OCs (and we're not talking Orange County)

[WarpGirl]

I have no clue about Travis either. In my mind all of the other writers versions of him makes him an OC himself.

[panyasan]

There are a couple of OC's that I like to know more about, for example the garden women and date of Archer in Honeybee's story A kiss at Midnight. She only had a few lines, but I thought she was very interesting. I like stories that shows people from other departements. I also like to see more of the science department T'Pol is running. I remember a story of Alelou were crew members of the science department were introduced. Funny to see how Alelou painted them as persons that have a hard time working together, being all of them loners. One of them had a very interesting conversation with Trip how to deal with T'Pol as head of the department. And Rick Eisler - Reanok mentioned him - in Rigel Kents stories is drawn in such details, but still mysterious, that I also want to know more about him.

[honeybee]

Thanks panyasan. Bowers (the garden woman) was the classic OC creation - a functional place holder who grew into a real person. It's always fun to see how the lower deck crew would react to TnT's relationship - so that's what we see there. And she came out so cute, I made her Archer's New Years Eve Date. We can't have Archer pining away for T'Pol in a happy story, can we?

I wrote her into the epilogue of Family Secrets, since obviously they would need flowers decorate the mess hall for the weddings. So, again, she's there to provide information about what the crew thought of what was going on on the ship.

And even though Hernandez is Archer's love interest in FS - Bowers might get another shot at him in the sequel.

[WarpGirl]

I really love "not really" OC's like Anna Hess, Chef (personal favorite), Rostov, even baddies like Masaro. However I really wish that Captian Hernandez got more attention. I don't necessarily want to read Archer romances (yuck!) but I thought she rocked. And Technically isn't she one of the first woman Captians in Starfleet.

[Asso]

I really love "not really" OC's like Anna Hess, Chef (personal favorite), Rostov, even baddies like Masaro. However I really wish that Captian Hernandez got more attention. I don't necessarily want to read Archer romances (yuck!) but I thought she rocked. And Technically isn't she one of the first woman Captians in Starfleet.

I wrote something about Hernandez and Archer in "Human Mood". And things will proceed.

[WarpGirl]

Well Archer wooing anyone doesn't appeal to me. I just like Erica.

[panyasan]

Thanks panyasan. Bowers (the garden woman) was the classic OC creation - a functional place holder who grew into a real person. It's always fun to see how the lower deck crew would react to TnT's relationship - so that's what we see there. And she came out so cute, I made her Archer's New Years Eve Date. We can't have Archer pining away for T'Pol in a happy story, can we?

I wrote her into the epilogue of Family Secrets, since obviously they would need flowers decorate the mess hall for the weddings. So, again, she's there to provide information about what the crew thought of what was going on on the ship.

And even though Hernandez is Archer's love interest in FS - Bowers might get another shot at him in the sequel.

Sorry forgot her name, but she made an impression. I thought she made a nice date for the captain even when I always root for Captain (Erika) H. Erika rocks and like others have said, I like to see more stories with her.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Honeybee Was the Professor's name Tiffany? Because that was totally awesome!

Maye Tiffani with an "i"

Sorry to all the Tiffanis out there...

[honeybee]

Nah. . .but the prof did tell me he had long ago lost count of how many dumb, female characters he had read with the name Tiffany! I think he spelled it with a y on the syllabus.

[honeybee]

I would like to say that Blue Tiger (who likes to write about the adult Tucker/T'Pol kids) - has done quite a good job with adult son Morgan in her latest fic. All the charm of his Dad, but with pointed ears and a dash of Vulcan logic. Very dashing.

[bluetiger]

Thank you so much Honeybee. I really try hard to give each of their children a unique and well rounded personality.
The compliment means a lot coming from you.

[WarpGirl]

I've discovered why people like Dinah, Rigil, Bluetiger, and others whom I can't think of are so brilliant at writing OC's. IT'S FUN! I'm seriously concerned I'm becoming addicted. I just hope and pray I'm even a teeny tiny bit as good as it as my heroes.

[Kotik]

One thing that most of us have in common is using underused characters from the show, rather than inventing complete new characters. If one looks into memory-alpha, there's a veritable list of Enterprise characters who featured only once or twice over the whole run of the show. That leaves enougth potential to develop them.

My favorite OC is Dinah's High Priest Torok. The more I read "The Thorn and The Rose" and "Briar Patch", the more Torok appeared to be that silver haired Priest, who performed the Surakovectomy on Archer at the end of "Kir'Shara. While Dinah never said so, it would actually make sense that Torok would be the carrier of Surak's katra. He has an unusually sharp insight into the behaviour of the Romulans and into the Humans, especially Archer (in the latter chapters of Briar Patch), which could well come from both being current/former carriers of Suraks katra.

[WarpGirl]

Interesting theory, you do know that that priest was the same guy who married T'Pol to Koss???? Wherever she got the idea Torok is my fav OC of all time.

[Kotik]

Just thought I'd bring that thread to live, since I found an OC, who could give Torok a run for his money in the race for favorite OC. There's a story "Gateway" by Quill, over at HoT, followed by an unfortunately unfinished story "Enemy of the State". Both include a (hinted at) TnT son - Jonathan Soma. Quite an interesting figure