DAY 15 - A FANFIC

(I had links posted to the original entry but the author is identified by name and since I knew him, it violates my personal Blogspot policy of not using real names and posting identifying pictures of actual people in my life --- they were Babylon 5 fanfictions that I found because I remembered Kilrathi talking about them and on a larf went looking for them before composing the original entry. They were written in August 1997 which would be around the time we met but it was his silly ones that stuck with me)

I have only rarely read fanfictions of anything. Whether or not this is any good is besides the point for me. It was posted by Kilrathi. He was someone I knew in my first year at college. We were supposed to room together in Fall 1998 semester, but he dropped out of college by then. He liked doing crossover stuff and this example of fanfiction is no exception. I remember laughing with him discussing one silly fiction he was writing which detailed a series of very bad days for all the various incarnations of the Starship Enterprise in which they were all inevitably destroyed. Please to be enjoying...or not...I just have a meme to fill :-)

(originally posted to That Other Journal on January 1, 2010)

ADDENDUM: One scene I remember from his composite sci-fi universe in which many different franchises were present in the same universe had a Babylon 5-esque station, but gigantic compared to the B5 station which was five miles long. In it a scavenger hunt was taking place sponsored by the humans running the station I guess in an effort to bring the other races together for some fun. While there were creatures from Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 among others, the only two species I remember specifically were the T'llyn and Kilrathi (fierce cat aliens from Wing Commander). I remember a jedi using a lightsaber to shave a Kilrathi's fur off and the T'llyn ambassador screaming at someone, "You're behaving like badly trained children!" which I guess says a lot about the T'llyn culture right there.
     Anyhoo, the scavenger hunt takes place and ends up ransacking the station. Ultimately the Kilrathi win and are presented by the captain with a statue of the station with the following exchange:

 KILRATHI (looking at trophy): What is this?

CAPTAIN: It's a trophy in the shape of the station.

KILRATHI (angry): Do you take us for fools? I have studied human anatomy! This is not a statue of the station! This is a giant human p-

COMMANDER (interrupting): Let's hear it for the Kilrathi!

(everyone cheers)

CAPTAIN (to Commander): Does my station really look like that?

COMMANDER (to Captain): Well, the station's architects were all male.

CAPTAIN (to Commander): No wonder I feel so inadequate.

(addendum from August 14, 2013)