test content
  • Games
  • Social
  • Arc News
  • Support
  • Zen
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Forums > Home› Ten Forward

Literary Challenge #38 Discussion Thread

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited February 2013 in Ten Forward
Literary Challenge #38 : We'll Always Have New York
This is the comments thread for Literary Challenge #38 : We'll Always Have New York.
We also have an Index of previous challenges HERE.

Feel free to link directly to the entry you are commenting on. And please remember: we're not here to tear each other up. Do not troll your fellow Captains, give feedback! Let the others know what you liked and disliked. Maybe they can even go back then and tweak their entries!

Let's get those creative juices flowing! :cool:
Post edited by pwebranflakes on
«1345

Comments

  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Ohhhh, man...this is going to be a royal mess for Alyosha and anyone sent back with him. This will make for a very unhappy captain and crew...

    And wow, I completely missed what the challenge was going to be. I was so sure Bran was going to do something related to the anniversary event! But what's awesome is...I HAD been doing some pre-writing for a time-travel prompt, and I can still use the intro I've already written. :D

    EDIT: The material I'd planned before may well be unsuitable for the challenge. But we'll see if I can figure out something in time.

    Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
    Proudly F2P.  Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
  • takeshi6takeshi6 Member Posts: 752 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    A rather interesting challenge.

    Sadly, I don't have any ideas on this one. I'll read the other entries, though, like I always do. :cool:
    76561198160276582.png
  • ironphoenix113ironphoenix113 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Well, certainly not what I was expecting, but I can say that I might just be able to work my plot for what I was anticipating this one to be into this one.
    Vice Admiral Bryan Mitchel Valot
    Commanding officer: Odyssey class U.S.S. Athena
    Admiral of the 1st Assault Fleet
    Join date: Some time in Closed Beta
  • tanadanattanadanat Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Question: you say, the captain and crew, does that mean we traveled without the ship?
  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited February 2013
    tanadanat wrote: »
    Question: you say, the captain and crew, does that mean we traveled without the ship?

    The background story is just a base to build your story off of. Feel free to include your ship or not. :)

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=
  • tanadanattanadanat Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    My entry is up and a famous photo was my inspiration.
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Hmm. I've been stewing on it and it's certainly a challenge. Although I want to link my crew's experience to an actual historical event in some way ... that is proving to be a avenue I'm no longer enthused about.

    HMMM!!
    Kathryn S. Beringer - Endless Excelsior - Veritatum Liquido Cernerne - a proud off-meta build
    TT2r1Y3.png
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Bran, just a heads up...I sent you a question regarding this challenge via the ticket system, if you wouldn't mind taking a quick look at it. Reference: #130206-000359.

    Thank you. :)

    Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
    Proudly F2P.  Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
  • shevetshevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    *** twitches antennae ***

    Well, now. This is going to be... interesting....
    8b6YIel.png?1
  • hfmuddhfmudd Member Posts: 881 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    shevet wrote: »
    *** twitches antennae ***

    Well, now. This is going to be... interesting....

    Indeed, and I'm very much looking forward to your entry. :)
    Join Date: January 2011
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Posted.

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=7926271&postcount=4

    There is a lot of detail I know about exactly what happened to the crew and what caused them to be there and how they returned--things said and discussed, that I chose not to include in this piece. I felt that to add that material would have detracted from what really should be the focus. I can explain things more if you like, here or by PM, but I felt it should not be in Alyosha's log proper.

    But in this I hope readers will see two things...how deep Alyosha's connection to the world where he was raised really is, and above that, a tribute to those "heroes of ordinary life."

    Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
    Proudly F2P.  Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
  • superhombre777superhombre777 Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    My entry is here. I confess to dealing with time travel the easy way.

    I wanted my story to be tied to a historical event. I couldn't think of anything in NYC worth writing about (remember this is the Star Trek timeline so World War III has already happened), and I have a strong personal dislike of the New York Yankees, so I used a different American city.

    Please don't be mad at me for killing off poor old Miles O'Brien.

    Side note - copy/paste from Word, Notepad, and Wordpad all create the horrible question marks. I'm tempted to kill T'Panna just so that I don't have to replace the ? in her name everywhere. But I have big plans for her...
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    superhombre777 wrote: »
    I wanted my story to be tied to a historical event. I couldn't think of anything in NYC worth writing about (remember this is the Star Trek timeline so World War III has already happened), and I have a strong personal dislike of the New York Yankees, so I used a different American city.

    ?!

