Greetings to all the newcomers! Being crazy is not required, but it does help!

Don't I know you from somewhere? Now I remember, you're the S----L----O----W  picky  beta that dared to tell Amelia and I that our manuscript was less than a masterpiece. >
 

Mr. Write Rat

Welcome, welcome!    Most of us are friendly here.  And the ones who aren't, you figure out soon enough.    Are you writers, readers, or any sort of combination of the two? 

Sounds wonderful!  Editing is such a fun job!  Since I nearly had a double major in both Nuclear Physics and English, I do my own editing when I write.  Grammatical errors drive me crazy!    Sadly, my beta tester daughter needs spell-check constantly!  (I don't know where my genes went with her sometimes!)  Seriously though, she has written her own murder mystery novel and is currently looking for an agent.  Why use her as a beta tester if I don't need the editor (you may ask)?  Well, the truth is that she always catches it when I leap way over my readers heads and leave them spinning in the dust wondering how I got from point A to point B!    Which I used to do a lot more often that I do now.  She's training me well.    And since I raised her to be read aloud to, she simply loves it when I read my stories to her as I write them.  It's a win-win situation! 

I don't remember Voyage well, since my childhood memories are sparse (except for watching UFO!)  And I haven't seen the Pretender at all, although it looks interesting, so I may have to check it out.  But I think you can tell by now that I love UFO!    Even more than Star Trek, which I have been a fan of since TOS.  In fact, several of my UFO stories may seem to be a bit of a crossover with ST, since I steal use so many references from that universe.  But, no.  I have not yet written my own UFO/ST crossover.  Although I hope to one day.    Deb's UFO/ST:TOS crossover truly inspired me, but since I prefer Picard to Kirk (don't hit me, Deb!), I think I'd like to do a UFO/ST:TNG crossover.  I just haven't come up with a plot for it yet.  I hope that being on this forum will soon inspire you to finish the stories you're writing.  We'd love to read them! 

Blue,
God, I feel so bad now about letting Alec die in my Hewett series. At least it wasn't at the hands of the aliens, and he didn't die alone. (Matt begs forgiveness) In my Soul Mates saga, Alec gets a new love interest, Ed's younger sister Barbara and she has the fire and sass to tame him. (Blame Denise, it's all her fault. *grin*) You'd probably like my story Heartbreak on the Moskva, as it features Alec quite a bit.

My two favorite characters in Voyage were the Admiral and Chief Sharkey. The one thing that drove me crazy about the show was the unrealistic layout inside Seaview. Irwin Allen never paid attention to that kind of thing. In my crossover I fix much of that as Seaview has just undergone a major redesign and refit. The control room is back under the sail were it belongs and the submarine has an albacore hull shape although it still sports the manta ray fins on the bow. Gone are the long wide hallways with the impossible 90 degreee turns. She's faster, and dives deeper than she did in the TV show. I hope you enjoy it. I'd love to see your stories posted sometime!

Denise,
I'm thinking of a Star Trek/UFO crossover as well, although I'm thinking of Voyager rather than TNG or TOS. Picture Ginny and Seven of Nine in an adversarial situation and watch the sparks fly! It will probably be in my 2012 storyline, so it's a ways down the road. I didn't know you studied Nuclear Physics, I'm in awe! I can relate to your daughter, I'm lost without my spell-checker, although I'm getting better. Anyway I'd love to see your TNG crossover, after I get my Ed/Ginny story. (hint,hint) 

Matt wrote on Mar 5^th, 2011 at 5:12pm:


Are you kidding?  I want to see Janeway and Straker!!!! 

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Now that would be a hoot!