Title: Dancing Lessons from God.
Author: igrockspock
Characters: Winona
Rating: PG
Word count: 400ish
Summary: She'll learn how to be happy in space if it kills her.
Notesinspired by this icon from taraljc's awesome icon post in where_no_woman. Thank you for making these! And also for boosette, who is trapped the library tonight. Title from the Kurt Vonnegut quote "strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."

She feels like she spends all day counting the stripes on people's sleeves so she'll know who she has to get out of the way for.

Title: A Fresh Start
Author: originalpuck / Morgan O'Friel
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 458
Character: Madeline
Warnings: None
Beta: The amazing allie_meril.
Disclaimer: I don't own the series, and am making no profit from this fan creation.
Author's Notes: This is a sequel to the story "Healthy Advice," though you don't have to have read it to understand this.

Summary: Starfleet has made its mark on Madeline, in more ways than one.

( Madeline examined her back to the best of her ability. )

Hello! I hope fanmixes are allowed here! But even if they're not, I have "cleverly incorporated" the fanmix into an unofficial ship manifesto.


You've Got the Love
A fanmix for Demora Sulu/Joanna McCoy with unofficial ship manifesto.

( Hello obscure pairings! Demora Sulu + Joanna McCoy: WTF? )

( I can't be bothered with the blather, take me to the fanmix! )

taraljc's post reminded me how hell of applicable this icon batch is to this community, so I hope you don't mind some very late linkage!

68 Star Trek XI Deleted Scenes + Featurette Icons:
25 » Dorm / Kobayashi Maru
24 » Kirk Apologises to Green Girl
19 » Aliens (Madeline)



( you're not gaila, are you? )

Title: And People You Love
Words: 1,685
Rating: All Audiences.
Content Advisory: None.
Summary: [Spock/Uhura + Gen] Her first holiday season aboard the Enterprise, Nyota and Spock each recount a story of holidays past.
Other Notes: Happyfic is happy?

( 'He fed his dinner to his pet sabertoothed bear-dog under the table,' Nyota says, for the sake of elaboration. )

Erm... so I made icons. Like, a lot of them. I didn't mean to, exactly? I mean, I did. Kinda. It started off with "I have these Number One icons leftover from a custom batch for someone, and I should do some more icons to make a proper icon post" and then this happened. For context, it started happening about 12 hours ago, and then just kept happening every few hours until, well... THIS.

Samples:


ETA: also, if you'd like a caption on any one of these, let me know. I was originally going to do text, and realised the images spoke for themselves in most cases...

( Awesome Chicks of Awesome. )

Title: line-drawing
Words: 800
Rating: All Audiences.
Content Advisory: None.
Summary: [Pike/Number One + daughter] A rough sketch of twenty-odd years in the Pike-[significant pause] household.
Other Notes: Yes, it's self-indulgent. But parenthood is a totally legitimate lens through which to explore characterization.

And in case you are curious, the stock-photo I'm using as a reference for four-year-old Moira Pike.

( At some point, she has acquired an extended family. )

Title: Command Decisions
Author: igrockspock
Characters: Uhura, McCoy, Kirk
Summary: Uhura didn't sign on to be a soldier or a killer. That's not going to stop her from getting her captain back.
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Notes: This is a sort of remix of Invictus, a Number One fic I wrote for the drabble fest with the same scenario. I was curious what it would have been like with Uhura as the main character.

she still doesn't know how to look at a dead body and congratulate herself on a job well done.

Title: Informed Consent
Author: jncar
Characters/pairings: Spock/Uhura, Sarek
Rating: PG-13 for adult subject matter
Word count: 2,100
Summary: How Uhura reacts when Spock tells her about pon farr. An angst-free commonsense approach to a taboo subject.
Author's notes: This isn't my best work, but I've thought a lot about how to handle the subject of pon farr in my fics ever since reading this discussion over at spock_uhura several months ago, and I finally had the chance to put my thoughts down in story form.


Informed Consent

Title: Take Me Home Tonight
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Pairing: Uhura/Gaila
Rating: NC-17
Summary: “Don’t,” she says, voice going dark. “You wanna go there. Come on, let’s go there.”
Word Count: ~4,000
Warnings: none

Written for the lovely meiou_set.

Title is from The Smiths' "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out", which I find a little pathetic myself. At least it's not Abba's "Knowing Me, Knowing You".


The air is thick and heavy with the heat and sweat of too many bodies.

Title: Aehallh
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Mandana (Nero's wife), cameo by Spock Prime
Word Count: 770
Prompt: Mandana & Spock Prime, angst
Warnings: Mild gore, character death (canon)
Summary: She should have known better than to put faith in a Vulcan.
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters and places belong to their logical and respective owners. I make no profit from this.
Author's Note: The title (as found on this site) is a Romulan word meaning nightmare, monster, or ghost; it's also defined as the image or idea of a person, as opposed to their true self.

Aehallh, or the day the world went away

Title: Weakness
Author: cleo (cleo2584)
Fandom: Star Trek Voyager
Pairing(s): Seven/Borg Queen, Seven/Janeway implied
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 309
Summary: A missing scene of sorts from Dark Frontier 1 and 2.
Warning: Non!con.
Disclaimer: Voyager belongs to Paramount.

