Hi. I'm new here. Apologies if this is the wrong thread! But I'm looking for feedback. So, while I've dabbled mostly in anime during the course of my time writing fanfiction since I first took up the hobby in 2008... I actually want to branch out into my first proper stab at science-fiction, of which I'm also a huge fan.
As an author, even a fanfiction author, I'm highly interested in the concept of crossover more than canon purity. Always have been. And I wanna try and strive for something more with the fanfiction I have planned in the works. There are eight core verses that play major roles in the story, and a smattering of secondary verses. For simplicity I wanna go over what those verses are how I plan to integrate them into the larger universe.
Star Trek: This is really very simple. I'm more of an old-school fan who's been dissatisfied with the brand before the turn of millennium. So, for Star Trek, this is going to focus primarily on the Prime Timeline, set during the Dominion War, while rejecting any new additions following the end of DS9 or anything made past 2001. Naturally, this includes Enterprise, the reboots, Discovery, and Picard. I have not seen those, but I don't like what I hear. I'm a bit on the fence as to how to include Voyager, given how hit-and-miss that show as, but it did run concurrently alongside DS9 and it was part of the same time period, so... it's hard to ignore. I will eventually figure it out.
Star Wars (Legends): For most cases when it comes to secondary canon tier, like the former Star Wars Expanded Universe, I'm going to focus on the prime canon, though I'm making an exception for Star Wars because honestly, I think the EU enriched the lore, it enhanced it past what you see on screen during the course of six feature films, and given to what extent the new canon has plagiarized and watered down the source material they've completely abandoned and won't admit they even have anymore, I think it's better to adapt these instead. Besides, Rey is not the same person Jaina Solo was. It would be an insult to claim that. The former EU deserves more love and there is a lot of lies and myths out there. So, this is my way to give it more appreciation. This will be a HARD Legends adaptation, where it's the strict continuity of the EU material for the eras covered, not mixing and matching like the new canon does. I'm going to focus heavily on a consistent, detailed approach. Legends will be adapted into two time periods thanks to time travel (since it's set in a galaxy far, far away...), which is the New Republic era and the Imperial era.
Stargate: This is a verse I feel very excited to be adding since I'm nearly done with the series, and past some recent material, there have been no mainstream TV shows released in a long time. And this is one of the areas where I said I'll be adhering strictly to the primary canon, which is the movie and TV shows in this case. It could apply to Star Trek as well. All contemporary pop culture references could easily be shifted or reshuffled in order to avoid the Celebrity Paradox, which the show itself has touched on at times before. Like how the actual Bill Nye appears as himself on the show, yet General O'Neill never spots the fact he's talking to Dan Castellaneta, who voiced Homer Simpson, and The Simpsons is one of his favorite TV shows. For example, Doctor Who predates the original Star Trek, so it could easily slot in here. An amusing idea I'd had was that Galaxy Quest could be a fictional-show-from-a-meta-movie-within-the-show-for-the-fic. Sounds confusing, but it just means that the Galaxy Quest TV show was the Trek for this universe, and just came a bit later, perhaps as a response to Doctor Who. And George Lucas was so involved in grafting together old pulpy adventure stories and science-fiction elements, he could have made something very similar to Star Wars out of his browsing of stories like Lensman, Jack Kirby's New Gods, old WWII dogfights, science-fiction serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and what have you. Plus other TV shows like Battlestar Galactica could still get made, and many more. We'll see. It's something I'm tinkering with since I don't want the references to be a distraction to the audience, otherwise you'd have people like Simon Coombs geeking out when he meets Captain Picard. Stargate will be set very near to the beginning, somewhere around Season 1, so that the changes to the pop culture shout-outs will switch over easily, and also for plot-related reasons.
Babylon 5: This is a very wonderful old 1990s TV show that, as far as any more stories being told in that universe are concerned, is done with. Half the cast is dead, and JMS shows no interest in returning unless it's under specific conditions that will never happen. So, it's a perfect addition to this story, and I have tons of plans for it already. It's going to be set late in Season 3, after the Earth Alliance Civil War when they've seceded from Clark's dictatorship, and actually following the "War Without End" two-parter. So that the Shadow War is kicking into full gear. I can't go any further because then it would be taking place once the Vorlons and the Shadows as well as all the other First Ones have left the galaxy. Plus, I can expand more on Lorien's backstory! He has a vital role to play in the history of this composited universe. So, yeah, Babylon 5 is a great and logical choice.
