Our archive’s header has been updated thanks to enabling by @solarisone. >.> I don’t know anything about that.
In more serious news, we’ve had an incredibly busy week! As you can see below, we’ve had a lot of new people join us, bringing over stories to archive. We’ve had some new faces on our chat server starting with a D, too! I’ve added some community resources under the Community Toolbox FAQ. If you’re planning on joining us, please read the tagging/posting FAQs/Rules, as we are very much not AO3 about that.
All in all, the archive is running well. I’ve got kudos up and working correctly, finally, and while we still have some minor annoyances (the times/dates populating incorrectly on dashboards or browsing pages), everything’s running stable right now and should continue to indefinitely.
There is still a Review Hunt going on until the end of the month: A chance to win art or cash! Right now, Gibraltar and DavidFalkayn are the only participants, come give them a run for the money!
Weekly Challenge #9 - Juneteenth
Our writing challenge this week is in honor of Juneteenth and is therefore the celebration of Black Star Trek characters. So, write a piece between 100 and 700 words in honor of the holiday and the amazing Black characters we’ve gotten from Trek over the decades and add it to our archive collection!
Author Interview with @daraoakwise
Come and get to know our first victim interviewee, @daraoakwise, who currently writes in the AOS universe and has lots of interesting insight to share!
Stories Archived
Star Trek: Discovery
By @starryeyes2000
That Night in the Cave - T - Chris Pike & Sylvia Tilly, Saru/OFC, Ensemble
By TUNiU
Crazy-Assed Cosmonaut - Unrated - James T. Kirk/Spock, Michael Burnham, xover with TOS 🔒
There are Many Benefits to Being a Tardigrade Scientist - Unrated - Paul Stamets, Sylvia Tilly 🔒
The Water Bear Equation - Unrated - Hugh Culber/Paul Stamets, Sylvia Tilly 🔒
The Mountain of Diamond Remix - T - Hugh Culber/Paul Stamets, Michael Burnham 🔒
Star Trek: The Original Series
By @merfilly
Double Impediments - G - Number One
Discovering Boldly - G - James T. Kirk/Spock
Names Memories - G - Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu
The Right Answer - G - Amanda Grayson, Sarek
Logical Choice - G - Saavik
Two Lies and a Truth - G - Spock, Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Honors in Family - G - Zar, Spock, Saavik
Contemplations, Eons Apart - G - Zar, Spock, James T. Kirk
Wandering Path - G - Saavik/Spock
Pandora’s Prodigy - T - Saavik, Spock, Amanda Grayson
Crucible Forged - G - Cleante al-Faisal/T'Shael, Aernath/Jean Czerny
Following the Fortunes of War - G - Piper/Sarda
Mutual Exploration - T - Cleante al-Faisal/T'Shael
Second Voyage - G - Leonard “Bones” McCoy, James T. Kirk, Spock
A Chosen Future - T - David Marcus/Saavik
A Gift Shared - G - Christine Chapel, Nyota Uhura
A Talented Opponent - G - Hikaru Sulu, Nyota Uhura
Incidental Touches - T - James T. Kirk/Spock
Improbable - G - James T. Kirk, Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Educated Rescuer - G - James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura
By @sl-walker
Seamark - M - Spock/Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
The Last Love - T - Christopher Pike
Now - T - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
Junkyard Dogs - T - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, Jay McMillan
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series
By @daraoakwise
A Higher Power When You Look - M - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (AOS) & Nyota Uhura (AOS), Nyota Uhura (AOS)/Spock (AOS)
