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First, my current status:

( The stories I have already committed to: )
And now, the Big Bang.

startrekbigbang is a ficathon for long, new fiction for Star Trek. Their definition of "long" is 15 K. I can't do any of my existing, posted WIPs to meet this because it has to be new fiction, and I have to be careful to pick a plot bunny that I could reasonably get done in close to 15K... if it turns into a novel unexpectedly I'm screwed, because the thing has to be finished by Sept 15th. And it can't be a plot bunny that's best written short, since it needs to be a minimum of 15 K.

So I'm going to poll for interest. I'm not bound to this poll -- if I decide that in retrospect I really don't want to write story X, I won't even if it wins -- but I'll use it in making my decision as to which of my ideas to do for the Star Trek Big Bang.

Untitled, human!Q@BOBW: Either sequel to "Working In Groups" or just generic DQ spinoff. (Dunno if same universe as "Need", but it would be interesting if so.) Mortal Q on the Enterprise during "Best of Both Worlds". Angst-o-rama, either P/Q or P&Q.

War Stories: Part of the universe in "A Doctor, A Q and a Baby". Since Janeway didn't work, Q tries to get Picard to be the father of Q's child. The TNG crew do not believe Q, so Q takes them to the Continuum. Maybe taking them to the middle of a war zone when none of them can use the weapons was not a good idea. Picard/Q with Q genderswapped, also, oddly enough, grudging R&Q. (And background pairing R/T.)

West: Spoilers for "Before Dishonor": ( this story makes no sense unless you know how the book ended or don't care about being spoiled for it. ) Janeway and Q are in it if you don't want spoilers, but not romantically. I need this one done before I can do "Chooser of the Slain", the story I need all the kickass dead women for.

Sadly I can't promise that "Chooser" will be close enough to 15K that I can promise it done, so I can't put it on the list. Likewise, the horror story with the entities that the TNG crew perceive as Cthulhoid extradimensional energy squids that bring insanity and death, and Q perceives as vampires, is probably too long as well. And I can't put any of Judgement Day on because Judgement Day stories can't be done out of order and I don't know when I'll be up to the next long one.

(With only three choices, I'm not going to bother to literally poll. If you have a preference, just tell me in comments.)

For a story idea I'm percolating, I need suggestions for dead badass women in Star Trek.

The timeframe is VOY-era, bookverse, post-"Before Dishonor", and yes, I've got her. (Trying not to give away spoilers here.) So any ENT era character would by now be dead, most likely, as would most TOS humans. But I specifically don't just need dead women, I need *badass* dead women. Women with combat experience. I love Hoshi Sato but a linguist would be totally useless in this lineup (and I'm not sure T'Pol would be of any use, either, given that she's not a combat telepath and I have two dead Vulcans already, a combat telepath and a doctor.) I've got Silvia LaForge and Rachel Garrett, so I don't need any more starship captains, which means Number One isn't of much use to me (I also don't really need science officers.) Got Jadzia, Yar, and every role ever played by Suzy Plakson (one of whom, obviously, is not dead but is in fact putting together this team for her own purposes.) But I can't think of any TOS-era female fighters, and the only one from ENT I can think of is one of the Suzy Plakson roles, and the one who isn't actually a separate being from one of the other ones in my universe (Plakson played four characters in Trek, but in my universe, two of them were the same person.)

I'll take suggestions from the bookverse and minor one-off characters from episodes. Particularly looking for non-humans and ENT/TOS characters. But they need to be women and they need to have combat experience. And preferably no more starship captains, which is why I haven't already gone for the Romulan Commander (who may well not be dead, anyway).