StarCraft: Admittedly, this is perhaps one of the verses I'm least familiar with, second only to Warhammer 40,000, but I still see lots of potential here for story ideas, especially since my inspiration for this fanfiction was to build off one of my favorite science-fiction crossovers ever that involved Halo, Star Trek, Star Wars, and StarCraft, called The Rift Saga. Mainly I see possibilities from the stuff that has to do with the Zerg and the timeline to the history of the world. Plus I think the Terran Dominion and the United Earth Directorate could easily slot well into the more xenophobic anti-alien sentiments the Earth Alliance would have similarly around this time. So, the verse will set after the events of the Brood War expansion, but prior to the Wings of Liberty campaign that kicked off StarCraft II.
Halo: I've only ever been to play the first game, Halo: Combat Evolved, and I'm in the process of reading the Forerunner trilogy of books. However, it's not for lack of trying! I've always had a crap computer, and never got to move past the first one. With a new computer on the way, hopefully that will change. And of course, I see enormous potential with the Covenant, with their religious views, with the history of this world, the timeline, and so much more. Like that very possibly the Covenant fall under the sway of the Ori Priors from Stargate. So, yes, this will be taking place during the events of the first game since I've had little else to do but play Combat Evolved nonstop over the last ten years. I couldn't play past that.
Warhammer 40,000: As I said above, I have the least experience with this verse of any others. However, I am compiling notes on canon checklists and I'm checking out tons of lore videos on YouTube. The mythology, the lore, the history, the timeline, it all meshes up with others like Star Wars, Stargate, and StarCraft. I have a friend who is a huge 40K fanboy, and I'm buying up books and hope to buy the games when I am able to. For the purposes of convenience, this story is going to be set during the events of the Great Crusade and draw heavily on the events of the Horus Heresy books, since I can at least buy those online, I have more easy access than other avenues. And tbh, because I feel it's the best hope for salvation for the Imperium of Man. As this story is going to be a massive case of serial escalation, expect them to come late into the story.
ReBoot: Yes, the 1990s Canadian CGI-animated kids TV show! Might seem an odd choice, but given the various tech levels of the races involved, and the pop culture shout-outs ReBoot had, it seems a nice little fit that weaves into this ongoing tapestry I am knitting together. Some of the shout-outs might need an explanation, but most are so subtle, they don't need it. Those that are tend to function as minor freeze-frame bonuses. So yeah, this is a logical choice, that would slot well into the world of Stargate, for example, given the connection to that and the Gateway Command. To explore who the User for Mainframe is, what the Net is like, and deeper mysteries about the secrets of existence. For example, imagine Megabyte taking over the ENTIRE Borg Collective? Scary thought, right? Besides, the show devoted itself more to darker, continuity-heavy, and grittier storylines the further it progressed, so for that reason, ReBoot as a world will make its appearance during late Season 3, probably when Matrix and AndrAIa arrive in the Desert Port System and find free the software pirates and Ray Tracer to give them a lift back home.
Whew, that was a lot of TALKING. Anyway, if any of you are curious about this story, just hit me up! Here's a sample of my ideas for Part 2.
KEY EVENTS OF PART 2
-The Borg attempt to conquer the Galactic Empire, prompting the partnership between the Shadows and Imperial forces.
-The Tau'ri are made a part of the Compact Treaty.
-The Founders begin infiltrating the System Lords, eventually prompting the Dominion and the Goa'uld to begin their war.
-A strike team enters High Charity with an Asgard time-dilation device to trap the holy capital as well as the fleet defending it in an isolated pocket of decelerated time.
-The UNSC and the Tau'ri provide the mass-produced heavy projectile arms which cannot be replicated by the Federation for use in the war against the Replicators.
-The Earth Alliance convenes a coalition of mutual aid between the United Earth Directorate and Terran Dominion for the Koprulu Sector from acting as a middleman power to the defense treaty. The coalition is dubbed the Terran Free States, to which the shorthand acronym is TFS, their territory called Freespace.
-When Clark begins bombing civilian targets, Sheridan grabs the White Star Fleet and leads a campaign to oust Clark and liberate EA worlds.
-With the discovery of the Net, a plan is devised to have their ally Sprites and Binomes to infiltrate the Borg Collective and disconnect them from the hive mind, which paves the way for a greater evil. However, before that, Megabyte takes control of the drones.
Sounds insane, right? But a lot of them are unrefined. However, Part 1's plot summary is nearly done, I've begun a workable timeline about the history of this world, and I'm also throwing together dialogue transcripts and tropes to likely be used.