Ideals - G - Spock (AOS)
Lightning - G - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott (AOS)
By @merfilly
Dammit Jim - T - Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS), James T. Kirk (AOS)
Grumpy Doc - G - James T. Kirk (AOS)/Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
Cold Logic Brings No Comfort - G - Spock
Alone - G - Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
5 Moments in a Friendship - G - Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS), Nyota Uhura (AOS)
Because He Knew - G - Spock, Saavik (AOS)
By @starryeyes2000
Trust Love One More Time - T - Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)/Original Female Character
By VelvetMouse
Anchor in the Deep - T - Christine Chapel (AOS)/Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
The Little Things - G - Christine Chapel (AOS)/Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
Follow Through - G - James T. Kirk (AOS)/Janice Rand (AOS)
Secrets - G - James T. Kirk (AOS)/Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
No Choice At All - G - Christine Chapel (AOS)/Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
Tiny Pushes - T - Janice Rand (AOS)
Clean-up Duty - T - James T. Kirk (AOS), Spock (AOS), Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS), Nyota Uhura (AOS)
Home Before Dark - G - Christine Chapel (AOS)/Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
Lady-like - T - Christine Chapel (AOS), Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS), Roger Korby (AOS)
Taking Control - G - Christine Chapel (AOS) & Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)
Morning Surprise - G - Christine Chapel (AOS) & Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS), James T. Kirk (AOS)
Paradise Lost - T - Christine Chapel (AOS)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
By @beatrice-otter
A Grief Shared - G - Guinan/Jean-Luc Picard, Jean-Luc Picard & Robert Picard
No Place Like Home - G - Amanda Rogers, Clark Kent | Kal-El | Superman, DC Crossover
By @merfilly
One Lesson Learned - G - Lwaxana Troi
Mixed Regrets - G - William Riker
Encounters at Adulthood - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker, Lwaxana Troi
Appraisal - G - Lwaxana Troi
There Among the Stars - G - Beverly Crusher
Mother, Please! - T - Deanna Troi, Lwaxana Troi
Without Sight - M - Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
Complications of State - G - Deanna Troi
Breathlessly Spellbound - T - Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
Conflict of the Soul - G - Deanna Troi
Finding Experience - T - Guinan/Ro Laren
Flattery - G - Jean-Luc Picard/Beverly Crusher
A Little Snag - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker/Beverly Crusher
Joined - T - Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
Gumption - G - Q
Bouldevard Lounge - G - Deanna Troi/William Riker
Complimentary - G - Tasha Yar, Data
Coffee and Chocolate - G - Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
By VelvetMouse
An Extension of Myself - G - Jean-Luc Picard/Beverly Crusher, William Riker/Deanna Troi
The Triumph of Time (We Are Everywhere For Your Convenience Remix) - T - Jean-Luc Picard & Beverly Crusher
Fakers (The Get a Second Opinion Remix) - G - Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
By @beatrice-otter
Schoolwork - G - \Jake Sisko & Kasidy Yates
By @merfilly
Won’t Turn Back - G - Kira Nerys
Womb Makes Three - G - Kira Nerys, Keiko O’Brien
The Return - T - Kira Nerys/Odo
Courting an Oblivious Person - G - Kira Nerys/Jadzia Dax
By nostalgia
In the Ranks of Death You’ll Find Him - M - Miles O’Brien/Julian Bashir
