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'Cutting Ties': a New Frontier story, which I've never read any of, but this captivated me pretty well. The protagonist, Muck, is a bit difficult to embrace given his cold anger and hatred, but the story does a lot with him. It also used the TNG characters Shelby and Lefler and even gave us a glimpse into the 'prime' universe. Well written and exciting with some memorable characters.

The Mirror-Scaled Serpent: maybe my favourite MU story so far, and it's a Voyager one. This is gruesome stuff and features a lot of death and a fair bit of sex. An exciting story which flips the Voyager premise around by having Neelix and Kes be the ones transported to the Alpha Quadrant instead, and encountering the Terran resistance. The Voyager characters are really inverted to be despicably evil people.