Valjiir

[Geo]

 

[Buster's Uncle]

Specifically, Del and Ruth used to be a thing.

[Valka]

Jeremy and Sulu were lovers.
Jeremy and Del were lovers.
Sulu and Del were lovers.
Del and Ruth were lovers.
Sulu and Ruth were lovers.

Jeremy and Ruth were not lovers (because Jeremy is gay, not bisexual, and Ruth is straight).

Sulu and Jilla are married. Jilla was previously married to Selar. Jilla and Spock had a brief relationship during Jilla's pon farr.

Spock and Ruth are married.

There have been other relationships among the characters (ie. Ruth had a brief relationship with Kirk before her marriage to Spock) but that's the main list of past and present relationships.


Back in the '80s, I was at a convention in Calgary, and someone had left a flyer for In a Different Reality on the freebie table (IADR is the 'zine where I first started reading the Valjiir stories 30 years ago), and a woman picked it up and started fuming in anger. The flyer was for the issue in which Spock and Ruth got married (#16), and she went on a rant that No Way should Spock marry Ruth, or anyone else. It didn't happen on TV, so she figured it shouldn't happen in fanfic. No amount of my explaining that it was a story and not meant to take away from the TV series or movies would calm her down. So I just took a flyer and left her to mutter about it.

[Geo]

The forum (or, at least, I) need a dizzy smilie.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Mylochka]

They certainly don't fit in with the scene in their bright and shiny uniforms. Also, they're both red shirts...
(not both expendable I hope)

Yes, I was hoping to use color in this image to make them seem uncomfortably out of place.  In this story, the residents of this run-down mining colony are fairly hostile towards the Star Fleet personnel sent to make repairs to their facility.  At this early point in the story, Jer is getting the strong impression that something suspicious is going on, but he's not sure what that might be.  That's the feeling I was trying to convey in this story

[Valka]

The forum (or, at least, I) need a dizzy smilie.

That's a perfectly straightforward list I posted (should have mentioned that Jilla and Selar were married before Jilla went to Starfleet Academy, and her brief time with Spock happened after she was assigned to the Enterprise, and before her marriage to Sulu and Spock's marriage to Ruth). The reason Jilla joined Starfleet in the first place is because Selar died.

See? It's all quite easy to follow. 

[Geo]

See? It's all quite easy to follow. 

I'm not that well-versed in social interactions.

At this early point in the story, Jer is getting the strong impression that something suspicious is going on, but he's not sure what that might be.  That's the feeling I was trying to convey in this story

My impression (with the look of the miner in the background on one of the pics you posted) was more of just not fitting in the local culture.

I call it a "close, but no cigar" smilie.

[Valka]

See? It's all quite easy to follow. 

 

I'm not that well-versed in social interactions.

Well, I've been reading these stories (and re-reading and re-reading) since the mid-'80s when I first heard of them and found them worth the insane exchange rate back then between the US and Canadian dollars, when I'd get IADR via mail order. It used to freak my grandmother out when she saw I was getting packages from Intergalactic Underground Press (she worried that I'd get in trouble with the RCMP, since around that time there was a huge thing about them opening peoples' mail if they thought there was anything suspicious about it).

[Mylochka]

   I think the various Valjiir romances would make into an exciting venn diagram...

The forum (or, at least, I) need a dizzy smilie.

That's a perfectly straightforward list I posted (should have mentioned that Jilla and Selar were married before Jilla went to Starfleet Academy, and her brief time with Spock happened after she was assigned to the Enterprise, and before her marriage to Sulu and Spock's marriage to Ruth). The reason Jilla joined Starfleet in the first place is because Selar died.

See? It's all quite easy to follow. 

[Geo]

Venn diagram? Be my guest.
But the center part might be overcrowded.

[Buster's Uncle]

Flux - Valjiir is dirty, and just not for you.  Stop reading this thread and check out Mylochka's Art tutorial thread.

[Geo]

Perhaps the forum needs a 'NSFC' - Not Safe For Class - icon? Like those we can pin at a thread (discussion, movies,...)?

[Mylochka]

Well, these aren't the most exciting pictures in the history of ever, but I thought I'd share.  I converted a couple models from 3ds to Poser format.  This gives me much more detailed Engineering, Corridor, and Auxiliary Control sets.  Soon to be appearing in a story illustration near you!

[Valka]

 

Thank you for posting these - I don't always express appreciation right away, but I do enjoy your work. And the link to the Valjiir site is still in my sig at TrekBBS, so maybe some of the people there have visited? I hope so.