Assignments Sent + Initial Pinch Hits (Claimed)

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Hey All,

Assignments have been sent.

There are two initial pinch hits. Please comment here with your ao3 username if you wish to claim a PH (comments are screened) or email glassesofjustice4all+trekholidays2021@gmail.com. The deadline is the same as for the exchange, Saturday December, 11th at 11:59pm EDT.

Claimed

PH 1 - Star Trek: The Original Series

Request 1 by TLara

Star Trek: The Original Series

Mediums: Fanart, Fanfiction, Fanvids, Podfic

Relationships:

• T'Pring/Nyota Uhura (TOS)
• Andrea/Christine Chapel (TOS)

Freeforms:

Would love to see either T'Pring or Andrea find happiness and wholesome love! All ratings from general to smut welcome. Maybe something that serves as fix-it for the pertinent episode, or something set years later, maybe in the (original) movies era. Both angst and humour welcome, fluff or bittersweet, as long as the focus is on a positive ending (not necessarily the typical happy-ever-after, but better than canon's treatment of the ladies).

DNWs: character death (I know Andrea's death is canonical, but please fix canon for me), extremely graphic violence.

PH 2 - Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Request 1 by Selena

Star Trek: Discovery

Mediums: Fanfiction

Relationships:

• Osyraa & None (DIS)
• Osyraa & Charles Vance (DIS)
• Osyraa & Aurellio (DIS)
• Adira Tal & None (DIS)
• Hugh Culber & Paul Stamets & Adira Tal (DIS)

Freeforms:

These are all "or" requests, you don't have to use all the characters in the same story.

Osyraa's last two episodes made her from standard evil overlady to a very intriguing villain for me. Any character exploration would be welcome, both within canon and in an AU where she shows herself capable of giving up power and confronting the responsibility for her crimes. How would a trial go, especially in a volatile new Federation/Emerald Chain alliance?

Within canon, which I also love: at one point in her rise to the top did Osyraa decide she wanted to go legit instead of just continuing as she was? (Which surely would have been easier.) How did her relationship with Aurellio develop? The (short) existence of her wretched nephew in the episode that introduces them indicates she has family - how did that help or hinder her rise within the Emerald Chain? Did she have contacts to Federation personnel before Michael's arrival?

These are just possible prompts, but if you come up with something completely different, I'll be delighted, too. Especially if you include a bit of Orion world building.

Adira Tal and Adira, Paul and Hugh: I liked their relationship(s) themselves but felt there were entire episodes missing in which we see the bond between these three (and Grey) develop. It feels like an ideal opportunity for fanfiction! Adira by themselves is also someone I'd love to see more explored. They're both a teenager and a centuries old being and now have access to all those memories. Part of them can actually remember the univere as it was in Discovery's time of origin. Otoh, they as Adira were born into a vastly different environment. How does this color their interactions with the crew? A day in the life of Adira Tal: give it to me.

Letter: http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1459348.html

Request 2 by Selena

Star Trek: Picard

Mediums: Fanfiction

Relationships:

• Laris & Jean-Luc Picard & Zhaban (PIC)

Freeforms:

I loved the relationship between Picard and his two ex Tal Shiar housemates (and their interaction with each other) we see in the first two episodes and regretted so much they were left behind on Earth, so any exploration of their dynamic and backstory would be welcome. Did they meet Jean-Luc during the evacuation project for the first time, or did they come across him before, in ye olde Enterprise days? How did the mutual trust we see them display come into existence, especially given their Tal Shiar background? What's life like for two Romulans in France? Maybe they have their own reason for not wanting to return to space. Whether a slice of life for the three of them, or their backstory: anything you give me will be gratefully appreciated.

Letter: http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1459348.html

Request 3 by Selena

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Mediums: Fanfiction

Relationships:

• Pel/Quark (DS9)
• Pel (DS9) & None
• Jadzia Dax & Pel (DS9)
• Nog & Quark (DS9)
• Jean-Luc Picard & Benjamin Sisko (DS9)

Freeforms:

These are all "or" requests, you don't have to use all the characters in the same story.

Pel, the first female Ferengi we meet, is only in one episode, but I'd love to find out more about her. When last we see her, she takes off to explore the Dominion - before we find out how dangerous a place this is. How did Pel fare with the Vorta and the Changelings. Was she still in the Gamma Quadrant during the Dominion War? Did she hear about the Ishka-instigated reforms on Ferenginar and return?

Conversely, I'd also enjoy stories set before or during her episode. How did she fabricate her male identity? What were her impressions of the station and its people? We see some examples of how she managed to impress Quark in her disguise, but how did he manage to make her care for him, given he's hardly your dream boss? More scenes with Jadzia would also be welcome, as her attitude towards the Ferengi -enjoying their comopany without being blind to their faults - is pretty unique on the station.

Quark & Nog: talk about tense family relationships. This one has justified resentment and loyalty at the same time; Quark may exploit Nog and Rom, but two of the three times in the entire show we see him kill someone are to save one of them. Nog resents the way Quark treats Rom (and himself), and doesn't want to live the Ferengi life, plus Quark manages to embarrass him a couple of times in Sisko's presence, but otoh, when there's no human around, as in "The Magnificent Ferengi", he's far more relaxed towards his uncle. So a story exploring their relationship - and how it changes through the years - would be very welcome.

Picard & Sisko: on screen, these two never meet again after the pilot. I always wonder how a later encounter would have gone. (Or an AU in which Sisko, not Worf, was on board the Defiant in Star Trek: First Contact.) Say, on Earth when Sisko visited Dad and uncovered a conspiracy. During the Dominion War. Again on Earth, when Sisko went there between seasons 6 and 7. Or on Bajor, which Picard's inner archaeologist would love. (Maybe there's a conference and Sisko has to play host on the station and while they try to stay out of each other's radius at first, that's just not doable?) and it's not like their mutual Borg angst is the only source of potential emotional conflict. Picard had been horrified when accidentally becoming a divine figure; he probably would be troubled by the entire Emissary business. And given his Q experience far more sceptical re: the Prophets and their nature. Conversely, Sisko understanding of all things Bajor is evidently much larger.

Again, these are just possibilities, and if you come up with something else entirely, as long as it revolves around Sisko and Picard, I'd love to read it.

Letter: http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1459348.html

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