Let me know what you think, if there are any other science-fiction fans out there! I'd love help hashing out ideas.
As an author, even a fanfiction author, I'm highly interested in the concept of crossover more than canon purity. Always have been. And I wanna try and strive for something more with the fanfiction I have planned in the works. There are eight core verses that play major roles in the story, and a smattering of secondary verses. For simplicity I wanna go over what those verses are how I plan to integrate them into the larger universe.
Star Trek: This is really very simple. I'm more of an old-school fan who's been dissatisfied with the brand before the turn of millennium. So, for Star Trek, this is going to focus primarily on the Prime Timeline, set during the Dominion War, while rejecting any new additions following the end of DS9 or anything made past 2001. Naturally, this includes Enterprise, the reboots, Discovery, and Picard. I have not seen those, but I don't like what I hear. I'm a bit on the fence as to how to include Voyager, given how hit-and-miss that show as, but it did run concurrently alongside DS9 and it was part of the same time period, so... it's hard to ignore. I will eventually figure it out.
Star Wars (Legends): For most cases when it comes to secondary canon tier, like the former Star Wars Expanded Universe, I'm going to focus on the prime canon, though I'm making an exception for Star Wars because honestly, I think the EU enriched the lore, it enhanced it past what you see on screen during the course of six feature films, and given to what extent the new canon has plagiarized and watered down the source material they've completely abandoned and won't admit they even have anymore, I think it's better to adapt these instead. Besides, Rey is not the same person Jaina Solo was. It would be an insult to claim that. The former EU deserves more love and there is a lot of lies and myths out there. So, this is my way to give it more appreciation. This will be a HARD Legends adaptation, where it's the strict continuity of the EU material for the eras covered, not mixing and matching like the new canon does. I'm going to focus heavily on a consistent, detailed approach. Legends will be adapted into two time periods thanks to time travel (since it's set in a galaxy far, far away...), which is the New Republic era and the Imperial era.
Stargate: This is a verse I feel very excited to be adding since I'm nearly done with the series, and past some recent material, there have been no mainstream TV shows released in a long time. And this is one of the areas where I said I'll be adhering strictly to the primary canon, which is the movie and TV shows in this case. It could apply to Star Trek as well. All contemporary pop culture references could easily be shifted or reshuffled in order to avoid the Celebrity Paradox, which the show itself has touched on at times before. Like how the actual Bill Nye appears as himself on the show, yet General O'Neill never spots the fact he's talking to Dan Castellaneta, who voiced Homer Simpson, and The Simpsons is one of his favorite TV shows. For example, Doctor Who predates the original Star Trek, so it could easily slot in here. An amusing idea I'd had was that Galaxy Quest could be a fictional-show-from-a-meta-movie-within-the-show-for-the-fic. Sounds confusing, but it just means that the Galaxy Quest TV show was the Trek for this universe, and just came a bit later, perhaps as a response to Doctor Who. And George Lucas was so involved in grafting together old pulpy adventure stories and science-fiction elements, he could have made something very similar to Star Wars out of his browsing of stories like Lensman, Jack Kirby's New Gods, old WWII dogfights, science-fiction serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and what have you. Plus other TV shows like Battlestar Galactica could still get made, and many more. We'll see. It's something I'm tinkering with since I don't want the references to be a distraction to the audience, otherwise you'd have people like Simon Coombs geeking out when he meets Captain Picard. Stargate will be set very near to the beginning, somewhere around Season 1, so that the changes to the pop culture shout-outs will switch over easily, and also for plot-related reasons.
Babylon 5: This is a very wonderful old 1990s TV show that, as far as any more stories being told in that universe are concerned, is done with. Half the cast is dead, and JMS shows no interest in returning unless it's under specific conditions that will never happen. So, it's a perfect addition to this story, and I have tons of plans for it already. It's going to be set late in Season 3, after the Earth Alliance Civil War when they've seceded from Clark's dictatorship, and actually following the "War Without End" two-parter. So that the Shadow War is kicking into full gear. I can't go any further because then it would be taking place once the Vorlons and the Shadows as well as all the other First Ones have left the galaxy. Plus, I can expand more on Lorien's backstory! He has a vital role to play in the history of this composited universe. So, yeah, Babylon 5 is a great and logical choice.
