Notes to Alt - Star Trek - Creative News Groupe
Every posting group has a sort of code to give you and idea of what type of story your just about to read.  Alt, Star Trek, creative is no exception.   But in the true Trekker fashion,  they may have gotten a little carried away at how much information the title bar gives you.  But you may as well take advantage of what's presented.  To help you do that, here it a brake down of the codes you will probably in counter.  So far, there is not formal order for these codes.

Yellow - Formal
Orange - Proposed by myself.

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Presintation Order (Proposed)
  Postname Title Series Raiting Unit of Unit Charicter
Codes
Type
Presentation CAPS "In Qutations" CAPS [ ] #/# or
# of #
( ) lower case
Assume to be if omitted NEW     [G] 1/1 or 
1 of 1
  (standerd story)
Commonly omitted? No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Can this be omitted? No (Yes) No No N/R No Yes Yes
Exampel: NEW "Test Run" VOY [G] 1/5 (C&J)  
[ N/R = Not recomended ]
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Title Bar Codes for Star Trek Fan Fiction Posts
Subject Description Options
Postname The Postname tells everyone what to expect of your story.  The following are commonly seen  ones.  Any Postname followed by an '*' is discouraged in the interests of simplicity.

Assume to be NEW if omited.

Code Description
NEW New stories
REP Reposts
REV Revised Versions
COR Corrected Versions
DRA Drafts
NEW2ASC Sotries posted elsewhere first 
(Please use NEW)
WIP Stories still being writen 
(Please use DRA)
DRF 
DFT
Drafts 
(Please use DRA)
The codes in red are being discouraged
Title The name of your story Not applicable
Series This tells you which series a story is in.
Code Description
TOS The Original Series
TNG The Next Generation
DS9 Deep Space Nine
DSN Deep Space Nine
VOY Voyager
VGR Voyager
BTW X-over of TOS & TNG
BEY Beyond Current Series
AMA Amagosa Universe
INF Infinity Series
MAJ Majestic Series
MIS Miscellaneous (none of the above)
The codes in red are being discouraged
Raiting We use the MPAA rating system, as it's the most widespread out there. Those ratings are [G], [PG], [PG-13], [R], [NC-17]  Note the use of the []. We place them around the ratings to make them look different than several character codes.

Assume a G rating if omitted.
(Ommitting this raiting is not wise if you wish your work to be read.)

Rating Description
[G] No objectionable material 
[PG] All ages, but parental guidance is suggested.  Could be language or adult situations.
[PG-13] All ages, but parental guidance is suggested.  May be unsutabule for under 13 years of age.
[R] Adult content. This could be due to language, violence or sexual situations
[NC-17] Extremely Violent or potentially offensive material. (Such as gay theams)
[N/R] Not raited. (Not recommenced)
 
Chapter number. The chapter number of the total number of chaters that your story is made of.  Each post is recomended to be 25KBites, or less,
Code Description
X/Y Means that this is chapter X of a total of Y chapters
X/? Means that the total number of chapters is ether unknown, or that the story is continues.
 
 Type Several types of writing have been defined.

Commonly omitted.  Assume that piece is a full fledged story.

Type Description
xover A Crossover with another series. 
(Indicate Series)
poem Poetry
drabble A story of exactly 100 words
filk A song reworded to fit Star Trek
 
Character Codes Character codes are used to referance the main characters and romance pairings in the subject  line.

Usually contained within ( ).
Commonly omitted.

(See tables below)
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Charicter Codes
General Separators
/ Sexually Involved, or nearly so
& Relationship only (No Sex)
, Featured
 
Others
Q Q (John Delance)
Suzy-Q Female Q from "The Q and the Gray"
Q2 Male Q from "Deja Q"
Q(m) A male Q
Q(f) A female Q
SS Shuttlecrat, Starship, etc
m other male
f other female
Names can also be spelled out if not listed above or in any of the other charts. 
 
Voyager
C Chakotay
Doc The Doctor
J Janeway
K Harry Kim
Ka Kashryk
Kes Kes
N Neelix
P Paris
S Seska
T Torres
Tu Tuvok
Vo Vorik
7 Seven of Nine
 
The Original Series
C Chekov
Ch Chapel
K Kirk
Mc McCoy
R Rand, Janice
S Spock
Sc Scotty
Su Sulu
U Uhura
 
The Next Generation
C Beverly Crusher
D Data
L Lore
La Geordi La Forge
Lx Laxwanna
P Picard
R Riker, Willam T.
T Troi
W Worf
Wes Wesley Crusher
Y Yarr
 
Deep Space Nine
O`Bs Miles and Keiko O`Brien
B Bashir
Bl Bariel
Br Brunt
D Dax (Jadzia)
Du Dukat
Dmr Dumar
Ez Ezri Dax
G Garak
I Intendant 
(Alternate Universe Kira)
Ja Jake
K Kira
Kev Keevan
Ko`B Keiko O`Brien
L Leeta
Mo`B Molly O`Brien
O Odo
O`B Miles O'Brien
Qu Quark
R Rom
S Sisko
W Worf
We Weyoun
Zek Zek
Z Tora, Ziyal
 
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Credits
These page has been produced from the original posed FAQ placed on the Alt – Star Trek – Creative news group.  The FAQ is currently maintained by: 

Alara Rogers, Archivist (1995-8) 
 Ruth Gifford, ASCEM FAQ (1995-9) 
 Ned Fox, ASCEM FAQ (1999-present) 
 Dina Lerret, ASC Archivist (1998-present) 
 and other members of the ASC Staff. 
 
And is currently maintained by Stephen Ratliff at stephenratliff@crosswinds.net 

The FAQ is permanently posted at: http://www2.crosswinds.net/~stephenratliff/FAQs/Codes.txt

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