Welcome to my El Jay.

My website is where (very nearly all) my fiction lives.

Below are drabbles (stories of 100 words exactly), snippets (100-1000 words) and commentfic (things written for fun in comments) what have not been archived anywhere else (yet).

( Star Trek (2009) - Rated PG through PG-13 )

( NCIS - Rated PG-13 through R )

( The Middleman - Rated PG )

( Sarah Connor Chronicles - Rated PG )

( Firefly - Rated PG through PG-13 )

( Smallville - Rated PG )

( Leverage )

The existance of teamgaila makes me happy.

( Prolly the last thing I'll say about Torchwood for a long time. [contains: CoE spoilers] )

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( la la icons la la )

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

Author's Note: Inspired by a prompt at the Pike/Number One Challenge.

( Her Hands )

John Rogers gives us a (slightly spoiler-y) tour of the new Leverage standing sets in Portland and while subflooring meaning you don't have to lay dolly track to take your camera anywhere you want to shoot may not seem exciting, believe me when I tell you THAT IS SO DAMNED SEXY from a production POV. Seriously.

IDW has reprinted the Marvel Comics Star Trek: Early Voyages comics series, featuring Pike and Number One (along with Spock, Boyce, Colt, Tyler, and the rest of the gang from "The Cage").

As always, if you can buy it from your local comic book store, that would be awesomecakes as independant booksellers are our friends. If not, ordering it directly from IDW may be your best bet.

Also, Star Trek: Crew wraps up with issue #5 this week, featuring Number One, Chris Pike, Robert April, Sarah April, and Spock. The trade won't be out til September, but you may be able to find all the individual issues at your local shop.

So The Pike/Number One Masterlist has moved to pike_numberone. And there's a prompt table. Because... well, mostly because I did that thing where possibly_thrice and I get chatting in comments and then stuff happens. Personally, I blame the kinkmeme.

The Pike/Number One Masterlist has been updated, and (hopefully) should now include all the tie-in novels, comics, and short stories, in addition to fan fiction (both TOS and AOS) featuring Pike and Number One.

If I've missed anything, lemme know? I have yet to re-read all the Strange New Worlds anthologies, so I may have missed out some of them.

Also, I've changed the Star Trek: Crew link to the collected trade, but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND buying the monthlies from either IDW directly, or best of all, your local direct sales shop.

(For one thing, you won't have to wait 3 months. For another, buying the monthlies supports both the publishers and the independent booksellers!)

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

( By Any Other Name )

Trek Novel Fest Prompt Claiming ends today! There's over 100+ prompts, and only about 25 of them I think have been claimed... And you can claim prompts that have already been claimed, AND you can claim up to 2 prompts. That's still a lot of orphanned prompts. So go grab a prompt or two! You'll have ages to re-read books and write. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages. Over a month, even.

(I went to 2 second-hand book stores on my wanderings today and found Sarek by Annie Crispin. YAY.)

( Dear Star Trek Fandom... )

Pikefic OF AWESOME: Determining the Equant by miss_porcupine

Have you checked out the brand new Middlegoodies up at O2STK.com?

I think you should go now. Don't worry, everyone else is at lunch. NO-ONE WILL EVER KNOW.

Where No Woman has Drabbled Before is MADE OF AWESOME.

ganked from selenak

Rules:

1. They interact in canon, preferably in a significant (apply your own interpretation of such) way.
2. They are not related. They can, however, view each other as surrogate family.
3. Neither has confessed or implied romantic love for the other in canon.
4. They have not dated, been married, had sex, or made out in canon, on purpose, and of their own free will.
5. A popular fanon ship is ok (though preferably not your ship) but a canon pairing you wish were just friends is out.
6. Try to avoid using the same character or series twice.

( 10 platonic male/female relationships in fiction that I enjoy )

Trek Novel Fest prompts Are Up! Go! Claim! Write! Write More!

*does the happy dance*

Also, I still have DW invite codes, for them what need them.

loneraven's In Service is an absolutely awesome Scotty & McCoy friendship story, as they are sent off in a runabout to do their jobs while Enterprise does Enterprise things.

In other news, I am trying to mentally reconcile Number One's background in Vulcan's Glory with what we know about Eugenics ( in Trek canon )

Lastly, Trek Novel Fest prompt Submission ends today. So I highly recommend reading through the current prompts and adding your own. I'm stupidly excited by the fic challenge, as you may have noticed.

