I got bored in ECE 100 seminar today (someone from the NSA talking about, er, well, opportunities for engineers in the NSA) and started jotting an outline in my notebook. This was odd, inasmuch as I rarely, if ever, actually do outlines.

The result, whenever I get the time to flesh it out properly, already has a title graphic:

(If you're keeping score at home, it's the January 7, 2407 episode - the first one to air after the Great Earth Alliance Crackdown of 2406.)

--G.
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to quote a friend:

hawt.

t.
has been looking forward to this story for a while...

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YEAHHHHH! Looking forward to this, chief! One of my favorite side-arcs of this crazy thing that you do.

"Some say that he sweats a substance not entirely unlike sodium benzoate, and that he's developed an irrational fixation on Peter Graves..."

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...All we know is-He's called THE STIG!

< THIS SPACE FOR RENT >

Someone in my area has a bumper/window sticker that says "I am the Stig." I was behind them recently, and all I could think was, "Some say that he never learned how to use a turn signal..."

>Someone in my area has a bumper/window sticker that says "I am the
>Stig." I was behind them recently, and all I could think was, "Some
>say that he never learned how to use a turn signal..."

Hammond: Hang on, has the Stig ever indicated before?

May: Well, he'll hardly have needed to, will he.

--G.
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A fair point, I suppose.

Looking forward to it.

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington

Oh, awesome! The last Top Gear story was quite a read, I look forward to this one.

Oh, HELLS yes. This is gonna rock our collective socks off...

On a related note, Top Gear probably won't be doing anything monumentally special for a while yet, since the ConDem coalition just froze the license fee for six years. On a differently related note, this may mean that the BBC tries to get more money by launching a subscription service for iPlayer for overseas types at roughly the cost of the license fee. Which means more easily-accessible Top Gear, even if it is downsized somewhat.

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"Together we will build an empire of a million shining suns." -- Dave, Dictator of Utopia.

>Oh, HELLS yes. This is gonna rock our collective socks off...
>
>On a related note, Top Gear probably won't be doing anything
>monumentally special for a while yet, since the ConDem coalition just
>froze the license fee for six years. On a differently related note,
>this may mean that the BBC tries to get more money by launching a
>subscription service for iPlayer for overseas types at roughly the
>cost of the license fee. Which means more easily-accessible Top Gear,
>even if it is downsized somewhat.

Wait WHAT.

That'd be fantastic if it happened. Please do keep your friends in the colonies informed about the progress of this. :)

Back on topic, more Gryph-penned Top Gear is always A Good Thing and I am already shivering with anticipation.

I'll take a bit more of the boys for a bit less of the wandering. Sounds fair unto me.

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/* BBC Ethereophonic Orchestra
"Jessica (Theme from Top Gear 2400 Edition" */

CLARKSON (VO): On tonight's Top Gear: We fight for our lives against impossible odds with true grit and dauntless courage!

(INT. DAY, TOP GEAR STUDIO. All three presenters try to hide behind the interview couch, with predictable success.)

CLARKSON: JAMES, WE'RE GOING TO BE KILLED!

CLARKSON (VO): Richard faces an old foe...

(EXT. DAY, TOP GEAR TEST TRACK. A large truck-like vehicle sits on the tarmac. HAMMOND enter from left, obviously shoved into frame against his will.)

HAMMOND (subdued): This is the HB-88. Better known as the Banzai Institute... ... jet car. (He swallows audibly.)

CLARKSON (VO): And the Stig runs an errand.

(INT. DAY, POSH OFFICE BUILDING. Tight shot on a heavy closed door.)

VOICE (muffled): Sir, you can't go in there!

(The door crashes open. THE STIG stands framed in the doorway, his racing suit scuffed, rumpled, and even burned in a few places. Behind him on the floor, a few UNIFORMED BODIES can be seen.)

--G.
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Is it odd that I now am more interested in reading how you handle Hammond and the 88 than the escape from Earth?

I did this kind of hurriedly on my Droid while I was waiting for the EE lab to be unlocked, which is why there isn't any markup (square brackets are not readily accessible on the Droid keyboard). I should also have made it a separate thread. So I think I'll re-do it now.

--G.
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