joyful sentient yeast and other stories

[aria]

i. The Effect of Dimensional Transcendence on Mozzarella Cheese, or: Diane Duane writes fic about Five and Nyssa making pizza. (Complete with recipe at the end.) My heart. I am not-so-secretly shattered that DD hasn't written roughly a million Fifth Doctor novels. On the other hand, she has written a handful of Star Trek novels ...? And, like, novels about Spock. I may be kind of doomed.

ii. Also, because I am obviously feeling talky tonight: Name any character in any fandom that you think I would be passingly familiar with. In return, I will give you five pieces of my headcanon or a ficlet, my choice. (Or everyone can just reply 'Methos' because I will never, ever run out of headcanon.) Have at it!

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[graycardinal]

My own favorite Duane/Trek novel is My Enemy, My Ally for two reasons: (1) it's got a tremendously cinematic quality about it, so that you can pretty much see the movie version playing in your head as it unfolds, and that movie is the best Trekfilm anyone will ever make; (2) Naraht, aka Ensign Rock, a young Horta who's joined the Enterprise's crew. (This is both exactly as absurd as it sounds and utterly, charmingly plausible...and Naraht also turns out to be uniquely necessary at a particularly critical moment in the plot.)

That said, one should also not miss Dark Mirror, in which she visits the NextGen mirror-verse long before the TV franchise went there in DS9 -- and writes scarily convincing alternate Shakespeare in it. Also, there is a bit in that book that hints strongly at a connection between the Trekverse and the Young Wizards universe.