Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Though I didn't actually read the Season 8 Buffy comics, I read and heard enough about them to recognize that ShayneT's recently completed 47-chapter fic Legend over on TtH incorporates the end of that Season 8 storyline into Buffy's back-story, where it is then interwoven with the Star Trek universe's Eugenics Wars back-story (mostly referenced in a couple of episodes of the original series and in the movie Wrath of Khan, but it also cropped up in DS9 when Julian Bashir's genetic modifications came to light, and then of course there was a multi-part ST: Enterprise storyline dealing with 'The Augments' in that show's 4th season). Then ShayneT has Buffy Summers' cryogenic capsule (launched into space towards the end of the Eugenics Wars) cross paths with ST:TNG's Lt. Commander Data during his time in Kivas Fajol's private 'collection', and life gets very interesting indeed for Buffy, the Federation, and some of the Federation's most persistent foes.

I don't want to spoil the story for anyone who's inclined to read it, so I'll just say that the 'ride' this story takes you on is well worth the time and effort and any emotional energy you might invest in it. Very satisfying in a number of ways, even if the story seems to start with Buffy in a very unenviable position with regards to the Federation and some of its less-laudable citizens and attributes.

As a long-time Star Trek fan from way back before BtVS was even a gleam in Joss Whedon's eye, and particularly as a fan of the Bajoran and Maquis storylines of the later Trek series (including the whole DS9 series, which is my favorite of the modern iterations of ST), how can I NOT love any story which has Dawn Summers' 21st-century memoir about her sister's battles become a major source of inspiration for the Bajoran Resistance as just a relatively minor, almost "by-the-way" element of the story?

If you're a BtVS fan -- even if, like me, you've only heard about the Season 8 comics at 3rd hand and regard only the aired episodes of the TV series as fully canonical -- and you also know (and at least somewhat enjoy) your Star Trek in general and the tail end episodes of ST:TNG season 3 in particular, then I urge you to check out Legend.

In fact I can heartily recommend most of this author's crossover and non-crossover fic that I've read (even though it's never as thoroughly proof-read as I'd prefer), including the SG1/BtVS fic Potential (SG1 ends up lending a hand with the final battle of Sunnydale, after Potential Slayer Lt. Jennifer Hailey is targeted for assassination by Bringers), the "Lois and Clark" non-cross/AU fic Veritas (the 'closeted' Clark Kent of an alternate earth where he never got the chance to meet 'his' Lois accidentally ends up in a different universe where "Superman" is arguably the world's most recognizable fictional character while a real reporter named Lois Lane is imbedded with the troops during the 2nd Iraq war -- a story which is also posted on the Lois and Clark Archive site with a bunch of other L&C stories by this author), and one of my very favorite "Lois and Clark"/BtVS crossovers, Strong, in which Lois Lane survives long enough to meet her new, unwanted reporting partner Clark Kent only due to a sudden influx of superhuman strength that strangely coincides with the mysterious collapse of the town of Sunnydale, requiring that Lois and partner travel to the LA area to investigate.