Alara Rogers' Writing Journal

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"Burning Time" (this is a working title and may change) is the sequel to Guidance, which is itself yet another spinoff of Only Human. You probably already know the premise of "Only Human" if you are reading this page, but if not, short version: in "Only Human", Q lost his powers in Deja Q and then never got them back, and the story picks up three years later with the death of Picard, because Q wasn't there to save his life (as in the episode Tapestry). Of course, this makes the story rather less attractive to the Picard/Q fans, so I decided to write a P/Q version of the universe in which Picard *didn't* die, just had to go on medical leave, and thus was written "Guidance."

Although I have plotted "Burning Time" for some time, I prioritized it ahead of other stories because lt_kitty requested it in exchange for a donation to John Kerry on fan_the_vote.

The story as written so far is PG-rated, maybe even G, but eventually will end up R-rated for violence and one sex scene. The characters Jinn and Naomi Allen were created by Mercutio (blog_mercutio) in her series PropinQuity. Harry Roth and Dr. Sussman are mine. Everyone else is obviously owned by Paramount Pictures.

WARNING: This story is incomplete. I know, most of you probably got that from the byline being "Alara Rogers", but for those of you that don't know me... read at your own risk. I only promised 3,000 words for Fan the Vote and instead I wrote 7,000, but I may not get back to this for a while, since I have other stories that deserve some time. (Or, I may keep going, now that I've gotten into this one. No promises in any direction.) This section ends on a cliffhanger. Yes, I am cruel like that. Deal.

( Burning Time, pt. 1 )