If Firefly was treated like Star Trek...
POSTED BY: Adamwankenobi
UPDATED: Sunday, August 6, 2006 23:31
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Trek and Firefly are two different animals. Done right, it could work.
A non-Starfleet crew. A civillian captain with issues about Starfleet (perhaps he was rejected by the Academy, or maybe he had a close encounter with Section 31, or he's a former Maquis. . . Yeah, the former Maquis angle would work perfect). Assorted non-fleet characters (there's gotta be a Jayne-like Klingon out there somewhere, they can't all by high-bred warrior-poets), a girl with a secret (and there're plenty to go around).
So:
Mal: human, ex-Maquis. His people were abandoned by the Federation, his home bombed by the Cardassians, his fellow rebels massacred by the Jem'Hadar, then he was denied shelter by the Bajorans 'cause he wasn't one of them (they took in some Maquis survivors after the war).
Zoe: also ex-Maquis (so likely either human or Bajoran, or maybe Vulcan or Andorian). Part of Mal's cell, and the only other survivor. She'll follow him to Hell and back.
Wash: ace pilot, any species, washed out of Starfleet Academy for discipline problems.
Jayne: renegade Klingon. Low birth, low education. Honor's for soldiers, he's just lookin' to get paid, drunk, and sexed.
Kaylee: any species (likely human or Bolian). A gifted tech, but from a border world --too far away from the Federation core to have any chance of getting to the Academy.
Inara: a Deltan prostitute, but with a mysterious past.
Book: a Bajoran Prylar. His mystrious past isn't; pretty much every Bajoran alive was involved in the Resistance in some way. He's planted his fair share of homemade bombs and stolen his share of military ordnance. Mal doesn't like him much, but develops a grudging respect --the Prylar isn't the one who left him out in the black.
Simon: River's brother. He rescued her from Section 31. They're on the run now, not knowing who to trust or how far the conspiracy extends. For all they know, all of Starfleet could be in on it.
River: a broken, panicked human girl. She was part of a Section 31 experiment to create a super-soldier capable of going toe-to-toe with Jem'Hadar. Like all after-birth genemods, she's mentally unstable. She also has a full range of Augment abilities, unmatched since Khan's heyday.
The Federation isn't a Communism (most people think that based on the shows, which aren't about the Federation, they're about Starfleet, which is a military-styled organization), but it is a cash-free economy. Thanks to replicators, every citizen has effectively unlimited buying power. Trouble is, Replicators can make parts, not power, and not large objects. They also need a supply of matter to work from (can't build something atom-by-atom without, y'know, atoms).
'Course, not everybody has replicators, 'specially out on the frontier and after the Dominion War. So we deal in latinum, or dilithium, or favours, or parts. Cashy money and services rendered. There's a lot of salvage out here since the War, but a lot of Official-type people don't want us civillians getting our grubby mits on it.
Our warp drive doesn't go over warp 4.6 (it was fourth-hand when we got the ship), and we can't recrystalize dilithium like those fancy line ships. We've also had to eject two anti-matter pods after starting to lose containment, and anti-matter's the most expensive and controlled substance in space. With two fugitives aboard, we've had to start siphoning anti-matter from derelicts or. . . people with too much money and not enough sense.
With the heat on our trail and no one in Starfleet we can trust, only place left is the place the captain refuses to set foot --what used to be Cardassian space. Of course, there is money to be made, if one doesn't mind contributing to the spoon-heads' reconstruction.
Maybe we should try the wormhole, but that'd risk running us into Jem'Hadar, Vorta, Changelings, and Prophets only know what else.
The Bluehands: Section 31 agents. Or Tal Shiar agents. Or leftover Obsidian Order agents.
Reavers: Take your pick. Borg, renegade Jem'Hadar, Cardassian rebels, Breen, neural parasites,
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Quote:God help whoever tries that plan.
Originally posted by CarolJude:
Mal's brain is removed and used to run a small planet.
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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It would be awesome IMO, if we had that much media to watch. Six TV series and ten films of Firefly?!?
*has nerdgasm*
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Caroljude:
Don't worry about the double post. I have done it several times. A double post is better than no post at all. I beleave you may still find a thread where someone ended up with over 800. Yes 800 of them. I'm sure it was a what I call a *"glich" in the system, but if you can break that record more power to you.
*High Tech Lingo.
In truth my last post was just me having fun.
I know no one would cross these two programs.
But the image of Mal dressed up like Pecard made me laugh. Than an image of Kaylee in coveralls and grease on her face and saying to Spock "I'm pointing right at it."
Well I had to share.
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Traveler, do you know what topic that was? I want to find it. Just to see it.
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I sure would love to hear Jayne say "Bonk Bonk on the head!"
Walk tall, or don't walk at all...
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I should have wrote that one down. Had something to do with a convention out east. I know. Not much help. I almost wanted to start something crazy with it but the guy felt so bad I couldn't do it.
These cursed computers can really bit you sometimes. I firmly beleave HAL is alive and well in the system and playing games with us.
"Scotty. Need. Help. Now."
"Captain, I can't beam you up. Transporter is clogged with 800 posts."
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One of the reasons that Star Trek increased in popularity after being cancelled was due to the number of times it was rerun on TV. At the time, the networks wouldn't rerun a series unless it had so many episodes (I think that it was somewhere around 60 but I'm not sure) and the original Star Trek had a few (one or two) more than the minimum. It was cheap to rerun, so it saw a lot of airtime late at night when the networks weren't showing new stuff and gained a new following because of it.
With cable and satellite TV, this isn't as much of an issue anymore but its an interesting piece of trivia that just farther to show my nerd-ishness. Oh well.
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Okay, whoever brought up Star Trekkin'... it's a song that would probably make much more sense high. And if it was quoted properly.
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
On the Starship Enterprise
Under Captain Kirk
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
Boldly going forwards cause we can't find reverse
Lieutenant Uhura, Report.
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow,
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim.
Analysis, Mr. Spock.
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, but not as we know it, but not as we know it,
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain.
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow,
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim.
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
On the Starship Enterprise,
under Captain Kirk
Star Trekkin' across the Universe,
Boldly going forwards,
Still can't find reverse.
Medical update, Doctor McCoy
It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim,
It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead.
Starship Captain James T. Kirk
WE come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill,
We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, men.
McCoy, Spock
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starbard bow, starboard bow,
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, scrape 'em off, Jim!
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
On the Starship Enterprise,
Under Captain Kirk,
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
Boldly going forwards, and things are getting worse.
Engine Room, Mr. Scott.
Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics,
Ye cannae change the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim!
Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Uhura
Ye cannae change the script, Jim,
och, see it Jimmy?
It's worse than that, it's physics Jim!
Bridge to Engine Room, warp factor nine!
I cannae give her anymore or she'll blow Captain!
Red alert, red alert alert alert
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
On the Starship Enterprise,
Under Captain Kirk
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
Boldly going forwards cause we can't find reverse
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
On the Starship Enterprise,
Under Captain Kirk,
Star Trekkin' across the Universe
Boldly going forwards cause we can't find reverse.
I will eventually adapt this to Firefly, but it will take time. And my name, Fizzix? Yeah, it's said like Physics. Actually, it is Physics, but cooler.
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May not be smart, and it may not please you, but you're definitely gonna see what I have to say.
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Ah hell, now I have a picture in my head of Jayne confronting a bowl of Klingon cooking...
First fic, I named two of my expendable characters 'red tunic' in chinese (the arsonist was called 'dangerous smoke') Sad on so many levels.
And now I am going to have to write something that has River saying, 'illogical, Captain'...
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