From: emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Wendigo)
Subject: Help needed with storyline idea
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:03:55 GMT

I have an idea for a ST:TNG story line involving a meeting with
the aliens from the Aliens movies, and I was wanting some information
that could be relevent to the story.  (Yes, this is a crossover)

First, some of my ideas of things that will occur in the story:
1) A Starfleet ship will be invaded by the Aliens, loosing all bar
   one crewmember...
2) The Enterprise will discover a Borg ship that has been massacared
   and is completely dead...
3) At least one major character has got to die.  I've already decided
   but I'm not telling you who  :-)  (I bet Rez could guess, couldn't
   you?  Don't do so out loud thought :-) )

I'm tossing up two titles for the story, either "Uninvited Guests"
or "Ko-by Oshi Maru" (sp?  Spelt if more or less phonetically here)

Theres are few other details that I've thought of already which I wont
post now, so as not to spoil the story too much if it ever gets written.

I would like a bit of technical information about some things in the
StarTrek and Aliens universe before I go on:
1) How exactly are you suspose to spell "Ko-by Oshi Maru"?
2) About the U.S.S. Enterprise:
   a) What is the class of ship.
   b) What is the number of the ship.
   c) How many people are on the ship.
   d) How many children are on the ship.
3) About the U.S.S. Hood:
   a) Anything known or mentioned about this ship in the ST:TNG series?
   b) The class of the ship.
   c) The number of the ship.
   d) How many people are on the ship.
   e) Any biographical material about her crew that is available.
4) In StarTrek VI, the president of the United Federation of Planets was
   an alien with all white hair and white or blue eyes (I can't remember)
   I also remember seeing another of that race in StarTrek IV on one
   of the ships disabled be the probe.
   Any and all information available about that race would be helpful.
5) Any and all information about the Alien race could proove helpful.
   i.e. Is there actually a name for the race?
        A home planet?
        How great is their intellegence?  Just above an animal cunning?
          Or greater?

Thanx to any and all who provide info.

I'm really just letting the ideas mull around in my head at the moment
and am working on hammering out a complete story-line outline before
a start writing.

CREATIVE Crticism and plot ideas are welcome (as long as they're not
copyright :-) ), I don't want this to be just a "Aliens infest ship
and start killing everybody, and crew wonder how to get out of this
fix" type story (although I guess with Aliens, that'll be a fair
part of the story), I would like to have some sort of underlying
intrigue to the thing, I'm not sure how or what yet.

Comments such as, "Don't bother, I hate crossovers" or "I hate Aliens"
will be used to fill up /dev/null.  If you don't like it, you don't have
to read it, but there are many who do like crossovers and would like
to read (I hope) this sort of material.  Tolerance and acceptance of
anothers preferences is a virtue, any Trekkie should be able
to tell you that :-)

Thanx.

Evan McLean.
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Wendigo                                    | Every day in every way I'm getting
          [ Occasionally thought of as     | better and better, at least that's
            emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au ] | what the little green men from
   { Sometimes answers to Evan McLean }    | mars keep telling me!
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