TrekGirl Interview with DangerMom

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Title: TrekGirl Interview with DangerMom
Interviewer: Annie M.
Interviewee: DangerMom
Date(s): November 2000
Medium: online
Fandom(s): Star Trek
External Links: interview is here; reference link
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DangerMom was interviewed for the website TrekGirl.

"Author of The Daybreak series, The Soul's December, Even Heroes ... and much more."

Interview Series

Excerpts

I started in TOS fandom around 1975, writing humorous essays and poetry. My first foray into fanfiction was Star Wars. By the eighties I was writing Doctor Who, Magnum, p.i, and other stuff. Shadow Chasers, anyone? Robin of Sherwood?

Well, it's funny--I've been a Star Trek fan since I was 13--when TOS premiered. But when I got into fandom, and I stuck with Trek through everything else, I was content to read Trek fanfic, but never felt inspired to write it. Eventually, I produced one TNG story, and one for DS9. By then I was not keeping up with print fandom and zines like I used to--partly because of the time and expense involved, partly because of the changes fandom underwent, both before and after the Internet. In fact, I hadn't done much writing at all in the years before Voyager...

All P/T, all the time... It's great that the Paris and Torres relationship exists in canon. I can't say I'm always happy with the way it's been handled. It'll take something very powerful or special to get me to write about it from a canon-based view. Some of what they've done lately on the show has been very good, but we have no guarantees for continuity or consistency.

I think, like a lot of the people who got kick-started into writing P/T in the wake of third season, I was impatient and wanted to really get them going. Perhaps I was rushing things with "Daybreak," but I have tried to cover my tracks in other stories to show how I think the relationship might have developed. Along the way, of course, it turned into an AU.

I see Tom and B'Elanna as two people who needed to find each other. They're enough alike, yet unalike, to be a good match. Life may not always be easy for them, but they'll fight for their happiness.

I don't like stories that go to implausible extremes, or too far into the "dark side." Generally, I pass on slash, although I look at some pairings occasionally, sort of a morbid "car-crash curiosity" syndrome.

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