StarCraft: Admittedly, this is perhaps one of the verses I'm least familiar with, second only to Warhammer 40,000, but I still see lots of potential here for story ideas, especially since my inspiration for this fanfiction was to build off one of my favorite science-fiction crossovers ever that involved Halo, Star Trek, Star Wars, and StarCraft, called The Rift Saga. Mainly I see possibilities from the stuff that has to do with the Zerg and the timeline to the history of the world. Plus I think the Terran Dominion and the United Earth Directorate could easily slot well into the more xenophobic anti-alien sentiments the Earth Alliance would have similarly around this time. So, the verse will set after the events of the Brood War expansion, but prior to the Wings of Liberty campaign that kicked off StarCraft II.
Halo: I've only ever been to play the first game, Halo: Combat Evolved, and I'm in the process of reading the Forerunner trilogy of books. However, it's not for lack of trying! I've always had a crap computer, and never got to move past the first one. With a new computer on the way, hopefully that will change. And of course, I see enormous potential with the Covenant, with their religious views, with the history of this world, the timeline, and so much more. Like that very possibly the Covenant fall under the sway of the Ori Priors from Stargate. So, yes, this will be taking place during the events of the first game since I've had little else to do but play Combat Evolved nonstop over the last ten years. I couldn't play past that.
Warhammer 40,000: As I said above, I have the least experience with this verse of any others. However, I am compiling notes on canon checklists and I'm checking out tons of lore videos on YouTube. The mythology, the lore, the history, the timeline, it all meshes up with others like Star Wars, Stargate, and StarCraft. I have a friend who is a huge 40K fanboy, and I'm buying up books and hope to buy the games when I am able to. For the purposes of convenience, this story is going to be set during the events of the Great Crusade and draw heavily on the events of the Horus Heresy books, since I can at least buy those online, I have more easy access than other avenues. And tbh, because I feel it's the best hope for salvation for the Imperium of Man. As this story is going to be a massive case of serial escalation, expect them to come late into the story.
ReBoot: Yes, the 1990s Canadian CGI-animated kids TV show! Might seem an odd choice, but given the various tech levels of the races involved, and the pop culture shout-outs ReBoot had, it seems a nice little fit that weaves into this ongoing tapestry I am knitting together. Some of the shout-outs might need an explanation, but most are so subtle, they don't need it. Those that are tend to function as minor freeze-frame bonuses. So yeah, this is a logical choice, that would slot well into the world of Stargate, for example, given the connection to that and the Gateway Command. To explore who the User for Mainframe is, what the Net is like, and deeper mysteries about the secrets of existence. For example, imagine Megabyte taking over the ENTIRE Borg Collective? Scary thought, right? Besides, the show devoted itself more to darker, continuity-heavy, and grittier storylines the further it progressed, so for that reason, ReBoot as a world will make its appearance during late Season 3, probably when Matrix and AndrAIa arrive in the Desert Port System and find free the software pirates and Ray Tracer to give them a lift back home.
Whew, that was a lot of TALKING. Anyway, if any of you are curious about this story, just hit me up! Here's a sample of my ideas for Part 2.
KEY EVENTS OF PART 2
-The Borg attempt to conquer the Galactic Empire, prompting the partnership between the Shadows and Imperial forces.
-The Tau'ri are made a part of the Compact Treaty.
-The Founders begin infiltrating the System Lords, eventually prompting the Dominion and the Goa'uld to begin their war.
-A strike team enters High Charity with an Asgard time-dilation device to trap the holy capital as well as the fleet defending it in an isolated pocket of decelerated time.
-The UNSC and the Tau'ri provide the mass-produced heavy projectile arms which cannot be replicated by the Federation for use in the war against the Replicators.
-The Earth Alliance convenes a coalition of mutual aid between the United Earth Directorate and Terran Dominion for the Koprulu Sector from acting as a middleman power to the defense treaty. The coalition is dubbed the Terran Free States, to which the shorthand acronym is TFS, their territory called Freespace.
-When Clark begins bombing civilian targets, Sheridan grabs the White Star Fleet and leads a campaign to oust Clark and liberate EA worlds.
-With the discovery of the Net, a plan is devised to have their ally Sprites and Binomes to infiltrate the Borg Collective and disconnect them from the hive mind, which paves the way for a greater evil. However, before that, Megabyte takes control of the drones.
Sounds insane, right? But a lot of them are unrefined. However, Part 1's plot summary is nearly done, I've begun a workable timeline about the history of this world, and I'm also throwing together dialogue transcripts and tropes to likely be used.
Let me know what you think, if there are any other science-fiction fans out there! I'd love help hashing out ideas.