Hello Where No Woman, and a happy September to you all. As we continue to languish in this doldrum of No Movie News, I thought it'd be fun to turn our attentions to the dilithium warp core of the Star Trek franchise -- teevee! As you may know, all of The Original Series, The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise are currently up on Netflix Instant Watch (Deep Space Nine should be up in October). To celebrate this unprecedented level of accessibility, how about some community-sourced episode guides? In particular, of course, woman-specific guides. While my nerdy Trekker heart is all for watching entire series (speaking of which, anyone up for a community watch-along of Voyager? Anyone...?), I know that realistically with Star Trek that is a huge time commitment, so why not give our fellow lady-fans a cheat sheet for the big episodes that concern our favorite women in space?

The way it works is simple: claim a week, claim a lady. Your episode guide for that character can be as simple as a list of episodes where she figures prominently or as elaborate as a picspam with recaps, analysis, and squee. Episode guides will go up on Fridays, and perhaps the intervening weeks will inspire some fic or discussion. In any case, the point is to narrow down hundreds of hours of television to the few where our favorite characters get a chance to shine, and what's not fun about that?

Here are some upcoming Fridays for the claiming:

September 9, 16, 23, 30
October 7, 14, 21, 28
November 4, 11, 18, 25
December 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

And here are some (not all! feel free to claim any others not on the list) televised Star Trek ladies:

TOS: Uhura, Chapel, Rand
TAS: Anyone up for this? Rhea? ;)
TNG: Yar, Crusher, Troi, Guinan, Pulaski, Ro, Lwaxana*, Keiko*, Vash*
DS9: Kira, Jadzia, Ezri, Kai Winn, Kasidy, Leeta, starred ladies above
VOY: Janeway, B'Elanna, Kes, Seven, Naomi
ENT: T'Pol, Sato (sorry - I'm very unfamiliar with this canon! which is obviously why I need an episode guide)

What do you think? More women to write about, discuss with others, finally understand fics about? Sounds pretty good to me. :)


P.S. As mod I give myself permission to say that if any of you are Doctor Who fans, and if you're recently suffering some feelings, this may be of interest to you too.

Title: Run Away (With My Heart)
Author: sternel
Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1900
Warnings: Tarsus.
Characters: Hoshi Sato, Thomas Leighton, James Kirk, OCs
Prompt: Hoshi Sato: Raising children on Tarsus. For where_no_woman’s Mother’s Day Challenge
A/N: Vhary, seanchaidh, nnaylime, athena4lynn: thank you. Title is from The Calling’s song “Wherever You Will Go.” Also, someday I’ll post Jimmy’s half of this.

Summary: There are many ways to be a mother.


( There was a knock on her door at 6:45. )

Song: Secret Agent, Melissa Etheridge
Fandom: Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT)
Characters: All the ladies!
Notes: This was my premiere for vidukon this weekend.

Download and stream at my LJ

Song: I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek 2009
Characters: Women of Star Trek
Spoilers: Nothing significant

Watch and download at my journal

Title: Breaking The Girl
Author: hitlikehammers
Rating: R
Pairings: Gaila/Uhura, mild/side Spock/Uhura
Word Count: 7,237
Summary: It’s a brave new world for both of them. For yetanothermask, who requested Uhura/Gaila: a little college(academy) experimentation for my help_chile Auction. Spoilers for Star Trek XI (2009). Episode spoilers for Star Trek: Enterprise 4.17 - Bound.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. Title is credit to Red Hot Chili Peppers.


Breaking The Girl

Title: Uniquely Qualified
Author: florahart
Character: T'Pol and Sarek (Enterprise and Reboot 'verse)
Rating: G? Gen, anyway.
Words: ~2000
Summary: T'Pol is neither on Vulcan, nor on Earth, when Nero strikes. When she receives the news, she is impelled to act, perhaps without logic, because she knows something unusual.
A/N: So, conceptually I've been mulling this for a while (largely because Chris Hemsworth and Connor Trineer look oddly alike in certain motions, at least to me), but I've had a hell of a time making the pieces fit neatly. I hope the rough edges don't show too badly; I'm pretending it's still the 27th for the awesome ladies ficathon. Canonically I've assumed that it's at least sort of emotionally plausible, if a little sticky, for T'Pol and Trip Tucker to have made efforts to resume their relationship after it came apart, and that they might have become reinvolved without it quite becoming common knowledge or showing up on my TV. (Plus, I'm pretty willing to believe it, so I'm okay with some hand-wave, here)

( Uniquely Qualified )

The Awesome Ladies Ficathon is 74 pages of comments and going strong, however a number of Star Trek prompts in multiple series' flavors have been buried, unattended, by the subsequent awesome of 74 pages of comment fic.

Thus, I present to you:

( 2 TOS/AOS prompts at dreamwidth )

( 13 TOS/AOS prompts )


( 2 TNG prompts )


( 3 voyager prompts )


( 3 enterprise prompts )


( 1 crossover prompt )

( 3 prompts which have been claimed but not yet filled )

Title: What Ships Are Built For
Author: sedri
Characters: Hoshi Sato, Archer
Pairings: None
Rating: G
Summary: Extended scene for Broken Bow: What was Hoshi thinking when she chose between teaching and serving on Enterprise? Written for the First Anniversary Ficathon.

Prompt: Hoshi originally resisted the idea of joining the Enterprise crew. What was she thinking when she weighed teaching vs. Enterprise? What if she'd chosen to stay on Earth?

What Ships Are Built For – on LiveJournal
What Ships Are Built For – on FanFictionNet

Title: Funshi
Author: yeomanrand
Rating: R
Summary: For the ENT prompt: How did Hoshi Sato die on Tarsus.
Notes/Warnings: As you might guess from the prompt, Major character death (suicide). Vulcan is the best I can approximate based on the available online resources, ditto Klingon. The French is my own lousy translation. Beta by shinychimera and rusting_roses.
Disclaimer: All characters and settings belong to their proper owners. I'm just playing in their sandbox.

( Federation Standard, Hoshi Sato thinks, twisting her hair into a simple knot, does not have a good word for what she is about to do. )

A really random note: At the time of this fic, Hoshi is approximately 117 years old.

I'm currently working on my first (of three, yikes) fics for the First Annual Ficathon; "How did Hoshi Sato die on Tarsus." It's mostly finished, but I could really use a beta. Would anyone be interested?

Thanks, rusting_roses!