She shut her eyes to the Queen’s empty smile...

Title: The Un-Vulcan
Author: anodyna
Characters/Pairings: Gaila/Spock Prime
Rating/Warnings: R for language and suggestiveness; no warnings.
Summary: Gaila and Spock Prime, shacked up together on the Vulcan colony world, have a chat about un-Vulcan practices. For the where_no_woman drabblefest prompt, "Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."

Author's note: Total silliness! This story continues the Gaila/Spock Prime adventures that began in The Orion-On-Vulcan Method, although to call it a sequel would be to vastly overstate its complexity. My first time responding to a drabble prompt! \o/

The Un-Vulcan

Obviously the sky fell and prevented me from posting for a week.

Title: if the world is so green
Words: ≈1090
Rating: All Audiences.
Content Advisory: None.
Summary: [Number One & Kirk Gen.] Kirk takes care of Number One while they wait for Pike to get out of surgery.
Other Notes: From This Meme, now closed. For igrockspock (Whose delightfully succinct summary I am stealing.). Title from Sleeping Satellite by Tamsin Archer.

it takes two days to rendezvous with the flagship, two more to get them back to earth, and in that time One sleeps for perhaps two hours

Title: The First Four Times
Words: ≈730
Rating: Teen+ Audiences
Content Advisory: None.
Summary: [Pike/Kirk/Number One.] An explanation of the first four times their presence in close proximity to one another devolves into PK1.
Other Notes: For those of you who first made me write this, you know who you are, with love. For This Meme.

the first time might have been described as 'taking one for the team'


Title: take your heart for mine
Words: 150
Rating: Porn.
Content Advisory: ... Porn.
Summary: [Number One/Pike/Kirk.] Eventually, Starfleet quietly shifts Pike down a rank because qualified, competent commanders are not exactly thick on the ground. Eventually, Our Heroes' shore leaves' will line up on Risa. (Though it usually devolves into PK1 whenever they are in the same sector, sooo ... )
Other Notes: Title from To Artina by Langston Hughes. possibly_thrice's direct fault; igrockspock's indirect fault, with warm fuzzy thoughts at rubynye.

it's a blowjob, not a kidney

Title: As it Should Be
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Character: Saavik
Rating: PG
Word Count: 175
Prompt: For the latest Drabblefest at where_no_woman: 45) (Your scientists) were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Summary: Saavik contemplates a wrong made right.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada. Zip.
Author's Notes: This is set in my Daughters and Sons series.

There was an awesome where_no_woman member in the audience at the Trek panel I did Friday at ChicagoTARDIS and I never got her El Jay name. Help? Stand up and be counted, Oh Awesome Girlie! Cos you really were way nifty, and I feel like a MORON for not writing your journal down (especially when you then came said awesome things at the Chicks Dig Time Lords panel as well on Saturday).

Welcome to the holiday season drabble prompt fest! Except. . . the prompts have nothing to do with the holidays :) Instead, this is a cinematic compilation, with forty-five prompts gathered from a wide variety of movies (the actual names of the movies having been omitted, because trust me, in some cases it would be more distracting than anything).

Adhere to the prompts as much, or as little, as you would like! Let's let the women of Star Trek come out to play.

The rules:

1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.

2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.

3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.

4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.

5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and pimp this post around.

6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.

Now, with that out of the way:

( Let's get ready to. . . wriiite )

Continuing in the theme of my picspam of minor female characters on DS9, it's...

VAGINAS¹ ON THE ENTERPRISE
(and beyoooooond!)
(¹ and beyooooooond vaginas as well, since not every woman has or needs one! This is where I apologize for the cisgender-privileged thinking that went into my title. Not cool.)

Funny thing about Star Trek XI: it's pretty much a brodeo, to use the technical term. We here, being contrary sorts, have made it our business to love and illuminate four women in the movie, only one of whom received any real narrative weight in and of herself. I love that we have done this, as I love the four of them. But another funny thing about Star Trek XI is that it is actually full of women -- they just don't have names or conversations or personalities that we get to hear about. They're there, delivering most of the incidental expository dialogue, pushing the buttons, and making the world look real. They flesh out the story. And because I'm me and this is apparently what I do, I bring some of them to you now. So that they can be seen on their own terms, and so that, I even dare hope, this might inspire us to tell their stories, too.

Star Trek XI and deleted scenes caps by Ariane's Star Trek Gallery, Trekcore, Screenmusings, and in one sad case myself. Title appropriated from affectingly, which is why you should be careful when saying hilarious phrases in my presence.

( heavy in both images and extras! safe for work unless your work has a problem with people in space underwear. )

Title: self-fulfilling prophecy
Words: 530
Rating: All Audiences.
Content Advisory: None.
Summary: [Gen.] Nyota Uhura drove her teachers batty as a child.
Other Notes: From Quiet Girl by Langston Hughes.

( someday that excruciating attention to detail will save the world )