Monday, May 31, 2010

Study Group

For whatever reason, Harry gets a hold of the old homework/syllabus/tests of somebody from an earlier year, and notices that it's extremely different than the work they're doing in class. So he goes to Hermione, and she's all, "Why do you think I'm making such a big deal out of the OWLs and NEWTs? We're not being taught half the stuff that's on the test!" Realizing this, they start a study group which begins as just them and grows. Ron never joins and thinks it's stupid. But why has the curriculum changed? What do the professors think about it?

Daughter of Scooby

Jess from Supernatural is the daughter of one or more of the Scoobies and like Sam wanted a normal life despite being raised with the supernatural. Because she didn't have to talk to normal people all the time like Sam did, she's more clumsy about avoiding talking about the supernatural, especially since she's not estranged from her parent(s). Whether she survives or not, a whole new can of worms is opened.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

TA Xander

Xander goes to college after Chosen, and makes use of the language skills he's picked up through research. Daniel Jackson is teaching at the college and Xander gets made his TA and is smart and supportive though more cautious than Daniel. Then Daniel gives The Speech and goes to Abydos. When he gets back he requests Xander for his department. Of course, Xander is very resistant to the idea.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A.S.V. Sateda

The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters the A.S.V. Sateda on the edge of Federation territory and hails it. The Sateda has a lot of damage from a battle or battles, so it's barely limping along, and all of the adults are incapacitated due to an alien virus, so the kids are running the ship. They request aid from medical personnel and tall people who can follow schematics for repairs on tech they don't know without too much handholding (they phrase it more politely). Enterprise sends over people including Spock and Bones, who mostly go "holy crap, those kids are armed!" mentally and in general are weirded out by the kids being all businesslike- Spock's probably okay with it, though, if baffled by the fact that it's humans who are acting like that.

Everybody on the Sateda has to wear an ancient-tech version of dog tags. Enterprise people have to fill out forms before leaving the hangar to activate their tags, which are required for the doors and a lot of other stuff. Questions include rank (#/total), education, and dietary requirements/preferences.

No idea what to do about the time thing- different "Earths"?

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Homeworld Security Share-a-thon

"Homeworld Security Share-a-thon"- named, of course, by Jack. The heads of the various subdepartments in the DHWS meet because the new subdepartment needs to be introduced. Jack-style quick intros and status reports since everybody but the new guys are used to him- "The Initiative, demons and vampires." "How's that going?" "Good, just stopped an apocalypse." "Stargate Command, Aliens", etc. New guys have a presentation and etc., expecting to have to convince people and justify actions and whatnot; Jack tells them to make it fast so they can have pie. They go out to pie together. New guy is completely baffled.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A civilization for which science is their religion. Sociologically very interesting.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Firefly/Star Trek crossover

The Alliance from Firefly is the Federation from Star Trek.

Obviously the protagonists of Star Trek would not condone Miranda or what was done to River, but they don't know everything that happens. A matter of perspective- people who believe in the Federation vs. people who don't, which colors the narratives. Plus, the Star Trek people don't seem to spend a lot of time in areas like Firefly's location- backwater but a part of the Federation- because they're either on one of the major planets or exploring outside of the Federation.

Issues to writing this crossover:
  • Earth uninhabitable vs. still inhabited
  • aliens vs. no aliens
  • your brain may break from reconciling two images of the Federation/the Alliance
Possible scenes:
  • Federation officers/crewmembers in same bar as Firefly crew (on Unification Day!)
  • Ship sent due to the broadcast about Miranda
The humans of the Federation are the Ancients.

  • Shuttles look a lot like puddlejumpers.
  • The Federation is very widespread, has transporters and other technology on par with the Ancients.
  • Vulcans->Asgard? Lack of genetic diversity after destruction of Vulcan, tech, logic.
  • Federation founded by 4 races just like the Ancients/Asgard/Furlings/Nox alliance- humans, Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Series.

The first one's urban fantasy, wherein MC saves the world/city/whatever with the usual obstacles and a minor subplot of the cops being suspicious of MC for the collateral damage/problem MC's trying to solve.

In the second one, the cop trouble is the main plot; the evidence they have from the first book is enough to arrest her and go to trial and she has to deal with that and the supernatural backdrop, plus maybe a supernatural subplot. And of course she's upset that she's arrested and she can't even justify her actions or tell the truth about what she was doing.

Monday, May 3, 2010

If they had been left to their own devices, the Dursleys would have treated Harry poorly, but that's not what happened. Dumbledore left them a letter ordering them to abuse him (though not in those words), and they were pissed at being ordered around by a wizard, so they treated Harry well because they weren't about to follow Dumbledore's orders.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Two stargates

Instead of one stargate, each planet has two- one for incoming wormholes and one for outgoing ones. When Daniel figures out how to use it to get to Abydos, nobody realizes that the return trip will end at a different stargate than the one they left from. But where is the second stargate? How do things change with two countries equally involved in the stargate program from the beginning?

Undercover

A criminal (an assassin, maybe?) goes deep undercover as a cop/superhero/good guy for some nefarious reason. But as time goes by he finds himself having the same difficulties undercover cops have, but in reverse- instead of being sucked into crime, he finds himself wanting to be a good guy for real. But regardless of what he wants, if he openly switches sides the bad guys (some of whom are his friends) will try to kill him (and he's working for a powerful organization that could easily kill him), and since he has a very long list of very bad crimes he's wanted for, the good guys won't believe him and will toss him in jail.

If you want to totally and completely blow your readers' minds, he eventually finds out that the bad guys are run by a guy who plans their crimes to ultimately do good, and the good guys are run by a guy whose goal is to do evil. The actions of the individuals in the organizations have the opposite effect of what they intend. So MC has to decide if he's going to be evil and do good, or be good and do evil.