    9/11

    Then again, that may be too touchy a subject to get into ...

    There is PLENTY of things happening (that happened) in NYC considering the "real" past. Anything from tomorrow to the current time would be fiction. I'm still working on this one because of the at that fact.

    Regardless, I enjoyed your entry superhombre777 :)
    Kathryn S. Beringer - Endless Excelsior - Veritatum Liquido Cernerne - a proud off-meta build
    TT2r1Y3.png
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    superhombre777--Very interesting. I could see O'Brien dying in such a heroic way, though I was definitely sad to see him go and I hope they won't do that in STO any time soon. I'm curious what got the Prophets interested in the events surrounding O'Brien's death.

    cmdrscarlet : I don't see any restriction on the challenge stating that it can't be their past but our future. Fiction it may be, but I think it would be doable.

    Star Trek did that once with the fictional Bell Riots, on DS9. I don't think there'd be anything stopping you from doing something like that here, if you would rather not write about a real-life historical event.

    Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
    Proudly F2P.  Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
  • shevetshevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    hfmudd wrote: »
    Indeed, and I'm very much looking forward to your entry. :)
    And, after last time, I'm looking forward to yours. Do you need more persuading? I can do the Stella voice if I must: "Harcourt Fenton Mudd!"...
    8b6YIel.png?1
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    @gulberat - No doubt! I've done some research to see if I can link my characters to some real event. I keep thinking that I don't have to! So many things happen on a daily basis in a city that large that goes unnoticed by the press that anything I write may have actually happened in some capacity.

    But then again ... why not write about writing about an event that didn't happen before or during *MY* lifetime, but that of say ... the generation after mine but before Kathryn's?! The only limits (I see) would be my imagination and anything after 2161 Starfleet (and the uutopia of Star Trek) exists.
    Kathryn S. Beringer - Endless Excelsior - Veritatum Liquido Cernerne - a proud off-meta build
    TT2r1Y3.png
  • wraithshadow13wraithshadow13 Member Posts: 1,728 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    cmdrscarlet wrote: »
    Hmm. I've been stewing on it and it's certainly a challenge. Although I want to link my crew's experience to an actual historical event in some way ... that is proving to be a avenue I'm no longer enthused about.

    HMMM!!

    This, pretty much this exactly. One of the things most fun about time travel stories is linking them to famous events, yet i've been looking for something that catches my eye and nothing is standing out so far and google has been less than cooperative to what i'm looking for. Ive been looking more into things like forklore or myths and legends yet the only thing coming up is gators in sewers or pop culture stuff that's no help.

    At this point i might just say "!@#$ it" and leave out tying it in to famous events.
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    At this point i might just say "!@#$ it" and leave out tying it in to famous events..

    As of my lunch break today, I have decided this is the way to go for me. Google has *sucked* in this regard.

    Expect booya by next week :P
    Kathryn S. Beringer - Endless Excelsior - Veritatum Liquido Cernerne - a proud off-meta build
    TT2r1Y3.png
  • jocelyn2jocelyn2 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Have you read my captain's log yet?

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=7941611&postcount=7
    [SIGPIC] [/SIGPIC]
    I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job...

    ...because he will find an easy way to do it.

    -Bill Gates
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    @jocelyn2 - LOL! Bieber, geez. I loved the ending ;)
    Kathryn S. Beringer - Endless Excelsior - Veritatum Liquido Cernerne - a proud off-meta build
    TT2r1Y3.png
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Fantastic entries, everyone :) I have to admit, I very nearly called a pass on this one, for the simple reason that even if transported back in time as described, Captain Palmer would immediately attempt to return to her own timeframe with no interaction with the planet at all, and I'm not a fan of 'time travel without an objective'... In the end, it was entries from others which made me decide to take on the challenge, as a way of stretching myself. I'm sorry it's a long one, I hope people won't find it too boring, but I wanted to be as specific about things as possible :o

    For ease of reference/visualization, here're the actors I would cast if I was filming this tomorrow...

    Amanda Palmer - Courtney Cox
    Rynar Lambert - Stephen Moyer
    Bellic Chanos - Vin Diesel
    T'Natra - Gal Gadot
    Elyse Fisher - Emily Blunt
    T'Pan - Joan Stuart Morris
    Brandon Mayer - Jason Lewis
    Meliden Bowen - Eve Myles
    Howard Stark - John Slattery
  • jocelyn2jocelyn2 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=7941611&postcount=7
    [SIGPIC] [/SIGPIC]
    I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job...