The Strange Glue That Held Us Together - T - Julian Bashir/Martok
The Chemistry Between Us - M - Ezri Dax/Julian Bashir
A Mutual Interest - T - Miles O’Brien & Julian Bashir, Leeta
By VelvetMouse
(G)hosts - G - Jadzia Dax
Star Trek: Voyager
By nostalgia
Captain - G - Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway
A Shape With Three Sides - T - Chakotay, Kathryn Janeway, Tuvok
The Worst Days - T - Kathryn Janeway/Chakotay
Star Trek: Picard
By Kennel_Boy
A Gift Between Moments - G - Elnor & Hugh | Third of Five - 🔒
More Alive To Tenderness - T - Elnor/Hugh | Third of Five - 🔒
Alternate Universes
By Trekfan
An Ideal Remembered - G - Rose Reilly, Anne Reilly
Expanded Universes
By DavidFalkayn
Interlude - M - Ensemble Cast, Raptor-verse
La Belladonna - M - Zsuzsanna (Zsa-Zsa) Rosza/Eliza Flores, Ensemble, Raptor-verse
The Gathering - M - Ensemble Cast, Raptor-verse
Reminiscences - M - Ensemble Cast, Raptor-verse
We're not in Kansas Any More - M - Ensemble cast, Raptor-verse
Compromises must be made - T - Morgan Bateson, Original Characters, Raptor-verse
Out with the Old in with the New - M - Ensemble cast, Raptor-verse
The Devil’s Playthings - M - Ensemble cast, Raptor-verse
The Gang's Kinda All Here - M - Ensemble cast, Raptor-verse
The Horror Below - M - Twesata Glex/Rana Thanoptis, Raptor-verse
Failure on Fehl Prime - M - Jane Shepard, Ensemble Cast
Time Trippin’ - M - Ensemble Cast, Raptor-verse
By Gibraltar
Passing the Torch - T - Donald Sandhurst, Pava Lar’ragos
The Penalties of Success - G - Donald Sandhurst
Life is Choices - G - Donald Sandhurst
By Mick
Welcome Aboard - T - Starship Excalibur
The Long Goodbye - Unrated - Starship Excalibur
Star Trek: Multiple Series
By LordRobertBruceScott
Star Trek Hunter - Rock of Ages - G - Original Characters
Nonfiction & Meta
By DavidFalkayn
Raptorverse Mass Effect Dramatis Personae - Unrated
‘Welcome to THE HANDMAID’S TALE Expanded Universe’ Finally, as long promised, my review of The Testaments at LARB. Go read it! But you can only see my TOO HOT FOR THE INTERNET introduction right here at gerrycanavan.wordpress.com:
Busy week this week! We had a bunch of new people coming over and posting, others archiving older stories and a decent amount of very excellent discussion over on Discord. Folks also seem to be falling in more comfortably with our posting/tagging rules, which is a great thing for archive searchability. We do still have a Review Hunt going on for the next week, so your chance to win art and/or cash is still on the table, too! Literally any review you write is eligible, so paste their links into the form as you write them! Next month I'll be able to somewhat automate that process, but for now, this is what it's gotta take.
Weekly Challenge #10
For this week, write a story between 100 and 700 words about a sensory event or even just a day in the sun or rain. Can be extra-sensory, can be just plain old atmospheric, can involve any of the senses (and then some!) Interpret the prompt as literally as you like or a figuratively as you like, then submit your response to the Weekly Challenge Collection on Ad Astra: https://beta.adastrafanfic.com/collections/weeklychallenges
Use the additional (freeform) tag Weekly Challenge: Sensory Processing
Challenge closes on June 30th at 11:59P, Eastern.
Stories Archived
Star Trek: Discovery
By LizBee
a fountain of blood in the shape of a woman - Unrated - Gabriel Lorca/Katrina Cornwell, Philippa Georgiou
By TUNiU
The Needs of the....oh you know how it goes - T - Hugh Culber/Paul Stamets - 🔒
Star Trek: The Original Series
