Promised Land

Fanfiction
Title:	Promised Land
Author(s):	The Enigmatic Big Miss Sunbeam
Date(s):	2000
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Genre(s):	TOS/DS9/VOY
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External Links:	online here
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Promised Land is a Star Trek story by The Enigmatic Big Miss Sunbeam.

It is in the same universe as Anybody Night at Oscar's Egyptian Caberet.

Author's Notes

NC-17, P/Q and every pairing imaginable, AU, TOS/DS9/VOY crossover, het, underage, non-con, rough sex. Novel-length. Extravagantly so. Plain text format due to length. Winner of about a billion Golden O's. This is an A/U world which I'll bet you don't think is Star Trek, but it is; as a matter of fact, it's about nothing but Star Trek and the love of men for men. The story starts in the Southern USA in the early 1980's, and Jean-Luc Picard is lead singer of a little traveling bluegrass band. And it just goes on from there. "Promised Land" was started by myself and another writer in February 1999; as the book grew, so did the awkwardness of the collaboration, so, in April 2000, I took over editing and writing and finished this edition in August 2000. Dedication: A great deal of my contribution was written on the road from my house to the house of my ailing parents. So I dedicate this to Big Daddy Sunbeam (d. 8/25/99) and Big Momma Sunbeam (d. 9/9/99).

Reactions and Reviews

Here's the first. I was saving this for a rough period coming up in my life, but I finally couldn't resist any longer and had to check it out. Wow! It's long, which is great! We're talking real novel length here. It's um, AU, I guess? (I don't know those terms as well as I'd like.) Anyway, all the Trek folk, and it seems like the gang's all here, are on Earth in the 1980s doing Earth type things. Like lots of steamy sex, lust, obsession, attempted murder, infidelity, dreaming, scheming, etc. There's cruelty here, and love mixed in. Mostly it focuses on Picard, who is an ex-con and leader of a bluegrass band, and Q, who is his bandmate and lover from prison and beyond. But Picard is all over the place. They are friends with Worf, and pick up some other TNG guys to be in the band. Then there's all the TOS, DS9, VOY and Trek movie people they run in to. I loved all the twists and turns. The vivid descriptions. The nastiness, angst, sorrow, and hope. There's even kidnapping, shooting, and such. The scene where they discover a large grocery store for the first time, it just made me tear up. Ok, that's more than 25 words, right? I could go on, but I should just shut up.