Weekend Fandom Stuff
Jan. 23rd, 2023 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amado1I rewatched some fun TNG episodes over the weekend!
S5 E17 The Outcast - Riker falls in love with a genderless alien named Soren, who reveals she secretly and illegally identifies as a woman.
S4 E10 The Loss - Troi temporarily loses her empathic abilities.
S5 E12 Violations - A visiting telepath invades the memories of Troi, Riker, and Crusher, sending them into comas
S6 E3 Man of the People - A diplomat uses Troi as his emotional dumping ground, aging her prematurely and imbuing her with all his worst personality traits and emotions.
S7 E8 Attached - Picard and Crusher are taken hostage and given implants that allow them to read each other's minds.
Every episode was so much shippier than I remembered it! Especially "Attached", which I hadn't seen since high school and really didn't fully appreciate at the time. I ended up rewatching scenes from each of these immediately after I finished them just to bask in the shippy moments.
A friend also sent me a 5-hour video by JessieGender on sex in the Next Generation, which I watched two hours of (not in order) and skimmed through the rest. One of my writing groups had a weekly challenge with the prompt "Waiting Room," so I wrote a Data-centric oneshot based on that, then surprised myself by spitting out a 5K coda to The Outcast on Sunday. Our next prompt is "New Beginnings" and I was really pleased that multiple people said they liked my Data fic and might do Trek fics too this time around.
I also read a few more chapters of "Spartacus" by T.L. Mancour which definitely borrows from "Ghost Ship" for characterization ... whiny Data, Tough Love Geordi, bigoted Riker. Not sure why, because I think the whole first season would have been out by the time Spartacus was written. Despite the iffy characterization it's a well-written and fun book, same as Ghost Ship. I also read through some old Crusher/Picard zines and found an awesome character analysis essay on Riker! I'll transcribe that here in a bit.
Non-fandom: My roommate is reading a best-selling history book right now, and the author is a friend-of-a-friend for me. Supposedly Lin-Manuel Miranda is nosing around that book thinking of adapting it. I told this to my roommate and he got indignant because he has a vision of his own for a dramedy TV show based on this book, so after some back and forth with the author(ish), he and I got started on the pitch bible. He spent all night "studying" jokes and reworking the pitch! He envisions it as a sort of Our Flag Means Death/Catherine the Great thing, but the style of what we've written so far is definitely more like a historical The Thick of It.
I'll say this: at least it actually makes me laugh. Our last comedy pitch didn't make EITHER of us laugh. It was so so bad 💀
S5 E17 The Outcast - Riker falls in love with a genderless alien named Soren, who reveals she secretly and illegally identifies as a woman.
S4 E10 The Loss - Troi temporarily loses her empathic abilities.
S5 E12 Violations - A visiting telepath invades the memories of Troi, Riker, and Crusher, sending them into comas
S6 E3 Man of the People - A diplomat uses Troi as his emotional dumping ground, aging her prematurely and imbuing her with all his worst personality traits and emotions.
S7 E8 Attached - Picard and Crusher are taken hostage and given implants that allow them to read each other's minds.
Every episode was so much shippier than I remembered it! Especially "Attached", which I hadn't seen since high school and really didn't fully appreciate at the time. I ended up rewatching scenes from each of these immediately after I finished them just to bask in the shippy moments.
A friend also sent me a 5-hour video by JessieGender on sex in the Next Generation, which I watched two hours of (not in order) and skimmed through the rest. One of my writing groups had a weekly challenge with the prompt "Waiting Room," so I wrote a Data-centric oneshot based on that, then surprised myself by spitting out a 5K coda to The Outcast on Sunday. Our next prompt is "New Beginnings" and I was really pleased that multiple people said they liked my Data fic and might do Trek fics too this time around.
I also read a few more chapters of "Spartacus" by T.L. Mancour which definitely borrows from "Ghost Ship" for characterization ... whiny Data, Tough Love Geordi, bigoted Riker. Not sure why, because I think the whole first season would have been out by the time Spartacus was written. Despite the iffy characterization it's a well-written and fun book, same as Ghost Ship. I also read through some old Crusher/Picard zines and found an awesome character analysis essay on Riker! I'll transcribe that here in a bit.
Non-fandom: My roommate is reading a best-selling history book right now, and the author is a friend-of-a-friend for me. Supposedly Lin-Manuel Miranda is nosing around that book thinking of adapting it. I told this to my roommate and he got indignant because he has a vision of his own for a dramedy TV show based on this book, so after some back and forth with the author(ish), he and I got started on the pitch bible. He spent all night "studying" jokes and reworking the pitch! He envisions it as a sort of Our Flag Means Death/Catherine the Great thing, but the style of what we've written so far is definitely more like a historical The Thick of It.
I'll say this: at least it actually makes me laugh. Our last comedy pitch didn't make EITHER of us laugh. It was so so bad 💀
