2The Babe A Week Club
This was a lot of fun, not least because I had enjoyed identifying the women from their descriptions before their names were spoken, and recalling the episodes in which they appeared. There were lots of humorous touches that kept me giggling my way through most of the story.
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 06:58:47 -0500

2The Babe A Week Club
This was a lot of fun, not least because I had enjoyed identifying the women from their descriptions before their names were spoken, and recalling the episodes in which they appeared. There were lots of humorous touches that kept me giggling my way through most of the story.
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 06:59:08 -0500

3Blast From The Past
Very enjoyable! The author has a nice light hand for humor and this story just sparkles from start to finish. And the ending is a real kicker.
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:00:23 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
This story is laugh out loud funny, each and every letter's worth! I particularly enjoyed figuring out which episodes each letter to Miss Lovelorn corresponded to.
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:01:44 -0500

7Doctor's Orders
Of all the purple prose in fanfic this year, this has got to be the purplest of them all!
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:02:59 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
I love the 'dishing' that goes on in this story. I'll bet that's what the Lower Deckers really do talk about!
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:03:54 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
Somebody deserves to be grounded for this one!
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:04:42 -0500

11Once Upon A Shore Leave
This story has some of the wittiest banter I've ever read. Most lines had me smiling, and some had me laughing out loud. I loved the 'you're going to stay in here until you get it right!' concept. Sounds like a wonderful idea for *all* recalcitrant fanfic couples.
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:06:02 -0500

13Space Cowboy
This 'incarnation' of Kirk and Spock truly makes me want to say, "Captain, I'm frightened!"
-- Rocky - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 07:07:04 -0500

2The Babe A Week Club
I'm not sure this should be in the humour section--the implications are too dark. But my, it is really funny to see how all the various ladies from Kirk's past react to the idea of being with him forever. But it's even funnier to find out that it's an Antonia origin story. I'm not sure if that makes it a TNG Generations crossover or not, but it's still quite a scary look into the Paramount dream-making machine.
-- Paula Stiles - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:08:45 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
Bwahaha! Put all food and beverages away while reading this fic. This fic incorporates all of the standard fanfic cliches - all written from the POV of a teenager. Over-the-top writing, lots and lots of metaphors and euphemisms for sex - it's all here. Definitely one of the funniest stories I've read this year.
-- Seema - Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:29:36 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
I was going to say that this story had no redeeming value whatsoever, but then I saw "the purple blossoms of k'eather." They made the fic for me.
-- Jemima - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:15:27 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
First of all, I adore the title. The fic itself begins, in the fine tradition of "If Minimum Wage Cashiers Wrote ST:DS9," with hilarous vacuousness. Then the fatal stupidity of the characters creeps up on you just as the water level creeps up on them. The ending is just right. Overall, both the humor and the pacing were top-notch.
-- Jemima - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:31:32 -0500

8Insufferable
This story is offensive and silly and despite it all, hilarious.
-- Jemima - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:33:56 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
I admit, I didn't quite follow all the references, but I laughed out loud when I got to Christopher Pike's letter. I also loved Gracie and Sybok's letters. I'm still laughing over the t'wenty Vulcan names.
-- Jemima - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 02:01:56 -0500

3Blast From The Past
This story was mucho fun. "Blast from the Past" was witty, bawdy, sexy--with some Unforgettable...er...images;-) I LOVE this picture of the young Christine Chapel complete with blue hair--and blue language And those brownies...;-) As a very recent grad myself, I can say the picture of decompressing post-Final students, and campus life in general, was perfection;-) And I...er...indentify with the state of Chris' dorm room. Funniest line in my very humble opinion? One word: "earlingus" Bwaaaahhhhhhhaaaa!!!!!! Of course that's rivaled by a certain exchange that contain uhm words of two primary colors. (I still giggle whenever I think of those lines) I'm not saying more about that--read the story which is delightful complete with more than one surprise it would be criminal to spoil. I can't remember a story I've read where someone wrote a love/sex scene that had me cracking up every other line like this (well, except maybe for a couple of stories where that was clearly unintentional but we won't go into that here). And then of course there's that kicker of a last line that had hooting with laughter. This is a wonderful debut story and one of the funniest stories I have read this year. I can only hope for more from this author in the coming months and years.
-- RabbleRouser - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:40:13 -0500

4Checkmate
This was quite raunchy but funny. The beginning with the desperate measures the crew was taking while bored (tribble splat-ball and all) won a smile and I had to chuckle when Spock was described as having been more animated when his brain was removed. It only got whackier and more demented from there. My favorite line, God help me, probably being the one about what happened the last time Kirk encountered a girl with...er...uhm...assets. Funny last line too so it ended as well as it started.
-- RabbleRouser - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:44:23 -0500

