Plotbunnies running amok

[wiseheart]

I've been hinted at working on an alternate Enterprise pilot, with probably a couple of more stories in the same AU settings later on, right? The story in which John Barrowman would play Captain Archer and Gareth David-Lloyd the enigmatic, time-travelling Crewman Daniels?

Well. I've finished the first 3 chapters, rewriting them several times and am well into Chapter 4 now. Except that I suddenly got the idea to turn it into a Star Trek/Whoniverse crossover.

The crossover settings would be like this:

- Captain Archer is actually a great- great- great- and several more times great-grandson of Jack Harkness, hailing from a marriage in the 19th or early 20th century (remember that wedding photo Jack was gazing at longingly at the end of "Something Borrowed"?)

- Crewman Daniels actually is Ianto, who got snatched and reanimated by the 9th Doctor during "Children of Time". Just because I like Nine best. And besides, it's all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey, so why not? Anyway, he can't return to his own time (timelines crossed, Reapers unleashed and stuff), so Nine places him into the 22nd century to figure out what happened to the Torchwood Institute, which was supposed to support human space exploration and to make sure Enterprise survives the machinations of the Vulcans, the Sulibans or whoever else is involved in the Temporal Cold War.

- Hoshi is a descendant of Tosh, and I gave her a similar background, including iprisonment for unwillingly working for Terra Prime. This aspect is already present in the current version of the story and won't change.

- The shadowy figure giving the Suliban instructions from the future is actually the Master.

I'm not sure which version to write. On the one hand, I've already written a lot for the original, purely Enterprise version, and throwing it out would be a shame. OTOH, the crossover version has much potential, and it could give a more believable explanation to the stupid Temporal Cold War than Enterprise canon ever has.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Comments

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Oh, to discard so much already written would be hard, but if the new idea has a strong hold on you, then that may be where the muse most wants to go. Even if you do go that way, you may sometime come back to those chapters.

Try continuing Chapter 4 and if your mind is always wandering off to the cross-over, I think that might be the clue that you need to follow the cross-over course.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I will do that. Thanks.

[breannarose1.livejournal.com]

I agree with saki101.
Keep going with what you got to see where it might lead...


In the end though, it looks like you'll eventually have 2 excellent stories to tell.
Good luck!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And I just might end up writing both of them...