Fic: Five Times The Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (DW/STV)

[thisbluespirit]

Title: Five Times the Doctor Got in the Way of Captain Janeway (and One Time They Got Along Just Fine)
Author: lost_spook
Word Count: 5444
Rating: All ages
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor, First Doctor, Vicki, Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Ninth Doctor, Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay, Tom Paris, Tuvok
Summary: Captain Janeway doesn't think much of time travellers and higher beings who turn up on board her ship. The Doctor doesn't take much notice of prime directives. It's a tea vs coffee thing.

I wrote this for the dw_straybunnies October Prompt of the Month. I don't know whether it's more ridiculous that I randomly picked my own prompt, that I ended up writing for it, that I was right up against the deadline, or that I didn't even exactly keep to the prompt. (It was just I had a sudden, entertaining vision of if lots of people wrote the prompt and Janeway was repeatedly confronted by versions of the Doctor lecturing her on time travel, and then there was a plot bunny bounding about...)

Anyway, I'm always happy to wind up writing multi-era nonsense. Already on Teaspoon (I was literally fighting the deadline last night - no time for LJ posts... Or watching Downton Abbey, darn the thing. Will be watching that very shortly!)

Comments

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I don't even know Voyager, but I read it anyway...

...your first section heading made me want One-meets-Q fic.

No, I can't write it. I haven't even seen One yet.

*is not really coherent right now* (A friend just sent me a Youtube link of John de Lancie doing a dramatic reading of "The Raven". Between JdL being a massively OTT if adorable ham and Poe being a complete nutter, my brain is somewhat addled.)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, if you haven't watched any Voyager or any First Doc, I hope at least some of it made sense! (No Voyager? And I thought you were the ST Trek fan round here - I assumed you'd have seen the eps with Q even if you weren't keen on the rest of it.)

Another idea for dw_straybunnies? I'm not sure I could write it, either, though it sounds fun - One and Q? Heh. (I'm the opposite to you, you see - I only know Q from Voyager, so I tend to think of him as someone who pops up at awkward moments to propose, although actually that isn't a fair summary of his 3 eps, but I've seen 'The Q and the Grey' more often than the other 2... I'd need a more rounded picture. One of these days, I'm going to have to get my housemate, who is a TNG fan as well as Voyager fan - this is all her fault - to find me Episodes I Will Like from TNG to watch. I do this with DW for her, so it is only fair.)

No worries, I am frequently incoherent for various reasons. That sounds like a nice reason to be incoherent, anyway. :-)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I haven't gotten around to Q's Voyager eps yet. (I'm busy marathoning Stargate SG-1 on Hulu at the moment; their license for it expires in January.) Actually there's oodles of Trek I haven't seen... my family is only into TOS, though we are hugely knowledgeable about that. I'm just starting TNG myself, really.

(I heartily recommend "Q Who", btw. It's beautifully photographed and lit, has some amazingly gorgeous shots, and consists mainly of JdL and Patrick Stewart being massively charismatic actors at each other, with occasional interpolations of "oh we need a plot, let's introduce the Borg!" LOL. Also Q facing off against Whoopi Goldberg is a bit awesome.)

Yeah, Q isn't so much with the proposing pre-Voyager, although he did steal Picard's girlfriend that one time... *g*

[thisbluespirit]

I see! Well, my relationship with Star Trek has mainly been watching odd bits with various people (is it III where they save the whales? - watched that with my Dad and was v disappointed to find the other ST films were not about comedy people from space, saving the whales), & he occasionally watched bits of TOS, my flatmate at uni (we used to rent the video player along with the videos at the shop, and so we had to watch as much DW/Red Dwarf or ST as we could in one night, so I had to watch TNG if I was to be allowed to watch DW...) and my current housemate. I enjoyed them all, but never stopped to really watch until my housemate got a bunch of Voyager eps and I saw Janeway in action. So then I did stop, and liked the rest, too. :-)

Thanks for the rec; it sounds great - I do ask my friend which are good eps, but we're not always in the house at the same time. I shall have to see if she has that one. Q does seem to be entertaining, anyway. I've always suspected I would end up liking ST if I watched it, but the amount of it is daunting - so your TNG and SG will certainly keep you occupied!! And everyone always seemed so awfully serious... unlike DW. *hugs DW* (Q is a bit like the Doctor in being the flippant, disruptive source, I suppose. I'm not sure in other ways!) Which was why I liked Voyager on sight, because Janeway clearly has not only a sense of humour but a sense of the ridiculous, too. And then there's the Doctor, and Tom, and Tuvok, and B'Elanna, and Seven, and next thing I know I'm demanding to know whether my housemate has any more of these... In all the wrong order, but hey... :lol:

Heh - Q proposing is how I always think of him, and Janeway trying to get him to stop (This is completely my housemate's fault because she loves that episode, so it's frequently been on in passing in this house.)
Q: You're just playing hard to get.
Janeway: As far as you're concerned, Q, I'm impossible to get!
Q: Goody! I like a challenge.

:-)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

The one where they save the whales is IV. I have been known to tell people "even if you don't watch anything else with the original crew, you should watch movie four", because truly it is the pinnacle of Original Trek. Leonard Nimoy is a genius. (Of course, I like to get them to watch the whole II-III-IV trilogy if I can, just because it's so incredibly tightly plotted for something that was written as a series of oneshots!)

Q is... a lot like the Doctor in some ways, actually, now you mention it. Kind of if they played up the alien side of the Doctor a lot more - Q is really the completely incomprehensible alien, who usually winds up having done something helpful and important, but (on TNG) you never have any idea why he actually turned up in the first place. That's something that never really works with the Doctor, because at least since Two took over, he's been definitely benevolent; when Rusty tried to play Ten as the unpredictable force of nature last Christmas, we just all went "WTH? The Doctor's gone wacko!"

(I actually have a theory about Q's motivations... naturally, it's just as cracked-out as the man entity himself. It's my opinion that Q is the ultimate fanboy - a fic writer who likes AUs and takes advantage of his omnipotent powers to see the real characters acting out his stories. He can be a bit of a Mary Sue when he's using self-inserts for exposition, but he does allow the cast to keep their own personalities, thus vastly improving the quality of the "fic" beyond what your average Sue would produce.)

TNG does tend to be very srs bsnss, seems as if, from the few eps I've seen yet. They like to Address Issues, and also go quite heavy on the hard science/timey-wimey side of things... but as that's what I like in my skiffy (along with a side order of goofiness which Riker, Data, and Q between them can usually be relied on to provide), I'm loving it.

[john_amend_all]

I tend to think of him as someone who pops up at awkward moments to propose

I don't think he ever proposes to Picard, but...

[thisbluespirit]

Hmm... So Picard is more of a pushover, Q-wise, than Janeway? Heh.

[john_amend_all]

Not usually, but there are special circumstances in that particular case. The episode's "Tapestry" if you're curious.

Sisko's even less of a pushover. As Picard says to Q in one of the books: "He says he punched you in the face and you vanished, never to return. Maybe I should have decked you years ago."

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

*snort* I totally forgot about that scene! Again, yet. (And it was so obviously the whole reason they wrote the episode, too...)