What are the differences between Star Trek: Advocate's version of the Chasm of Stars and your own standard Pick-n-Mix Comix version?

The version we get in Pick-n-Mix Comix lore is all we know of that universe. For all intents and purposes, there is no Earth and no other galaxies or known regions of space; there is the Chasm of Stars, within a "physical reality" ruled by cosmic beings known as the Protocosm, underneath of which lies the magical world of Ectotheria, and within Ectotheria, the Other Realms where much of Sorrows Of Blackwood is set. Whether there is more space beyond the Chasm of Stars is possible but currently unknown, and for all we know, the edge of space has been completely blocked off by unknown entities so that it's isolated permanently.

Star Trek: Advocate posits a world sans the Other Realms, in which the Protocosm has intersected with the familiar Earth-based reality known to the Federation and Starfleet, which contains the Milky Way Galaxy and much of the Known Universe. Mainline cosmic beings from Pick-n-Mix Comix such as Cosmica, Pylet, and Infinitu may or may not exist in this new version; magic — already existing as a glitch within the original Protocosmic reality — almost certainly does not.

But it remains to be seen.

Aside from that, timeline is an issue, and other nasty continuity plot holes. If this were canon to any particular point in the Pick-n-Mix Comix timeline, we would have to deal with the state of continuity at that point in time, such as during the height of the Braxanite Regime in the Protocosm's 2300s OE or the Conquering of Arishoth by Zhumago and the Brethren of Worlds, set many thousands of years before Sorrows Of Blackwood begins. Furthermore, we don't know in what ways their timeline could possibly sync up with that of the Federation's timeline, and because this is a story about the Federation exploring this world and becoming more familiar with aspects that couldn't be dictated in a standard Pick-n-Mix Comix story, it's just better to assume that it's a radically-altered version of the Protocosm which may or may not be unique to the world of Star Trek: Advocate altogether than to try and assume that the latter is canonical to the former.

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Wait, doesn't Solar Girl come from Earth? What about Spotlight City?

The 2012 version of Solar Girl was based on Earth, yes. For one thing, that storyline predates the invention of both Sorrows Of Blackwood and Pick-n-Mix Comix, and the Chasm of Stars along with them. For another, the Pick-n-Mix Comix iteration of Solar Girl is from "the spaceborne colony" of Spotlight City, and it has never been revealed from where that colony originates nor might it ever be at this current time; you're free to imagine Earth connections if you like, or even picture Supergirls In The Spotlight as relating to Star Trek: Advocate in some way, but they're just not canonically related like that, and there is no Earth known to the Pick-n-Mix Comix universe apart from what the dragons know as the planet "Patora" through broadcasted media such as Breaking Bad and the films and Small Soldiers.

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So, can this version of the Chasm of Stars be used in other stuff?

I mean, I guess? Whatever I have marked as Creative Commons on other pages already can be, so I hope I've made it clear enough that the Chasm of Stars is open-content under Creative Commons, just depending on which iteration from which source material you use. This specific iteration is so different from the main stuff that that's especially relevant here because what you'll find here basically follows its own completely divergent canon unrelated to the plots and storylines from Pick-n-Mix Comix, to the point where entire characters and planets are completely altered to fit the Star Trek universe as of 2269 AD.

But yes, if you're able to divest them of the CBS-owned content in Star Trek: Advocate, you'll still be able to use them under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Good luck figuring out what to do with Betazoid!Teben Yuroz and Andorian!Sheraph (who are Braxanite and Byrennian, respectively, in Pick-n-Mix Comix) if you can't even use them as Betazoid and Andorian versions like they are here. But the original characters are Creative Commons, so it stands to reason that these should be too.

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What is Pick-n-Mix Comix?

Pick-n-Mix Comix is a worldbuilding wiki project and ongoing series of storylines by TheAestheticMerchant, author of Grimoire Faire. It started as an expansion of the lore of a franchise called Sorrows Of Blackwood into an anthology "literary comic strip" series called Pick-n-Mix Comix, before quickly spiralling into a full adaptation of the lore into different early attempts at ongoing webserials through the website Archive Of Our Own and its own Neocities page.

Currently, its main home is the Wikidot page of the same name, as well as a secondary, earlier page — the Other Realms Story Bible — where numerous characters were presented as wiki articles under a non-Creative Commons-based "open-source content" license instead.

The world of Pick-n-Mix Comix includes settings like the Other Realms, the Chasm of Stars, and Grimstead, and characters such as Grace Morgan and Gallo Belgrave, Dr Connector and Captain Mytho, Tessa and Bellamy Prospero, and "original" Pick-n-Mix versions of alien races and characters you might find in this very fan-series, Star Trek: Advocate.

Fun fact: most of these alien species were designed for the first original version idea for Star Trek: Advocate, which was a two-season self-pitch of episode synopsis drafts that inspired the Chasm of Stars' creation in the first place.

When that series fell through, I just reused concepts for what I was going to include there, such as the Mechosians and the Byrennians, to form an original, non-Star Trek setting — the Chasm of Stars — which hadn't existed in Sorrows Of Blackwood lore before, and from that point on, sci-fi came to the urban fantasy world.

Pick-n-Mix Comix went into development shortly after, or around the same time as, that, so in a way, I think it's the most appropriate thing that I'm retroactively re-crossing over the properties by bringing the non-Star Trek Chasm of Stars back into the Star Trek world in this modern version of the series that inspired it in the first place.

No more Galactic Prospect. Now we have the Federation itself to work with, at least in this one, on this series of pages.