oh, Tasha Yar! I adored her ever so.

[thistlerose]

Thank you!

I had a crush on Tasha Yar when I was a young teenager. Despite the fact that S1 of TNG was pretty damn bad. But her various returns from the dead thrilled me, and there was something awesome about her.

[igrockspock]

I'm so glad you wrote about Tasha! The Turkana episode of TNG has always stuck with me, and I'm glad to see it explored in more detail here.

[thistlerose]

Thank you!

I always had a thing for Tasha. Even though S1 of TNG was mostly awful, she seemed so cool to me, as a young teenager.

[cosmic_llin]

Oh, there's really not enough Tasha fic around. I love this, so sad.

[thistlerose]

Thank you so much!

I love Tasha, but this is my first time writing her (or TNG, for that matter).

[sophia_gratia]

{Here via where_no_woman}

Oh, Tasha. This is so great - at least, I think it is. I could only sort of read it askance, at an angle, which is just an indication of how well you evoke this world. Well played.

[thistlerose]

Thank you so much!