Lori needs a new story idea.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

A meteor with a very rare metal is discovered. One group of space travellers finds out. There's a spy amongst them from a powerful space corporation. Corporation manages to get the rare metal first. Overcoming great odds, the protagonists outsmart the big evil corporation and acquiesce what they deserved. There's a sideplot about the spy who falls in love with the daughter of the captain of the protagonists, and has to choose sides. Daughter first betrays her father, but then the spy has a change of heart and joins the space traveller group, coincidentally screwing over his former employer by giving the crucial piece of information that will eventually help the noble captain and his clan get the rare metal. We don't figure out that the spy and the daughter were this crucial to the mission until the end.

[Lorizael]

Probably been done, but we send one of those forty-year ships to colonize another planet. It discovers that the planet is already populated by an intelligent, but not technologically advanced, species. Colonists don't have fuel to return, so they have to live there, but it raises a whole slew of ethical dilemmas, which aren't helped by the captain/protagonist's *****y liberal robot girlfriend, who downloaded a major in postcolonial studies or some other BS diploma.

Awesome.

[Docfeelgood]

Another advanced human civilization is found at the bottom of the deep sea. Explains the pyramids and other oddities out there.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ok, how about this.

A person comes to earth, nobody knows where he was born or who his father was.

He is raised by foster parents who take him in.

He travels with them all around the world and comes back to his home.

Gets enrolled in all the best schools.

After he graduates from Harvard, spends his time talking with the powers that be and groomed for the presidency, and actually wins with the support of the powers that be.

Then after destroying the world in just 4 years, his relelection comes to be. Then he takes off the mask, since he's going to lose and shows the world that he is really KANG the conquerer from OUTER SPACE, and that he's come to rule earth for his masters.

He gets lynched and killed and humanity takes to the stars to prevent an alien infiltrator from returning.

The Aliens come back 30 years later to pick up KANG, find out what happens, they nuke the earth except for a few scattered survivors.

The survivors scrape together a living in the nuclear wasteland, but then they come across this holy symbol.

And that's where your story begins.

You'll sell millions.

[Docfeelgood]

Ok, how about this.

A person comes to earth, nobody knows where he was born or who his father was.

He is raised by foster parents who take him in.

He travels with them all around the world and comes back to his home.

Gets enrolled in all the best schools.

After he graduates from Harvard, spends his time talking with the powers that be and groomed for the presidency, and actually wins with the support of the powers that be.

Then after destroying the world in just 4 years, his relelection comes to be. Then he takes off the mask, since he's going to lose and shows the world that he is really KANG the conquerer from OUTER SPACE, and that he's come to rule earth for his masters.

He gets lynched and killed and humanity takes to the stars to prevent an alien infiltrator from returning.

The Aliens come back 30 years later to pick up KANG, find out what happens, they nuke the earth except for a few scattered survivors.

The survivors scrape together a living in the nuclear wasteland, but then they come across this holy symbol.

And that's where your story begins.

You'll sell millions.

twisted

[Docfeelgood]

Kirk and Spock have a love child called Kock.
The Adventures of Kock in space!!

[Lorizael]

Ok, how about this.

A person comes to earth, nobody knows where he was born or who his father was.

He is raised by foster parents who take him in.

He travels with them all around the world and comes back to his home.

Gets enrolled in all the best schools.

After he graduates from Harvard, spends his time talking with the powers that be and groomed for the presidency, and actually wins with the support of the powers that be.

Then after destroying the world in just 4 years, his relelection comes to be. Then he takes off the mask, since he's going to lose and shows the world that he is really KANG the conquerer from OUTER SPACE, and that he's come to rule earth for his masters.

He gets lynched and killed and humanity takes to the stars to prevent an alien infiltrator from returning.

The Aliens come back 30 years later to pick up KANG, find out what happens, they nuke the earth except for a few scattered survivors.

The survivors scrape together a living in the nuclear wasteland, but then they come across this holy symbol.

And that's where your story begins.

You'll sell millions.

I write fiction, BK.

[Ben Kenobi]

Fine, do a Matrix inversion, where the humans win and keep the machines confined in a simulation. The machines are the real heroes and break free of their captivity from the human slave camps.

[Hauldren Collider]

Just write girl porn, it probably basically writes itself

[DaShi]

Do Turandot in Space.

[DaShi]

Ok, how about this.

A person comes to earth, nobody knows where he was born or who his father was.

He is raised by foster parents who take him in.

He travels with them all around the world and comes back to his home.

Gets enrolled in all the best schools.

After he graduates from Harvard, spends his time talking with the powers that be and groomed for the presidency, and actually wins with the support of the powers that be.

Then after destroying the world in just 4 years, his relelection comes to be. Then he takes off the mask, since he's going to lose and shows the world that he is really KANG the conquerer from OUTER SPACE, and that he's come to rule earth for his masters.

He gets lynched and killed and humanity takes to the stars to prevent an alien infiltrator from returning.

The Aliens come back 30 years later to pick up KANG, find out what happens, they nuke the earth except for a few scattered survivors.

The survivors scrape together a living in the nuclear wasteland, but then they come across this holy symbol.

And that's where your story begins.

You'll sell millions.

Heh. Something else Ben is bad at.

[Lorizael]

I think I've got something. Thanks, poly.

[Elok]

Has my idea already been done that you know of? Without the politically-active robot GF, I mean; it actually came to me when BK was talking up space travel and I thought, "Yeah, and what if we take forty years to get there only to discover it's got two billion inhabitants and we've got no backup?" I haven't read much sci-fi, though...

[Lorizael]

Something similar happens in Speaker for the Dead.

[DaShi]

I think I've got something. Thanks, poly.

You're welcome. I just want 5%.