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Literary Challenge #67 - Delta Rising - Discussion Thread

pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Ten Forward
Literary Challenge #67 - Delta Rising - Discussion Thread

This is the discussion thread for Literary Challenge #67.
We also have an Index of previous challenges HERE.

Feel free to link directly to the entry you are commenting on. Please be respectful of your fellow participants! Do not troll your fellow Captains, give them constructive feedback! Let the others know what you liked and disliked about their stories, and respect their rights to change their entries as they see fit.

Good luck Captains!
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    jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,382 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    You need to talk to your superiors about this sort of thing, Smirk. I understand they're eager to push the new expansion, and I empathize and support the concept - but how in Gre'thor are we supposed to be able to write a story about our journey to the Delta Quadrant, when we have no idea what officially awaits us there? Or even how exactly we're making the trip?

    I think I can do something with the second prompt, but not the first one. Insufficient data for a meaningful conclusion, ya know?
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    takeshi6takeshi6 Member Posts: 752 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    jonsills wrote: »
    You need to talk to your superiors about this sort of thing, Smirk. I understand they're eager to push the new expansion, and I empathize and support the concept - but how in Gre'thor are we supposed to be able to write a story about our journey to the Delta Quadrant, when we have no idea what officially awaits us there? Or even how exactly we're making the trip?

    I think I can do something with the second prompt, but not the first one. Insufficient data for a meaningful conclusion, ya know?

    Agreed. Though I don't have much for the second one, either.

    Well, I'll see if I can come up with anything - and I'll definitely read what other people come up with. :D
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    pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    This is your chance to write your version of what you expect to find in Delta Quadrant. Be creative. Show us what you think of our upcoming expansion and the familiar aliens and locations we all saw in Voyager.

    I wanna see how close some of you might get. Some users have shown us that they can get pretty close to what we have in store for them, but we would also love to read some totally off the wall predictions on what we can expect in the Delta Quadrant.

    Will your crew find that Neelix has become the new Borg Queen and taken over the quadrant? Or has Seska changed her ways and become mother of the year? What about Kes? Heck, what about Janeway and Paris' salamander babies?? Inquiring minds want to know!

    I'm sure you can think up something good Jonsills, and you have a month left to mull it over :)

    But by all means, if prompt #1 doesn't tickle your fancy, then show us what you've got for prompt #2.

    ~CaptainSmirk
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Free sub-prompt for you all: People start finding out from local species the TRIBBLE that Janeway got up to and she gets removed from duty and court-martialed.
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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    pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    Free sub-prompt for you all: People start finding out from local species the TRIBBLE that Janeway got up to and she gets removed from duty and court-martialed.

    That's the spirit!

    Never Give Up.

    ~CaptainSmirk
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    dack2rathdack2rath Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Hey Hi I'm Dack

    I have the first chapter ready for posting. however I would not like to pose it here. Dack@dack2rath ingame. the book is called

    Back To The Delta.

    it is already 5990 words
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    gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Hmm...I'd have to know where the shared-universe authors are going to place the events of #2 to know if that's feasible for me. Alyosha getting targeted is very plausible and he has a very unpleasant relationship with Section 31--but if it isn't a timeline fit, no can do.

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    hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,761 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    That's the spirit!

    Never Give Up.

    ~CaptainSmirk

    here's your giraffe little girl
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    adwynythadwynyth Member Posts: 369 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    That's the spirit!

    Never Give Up.

    ~CaptainSmirk

    Never Give Up, Never Surrender
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    That's the spirit!

    Never Give Up.

    ~CaptainSmirk

    Thing is, I'm probably not going to take part in this one because I'm already using that idea for a Foundry mission I'm developing. None of my characters really fit the DQ prompt anyway: Eleya is currently assigned to the defense fleet around DS9 because a lot of the upper brass and civilian commanders are pissed at her (see The Wrong Reflection chapter one for an overview), and Morgan doesn't consider foreign adventurism to be a good use of the Romulan Republic's limited resources.

    Actually, on second thought, Brokosh might be a good choice here.

    BTW, re: your previous post? Seska's a little too, well, dead to be mother of the year. :D
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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    aten66aten66 Member Posts: 654 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I got hooked on neopets/currently hooked on neopets/writing another story. Now I have to figure out how I'm going to go about these three stories, and it seems #3 has gone beyond rewriting an episode, which makes it so much easier really to write up.