    ...because he will find an easy way to do it.

    -Bill Gates
  • takeshi6takeshi6 Member Posts: 752 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    Fantastic entries, everyone :) I have to admit, I very nearly called a pass on this one, for the simple reason that even if transported back in time as described, Captain Palmer would immediately attempt to return to her own timeframe with no interaction with the planet at all. In the end, it was entries from others which made me decide to take on the challenge, as a way of stretching myself. I'm sorry it's a long one, I hope people won't find it too boring, but I wanted to be as specific about things as possible :o

    For ease of reference/visualization, here're the actors I would cast if I was filming this tomorrow...

    Amanda Palmer - Courtney Cox
    Rynar Lambert - Stephen Moyer
    Bellic Chanos - Vin Diesel
    T'Natra - Gal Gadot
    Elyse Fisher - Emily Blunt
    T'Pan - Joan Stuart Morris
    Brandon Mayer - Jason Lewis
    Meliden Bowen - Eve Myles
    Howard Stark - John Slattery

    Very fun entry--and I noticed a bit of an Iron Man shout-out. :D
    76561198160276582.png
  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    takeshi6 wrote: »
    Very fun entry--and I noticed a bit of an Iron Man shout-out. :D
    Thanks :cool: I figured if anyone in the 60s would have been able to manufacture Starfleet-spec equipment, it would be Tony's dad, even if he couldn't keep off the sauce :D
  • takeshi6takeshi6 Member Posts: 752 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    Thanks :cool: I figured if anyone in the 60s would have been able to manufacture Starfleet-spec equipment, it would be Tony's dad, even if he couldn't keep off the sauce :D

    LOL :D:cool:
    76561198160276582.png
  • superhombre777superhombre777 Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    gulberat wrote: »
    cmdrscarlet : I don't see any restriction on the challenge stating that it can't be their past but our future. Fiction it may be, but I think it would be doable.

    Star Trek did that once with the fictional Bell Riots, on DS9.

    I was thinking about the DS9 Bell Riots too. That was a pretty good episode. (Then again, there were a lot of really good episodes on DS9.)
  • squatsaucesquatsauce Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Ok, I added a new entry. This time I had the time to make it a longer-format. Hoo-rays.

    EDIT: Fixed some minor spelling and continuity errors.

    EDIT+: Here's a cast list--

    Shanda: That cute, approachable girl you never were able to get around to asking out
    Piper: A bearded jumberjack, but blue and sciencey.
    Tarayl: Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl.
    Khas: That thing from under your shoe.
    Kathy Hulu: Micky Rourke.
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    marcusdkane wrote: »
    Fantastic entries, everyone :) I have to admit, I very nearly called a pass on this one, for the simple reason that even if transported back in time as described, Captain Palmer would immediately attempt to return to her own timeframe with no interaction with the planet at all, and I'm not a fan of 'time travel without an objective'...

    You and I seem to have run into opposite issues with our entries. You had to figure out how to expand yours--and I had to figure out just how pared-down and minimalist my entry could be, in order to achieve my objectives and do honor to those in the time period traveled to.
    In the end, it was entries from others which made me decide to take on the challenge, as a way of stretching myself. I'm sorry it's a long one, I hope people won't find it too boring, but I wanted to be as specific about things as possible :o

    I liked your entry. :)

    Just one question...if I recall, Meliden is a Cardassian who was adopted by human parents. Do you think her parents would be upset, if she chooses not to reverse the procedure? :-/

    Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
    Proudly F2P.  Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
  • superhombre777superhombre777 Member Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    jocelyn2 wrote: »
    Have you read my captain's log yet?

    http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=7941611&postcount=7

    First, welcome to the literary challenges. Keep doing them.

    Wow. Your choice of President is scary! Thankfully the Constitution requires the President to be at least 35 years old, so we have a while until this future occurs.

    One suggestion - add some more descriptive language next time (either to the environment or insights into the characters' feelings). Your story is almost entirely dialogue. I have the same tendency also.

    Feel free to poke at my story. I wrote it in one sitting so there is room for improvement.
  • knightraider6knightraider6 Member Posts: 396 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    finally got mine up, Spent a couple days paring it down though. originally was going to have the Powhatan over NYC giving covering fire while Captain Evans got her family out, then realized why bring a starship to a gunfight, when you can just beam everyone out before the bad guys showed up? :D
    "It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier." R.A.Heinlein

    "he's as dangerous as a ferret with a chainsaw."



Sign In or Register to comment.