If you are reading this right now, you have more luxury than someone in Iran could ever hope for right now. If you are watching TV or a video on youtube, updating your status on Facebook, Tweeting, or even texting your friend, you are lucky. If you are safe in your home, and were able to sleep last night without the sounds of screaming from the rooftops, you need to know and understand what is happening to ( people just like you in Iran right now. )

Old Skool Trekrec: Expanding the Oecumene by Anna Amuse

KICKASS Pike, Number One (and some lovely Pike/Number One UST), Spock, and added joy of Cait Barry, and an OC I quite like, set during Cadet Spock's final year at the academy, and Number One's first few weeks onboard Enterprise.

I LOVE IT LIKE PIE.

Star Trek Novel Fic Fest (a fan fiction fest based on authorized Star Trek tie-in novels and novelizations), is now accepting prompts!

Needless to say, I am fascinated to see what folks come up with.

Everyone go read Lunch and Other Obscenities by rheanna27 RIGHT NOW. For it is awesome Gaila and Uhura (with a smidge of Spock/Uhura) fic of AWESOME.

So I came home from a v. v. long day and there was OMG MORE PIKE/NUMBER ONE at pike_2009 so I have now updated The Pike/Number One Masterlist.

I have also found a SLEW of TOS Pike and Number One stories at Orion Press which I've bookmarked at delicious but haven't read yet.

oh happy day!

The Pike/Number One Masterlist has moved to pike_numberone!

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

( Mission Accomplished )

So I have this whole AOS version of Pike, Number One, Boyce, Spock, and the Yorktown inside my head. And it's coming out in icons, manips, and bits of fanfic. And I have no idea how much of it will exist outside the sole confines of my cranium, but I figure, for those of you who are like "Huh? What? Are these OCs? What? I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!" I should explain where the stuff in my head comes from.

First off, there's "The Cage". There are little Pike/Number One moments in "The Cage" that aren't in "The Menagerie", but "The Menagerie" has all sorts of nifty Spock and Pike backstory in the framing sequence, about how devoted Spock is to his former captain of 11+ years. And so I kinda cherry-pick what I want to keep from both versions. Additional Pike/Number One awesomeness can also be found in Dorothy Fontana's novel Vulcan's Glory and the first 1/3rd of PAD's The Rift. In these novels, Chris and Number One served together on the Yorktown, prior to Chris getting Enterprise from Robert April.

So in the Prime universe, Spock, Pike, Number One, and Phil Boyce are all on Enterprise in 2254 when they intercept a distress call from the Columbia and go to Talos IV and wacky shenanigans ensue. In the AOS universe, however, Enterprise doesn't launch until 2258. So... here's the backstory inside my head:

2245-2249: Lt Pike serves as helm officer under Robert April on the USS Constitution, where Sarah Poole (later, Sarah April) is CMO

2249: Spock turns down the Vulcan Science Academy and attends Starfleet Academy

2249: Lt Pike posted to the Yorktown as XO, where he meets CMO Phil Boyce, and the helm officer (whose name he can't pronounce)

2249: Lt Commander Pike takes command of the Yorktown when her captain is killed

2250: Pike's field promotion to Captain is approved, and Yorktown's helmsman, Number One, becomes his XO

2251: Spock graduates from Starfleet Academy in a record 2.5 years (due to being a) Vulcan and b) awesome) and is posted as a junior science officer with a rank of Lt (j.g.) to Yorktown

2251: Yorktown Security Chief Francis Drake Reed invotes Pike and Number One to his wedding, where they do not dance with one another.

2252: Spock is promoted to Lieutenant due to being awesome at his job.

2253: Spock is promoted to Lt Commander, and made 2nd officer, due to being super awesome at his job.

2254: Due to being super awesome at his job, Pike is offered Enterprise, the biggest most badass ship Starfleet has ever designed. However, she won't be ready for 4 years. Yorktown is about to launch on another 5 year deep space mission. Pike and Spock take positions Earthside til Enterprise is ready--due to being mind numbingly awesome at her job, Number One is offered command of the Yorktown. She asks Chris if he thinks Spock would make a good XO. Pike tells her she needs someone to balance her out.

