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Neither of these seem terribly original to me, but the ideas amused me nonetheless:

1. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul are recruited by the White Guardian to fetch the 18 pieces of the Key to Space.  (If he's got one for time, it just figures he'd have one for space, y'know?)  
2. Jar Jar Binks is the Chosen One of the Jedi and falls to the Dark Side.  Provisional title: "Qui-Gon got it a bit wrong." 

(Actually, I'm half-tempted to make this fanon: Jar Jar Binks has Super Duper Force Potential.  (Click the link and read how this is not such a crazy idea.  Go on, you know you want to.)  He can't control it, and causes accidents that get him banished from Gungan society.  He runs into Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, owes Qui-Gon a life debt, goes along on their adventure.  For the purposes of this nutty theory, Qui-Gon has a weakness in that he's not all that great at sensing untapped Force potential.  When they land on Tatooine and run into Anakin who also has Force potential, the combined aura of Jar Jar and Anakin is enough to trigger Qui-Gon's spidey sense, so he mistakenly assumes that Anakin must have Super-Duper Force Potential. 
( Cut for midichlorian fanon and a total reinterpretation of the Star Wars Saga as a giant case of Mistaken Identity. )

*headdesk*

I'm really tired, but have to get this off my chest.  In addition to "Fission," I have a second Doctor Who novella in the works that I'm slowly posting on Teaspoon and ff.net called "The Six Doctors."  As the title implies, it's a multi-Doctor story that I started developing almost as soon as I first saw the Ninth Doctor back in 2005, and it really took off when I read in interviews that Russell T. Davies wasn't interested in doing a multi-Doc story, leaving me to wonder how such a thing could be accomplished nowadays with the current crop of aging Doctors.  It was the very first fanfic idea my muse ever came up with, and I've spent the last year plus working on the thing, and I'm finally getting to the point where I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

Then today I find this!  Admittedly, ol' Robert Holmes was working with a different baddie and different set of Doctors, but the similarities are totally freaking me out.  To find out my novel idea (pun intended) is so close to even a cast-off Holmes script is kinda cool, but I'm really bummed.  Here I was, thinking I was doing something original, only to find out that the Beeb rejected something very similiar over 20 years ago.   Yikes.  Not that I've ever pretended to have great literary skill, but sheesh!  Kinda makes me want to set the whole thing aside and pursue the weird little plot bunny about a companion being stranded on a planet and forced to cooperate with a similarly stranded Dalek (I'm tentatively calling it My Friend the Dalek) that's been on the mental back burner lately. 

Just thought I'd share that.  Go back to ignoring me.