OH HEY, I GUESS I SHOULD OPEN THE CURTAINS AND LET THE LIGHT IN HERE.

Import and open posting will begin shortly (what's this? yes! a truly active branch of Where No Woman, home to all of Star Trek's ladies and femmesque androgynes, right here!). Until then, this post is here for your general party/drabbles/hello/introduction/tire-kicking purposes. Make yourselves at home!

P.S. If anybody is competent enough with CSS to vanquish the two white lines intruding on the top and bottom of our layout, please let me know.

Everyone should see this picture.

[Image: Whoopi Goldberg, in costume as Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Nichelle Nichols, standing close and smiling, possibly on set of the show. They look very happy.]

Needed something to make me smile today. I love this picture, I’ll have to hunt down the print because it appears to be an official promotional pic from the copyright stuff at the bottom.

I’ve read a few interviews with Whoopi when she talked about how important it was to see Uhura on her TV every week as a child, which is why she loved Star Trek and wanted to be on TNG. That combined with knowing that Nichelle stayed on the show because Martin Luther King Jr. told her that her role was important (even if it wasn’t so great acting-wise) for exactly the reason Whoopi cited makes this picture even more poignant and wonderful.

- K. Tempest Bradford

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Title: Shards and Fairy Tales
Author: oparu
Series: TNG/VOY
Characters/Pairings: Beverly Howard/Kathryn Janeway, Ro Laren/Deanna Troi, Guinan, Lwaxana Troi, Will Riker, Jean-Luc Picard, Chakotay, Tuvok, Tom Paris, Seska, Wesley Howard
Rating: Mature
Warnings: major character death, mentions of teenagers having had sex, prostitution, torture, violence (brief)
Word Count: 25, 709
Summary: After the fall of the Terran Empire, the Alliance took control of the Alpha Quadrant, subjugating the lessar races, including Terrans and Vulcans. Some Terrans, like Kathryn Janeway, work for the Alliance while others, like Beverly Howard, fight against them in small resistance cells. When Kathryn's work stumbles onto the secret to finding a ghost fleet, Beverly 'rescues' her and brings her to the Terran side. Intendant Ro looks for ghost fleet on behalf of her Empress while rebels and pirates scramble to claim it before something darker than the Alliance finds them all.

Notes: Written for the classictrekbb.

This is a dark story set in a mirror universe similar to that featured on Deep Space 9. The Terrans are a subjugated race and the Klingons, Cardassians and Bajorans rule.

read on LJ or read on AO3

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.

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Title: 1,023 Days on Earth
Author: cosmic_llin
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Wordcount: 2000
Rating: G
Characters: Guinan
Beta(s): carawj
Notes: Written for karrenia_rune for the New Year Exchange.
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Paramount, I'm just using them for some non-profit fun.
Summary: Guinan had never heard of Earth until she crashed on it.


1,023 Days on Earth

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

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Welcome to where_no_woman's April 5th drabblefest! This round of prompts are all taken from the guiding principles of Ferengi culture, far from Federation law: the Rules of Acquisition! Ferengi business is conducted solely* by men, solely in the pursuit of profit (currency: latinum), so I trust you will all be ready to use your imagination and think metaphorically where terms like "man" and "profit" are concerned. A Ferengi would be first to congratulate you for finding loopholes. Remember, everyone is invited to participate and any Star Trek canon is fair play!

Rules of Drabblequition:

1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.

2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.

3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.

4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.

5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and advertise this post around.

6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.

* void where Ishka is being badass and starting a feminist revolution

( 32 prompts are go! 11 fics indexed as of 4/12/10 )