So this is the ridiculous, 40k novella-length MASH Star Trek AU that I have been working on for the last few weeks, in which BJ Hunnicut is sent by Starfleet to a distant medical ship in the midst of the Dominion War, where he meets, and immediately adores, the ship’s sweet-but-crazy Chief Medical Officer (and indomitable head nurse!). Hijinks, as they say, ensue, alongside a little wartime romance and a lot of daytime drinking. Hawkeye is a nonbinary empath. Margaret is Bajoran. I had a great time.
If by any chance you enjoy my writing and want to read this though you’re not familiar with the set-up, you definitely could: either as a Star Trek story with all-original characters, set on a medical ship stationed near Bajor during the Dominion War, or as a completely original piece of space opera SF. I don’t think it matters if you know the MASH characters or not - they are a delight to meet for the first time, and obviously these are altered versions of them anyway.
To read this from the other direction or as original space opera SF, I think you’d need to know that there’s a war going on. Our heroes are Starfleet, who were formerly an exploratory and scientific organisation and have become a military force, and who are now are waging a war for the Federation, a giant, democratic alliance of worlds. They’re fighting an advancing empire, the Dominion, who are coming through a wormhole from the other side of the galaxy. The Dominion seek what they call “order” - basically subjugating everyone else in the galaxy to their will. Their forces are made up of foot soldiers called the Jem ‘Hadar, terrifying armed creatures which are organised and commanded by a different set of aliens called the Vorta. The Dominion is actually run from the top by the Founders, otherwise called changelings. They’re shape-shifters, basically people made of goo, who can make themselves resemble anyone or anything. They make perfect spies, because there are very limited ways of proving someone or something is a changeling rather than the thing or person it’s chosen to impersonate.
On MASH: I have changed nothing in this other than the obvious, it’s a show about war and pain and fear and serious mental illness, but to be clear: it’s a sitcom. Hawkeye and co. are much funnier than this story would lead you to believe.
some things you just can't speak about (wherever they come from, they'll never run out) (40893 words) by
ravenChapters: 9/9
Fandom:
MASH (TV),
Star Trek,
Star Trek: Deep Space NineRelationships: B. J. Hunnicutt/Peg Hunnicutt, B.J. Hunnicutt/Hawkeye Pierce, Hawkeye Pierce & Margaret Houlihan
Characters: B. J. Hunnicutt, Margaret Houlihan, Sherman Potter, Radar O'Reilly, Maxwell Klinger, Frank Burns, Sidney Freedman, Hawkeye Pierce, Peg Hunnicutt
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Star Trek Fusion, Friendship, Romance, Mental Health Issues, Polyamory Negotiations, Dominion War (Star Trek), Nonbinary Character
The stranger is wearing a science-green uniform dress with a bloodstained white apron over it and a red dressing gown over that, and they don’t look like any Starfleet officer BJ has ever seen.
BJ Hunnicutt is sent by Starfleet to a front-line medical ship in the Dominion War, where amid terror, boredom and daytime drinking, he falls for his sweet-but-crazy maverick of a chief medical officer.
(Hawkeye, as ever, is doing their best in a difficult world.)
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