By Beatrice_Otter
Dimension Hopping - T - Buffy Summers/Spock, xover with BtVS
Starship Mine - T - Una Chin-Riley, Nyota Uhura, Christine Chapel
By Merfilly
Cultural Studies - G - Nyota Uhura, Spock
Spanning the Years - G - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Spock
By sixbeforelunch
The Surface is a Strange and Wonderful Place - G - James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura, Spock, Original Characters - 🔒
A Brief Study of Vulcan Public Health Concerns - G - Leonard "Bones" McCoy & Spock - 🔒
Foundations of Affection - T - Spock/T'Pring - 🔒
By SLWalker
Torn - G - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
Name and Nature - M - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott/Spock
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series
By Beatrice_Otter
The Desert Between - T - Nyota Uhura (AOS)/Spock (AOS)
Nyota's Choice - G - Nyota Uhura (AOS)/Spock (AOS)
House-Building - G - Nyota Uhura (AOS)/Spock (AOS)
Children of the Desert - G - Original Vulcan Characters
Star Trek: The Next Generation
By Beatrice_Otter
Essential To Your Own - T - Data/Geordi LaForge
Little Ship Lost - T - Ensemble Cast
open your heart knowing - G - Data/Geordi La Forge
Matters of Perspective - G - Guinan/Jean-Luc Picard
By sixbeforelunch
All Our Broken Plans - T - Sam Lavelle & Taurik - 🔒
Laid Bare - T - Ensemble Cast - 🔒
The Fixed Point - G - Ian Andrew Troi I/Lwaxana Troi - 🔒
Change of Vector - T - Deanna Troi/William Riker - 🔒
The Leak - G - Ensemble Cast - 🔒
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
By baktag
Star Trek: Clonrichert - T - Ensemble Cast, xover with Father Ted
By Beatrice_Otter
A Space for Faith - G - Original Characters
By TheQuietWings
Who was she? - G - Kira Nerys
Star Trek: Voyager
By sixbeforelunch
Cultural Nuances - G - Vorik - 🔒
Forward Momentum - T - Kathryn Janeway/Tuvok - 🔒
Expanded Universes
By CeJay
Tempus Fugit - T - Ensemble Cast
By DavidFalkayn
Shore Leave - M - Ensemble Cast
Diplomatic Incidents - M - Ensemble Cast
Meet the Press - M - Ensemble Cast
Back into the Fray - M - Ensemble Cast
Prelude to a Horror - M - Ensemble Cast
Corruption in Paradise - M - Ensemble Cast
Into the Breach - M - Ensemble Cast
By Gibraltar
The Long Road - T - Pava Lar'ragos
By sixbeforelunch
Kal'i'farr heh T'naehm - T - T'Lin/Veral - 🔒
Let'thieri - T - T'Lin/Veral - 🔒
Khaf-spol t'M'aih - T - T'Lin/Veral - 🔒
Tel-nel-dath - G - T'Lin/Veral - 🔒
Masu-kastra - T - T'Lin/Veral - 🔒
Not only have we been running successfully on otw-archive with no major explosions, thanks to Ruby on Rails expertise from lassarina, we’ve added new header menus to our various community offerings! Including our chat server starting with a D, our Tumblr, our Twitter and our very, very spiffy forums! So, if you’re in Trek fandom (reading, writing, creating in general!), absolutely feel free to come and join us. <3 If you post stories or anything else, do make sure you familiarize yourselves with our tagging FAQ, since we have different tagging rules from AO3, but we would love to have you join us.
As a reminder: We do currently have a Review Hunt going on, which is a nice way of saying that you can totally come and win cash and/or art for just reading stories or viewing fanworks and sharing your thoughts on those! And no one has actually joined in yet, so-- come and make my day by giving me work to do. Come make an creator’s day by giving them feedback!
Weekly Challenge #8: Ideals
Thanks to a very fascinating discussion on our server, the challenge of the week is to write between 100 and 700 words on ideals, be it fanfic or meta!