5Closet Space
Stephanie Watson is a TOS newbie and if this short short is any indication, she has a wicked comedic gift. Stephanie takes a character barely there in canon--the "Mister Adventure" in "The Search for Spock" and gives him a voice--and it's a hilarious one. I found myself laughing harder and harder at each repeated "Nevermind." Stephanie gives new and delicious meaning too to his time "in the closet." This was a really fun answer to the Mister Adventure challenge and I hope we'll see more stories from Stephanie in the future.
-- RabbleRouser - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:44:49 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
Dear Awards People and Fellow ASCers.This is Jungle Kitty at her hilarious best that will leave you laughing until you have a stitch in your side and my favorite of her stories this year. Consisting of a series of letters to "Dear Miss Lovelorn" from different characters from the original series, from the television episodes to the movies, a lot of the fun consists in playing who's who especially since the letters are signed with such monikers as "Wanting to Give Up the Batteries and Rev Up the Real Thing" and "Drill Thrall in Love" though I think there's just about a note for each episode and that they are in chronological order. I don't think I can convey just how funny these all are individually, but there's also something about their cumulative effect that's positively dangerous. Try not to laugh--just try. Hah! Giggles grow to guffaws and inelegant snorts until you just give up and are doing the belly laugh jingle throughout. When Jungle Kitty is "on," there is no funnier comedic talent in Trek fanfic and this is Jungle Kitty at her inspired best. I especially loved one "chain-letter" among all the "Dear Miss Lovelorn" letters--just a hoot. Hmmm. Maybe we can convince Jungle Kitty to write a sequel? I’d love to read what Miss Lovelorn wrote back What can I say? I’m still giggling.RR, aka a fan of Miss Lovelorn.
-- RabbleRouser - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:45:48 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
Like her "Dear Miss Lovelorn," Jungle Kitty's "Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler" was funny from beginning to end. Consisting of a deliciously catty gossipy conversation around the "anti-matter cooler" about each of the original series regulars (with no character left unmocked--and yet usually in a dead on way--such as Chekov with his screaming and you are certainly left in no doubt what the speaker thinks of Chapel) this challenge piece read effortlessly. I had to love all the slobbering about Kirk because it was sooo well done. (I "dream of that Like her "Dear Miss Lovelorn," Jungle Kitty's "Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler" was funny from beginning to end. Consisting of a deliciously catty gossipy conversation around the "anti-matter cooler" about each of the original series regulars (with no character left unmocked--and yet usually in a dead on way--such as Chekov with his screaming and you are certainly left in no doubt what the speaker thinks of Chapel) this challenge piece read effortlessly. I had to love all the slobbering about Kirk because it was sooo well done. (I "dream of that smile" too so I’ve been there) And there are many great moments in a short space (it's vignette length so no excuse not to read it!)--too many to note. I was greatly fond of the detail that Spock drops more decimal points the sicker he gets with this cold and the nod to the perpetual "I'm a doctor, not a..." line. The end particularly left me hysterical, especially given one of the character's mad scheme to get noticed by the right people... The entire tale is told in dialogue so you just zip through the whole thing...far too quickly. This was a comic romp not to be missed!
-- RabbleRouser - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:46:49 -0500

11Once Upon A Shore Leave
This is one of the few "pure" Spock/Chapel tales Djinn spun this year and one of my favorite of the species. Djinn always makes these two characters play off so well against each other--as true opposites in personality, Spock and Chapel, have a lot of comic potential that she mines so well. Yet even in a story Djinn calls a "little light-hearted fluff" in her notes, there are gems that really speak to the heart. I love Spock's lines in the end about "near-impossible problems" and, it is implied, working out relationships. I found it moving when Chapel tells Spock how she wished for a simulacrum of him just in order to say goodbye to her hopeless love for him. Spock here is also written beautifully here. I think writers have to walk a very fine line in depicting a romantic Spock and in my opinion too often push him into someone I can't recognize. Djinn walks that line very well here and delivers a charming, fun, humorous story that I find genuinely touching. Not bad for a piece of "fluff." But then Djinn's "fluff" is another fanficer's master work.
-- RabbleRouser - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:47:44 -0500

