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nonisland | Star Trek fic on the Archive of Our Own (AO³):

sophiagratia:

micathemineral:

tinsnip:

Okay, a fascinating statistical breakdown of Trek fic on AO3 by pairing? This may be something only I am interested in? But it’s still really interesting?

I think?

Oh wow this is really fascinating!

“TNG and VOY both have a lot of femslash, as well—more than they do slash, actually, especially VOY. (I should note, even though this didn’t make it to the official data, that a decent quantity of this—30-some fics—is crossovers pairing Beverly Crusher of TNG with Kathryn Janeway of VOY, so there’s overlap.) DS9, especially considering that its most-common category is slash and it has the smallest percentage of het of any of the shows (also, less het than TNG and VOY have femslash), makes a respectable showing in the femslash category as well.

(This is because the women on DS9 are made of awesomeness. I mean. What.)

[…]

Of the 433 DS9 fics, 162 were Julian Bashir/Elim Garak (37.4%), 16 were Julian Bashir/Miles O’Brien (3.7%), and 14 were Kira Nerys/Odo (3.2%). We very very narrowly missed, by a margin of one fic, having femslash [Dax/Kira] tie for third place, which would have delighted me on principle. Ah well.”

Conclusions:

{1} Opal is her own data set.

and

{2} LAYDEEZ WE GOT SOME WORK TO DO HERE OKAY.