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(No One Gets) All of it Right (4167 words) by Regionalpancake [AO3]

Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raffi Musiker & Cristóbal Rios, Raffi Musiker/Cristóbal Rios Characters: Cristóbal Rios, Raffi Musiker, Mister Hospitality | La Sirena's Emergency Hospitality Hologram (mentioned) Additional Tags: Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Humor, Friends to Lovers, (nearly), Male-Female Friendship, Pre-Season/Series 01, Merry Month of Cohen Series: Part 6 of [Regionalpancake’s Merry Month of Cohen Stories] Summary: You don’t ask what happened. You don’t have to. You see the dress uniform in Starfleet gold hanging from her loose fist and fill in the blanks. Raffi’s at rock bottom after a Starfleet conference turns south. Cris is there to comfort her.

Or Raffi/Rios - how it almost happened.

What’s in a Name - Regionalpancake - Star Trek: Picard [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elnor/Hugh | Third of Five Characters: Hugh | Third of Five, Elnor (Star Trek)

Additional Tags: Hugh | Third of Five Lives, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, (of the gentlest variety), Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Intercultural naming conventions, Fix-It of Sorts

Summary:

“Two people who are in a sense nameless, who are both from nowhere… now trying to make a life together, choosing a family name” - the tumblr tags via Song-Spero that inspired this fic.

(Aka, a fluff opportunity I just could not ignore)

PBJ, Warm, Kinda Squished - Regionalpancake - Star Trek: Voyager [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom Paris & Seven of Nine Characters: Seven of Nine, Tom Paris Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Episode: s04e20 Vis à Vis, 1969 Camaro, StarTrekPotluck2024, Male-Female Friendship, Big Sur, road trip vibes, mild peril to both cars and sandwiches Summary:

“Imagine, Northern California, late twentieth century. You're cruising up Highway One, the woofers are pounding, the wind is whipping through your hair."

Seven helps out with Tom’s driving programme.

My contribution for this years @startrekpotluck 🩵 5th year in a row! We've been doing this for half a decade folks 🥳✨

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Regionalpancake - Star Trek: Picard [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raffi Musiker/Seven of Nine Characters: Raffi Musiker, Seven of Nine Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Missing Scene, Angst, Masking, Grief/Mourning, Seven dealing with the loss of borg tech, seriously imagine suddenly losing a huge part of your sensory processing ability and memory-, and then try to act casual, Episode: s02e05 Fly Me to the Moon (Star Trek: Picard), Angst with a Happy Ending, Blood and Injury Summary:

Bodies are difficult, and grief is difficult, but loving her is easy.

Newly human Seven of Nine struggles with understanding the world without her Borg physiology.

@trillscienceofficer I got you 🫡💽✨

Track List:

Life Raft - Regionalpancake - Star Trek: Picard [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: La Sirena Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Emil | La Sirena's Emergency Medical Hologram & Four (xB OC) Characters: Emil | La Sirena's Emergency Medical Hologram, Four (xB OC), Hugh | Third of Five, Mister Hospitality | La Sirena's Emergency Hospitality Hologram, Ian | La Sirena's Emergency Engineering Hologram, Emmet | La Sirena's Emergency Tactical Hologram, Enoch | La Sirena's Emergency Navigational Hologram Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hugh | Third of Five Lives, holoween, Holoween2023, holo technology as medical accessibility, slaps the roof of the fic - this bad boy can fit so much medical trauma Summary: When no one else can get a young xB the medical care she needs to save her life, Emil is the only doctor for the job.

Anytime - Regionalpancake - Star Trek: Picard [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raffi Musiker & Cristóbal Rios Characters: Cristóbal Rios, Raffi Musiker, Ricardo Ramirez - Character Additional Tags: Angst, Light Angst, Missing Scene, Crew as Family, Found Family, Merry Month of Cohen, A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes, some people are never completely gone, these two deserved better, Post-Season/Series 02, a quiet morning in the 21st century Summary: In the 21st century, Rios misses talking with his oldest friend.

Out of the Game - Regionalpancake - Star Trek: Picard [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Picard Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raffi Musiker & Cristóbal Rios Characters: Raffi Musiker, Cristóbal Rios, (mentioned) Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Episode: s02e10 Farewell, not so much a fix-it as a fixate-on-it, these two deserved better, or at the very least a little mourning, You_Want_It_Darker, Merry Month of Cohen Summary: Aboard La Sirena, Raffi tries to come to terms with her friend’s decision.

