Story Ideas
I didn't start writing E2 fanfic until a year after the show went off the air. I had access to good computers and the internet when I started attending college, and that was when I discovered other people had put up their own sites with pictures and stories and background information about the show. There was a site to try to save the show at that time and many individual sites that are no longer around. Most of them had URLs ending with .edu. Most have been lost to inactivity by the owners, but some have been moved and are still available and even updated now and then.
I read the fanfic and decided, hey, I can do this, too. I started writing out my ideas and letting my siblings read them and rip them apart. Instead of taking the opportunity to pound me into the ground, they'd say, "Write another one."
We were raised on Star Trek and Star Wars and we all have our particular favorite science fiction stories. We all agreed Earth 2 was a cut above anything that had ever been shown on television before and we would talk about the show and wonder where the writers would have taken it next had the show returned for a second season. We all mourned it together and were stunned when there were no summer reruns to tape the episodes we'd missed during the first run airings. There were 5 shows I never saw during the NBC season and four I had seen only half way, either the beginning or the ending, and I didn't see the completed episodes until the SciFi channel began reruns.
My sister, Laurie, my brother, James, and I used to have huge arguments over this show. My sister is a D&D shipper, nothing can change her mind about that. As far as she's concerned TGLSNT remains untold to this day. That's an episode that just doesn't exist in her view of Earth 2. (And that's one of the main reasons why I refer to it as often as possible in my stories. [evil laugh])
My brother is a fan of future technology and has always been amused by the fact that these people have super sophisticated weapons and scanning equipment at their fingertips and yet the crash leaves them roughing it. Doing things for themselves nearly does them in.
I like putting the characters - all the characters - into the kind of situations you wouldn't see on the series because of the show's need to exhibit drama, peril of some kind, and a last minute resolution week after week. I like to look at them from different angles, have them do things you wouldn't see happen in the series: breaking up the realtionships, letting them see the planet in different ways, and giving different interpretations to what happened in the show.
There are writers out there who have written some great stories following the episode formula, so I really don't feel the need to do that, too.
("Danziger's Ghost", BTW, is at the top of my all time favorites list.)
Danziger'sGhost
So, my ideas come from looking at the show from behind the scenes instead of in front of an imagined TV screen. I use narration now and then, but for the most part I like to write about the characters and not so much situations.
If you like my stuff, great. If you don't, you don't. There is a lot of fanfic out there to look through and find some you'll enjoy.
Personally, I like it all. Earth 2 should have had a longer run with it's original premise. I miss the show and live for new original stories.
This is a link for Andy's archive, in case you don't have it:
Andy's

It's a good place to start looking for stories you DO like.