Otter's Rock

In addition to writing for Yuletide, I also wrote a treat for startrekholidays! Because DesertVixen asked for Ro Laren and Benjamin Maxwell, and it really caught my attention. (Maxwell is the captain whose family was killed by Cardassians during the war, and so he goes rogue and takes his ship into Cardassian space to prove that they're rebuilding, and Picard et al have to go round him up and bring him back to Federation space under arrest, despite knowing that Maxwell is right.) It's a great episode, and DesertVixen is right that they have some interesting commonalities. However, when I looked at the ways she suggested they might meet, I realized that the obvious way was none of those, but rather in prison, because "The Wounded" (Maxwell's ep) takes place a couple of years before "Ensign Ro," where Ro is introduced.


Title: The Prisoner
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: TNG
Characters: Ro Laren, Ben Maxwell
Written for: DesertVixen in Star Trek Holiday Exchange 2024

They didn't get many new prisoners, so each one was big news.

Laren heard there was a shuttle scheduled while she was in the gardens. It was her turn to turn the compost pile.

"Olwen said it was an admiral, someone really high up," Sime said. Sime was an engineer who'd somehow managed to hide a gambling addiction until he'd gotten in hock to the Orion Syndicate—and then, instead of coming clean to his superiors and asking for help, tried to clear his debts by selling information that had led to the deaths of half-a-dozen Starfleet officers, and the enslavement of four civilians. Laren despised him, but then, she didn't like many people.

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Title: Finding Common Ground
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 5,150 words
Betaed by: Karios
Written for: eratoschild for the Star Trek Rair Pair Prompt Meme
Summary: After “Conundrum,” Riker and Ro learn to be friends—and sometimes more.

AN: AU that references Conundrum, The Next Phase, The Outcast, Rascals, and Preemptive Strike.

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“You know, Ro didn’t need you encouraging her,” Will griped at Deanna two weeks after their memories were restored. “I had enough trouble trying to keep her in line before … all that.” Before they’d spent a week having very creative sex whenever they weren’t on-duty.

“Are you asking professional advice on a matter of personnel management, or griping at a friend?” Deanna asked.

( They were in her office, but both were off-shift. Will had stopped by to complain after a particularly trying day. )