    I would have joined the last one, but since Gregs species was (essentially) killed off in Parrallel timeline-self genocide, I figured he would kill Drake and/or Daniels rather than kill another s[ecies. Of course Drake wouldn't survive the experience, but I would've written Daniels off as from a semi-evil timeline that wanted the Xindi-Avians dead... meh.

    Yaya I'm back and slightly more crazy! 0.000067% so.
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    pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    hawku001x wrote: »
    here's your giraffe little girl

    You have won the Forums today!

    I fracking love Ralph
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    pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    BTW, re: your previous post? Seska's a little too, well, dead to be mother of the year. :D

    OMG spoilers

    J/K
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    worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    That's the spirit!

    Never Give Up.

    ~CaptainSmirk

    ...

    Challenge accepted. D'trel meets a species who have legends of the monster Janeway who bragged about how she helped the Hated Ones (Borg) by bio-bombing the Valiant Others (Undine), and takes a recording.
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    D'Trel deserves a good day once in a while. That was fun to read, especially the part where the Kazon threaten her and she goes, "Uh, yeah, about that. *curb-stomp*"
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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    worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    D'Trel deserves a good day once in a while. That was fun to read, especially the part where the Kazon threaten her and she goes, "Uh, yeah, about that. *curb-stomp*"

    Glad you liked it! :D

    The Kazon are such incompetent villains, I just HAD to make fun of their stupidity.

    And I'm not a fan of sexism, especially the "all wimmin r slaves, durr hur hur" variety that the Kazon practice. Something like Klingon culture I can understand, especially since it's shown that it's more a separate spheres of influence thing with Klingons (you want to marry into a Klingon house, and the House leader's wife doesn't like you? You're screwed), but the Kazon just tick me off.
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    cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Dagnabit, I'm closing in on LC66 still :P. This one is interesting though :)
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    dack2rathdack2rath Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Where do we submit the story
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    worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    dack2rath wrote: »
    Where do we submit the story

    Make a post in the other thread. There is a link in Smirk's OP.

    EDIT: here.
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    takeshi6takeshi6 Member Posts: 752 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    cmdrscarlet wrote: »
    Dagnabit, I'm closing in on LC66 still :P. This one is interesting though :)

    Speaking of LC 66, just got my own entry up for 66.2.

    Feedback would be most appreciated. :D
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    starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    There seems to be a pattern here. We all seem to want to bake Kazon.
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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    antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I wasn't sure what I was going to do, but with the Great Delta Turkey Shoot going on, I'm leaning towards that.
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    worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    antonine3258 wrote: »
    I wasn't sure what I was going to do, but with the Great Delta Turkey Shoot going on, I'm leaning towards that.

    Come, Klingon brother. Shoot some Kazon. It's easy and fun.
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    cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    @worffan101 - Very tame compared to your other entries :P, Janeway bashing aside.

    @captaintpol - I really liked how each of the Captains interrupted their logs. Brought serendipity to their situation.

    @spaldyn283 - Ah, Drake. What more can be said of le'douche. I appreciated the brevity of this piece with the question at the end :)

    @feiqa - I agree that the Kazon will be the whipping boy of the Expansion :D

    @cptgold172 - I like the discussion of the James' promotion to FA - it was a sideways glance at what's going to happen in-game.
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    masopwmasopw Member Posts: 157 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    *snip*

    Heck, what about Janeway and Paris' salamander babies?? Inquiring minds want to know!

    ~CaptainSmirk[/COLOR]

    A reference to "Threshold"? An acknowledgement that it exists? :(

    Ack...I'm gonna have to leave this thread for a few months because of this...;)
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    hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,761 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    Heck, what about Janeway and Paris' salamander babies?? Inquiring minds want to know!
    ~CaptainSmirk

    done!

    /10c
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    worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    hawku001x wrote: »
    done!

    /10c

    YES!!! YES!!!!!! YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    That is all. :cool:
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    antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    hawku001x wrote: »
    done!

    /10c

    Makes a lot more sense than the episode, and funny to boot!
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    moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    hawku001x wrote: »
    done!

    /10c

    That was a terrible, incoherent mess of fan fiction I have ever seen.

    And yet it's STILL better than anything the writers did in Voyager over seven seasons.

    :D
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    hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,761 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    @moonshadowdark lol

    @antonine3258 thanks!

    @worffan101 read yours too; time for janeway's court marshal! (i imagine it would be like the Seinfeld finale)

    BG info for my entry can be found here: Delta Rising on STEU
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