I have a class at uni this year that’s all about conlangs, i.e. constructed languages. We’ve had some presentations on Tengwar, the writing system developed by JRR Tolkien for his Elvish languages, on the dialects and historical development of Valyrian from the Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones universe, and much more. For a final paper, we were told we can write on pretty much anything: the syntax of Sindarin, how language is used in GoT to unite and other characters from each other and the audience, was Esperanto doomed to fail?, we could even invent a writing system or grammar for a made-up language of our own.

I was really unsure what I wanted to do for a long time. I love Tolkien’s languages and can still read the writing fluently, but it’s been a few years since I was really obsessed. I wasn’t sure if I could find any aspect I could focus on enough to devote a whole term paper to. And then one day, inspiration struck me while I was taking a shower (minutes after reading about why it is that inspiration so often strikes us when we are on walks or in the shower):

I can translate a small section of Beowulf into Klingon and write about the process of that! And thus, the idea for BeoWorf was born! (Pun courtesy of the inimitable @regionalpancake)

Now, fan translations of classic works into Klingon have a storied history. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Chancellor Gorkon says that “you have never experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.” Going off of that, the Klingon Language Institute has created “restored versions” of e.g. the original Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'nos by famous Klingon playwright Wil'yam Shex'pir.

I’m not nearly this ambitious, of course! My knowledge of Klingon is severely limited and the professor teaching the class couldn’t remember whether Klingon belonged into Star Wars or Star Trek. So, the actual academic work won’t be in the translation itself, but in documenting the process leading up to it.

I expect the Klingon text I come up with in the end won’t meet the standards of the dedicated translators who have devoted a lot of time and passion to this fictional language. But the point of this exercise isn’t to create a flawless translation of (a very small part of) Beowulf. The point is to have a term paper topic so thoroughly entertaining (and close to fandom shitposting) that I will actually sit myself down and write it. And to have fun. I feel like after the year+ we’ve all had, there is a lot of value in making the things you have to do as fun as possible.

So, without further ado: An Outline For A Possible Term Paper!

BeoWorf - It’s better in the Original Klingon

Introduction “You’ve not experienced Shakespeare until you have read it in the original Klingon.” (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

Ch 1: Klingon - A History

who are the Klingons in Star Trek?

origins of the Klingon language

fandom engagement with the language and fannish translation projects

Ch 2: Klingon - Grammar and Challenges

an overview of remarkable features of the Klingon language

including a brief note on how they innovate or fail to innovate on standard conlang fair

Ch 3: Klingon Poetics

Are there rules for writing poetry in Klingon?

How do e.g. the writers of the Klingon Shakespeare projects handle it?

What approach do I want to take, considering my translation is a representation of ancient epic poetry as opposed to not-quite-as-ancient theatre?

Ch 4: Klingon Warriors and Monsters

most translation projects of Klingon don’t just translate, they localize (i.e. adapt the text to a target culture), following the premise that they’re recreating a Klingon original text

Klingon was created for a science-fiction warrior culture, therefore Beoworf and his companions travel on spaceships to the head of a neighbouring house and fight the monsters plaguing him with bat'leths and phasers.

depending on how much space I have: go into more or less detail of how aspects of Beowulf (from surface level practicalities to concepts of retainership and loyalty) would map onto the fictional Klingon culture

Ch 5: Beoworf, An Annotated Translation

translation of a very limited section of Beowulf into Klingon-localized modern English, and translation of that into Klingon

detailed annotation of interesting grammatical aspects

(Yes, whatever I end up with will go on AO3, but only after I have handed in the paper and it has been run through the department’s plagiarism check. I’m not 100% certain how those things work and what they would or wouldn’t catch, but I’m not going to run the risk of having to explain to half a dozen people at my university why my term paper (or even parts of my term paper) are posted online next to angsty starship drabbles, rousing tales of maniacal space roombas, and something called “IKEA Intergalactic” XD)

 @thefinalfrontpage​ is proud to make the cover for this term paper!✨🧡🐧

Here’s a question for the avid Star Trek: Picard viewers among us: why did Bruce Maddox send Soji to work on the Artifact?

