BONC
| Mailing List | |
|---|---|
| Name: | BonC |
| Date(s): | 1996 - 2008 (?) |
| Moderated: | Yes |
| Moderators/List Maintainers: | Merlin Missy, Sandra Guzdek, Julie "Juliebug" Martin |
| Founder(s): | Sandra Guzdek, Julie "Juliebug" Martin |
| Type: | discussion, fanfiction |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Scope: | Picard/Crusher |
| URL: | |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
BonC was a mailing list in Star Trek: The Next Generation fandom, focused on the pairing of Picard/Crusher.
The name BonC comes from Beverly on Jean-Luc.
Links
- homepage
- a 2000 FAQ
- A FAQ to #BONC (the IRC Channel on the Undernet)
- BONC Purity Test
- Museum
- Photos
- Links
About
What is BONC?
Good question. I'm glad you asked. (Sure you are. [Oh be still and let the woman ramble.]) BONC stands for Bev ON jean-luC. We're a private mailing list dedicated to just one thing: getting our favorite two Star Trek characters together in as many ways, shapes, forms and lifetimes as humanly possible. {Speciesist!}
[...]
Cut to the Fall of 1995. I posted a little bit of nothing to the Patrick Stewart Estrogen Brigade about fixing TGBO (The Great Bald One) up with Doctor Beverly. Almost immediately, I received a response from someone by the name of Sandra... asking whether I was interested in getting those two together. This started a lovely correspondence during which we decided that we definitely needed a group. Meanwhile, Amy had graduated and moved to DC, visiting only occasionally. One weekend, she brought the first chapter of a little story she called "The Cure." Within one posting [By Christine Faltz --- don't forget the names.] and two weeks, Amy had fan mail out the wazoo. One of these letters was written by someone at Brandeis {Ms. M's alma mater} named Jessica Levine, who also turned out to be interested in The Couple (Isn't that like saying the Vermin isn't a nice guy? - TAG). It was time to start a group, if only for the three of us. Sandra and I had tossed around names (The best still being alt.fan.rabid.gates.mcfadden) for months. Then Sandra suggested BONC. And that, children, is the story of chicken soup.
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So what do you do?
Anything we want, within reason. We seem to be split between being a writing group and a discussion group, and therefore do both. BONCers can write stories and post them to the gang for approval/questions/comments/critiques. We also find stories, songs, poems, quotations, and the occasional picture from various sources with BONCy themes and post them for everyone's enjoyment. We also do a great deal of discussion. We review episodes of TNG, "Marker", "Mad About You", and anything else we can get our hands on (like... -Don't even say it!-). We also talk about our lives and the little things that make them grand or sad. We laugh a lot and we share our troubles. We talk about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and Dixon Hill and mail filters and scooters and we have fun doing it.
Spin-off BONCs
Due to an unprecedented volume of viewer mail, there are now in existence nine spinoff groups, BONC2, BONC3, BONC4, BONC5, BONC6, BONC7, and BONC8. And, for our under-18-but-still-wanna-go-BONCers-set, BONCJr. and BONCJr2 [cue applause]. Heck, I guess we can keep going until we have a hundred groups!
Age Requirements
There is one rule for potential members of any regular BONC spin-off groups, however [This one's the kicker.]; all members have to be above 18. Yes, we have discussed it to great lengths. Due to the nature of some of the things we discuss and write, much of the group's work is inappropriate for children and young adolescents. With the current political climate (in America, anyway) favoring censorship of what someone in Washington thinks is obscene, we have to be wary of corrupting young minds. Of course, this does not limit their access to any of the alt.sex groups, or to HBO, or to the movie theatres, or to the newspaper, or ... But I digress.
The above rule has led to the formation of the previously mentioned BONCJr. This list is for people under 18 who still want to BONC, but who don't want to get the rest of us arrested.
Later Controversy
Later discussion about archiving from this community: BONCer Alert: Stolen Fanfics; archive link (June 1st, 2009)