Stories Archived
Star Trek: Enterprise
By @merfilly
What Was That? - T - Jonathan Archer, Charles “Trip” Tucker III
Star Trek: The Original Series
By @daraoakwise
A Call Home - G - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
By @merfilly
Five Times Leonard McCoy Knew Happiness - G - Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Difficult Diagnosis - G - Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Spock
What They’ll Remember - G - James T. Kirk/Spock/Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Past Regrets - T - Leonard “Bones” McCoy/Spock
Chosen and Claimed - E - David Marcus/Saavik
Advice - G - Pavel Chekov, Leonard “Bones” McCoy
Brothers - G - Melinda Corrigan
Moments Shared - G - Amanda Grayson/Sarek
Sight Unseen - G - Kang
No Thought, No Reality - G - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
My Son - G - Sarek
Content - G - James T. Kirk
Let Herself Go - E - David Marcus/Saavik
Pon Farr in Love - M - Leonard “Bones” McCoy/Spock
By @sl-walker
Best Smile - G - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott
Wait - G - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Spock, Amanda Grayson
Magnanimous - G - Pavel Chekov, Hikaru Sulu
Iron (Ch. 2) - T - Montgomery “Scotty” Scott & Spock
Star Trek: Alternate Original Series
By bluedreaming
killer half life - G - James T. Kirk (AOS) & Spock (AOS)
By @merfilly
Aftermath’s Afterglow - T - Nyota Uhura (AOS)/Spock (AOS)
Knows Her Mind - G - Spock (Prime)
Damned Vulcans and Their Logic - M - James T. Kirk (AOS)/Leonard “Bones” McCoy (AOS)/Spock (AOS)/Nyota Uhura (AOS)
Meeting Spock - G - Christopher Pike (AOS), Spock (AOS)
Reach for Rejection / The Game Begins Again - G -
Spock, Ches'rik Tal (AOS), Female Romulan Commander (AOS)
By PoisonedQuill
All Alright - M - Pavel Chekov (AOS)/Khan Noonian Singh (AOS)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
By @merfilly
Diplomatic Stress - G - Deanna Troi, Lwaxana Troi
Sundaes - G - Deanna Troi, Beverly Crusher
Not Broken At All - G - Deanna Troi, Lwaxana Troi
Escape - G - Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
Sated - M - Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
Let the Future Hold - G - Lwaxana Troi
And Then, They Were - G - Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi
One More Time Around - G - Guinan
Dream For Us - T - Tasha Yar
2 Qute - G - Lwaxana Troi, Q, Deanna Troi
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
By hookwinked
never knew a world so bright - T - Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
Star Trek Online
By baktag
The Space Between - E - Dooku/OMC, Kira Nerys/OMC, Star Wars xover
death we will deal him ere Day’s ending - E - William Riker/Maglor
Enemy Mine - E - Worf/Maedhros
By David Falkayn
Kiss of the Raptor: Strange New Universes - M - Ensemble Cast, xover with Mass Effect
Kiss of the Raptor: Reforming the Band - M - Ensemble Cast, xover with Mass Effect
Expanded Universes
By Gibraltar
Slings and Olive Branches - Unrated - Nandi Trujillo, Glal
Crimson Blues - Unrated - Nandi Trujillo, Glal
Warnings Unheeded in Darkest Night - Unrated - Nandi Trujillo, Glal, Rachel Garrett
An Idiot’s Guide to Gunboat Diplomacy - Unrated - Nandi Trujillo, Glal, Rachel Garrett, Saavik, Kang
The Event of the Season - Unrated - Nandi Trujillo, Glal, Rachel Garrett, Saavik, Demora Sulu
Expanded universes are truly remarkable things, and I don’t think we’re grateful enough to have them. An expanded universe is, usually, a set of books/comics/games which are “expanding” on the “universe” of a movie, or a television show. Some of them wind up being quite small or obscure. Cult science fiction show Babylon 5, for example, managed a whole nine tie-in novels (of which, one was readable).
Other tie-ins amuse me, like when I recently discovered that there are tie-in novels for one of my favoritest of TV shows, Elementary, with Sherlock and Jane Watson in modern day New York. I love that they’re carefully cordoned off as “TV tie-in novels” instead of just being, you know…additional Sherlock Holmes stories. Anyway, I want to read ’em badly, but more on that in a minute.
Then there are the heavy hitters of tie-ins, like Forgotten Realms (approximately one billion Dungeons & Dragons novels) and Warhammer 40,000 (I have no idea, but there’s another billion). There’s Doctor Who and Star Wars and Star Trek, and probably anything you care to name.
We kind of dismiss these as nothing more than tie-ins, not worth our attention. We assume that they’re just grubbing for money, or they’re for the hardcore nerds out there, and they can be safely dismissed without concern, but I would argue against this, for a handful of reasons.
