I'm having this issue too, and it's telling me it's because of an Internet connection problem. The mere existence of this post should demonstrate why that can't be the case.
Oh, BTW, not sure if you'd be interested in this at all, but when I was writing the fic, I had a sort of "soundtrack" made for it. It doesn't really add anything to the experience (I mean, unless you were curious to hear the song where the 4 individual parts got their titles from), but it doesn't detract either. So...…
Similar, except my issue is once I queued with my Jem'Hadar character for a Planetary Assault game, it got stuck in "Launching" mode forever. ten hours later, and it was still "Launching," and I couldn't go in an unqueue myself so that character is basically locked out of ALL PvE missions, regardless of quadrant, until it…
I did do my best to capture the character. Honestly, he was probably the best character on the show. So naturally I changed him as little as possible. Why mess with success? ;)
I'm reminded of a bit I submitted to an Incorrect Quotes blog for Discovery. Lorca: Well, time for my movie selection. Tilly: It’s not gonna be “Caligula” again is it? ‘Cause I’m almost 30 and I still felt like I needed an adult after that. Lorca: No, no, no, no. I learned my lesson after that one. It’s gonna be “Salo.”…
Honestly, most ships that were never featured on the show or in one of the movies fit that bill (at least as far as the Federation and the Klingons are concerned; I don't even know if I've seen any Romulan originals, and the Dominion ones actually look pretty cool). There are exceptions, of course. I rather like the…
A mixture of both. Also, occasionally I would shift the lines to another character*, or turn a monologue delivered by one character into a dialogue between two for my version. Sometimes I also changed the tone; I'd take a kind of dumb line that was spoken with all seriousness on the show, and keep the line, but have the…
On the show? TBH, I don't think they actually interact all that much. Granted, Samantha was in all of 8 episodes across 7 years. Her only shared screentime with Seven of Nine was in the episode Mortal Coil (which I did not adapt). It all sort of happened at once in the episode (Scientific Method), so that's what I went…
Since I mention them in the author notes, it might be amusing to share the two SF Debris reviews I mentioned that inspired A Fire of Devotion. If you manage to see how my brain made the connection from those to "Hey, what if Seven of Nine and Ensign Wildman got together?" congratulations, you have an idea of what living in…
SF Debris did a brilliant takedown of Voyager's inept attempts at positive First Nations portrayals in this video. The opening bit alone is worth it, as the punch line basically boils down to "Are you offended yet? Well if you aren't there's something wrong with you." https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/v825.php
This was never stated in the canon, though it should've been, but one argument I've seen made not so much in favor of but understanding of how Starfleet handled the end of their first conflict with the Cardassians can be summed up thusly; if Wolf 359 hadn't happened, it would've been very different. The argument basically…
Okay, I have my issues with Kobali, but I balk at the idea of outright genocide. I think a nice thing to have added to the Delta Rising story is to maybe start the ball rolling on a cure for what the Kobali did to themselves, so they can one day start procreating normally again. Curing it outright, while not outside the…
50 Shades is bad everything. It's bad writing, bad erotica, and bad fanbase, all in one. As for AFoD, basically the whole fic is me re-working select episodes from each season Jeri Ryan was on the show. The Sam/Seven relationship is the main thing, but along the way I tweak some stuff from the show I thought could've been…
If you're worried it's gonna be something X-rated, than I can assure you that's not the case. I was very careful in that regard. I am well aware that I am a cishet male writing a romance story about two women. The fear that it might get exploitative is a valid one, but that's not what I set out to do. I have nothing…
There was a lot of space between the two groups. The Kobali were encountered on the opposite side of Borg space, so a good 12 years at Warp 9 away from where the people from the episode you're talking about are.