Xeknos I'm not sure if I'd categorize "copying elements of Star Trek literally wholesale because multiverse" is really a mistake, though. Seems like you have to go into that with some intention.
But hey, backstories don't really matter, right?
The way I'd written it the 1st time, including elements of Star Trek was a faux pas...& I had some creative advice to do otherwise, so I found a way to include those elements in her Bio, without a blatant injection of a whole other series & universe into that of E:D.
You've plainly read her Bio... I think it plausible that in her generational ship, there'd be such recorded entertainment from the world the crew & passengers left, to enjoy during lifetimes of the journey& the generation ships did all come from Earth.
Star Trek has been & is 1 of the most famous & long-lived SciFi series, & arguably, if it didn't initiate the series genre, it very likely was 1 of the key influences. Besides, I'm a huge ST fan from Day One.
So, as you read, Synthya was frozen solid for ~1K years, effectively dead, & would have been nothing but a meatsicle in the near absolute zero of deep space except for a fluke, a twist of fate, that between her genetic modification/manipulation/mutation combined with the engineered injections somehow kept her revivable.
Not without cost though, with her memories jumbled (all this, if it isn't written already, will come out in the RP story) & finding that data crystal & seeing what she saw (all this has yet to come out in the RP story) would do nothing to help her confusion after being revived & returning to functionality with rehabilitation.
I agree with you on the point of my including that ST element, 1 of the most notable episodes from ST:TOS, was intentional, but I also wanted to respect what little of what E:D Lore there is. I simply added a bit of "artistic license" & creativity & wrote it in such a way that it would work.
I can't tell you how many hours it took/takes me to write things, because plausibility is such a huge thing for me. I research everything, & often quite technical. Like so many pages & articles & white papers on the Bussard Drive for instance. Another example is that "ConLang" I use for that paragraph, based on 'Trigedasleng' from "The 100" series, which seemed entirely plausible, but there isn't any translator for that & I spent days, weeks, working through dozens of sites of conversion dictionaries, & even engaged a group of fans who have made it a hobby to be able to communicate using it, for advice. To an aficionado, it's flawed, & likely they can (& maybe did, I'll have to check) do better; in future writings, I'll use only a word or 2... HUGE PITA to write in it for me. But, I thought it added another level of plausibility.
Call me a nerd, a geek, & that I'm OCD. Heh. Weird, certainly! I'm just SO not a fantasy fan.
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