I should reasonably be able to pick an episode every month.
As a reminder, here's the rules (some we've agreed to, others made to satisfy most parties):
1. The selected episode will be posted to this thread at the beginning of every month.
2. The missing scene can be general or a pairing, but no slash pairings.
3. The missing scene can be any genre or any rating. Stories can be NC-17, but will be posted in Decon. Spoofs and parodys obviously wouldn't work, but a secondary character can make fun of a primary character's behavior offscreen or how a decision that was made was stupid. For example, you could have a missing scene where Hess teases Trip about getting "pregnant" in
Unexpected.
4. All entries must include "The Pick-An-Episode Challenge" somewhere in it and in the subject line.
5. Writers don't have to do a pairing, but if there is a pairing it must be canon only.(Trip/T'Pol
). If it's a secondary character pairing, so long as the pairing isn't with Trip or T'Pol, it would be fine. For example, you can reveal a one night stand between Reed and Hess offscreen (though please keep any pairings believeable. If you do a Reed/Hess, be prepared to justify it in your story...i.e. heat of the moment or if it's an episode where the crew is acting out of character as a part of the plot, "the anomaly made them do it" or "the illness made them do it"). AKA no slash pairings.
6. Missing scenes can AU, but must fit within the confines of the episode canon and other established canon for the series (an addition of mine, if everyone agrees). For example, for Terra Prime, T'Pol can't have another baby later, but they can talk about it offscreen.
7. Missing Scenes don't have to be from a primary character's POV, but the secondary character's POV MUST REVOLVE around a main character. Just one rule on that: NO MARY SUES (Don't put yourself in the story) purely because that drives me nuts. Also, any interaction a secondary character has with a primary character MUST BE BELIEVEABLE.
If everyone agrees, we can continue. We can work on the rules on a case by case basis if need be, but the above will be basics.
Since we're in the middle of June, I can just make this July's challenge and give everyone an extra couple weeks. So to be clear: the July challenge will run from now until July 31.This month's episode is: E2.
There's so few missing scenes done for this one and I'd love to see some different viewpoints on this. Writers can even explore more about older T'Pol's past with the other Trip or Phlox's relationship with his selected mate.
One I'd like to see is the other Reed's reaction to everyone pairing up and how he go left in the dust.
I picked this episode first because it's an sort of AU and gives writers more to explore offscreen. It'll stretch everybody's brains so to speak. But beware, they get tougher from here.