alicambs-recs

Voyages of the Bakerstreet by fresne John Watson had worked hard to be accepted at Starfleet Academy. As an Augment, a descendant of the super soldiers who seized power on Earth during the Eugenics wars, he's had to work twice as hard. Play twice as hard too, because screw them. The only path to ship duty for an Omega is extra credits like T.A.ing a Professor's class. The mysterious Commander Holmes, an Augment like himself, would do nicely. Very nicely. Sherlock Holmes had gone to considerable effort to put his past - and his family - behind him. His career in Starfleet hadn't gone exactly as envisioned. Bounced from research facility to facility, his analysis on how to defeat the Borg ignored, now he's finally washed up teaching at the Academy. His T.A. is fascinating. Of course, he's entirely above all that alpha biological nonsense. Starfleet never really intended to assemble a crew with a half trained doctor and an alpha Augment with authority issues. But they also didn't really intend for the Borg to make it quite as far as they did. And so...These are the Voyages of the USS Bakerstreet. Her five year mission (make that ten (okay fine twelve year mission + time travel)), to seek out new life and new civilizations. To go boldly. Notes:This series is organized into seven "seasons" with individual stories grouped together so that each season has something of a story arc and the overall series has an uber plot arc. This fascinating and very well constructed series has 34 parts to it and is a long read, but some of the chapters are very brief, occasionally just a couple of paragraphs so don't be put off by the apparent length. It's a Sherlock/Star Trek crossover set in a variation of the Kelvinverse, but in the ST:NG/DS9 time frame. I've never been very taken with the idea of an Alpha/Omega universes, it seems a bit silly and superfluous plus I am very firmly a plot orientated reader, but the way this idea is presented is clever and rather fun. The plot revolves around John and Sherlock but many other view points and characters take centre stage throughout  the story, making it a complex and rewarding to read.