3Blast From The Past
I've loved Blast from the Past since I was first privileged to read the initial parts some time ago. I'm so glad Kath decided to finish it because this is truly funny stuff and it was a crime to leave it unresolved! I laughed out loud too many times at the antics of this wise-cracking, blue-haired, college-age Christine Chapel and the poor Vulcan that meets up with her one fateful night. Kath is a master of humor -- Chapel's interactions with her hapless guest are hysterical, her use of the ummm colorful metaphors and his own cluelessness are just irresistible. They have a very interesting, if chemically enhanced, chemistry. I love the ending, it really made me think about the possible implications of this story later on, on an entirely different planet. It also made me sad that we lost this Christine and wound up with the Korbyfied moony woman that we saw on the screen. I hope Kath gives us more next year, this is too much fun to stop now!
-- Djinn - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:42:50 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
Very funny story. Talk about two dingbats! Love the ending
-- Djinn - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:43:12 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
This is one hell of a clever story. It's hard to find anything funnier than a truly funny Jungle Kitty offering and this ranks second only to "Kirk and Spock Go Ice-Fishing" (that one remains for me the funniest Trek piece I've ever read) Dear Miss Lovelorn is clever both for the way Jungle Kitty has put these letters to the intrepid Miss Lovelorn together but also for the fun I had figuring out who was saying what. There are several running gags, and the one that plays with another 60's icon is just hilarious! This is definitely a classic!
-- Djinn - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:43:30 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
This is one hell of a clever story. It's hard to find anything funnier than a truly funny Jungle Kitty offering and this ranks second only to "Kirk and Spock Go Ice-Fishing" (that one remains for me the funniest Trek piece I've ever read) Dear Miss Lovelorn is clever both for the way Jungle Kitty has put these letters to the intrepid Miss Lovelorn together but also for the fun I had figuring out who was saying what. There are several running gags, and the one that plays with another 60's icon is just hilarious! This is definitely a classic!
-- Djinn - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:43:31 -0500

5Closet Space
Very funny send up to that little scene with Uhura and the transporter tech.
-- Djinn - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:43:59 -0500

4Checkmate
Hilarious! Raunchy, jaded, and all-out fun. Chess was never quite this umm interesting before. Sort of reminded me of what would happen if Kevin Smith made a Trek flick. I kept seeing Jay and Silent Bob running through the Enterprise. Very fun!
-- Djinn - Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:44:21 -0500

2The Babe A Week Club
I had almost as much fun going back in my ST Encyclopedia recognizing the names, as I did reading the story! When I think of the work involved to get all the women in... I don't envy Rabble Rouser or Djinn! A cute story, with an ending I didn't see coming. And it was nice to go back and get to "revisit" old friends from the original episodes.
-- Cait N. - Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:33:18 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
This was absolutely inspired. And it's a fun quiz on canon, as you try to figure out who's written what letter - though that's easy enough when they sign with their IQ. I think my favorites are the gorn and Captain Pike. Oh, and the horta. And the tribble. And Peter. :-D Heck, they're all hilarious!
-- Lori - Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:05:28 -0500

7Doctor's Orders
I thoroughly enjoyed this epic by T'Kitty as narrated to Jungle Kitty (cousins?) and hope she sees this and sends us more. ;-)
-- Lori - Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:10:09 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
I'm sensing a pattern, here. No, really. JK's playful skewering of badfic cliches always amuses me greatly (if spouting tea on one's desk can be described this way). May she skewer more often.
-- Lori - Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:14:30 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
I wish I had the words. JK at her twisted parodying best. This was good to the last drop of radioactive water. You just know that somewhere on the Enterprise these two were hiding....
-- Lori - Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:24:37 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
(Let's try this again.)Truly superb. Witty, with an excellent grasp of TOS at its finest - and characters at their worst. Jim in the gym in tights, Spock's sinuses, Neo-Andorian fusion, and the exquitely brilliant 'technobabbilizer'. I bow before Jungle Kitty's wit.
-- Ke Roth - Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:52:06 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
Absolutely hilarious. Badfic at it's absolute best! I love the "author's" notes especially. Scary, and yet in the hands of Jungle Kitty, brilliantly funny.
-- Sara - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:42:53 -0500

13Space Cowboy
A new genre has been created: shopping mall Trek. "mental IM'ing" is a skill I'd love to have. A very, very funny "story."
-- Sara - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:45:47 -0500

1 Always This Interferences
A funny sort of "parking"
-- T'Rica - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:33:37 -0500

1 Always This Interferences
Sorry, I wanted to write: A funny sort of pickning. And I would have loved to be in the transporterroom when they beam up nacked.
-- T'Rica - Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:39:51 -0500

