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Alternate Star Trekking Across the Universe.
By: RecklessPrudence Date: June 13, 2014, 2:09 am
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So, way back when, I sent in a prompt. It ended up being Daily
Fic #99. I did a quick Google Search, and I think 'Nutter took
it off her blog when she compiled "One Year Of Instants", but
here's the prompt:
[quote]I’ve actually already written a little snippet for this,
but I’d like to see what you do. First Contact scenario with an
explorator ship, and a bridge officer says to Captain James,
completely seriously, “It’s life Jim, but not as we know it”.
Cue laughing and singing from someone else on the bridge, a
classic sci-fi and filk fan, just as the first audio
transmissions between the two species start.[/quote]
And here, much later, is my little snippet that I wrote before I
submitted it.
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This was finally it. Humanity's First Contact scenario. Not a
tramp freighter, not a scam, not an on-location movie shoot. And
they were the ones to encounter it. She turned to Captain James
and said, seriously, "It's life Jim, but not as we know it."
The jump pilot, who everyone knew was a classic sci-fi and filk
buff doubled over laughing and, not-so-sotto-voice, started
singing a bizarre song, to the consternation of everyone else on
the bridge.
It was agreed later that it was lucky explorator ships were more
informal than most. And that it took awhile before the
translation programs on either species' ships were up to telling
the aliens what those first few seconds of audio contact meant.
And that the pilot was stopped before he got to Captain Kirk’s
lines
Especially Captain Kirk’s lines.
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What do you guys think? I know it's not up to 'Nutter's
standards, but for something I typed in a frenzy all at once
when I was supposed to be doing something else (come to think of
it, that's how most of my stories are written...), I think it's
not too bad.
#Post#: 38--------------------------------------------------
Re: Alternate Star Trekking Across the Universe.
By: InterNutter Date: June 13, 2014, 9:42 pm
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I like it :D
The original prompted story is still there, BTW - just
WAAAAAYYYYYY back in the archives where it's hellfuck hard to
find.
This is why I figured One Year of Instants would be a good idea
in the first place :)
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