Review – The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat
Future cat?
Background
Tarisian Dreams suggested that I somehow find a way for Spot and Porthos to meet. The only methods were, I felt, either time travel or a holodeck simulation. I chose the former.
Plot
It’s during the Xindi War, and Lili has only recently been hired. While starting dinner, she brings Porthos to the galley. He sits, hoping that’s she’ll drop something tasty. Will comes in and scolds Lili, as this is a Health Code violation.
English: This is an orange/yellow tabby cat.
He insists that she return the beagle to Captain Archer‘s quarters. Lili does so, and departs as the ship is hit by a spatial anomaly. This creates a hull breach on B Deck. But this anomaly is temporal as well as spatial, and so it also results in Porthos being whisked away. And it’s over a century into the future, to the Enterprise-D, where Data, Spot, Geordi, Wesley Crusher, and Captain Picard all are.
On the NX-01, they fear Porthos is deAD. On the Enterprise-D, they try to get him home.
Plus I tell the whole thing from the perspective of Porthos, including his conversations with Spot.
Does Porthos get back to the right time period? Who helps him? And what happens to him and Spot, before he departs?
I guess you’ll have to read in order to find out.
Story Postings
- The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat as it was originally written
- The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat on TrekBBS
- also, The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat on Fanfiction.net
- The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat on Fictionpad
- in addition, The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat on Wattpad
- The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat on The G & T Show Forums
- The Continuing Adventures of Porthos – The Future Cat in context
Rating
The story has a K rating.
Upshot
I love writing animals’ points of view, and Porthos is always great fun. Spot was much more of a challenge, but readers have told me that I got cat POV correct. That was rather satisfying to read. Will they return? Absolutely, although I have no idea as to how to (if ever) get them back together again.
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