I’ve been pondering this for quite some time now, trying to sort out what, exactly, Maddox’s plan was for Soji, and so far, I’ve mostly been puzzled. The obvious answers don’t actually hold that much water once you really look at them, but I’ve been struggling to find any alternative explanations. So, I decided to look at what exactly the show tells us about Maddox’s motives and how, if at all, I can make sense of them.

STAR TREK FANDOM EVENT

May 1–15(ish), 2021

Master List of Fanworks

A HUGE thank you to everyone who submitted a fanwork to this glorious festival of misery and pain (and just a little light!), and the same to all the readers/viewers/supporters of the event – it’s been AMAZING, and I’m already looking forward to next year’s iteration! Without further ado, here are all the fanworks – share this post, check them out, and give them some love if you haven’t already!

May 1 You Have Loved Enough by @amoderngirl Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, G, Carla Johnson/Mark Johnson ——

May 2 Until the Sea Shall Free Them by @70thousandlightyearsfromhome (ShayneyL) Star Trek Voyager, fanfic & fanart, T, Harry Kim & Tom Paris, Harry Kim & B’Elanna Torres ——

May 3 At Least for Tonight by @curator-on-ao3 Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, T, Kathryn Janeway/Kes, Kathryn Janeway/Harry Kim, The Doctor/Kathryn Janeway Includes covers by @regionalpancake ——

May 4 And the break of day had nothing to reveal by @allthewians Star Trek Alternate Original Series, fanfic, M, Philip Boyce/Christopher Pike ——

May 5 The Lagoon by CAMIR Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, G, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 6 A Captive Breath by @theredheadedcaptain Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 7 After the Champagne by BlackVelvet42 Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Ayala/Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay/Seven of Nine ——

May 8 I am not others by @jazzfic Star Trek Picard, fanfic, T, Enoch & Agnes Jurati, Agnes Jurati/Cristóbal Rios Includes cover by @regionalpancake ——

May 9 Crow’s Feet by @regionalpancake Star Trek Picard, Star Trek The Next Generation, fanfic & fanart, T, Hugh Third of Five, Bruce Maddox ——

May 10 If I Didn’t Have Your Love by Bizarra Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Ayala/Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway The Dark Led Me to Light Again by StarTrekkin08 Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, G, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 11 Mine by @caladeniablue Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Kathryn Janeway/Kashyk, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 12 Heart With No Companion by Servalan Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, M, Chakotay/Tessa Omond, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway ——

May 13 Dance Me to The End of Love by @gluecookie​ (Monsterfisken) Star Trek Discovery, fanart, G, Joann Owosekun/Keyla Detmer ——

May 14 to follow the sun by @thelaithlyworm (Thimblerig) Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek Picard, fanfic, T, Kestra Troi-Riker & Thad Troi-Riker, Lwaxana Troi & Thad Troi-Riker Includes cover by @regionalpancake ——

May 15 Ring the Bell by @verobatto (BENKA79) Star Trek Voyager, fanfic, E, Harry Kim/Tom Paris ——

“Fandom is a Potluck Dinner”

Hello friends, it’s that time of year again! 

Grab a plate, pull up a chair, and consider yourself enthusiastically invited to StarTrekPotluck2021! 

The challenge is to create a piece of fanwork that is food or drink themed, and based within the realms of the Star Trek universe. If you’re interested in joining in on the Potluck, here’s what you need to know:

What do I do?

Pick a type of food or drink, a meal time or a place where nourishment is served/prepared, then create a fanwork around that place/event/object.

It can be any type of fanwork, for example; fanfic, gifs, fanvid, fanart, poetry, podfic. The only constraints are that it needs to be set within Star Trek (any series), and it must follow the theme of food/drink.

When do I do it?

Choose a publishing date between 1st August and 14th August. (Multiple works can be hosted on the same day if necessary. The more the merrier!)

How do I do it?

1. Pick a Star Trek fandom, or a mash-up of Trek fandoms. (Please do not submit crossovers with non-Star-Trek fandoms.)

2.Message this blog with your chosen date, the Star Trek fandom(s) you’ve picked, and the type of fanwork you’ll be producing.

3. Message this blog for any questions / changes etc.

4. Post your delicious fanwork on your chosen date.

5. Message this blog with the details of where your fanwork is posted, and tag your post with #startrekpotluck2021

6. If posting on AO3, add your fanwork to the StarTrekPotluck2021 Collection.

7. Follow this blog for updates!