Exploring Strange Old Fics 2025
For the third year in a row, I’m hosting a Dragon Con panel titled “Exploring Strange Old Fics.” The goal is to look back on some of the early fanworks that have entered the broader cultural consciousness, influenced canon, and even launched careers. They’re not necessarily “strange” – and the intent is certainly not the make fun – that’s just how you formulate a Trek-related panel title. But, I do ask for volunteers from the audience to read aloud excerpts from several of these works, as if I’m teaching a terribly pretentious Shakespeare 101 class. This year, I thought it…