Somewhere along the way, there's a paperwork SNAFU, and despite regulations against family members serving under each other, Winona Kirk ends up serving on the Enterprise under the son she abandoned years ago.

Starfleet Academy (well, technically, everybody, but only SFA or possibly just the students remembers it) gets caught in a time loop before all the craziness. Things, um, get a little bit crazy. Especially since it's one of their emergency simulation days and Kirk's in charge.

One of the Highlander characters on Pandora or as a red shirt, getting killed over and over and over again but with no place else to go even if they desert or whatever. Comedy.

 The usual Star Trek XI crew, minus Spock, were all on Tarsus IV when Kodos made with the killing, most of them kids at the time, and managed to survive under the radar, with the bridge crew emerging as the leaders because of their age and the fact that they were the ones with the ideas.  Bones is there with his wife and Joanna, but ends up in Kodos's dungeons or otherwise helpless while Jocelyn sacrificed herself to save Jo, who ended up with the kids; eventually he meets up with them, all skin and bones.  Scotty and Keenser are there, too, fresh out of SFA, and when they first meet up with the kids barely trusted at all because the kids have recently learned to distrust authority, and as Starfleet they're authority of a sort.

Most of them go by one name or nickname, especially as time goes on and the younger ones forget their last names and they get more angry at the families that didn't protect them.

A few months in, the other colonists get rescued by Starfleet, who don't realize the kids are there because they're hiding (again, the distrust thing), and it's years before anybody comes back after that--Starfleet again, with Pike.  The kids have survived and done relatively well for themselves, even studying as much or more than they would have if the school for the gifted had still been there, if a bit more unevenly; they have all of the materials, and a lot of them were always motivated to learn, much less now, when a lot of it helps them survive better.

Pike comes in, finds them, and is horrified that they were just left there and wants to get them back to their families...to which they say "hell no".  Eventually he talks them around to a compromise, terms involving at least them leaving Tarsus, and convinces them that the only way anything's going to change is if they change it themselves by finishing their educations and joining Starfleet.  Of course, he thinks they've been on Tarsus for years without education, so it'll be a while before he has to deal with them doing that, since they couldn't possibly pass the admissions tests.

Not so much.  For the next few years, they flood SFA with their admissions, making people look at them funny for only using one name, and for the most part remain together as one big clique on campus.  Well, at least they'll be broken up by their duty positions, Pike thinks.  ...We all know how that went.  They're not in charge of the Enterprise to start with, but JT hooks back up with Scotty and Keenser and takes it over; immediately, the Tarsus cadets snap to higher efficiency and awesomeness than ever before.  Spock is fascinated.

Possibly Tarsus is classified; either way, nobody knows that the kids are survivors unless they were there or have very high clearance.

ETA 04/18/2011--Girl!JT, who is at least as twice as badass as any guy, and BFFs with Uhura except when she isn't. And since Cupcake was totally on Tarsus (how do you think he got the nickname?), the bar scene is totally different. Though, if the plan is to get into Starfleet, I don't know why JT wouldn't be with the cadets. Not too hard to come up with a reason, though; maybe her record's bad enough that the recruiter is all "uh...how about no?", and of course Pike doesn't even look at her record. Hm, maybe not Pike finding them, so there can be the nasty surprise. Or he just didn't remember any of the kids' names, since he didn't know (of) any of them except JT, and didn't meet her, and they all look so different...lol, or he thought JT was a guy at Tarsus, and JT didn't tell him to call her JT in the bar so he didn't have any clue. And JT's crew love her, but Starfleet...not so much. She's got the cult of personality going, and only follows orders when she feels like it, and is a big damn hero, and swears a lot and in general doesn't project the image Starfleet wants to project. But they can't do a damn thing about it.

Bones randomly ambushes the Tarsus people to give them checkups and hyposprays, and they just go along with it because they trust him.

JT learned early on that it was less unsafe to be seen as a boy than a girl; as did the rest of the girls, but JT's better at passing than, say, Uhura. Besides, they all kept their hair short to prevent lice, anyway. JT just never grew hers back or started dressing like a girl after the rescue--she was a tomboy beforehand, anyway. She's not pretending to be male anymore, but with short hair, bone structure that passes for male although she wouldn't look bad as a girl either, a pretty flat chest, and a personality that most people take as masculine, most people don't go around asking. Mostly by accident, she ends up only having sex with people who both are bisexual and for whatever reason don't tell the rest of the Academy that she's a girl. Her first few roommates refused to remain her roommate; eventually the Academy agreed to let her room with Bones because he was the only one who would take her.

The more I think about it, the more this seems like it should end up JT/Uhura. Kicking ass together in the beginning, BFFs for the longest time afterward when they're not fighting, and finally they get together.

Dinosaur ideas

Amanda Grayson was one of the mortals raised in the Dinosaur Family, who keep in contact with Spock. Sulu is totally an Immortal (not Family)- originally 18th century swashbuckler? POV Uhura, totally. Or the whole senior crew. *evil laughter*

Modern day- Methos gets the urge to celebrate one of his original holidays and drags everybody else in with him.

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"?

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.