2258: Spock, now a full Commander, takes posting as XO of Enterprise following The Battle of Vulcan

2258: Pike is promoted to Admiral, and upon his recovery is posted as Sector Commander to Starbase 12

Which would be the point at which we now reach the Star Trek sequel that lives in my head. Which is, like, a 23rd century version of DS9. Only without the Sisko or the wormhole. So really... just set on Starbase 12 and the Yorktown, then.

I'm already building the senior staff of the Yorktown in 2258 inside my head--I've got most of the major bases covered, except for XO. ETA: XO is taken care of, and played inside my head by Jason Momoa. YAY.

Yorktown Senior Staff:
Captain: Number One ("The Cage")
XO: Lt Cmdr Tāne Atoa (OC)
Science Officer (2nd Officer): Lt Thelin ("Yesteryear")
Junior Science Officer: Lt Jennifer Watley ("Trials and Tribble-ations")
Junior Science Officer: Ensign Charlene Masters ("The Alternative Factor")
CMO: Phil Boyce ("The Cage")
Chief Engineer: Lt Cmdr Cait Barry (from Vulcan's Glory)
Security Chief: Francis Reed (from Final Frontier)
Transporter Chief: Chief Petty Officer Natasha Komeni-Belikov (OC)
Stellar Cartography: Lt T'Meni (Tuvok's mum)
Helm: Lt (j.g.) Dermot Cusack ("The Cage")
Navigation: Lt José Tyler ("The Cage")
Communications: Chief Petty Officer Justine Mia Colt ("The Cage")
Junior Communications Officer: Charlotte "Charlie" Sanchez (How Much For Just The Planet?)
Captain's Yeoman: Yeoman First Class Miguel Ortega (OC)
Quartermaster: Senior Chief Petty Officer Loretta Walsh (OC)

Note to self: Need more NCOs. NCOs make the world go 'round. Also, I so wanted to put Yeoman Tamura on Security under Reed, until I remembered the part where, even if she's in her mid-20s in "A Taste of Armageddon", then she's late teens in 2258. Dammit.

So, inside my head, Number One is played by Jennifer Garner, and as of this morning, Boyce is played by Mark Harmon.

( with pikshurs! )

Dear Everyone I Know:

yahtzee63 has posted another round of Star Trek (2009) Prompts: WHERE NO DRABBLE HAS GONE BEFORE.

Including McCoy/Chapel and Pike/Number One prompts, which I choose to believe are there SOLELY TO MAKE ME GLEE.

Okay, and maybe other people too.

Go. Write. Read. Comment. Enjoy.

♥

ljc

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

Author's Note: Number One's planet of origin comes from Dorothy Fontana's novel Vulcan's Glory. Thanks to my fab betas yahtzee63, rheanna27, calapine, and malleablyfic.

( Skinned Knees and Second Chances )

yahtzee63 has finally posted part one of Break, her epic Spock/Uhura story which is MADE OF AWESOME. I suggest you all go read it RIGHT NOW THIS MINUTE. Don't worry--the rest of us will still be here when you get back.

So after the beautiful and lovely aj's birthday lunch at Flatop Grill, we (and by we, I mean half the fangirls at lunch) went en masse to ( see Star Trek again )

sineala is MADE OF AWESOME and has posted A Crash Course In Linguistics For Star Trek Fen.

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

Author's note: Huge thanks to sineala for linguistics geeking help.

( A Thousand Words for Snow )

Unsung heroes of World War II finally get their due

The Women Airforce Service Pilots was born in 1942 to create a corps of female pilots able to fill all types of flying jobs at home to free male military pilots to travel to the front.

In the days after the outbreak of the war, Jacqueline Cochran, one of the country's leading female pilots at the time, went to a key general to argue that women would be just as capable pilots as men if they were given the same training.

She won the argument, and the program was launched.

Parrish joined up at age 21 in November 1943.

"Everybody was doing something," she said. "I wanted to do something for my country."

Some 65 years after their service, the WASPs are being honored with the Congressional Gold Medal -- one of the national's highest civilian honors.

DOOD. ABOUT DAMN TIME. I first learned about the shoddy treatment of the WASPs when I was research the Mercury 13 for work. These are women who flew for their country and got zero recognition for doing so--they didn't even have access to veterans benefits until the 1970s. Pilots who died weren't even allowed to have US flags on their caskets.

LOOK WHAT goss MADE! OMG YOU GUYS! SERIOUSLY!

