The Best of Trek Fanfic
| Recommendation Website | |
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| Name: | The Best of Trek Fanfic |
| Reccer(s): | |
| Dates: | Opened December 2001; Last update August 2003 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise |
| URL: | http://geocities.com/botrek/index.html http://www.geocities.com/botrek/index.html http://www.reocities.com/botrek/index.html |
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The Best of Trek Fanfic is a Star Trek recommendation site.
- "We're Trek fans who really like to read and write fanfic. Consequently, we spend a lot of our waking moments scouring the web looking for good fanfic to read. There are five of us, each devoted to a different series."
This site is being documented here as part of the OTW's GeoCities Rescue Project.
Philosophy
"After reading as much fanfic as we have, you can definitely separate the good from the bad. Mostly, we look at characterizations, spelling and grammar. Oh yeah - having a plot certainly helps."[1]
The same criteria was applied to gen, het and slash stories, although slash/NC-17 rated stories were noted with red text in the "rating" section[1]
Only one story was recced per author (except for Author Spotlights). Authors were emailed for permission to link and, if they agreed, sent a graphic to display on their site and added to the links page.
Nominations
The site accepted nominations from readers via email or the guestbooks. It was acceptable for authors to nominate themselves.[1]
Nominations were kept anonymous, but not neccessarily recced on the site.[1]
Author Spotlights
The Author Spotlight section contained interviews with Star Trek fanwriters, and links to five or six of their stories.
Questions
Each author was asked 16 or so questions, including:
- What does your "writing space" look like?
- How did you get started writing fanfic?
- Out of all the stories you've written, which is your favorite and why?
- When you're reading fanfic, what are you looking for?
- Every author has a "must read" fanfic list. What does your list look like?
- Do you have any advice for other fanfic writers?
Authors interviewed
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Djinn September 2003 - Djinn (TOS)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Kelly Chambliss August 2002 - Kelly Chambliss (VOY)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Killa February 2002 - Killa (TOS)
- January 2002 - Year 2001 in Review
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Kathleen Dailey October 2001 - Kathleen Dailey (TOS)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Penny A. Proctor July 2001 - Penny A. Proctor (VOY)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with D'Alaire April 2001 - D'Alaire (VOY)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Jungle Kitty February 2001 - Jungle Kitty (TOS)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Una McCormack December 2000 - Altariel (DS9)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Judith aka OdoGoddess August 2000 - OdoGoddess (DS9)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Wildcat June 2000 - Wildcat (TOS)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with TrexPhile May 2000 - TrexPhile (TNG)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Jenn April 2000 - Seperis (VOY)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Your Cruise Director March 2000 - Your Cruise Director (VOY)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Laura Taylor February 2000 - Laura Taylor (DS9)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Cheile January 2000 - Cheile (VOY/DS9)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Dave Rogers December 1999 - Dave Rogers (VOY)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Seema November 1999 - Seema (DS9)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Tracy Hemenover October 1999 - Tracy Hemenover (DS9)
- The Best of Trek Fanfic Interview with Julie Evans September 1999 - Julie Evans (VOY)