Story Idea Thread: post your ideas here!

Its more a story idea that a timeline ore a story, i doubt a Austria Reich can beat Germany,Italy, Czechoslovakia ore even Yugoslavia in a fight.

Jeff Hunter stay in star trek with the regular cast from 2nd piolet. William Shatner is not type casted in parts.

Yes I did I wanted to flesh it out and write about how that would affect the film franchise and the next series.

Vova Putin, KGB Super Spy!

It’s the late-80s and Major Vladimir Vladimirovich (Vova) Putin is in Dresden, East Germany. He is assigned a desk job as part of the spying efforts against foreign students at the university. Kropromat is what is gained by him and the others, a lot of it useless to be fair.
Due to a paperwork SNAFU, Vova is sent urgently to Leipzig where a field officer has just lost his life in a gruesome ‘accident’. Someone other than Vova should have been sent.
At the international trade fair, Vova, our hero, stumbles into an international conspiracy which his deceased colleague had been just about to uncover. The conspiracy is mysterious but most-certainly evil. Vova confronts a foreign agent and uses his judo/sambo to gain an insight into what is going on.

The story moves back to Dresden where Vova is reporting to his bosses. There is an incident at the office and a killer comes in and shoots almost everyone else; Vova escapes alive, using his wiles and rescuing an injured man before the building blows up.
The enemy mastermind is revealed. He is a German-born American, a Nazi who hid his past and is on Wall Street. He exploits the poor workers and doesn’t care for anything but money and his Hitler Youth knife. He has plans for world domination and an army of unsmiling, obedience and ready-to-die assassins working for him. He will knock over the dominos through Eastern Europe, starting in the helpless East Germany, and then move onto enslave and exterminate the Soviet people.
Who is this lowly Major Putin standing in his way? He shall die!

Vova in East Berlin. The bosses there don’t want to believe it. Vova makes them believe it by showing the evidence he has gained because he is a super spy. There is a woman, a well-spoken and pretty Frenchwoman with a mysterious past. She works for the Soviet Union and the workers of the world to fight against neo-fascism and the greed of Wall Street. Vova fights off her charms, wary of them and manipulating his wedding ring as he looks down to remind us as readers he is a good, honest man who loves his wife.
There is another big shootout, brawl with martial arts in a warehouse in East Berlin. The big bad guy’s number two is there surrounded by soon-to-be-dead henchmen. Vova takes them all on one-by-one, shooting most but fighting the last man with his judo/sambo. Number two escapes and Vova chases. The chase is in para-gliders or hot-air balloons: helpfully, there was a second one laying around for Vova to chase him in. Then, a fight on the ground sees Vova kill his man but with his dying words, Vova learns the whole truth.

The last fight is near Rostock on the Baltic coast. Here the Nazi appears and gets the upper hand on Vova. The Frenchwoman is there too, she appears to have betrayed Vova. Vova looks doomed. He is about to be killed in some dramatic fashion. He fights free though, aided by the Frenchwoman who was on his side all along!
The Nazi runs, his henchmen dying as Vova chases. The Frenchwoman is shot by the Nazi as the last gunfight takes place besides the sea on a dark night in the middle of a storm. Her parting words are for freedom for the workers of the world and Vova promises to honour that.
Final showdown. Vova looks beat but, alas, he turns the tables and kills the Nazi.
Europe, the Soviet Union and the workers are saved.
Vova is a hero. He makes no speeches but gets a medal, a promotion and a posting back home with his family. A happy ending indeed.

It is something I would love to write.
Having it set in 2010 (or such like), rather than 2018, would be best I think. The problems of current politics and getting info on weapons & tactics might be helped to be solved by going back a few years too.
One day!

I intend to, yes.
I will always write things on the side though.

A suggestion for a POD on that:
Have something unconnected to the vote occur in the lead up to the vote. Something big, national news that distracts campaigning and, with a split like that, an unconnected disruption can change things without any other reason than a break from schedule.
Maybe you have a POD already, though if you don't, I personally see this as plausible and with it having happened in my country in recent years too I think it could work.