InseQurity

Star Trek TNG Fanfiction
Title:	InseQurity
Author(s):	Alara Rogers and Mercutio
Date(s):	1996
Length:	~80,000 words
Genre:	AU, het, hurt/comfort, OC-centric
Fandom:	Star Trek: The Next Generation
External Links:	@Mercutio's site (via WBM), @Alara's site, Trekiverse
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InseQurity is a Star Trek: TNG novel by Alara Rogers and Mercutio, which pairs a human Q with a female OC, human programmer Naomi Allen, who also stars in Mercutio's PropinQuity. (The two stories explore different possibilities with the character.) It is rated R.

Like PropinQuity, InseQurity is a spinoff from Alara Rogers' Only Human, itself an AU of the episode "Deja Q". It is a sequel to "The Night They Drove The Borg Down" by Alara, in which Q has a sexual encounter with a male OC.

The Only Human tree describes it:

This spinoff takes place in the same "universe" as "The Night They Drove The Borg..." The fact that Q is beaten and left for dead occurs in all universes, but only in this one did Naomi save him. This story contains consensual heterosexual activity and a great deal of emotional torture.

Alara explains the authors' inspiration:

...After I began writing my novel Only Human (based on the premise that Q lost his powers in Deja Q and never got them back), I began to be plagued by ideas that couldn't be done without the backstory I'd set up, but couldn't fit into the canonical Only Human universe, either. What if the Andorian who'd tried to kidnap Q succeeded? What if Q and Harry Roth made the beast with two backs? What if Queria Lang (an original character of mine, who appears in one chapter of PropinQuity) came to the starbase and met Q there? What if the Cardassians had kidnapped Q? And so forth. I never did any of these, because I was afraid they'd be hopelessly confusing.

Mercutio, inspired by Only Human, and depressed at the fact that hundreds of pages had gone by and Q hadn't yet had sex :-), sent me what was to become Chapter 1 of PropinQuity, expecting that nothing would come of it. In it, she introduces a character to save Q from the despair that led to his suicide attempt, Naomi Allen. I liked the story considerably, twisted her arm into posting it, and then sat on her virtual doorstep like a puppydog with my tongue hanging out until she wrote more chapters. 28 of them, in fact. They're available at the sites listed below.

Now, of course, I began to spin "what ifs" involving Naomi (ooh-- a new character to torment! :-)) I tossed one of them at Mercutio and she ran with it. Thus was "InseQurity" born.

At some point we decided that it would be tedious to do more "Q's first relationship" themes in IQ, since that had already been done in PQ and will be done again in OH, so we decided to incorporate another what if I'd had for some time, the one about Harry Roth (a character I created, a gay physicist with a talent for witty repartee) becoming Q's lover. I wrote "The Night They Drove The Borg Down", and we incorporated it as backstory for InseQurity.

It was the winner of an ASC Award.