Soft Canon
This site serves as a supplement to the primary game site: USS Joshua Norton, a collaborative writing RPG set in the Star Trek universe. The posts found here are history of the various characters who are featured within the game, as well as mission logs from previous games they were used in. This site is considered soft canon for the most part, with logs posted from other games considered AU.
Posted 2024-07-05 15:11
"Computer, play Andy Warhol by David Bowie," Noah said as he and Amelia ran into the family quarters. "Mum and Dad listen to it all the time." The computer chirped, and the intro started to play. Amelia scrunched her face as she considered. "Oh, I remember it now." She flopped onto the couch. "H...
Posted 2024-02-01 10:38
Quinn was waiting outside the pub, a PADD in hand when Houghton... Stace arrived. He had all the notes, along with his notes on Stace's notes—questions, and some defending rebuttals. It was really a great honor, but he would still defend his own research. It had forced him to do quite a bit more r...
Posted 2023-03-16 10:24
"The holodeck is that way..." Corey continued to follow Diziara as he half turned, looking back at the junction where they’d just taken a left instead of a right. She laughed. "We're not going to the holodeck." She caught his hand in hers and grinned. He raised an eyebrow, but followed. "You sai...
Posted 2022-09-09 9:54
"By the sacred chalice, who let the Death Kitten back on campus?" The cadets who recognized the voice of Lieutenant Commander Enwin Ilyad, the first year ethics professor, immediately straightened to attention in the semi circle they stood around the edges of the courtyard. In the middle, the two...
Posted 2020-10-04 9:36
"Sean, you ever spot this place before?" Amelia grabbed her taller friend by the elbow and turned on a dime to duck down the alleyway toward the unassuming door and the simple wooden sign. It was all he could do to keep up with her as she drug him. "What place?" He extracted himself from her grip...
Posted 2019-11-17 10:15
All the planets just across the Orion border are the same. I have long forgotten which misbegotten hunk of space rock the cafe was on, but I remember the name — Malathaar. The sign was probably older than anyone on that moon, the flower it took its name from laser etched into it, but so faded that i...
Posted 2019-05-12 11:20
"Celestia and Luna," Diziara said as she nodded towards the twin blue skinned holograms that stood in front of her and Blue. His eyes and antennae trailed up and down each of them — one in white with a pastel rainbow peeking through from a lower layer of her white hair, the other in black with navy...