Also, I have been a bad fangirl in that I have not actually written up any of the recs I've been collecting. And I've no idea when I will have time. But if you don't mind clicking on links and reading the headers to see what they're about, I've been collecting links on delicious for a while. There's a mix of het, gen, and slash (heavy on the Spock/Uhura, and McCoy-centric fic).

Also, in case you missed it, the DOOD, GAILA IS AWESOME commentfic extravaganza has been MADE OF WIN thus far. Also, yahtzee63 continues to rock the alpha quadrant with Journey to Drabble and Drabble On The Edge of Forever.

And lastly, if you love Uhura and Strangers From The Sky, I am currently reading The Lost Era: Catalyst of Sorrows by Margaret Wander Bonanno, and enjoying it muchly. It also features McCoy, Beverley Crusher, The Sisko, Tuvok, and Dr Selar, and is set before TNG. I picked up a second-hand copy based on a rec in comments on one of my Trek posts, and Admiral Uhura as head of Starfleet Intelligence is so awesome, I cannot begin to tell you how awesome.

I'm On a Boat Ship

YES. THIS.

(want. claim in comments. have.)

Please remember to read all the comments first to make sure the icon you are claiming has not been claimed by someone else first! And if you are willing to share, mention that when you claim it.

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( la la icons la la )

Remember how, way back in the early days of Star Trek: Voyager fandom, Megan and Jenny Delaney from Stellar Cartography were branded the sluts of the ship for daring to enjoy sex? Right, so I'm having flashbacks. Only this time, it's Gaila who's being called names in the blogsphere for, well... enjoying casual sex as much as James T Kirk does. And dood, GAILA IS AWESOME.

I'm too swamped to write at the moment, but I'm definitely up for hosting a good ole fashioned Commentfic Extravaganza. So if you want to write a little something (drabble, snippet, epic poetry, knock yourself out!) about Cadet Gaila, go ahead and post it here.

IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: THE DOOD, GAILA IS AWESOME COMMENTFIC EXTRAVAGANZA

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

yahtzee63 has posted 100 more Trek prompts of AWESOME at Drabble On The Edge of Forever.

So I've got a website where a transparent Flash movie plays over the content on the homepage. And in Firefox (and only Firefox) even when you set the wmode to "transparent" or "opaque", the anchor tags in the HTML beneath the movie aren't clickable. You can't change it using CSS z-index. You can't put the flash "behind" the content div.

I'm asking any Flash developers on my flist if there is a way to have the Flash movie resize after it plays to reposition it beneath the copy, without forcing an HTML page meta-refresh? The client wants to keep the fancy animation, but sicne more people use Firefox now than when the site was first designed, I really want to fix the functionality becssue functionality is far more important than a flash graphic effect.

ETA: it's a documented problem with Flash in Firefox going back at least 4 years. But I keep thinking new Flash plug-in adn new Firefox might have fixed it? But no joy.

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot / Spyglass Entertainment 2009.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

Author's Note: Huge thanks to my betas yahtzee63, lizbetann, rheanna27, rawles, geekturnedvamp, and transtempts for helping me turn this around incredibly quickly, and for going above and beyond the call of duty.

( Ad Astra )

We interrupt our regularly schedule Star Trek squee to share with you all an amazing fan-made trailer for Sarah Connor Chronicles s3:

( spoilery as HELL for s2. )

We now return you to your regularly scheduled geeking.

Psst! Pass it on! JOURNEY TO DRABBLE

themonkeycabal just pointed something out that has me going ( YES. THIS. OMG. )

For everyone on my flist (or their flists. Or the flist of any comm I totally joined last week just to read more Trek posts) who saw the movie, and is all OMG and yet is pretty much a total n00b to the fandom... (and please bear in mind, I wrote this in 10 minutes on my lunch)

( 10 Things You Should Probably Know About Star Trek )

GIP. With a nuTrek Christine Chapel as played by Jen Garner sure to follow, eventually....

SO CANON INSIDE MY HEAD. SHUT IT.

Okay, as I go through my flist, I'm seeing a lot of Star Trek glee, but also a lot of Star Trek headdesking about Uhura specifically and the roles of women in general in the film.

So here's the thing: ( I am very zen. And also, FULL OF SPOILERS. )

ETA: I did some editing/expanding 5/11, to clarify and expand on some stuff from discussions in comments.

( Compelete dorky Star Trek 2009 vaguely spoiler-y canon questions... )

The Evolution of The Middleman DVD box art is NIFTY COOL.