Trek Stuffs

Isn't there any good Data fic on the interwebs that I have not already read?

I've seen Scarab's stuff, and been through various archives. But the archives seem to be filled with either slash, smut, or Mary Sues the size of the the Excelsior.

I even came across one story that, while it started pleasantly enough dispite a slight Sue, devolved into total anarchy in the space of three paragraphs. I should have pulled out as soon as I saw Lore and Data tolerating one another, but being me, was hopeful that it might have been, against all odds, done well. My hope was placed in vain. A Sue is a Sue is a Sue, and that one was a doozy.

The rest of the archives are filled with something that, surely, was written by someone with no grasp of grammar and spelling. While some even looked interesting, I could not bear to suffer the glaring errors.

I have found, aside from Scarab's awesome stuff, a whopping total of five well-written Data fics that don't make me want to scream. This is severely dissapointing. Surely the android has a following of good writers on the web? I felt as though I were looking for Watchmen fic, but at least Watchmen has the courtesy of leaving blankness where it is not. Data fic has brain-breakage in that same place.

That will teach me to Google Star Trek for anything more than basic pictures.

Also: Do all the good androids asprode to save the world/galaxy/whatever? Because, dude. Ouch.

Random

Relates to my last post.

To those who haven't seen Nemesis -- don't. But B-4 is adorable and kinda sorta makes up for the fact that the movie sucked ass. And, at some point, has a total ADD moment about Riker's beard.

Rrrr!

Humans are infuriating.

As you probably all recall, at the beginning of summer, I purchased Archie from a local bike shop.

Since I've been at school, two people (including Creepy Cop Guy, who is actually rather nice) have been very aggressively trying to get me to sell them my owlbike.

While I have no intention of selling Archie, even for the $200 that Creepy Cop offered, I promised both that I'd get that local bike store to order more and arrange details from there. When I purchased Archie, they were very adamant about being about to order as many as I wanted, hoping I would provide more sales.

So I called their offer.

And they now say that, not only can they not order any more like Archie, but they deny ever selling it to me!

While this simply could be self-preservation on their part (Archie was not assembled very well, and I went back and tightened many bolts where they had not), it seems equally stupid. I can guarantee them not one, but TWO sales of at least $140 each. Would this not seem like a sound investment?

PEOPLE. UGH.