2The Babe A Week Club
Bwahahahahhahahaha! This was inspired, if not demented genius at work. "All the girls I've loved before", indeed! Rabble Rouser and Djinn do an admirable job of fleshing out a bevy of one shot beauties in this bizarrely funny little story. Areel Shaw, Edith Keeler, and Marlena Moreau specifically stand out in this wacky gathering. The twist ending is worthy of Rod Serling himself and would really explain a LOT if any of this was real. Not that I'm totally convinced it's not...
-- Kath - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:21:25 -0500

11Once Upon A Shore Leave
Hmmm... a fairy tale for grownups that's funny instead of Anne Rice-ponderous. Once again, Djinn gives us snappy dialogue and a Chapel with a spine who's more than a match for Spock. The skillfull character insight and emotional depth shown anchor this humorous piece and prevent it from become fluffy. A delight for any 'shipper!
-- Kath - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 12:25:47 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
Gawd. This one was long...and involved...and dang was it funny. It was downright terrifying to see the multifarious plotlines of the Trek universe reduced to letters to an Agony Aunt. As usual, though, Jungle Kitty juggled it all with aplomb, totally deadpan, and getting everyone's voice just right.
-- Paula - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:51:33 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
ROTFL! "Furry bosom"?! Ye gods, I am gobsmacked. Is there some way we can make this required reading for all beginning slash writers? Please? It would be such a public service. Heck, let's make it required for all the beginning het writers, too. Half of these clichés come straight from Romance Novel: Land O' The Heaving Bosom.
-- Paula - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:59:35 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
ROTFL! Oh, this was priceless. As logical a reason for redshirtitis as I've ever read. This is one of those stories that you *know* were happening behind the scenes of TOS. I mean, come on, not everybody on board the Enterprise could be a genius, right? Splendidly bitchy.
-- Paula - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:08:12 -0500

2The Babe A Week Club
The title says it all! The way the "babes" interact is both hilarious and consistent with their characters in the episodes. I wouldn't spoil the ending by describing it -- but it's a VERY fitting explanation of certain senseless decisions by The Powers That Be!
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:34:05 -0500

3Blast From The Past
Stoned college students celebrating the end of finals. A seductive young Christine Chapel who doesn't at all mind a bit of debauchery (well, more than a bit) with a handsome but naive Vulcan. What more could a reader hope for? Very fun!
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:39:20 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
What *would* an advice columnist have to say about all the dilemmas our favorite TOS characters got themselves into in the episodes? Heehee!
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:44:04 -0500

7Doctor's Orders
Just exactly how a teenager with way too little parental supervision would write K/S. 'Nuff said.
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:46:32 -0500

9Monday Morning at the Anti-Matter Cooler
Chattering morons in the workplace -- who are standing around discussing Kirk's sexy bod instead of doing their work, of course -- get skewered as only Jungle Kitty can do it.
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:50:24 -0500

11Once Upon A Shore Leave
A fun and romantic Spock/Chapel fairy tale. I think it probably should have been put in the Spock pairing category, because it's more of a romance than a humorous story, but either way, it was very enjoyable.
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:52:44 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
Ack! The teenage K/S fan who thinks she's so supremely kewl is back with a vengeance, writing hilariously atrocious romance while she ought to be doing her homework!
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:55:22 -0500

13Space Cowboy
Kirk and Spock hanging out at the mall, as told by a teenager with way too much time on her hands -- whose parents had better install Net Nanny before the evils of fanfic overwhelm their not-so-innocent daughter. Tee hee.
-- Ventura33 - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:58:15 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
This is brilliant. Humor is hard; sustained humor is really, really hard and yet this piece manages it perfectly. With its sharp lampoon of nearly every episode and movie, it covers that gamut of the Original Series and every entry is laugh-out-loud funny. My hat's off to Jungle Kitty.
-- Penny Proctor - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:59:56 -0500

2The Babe A Week Club
A great idea, well executed. Can't you just see all those women, together and trading stories about JTK? Too funny.
-- Penny Proctor - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:08:19 -0500

7Doctor's Orders
From the moment you see the page, you know what to expect and the story doesn't disappoint. T'Kitty's voice is true and oh, so familiar. One of the funniest send ups ever.
-- Penny Proctor - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:11:32 -0500

6Dear Miss Lovelorn
Okay ... there is a reason why it took me this long to write this up. I couldn't stop rolling on the floor laughing long enough to type. I pitty Miss Lovelorn in answering all these letters. She must give good advice, though as everyone in TOS is writing her.
-- Stephen Ratliff - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:45:18 -0500

10Nacelles of Desire
This story was a hoot. I laughed and laughed.
-- Jerie - Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:55:54 -0500