Something occurred to me last night. I was unpacking a box of books, and one of the book was a collection of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poetry, which, oddly enough, comprises fully half of the poetry I own. (The other book of poetry I have is O Holy Cow: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto, aContinue reading “Elias Vaughn Observations”
Category Archives: Star Trek
The Lost Star Trek Films
Several years ago Pocket published two Star Trek scriptbooks, one containing every Q script, the other containing Seven of Nine scripts. I gather neither book sold very well, and we haven’t seen other scriptbooks since. The problem with the scriptbooks, I think, is that there’s nothing really new and unique about them. The episodes willContinue reading “The Lost Star Trek Films”
In Defense of Warped
K.W. Jeter’s Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel Warped goes in for a lot of abuse within fandom–the story was inaccessible, the writing was bizarre, the take on the Trek universe was unbelievable, the book sold so poorly that Pocket wouldn’t think of doing another DS9 hardcover. I’ve heard all of these arguments, I’ve thoughtContinue reading “In Defense of Warped”
Star Trek VI and what might have been
I have a long memory. Sometimes it can even come in handy, like when a thread today on TrekBBS asked about Walter Koenig’s proposed story for Star Trek VI. I’m not sure where I heard or read about Koenig’s story, or how I even knew the title. Perhaps I’ve always known it was entitled “InContinue reading “Star Trek VI and what might have been”
An Off-Base Criticism
Over on Trekweb, O Deus wrote in his review of “A Night in Sickbay”— “Sickbay” manages to achieve much of the [“Spock’s Brain”] effect with a bizarre episode that has Archer’s emotional dependence on his dog move well into the creepy range while displaying some of the more unprofessional behavior of his career (and consideringContinue reading “An Off-Base Criticism”
Alternity! Once again to Centauri dear friends.
On Friday, October 11, 2002 Michael Edward Johnson wrote: I have read Star Charts and it is great. However some included information has once again raised a question in my mind. There is a chart that lists the founding memebers of the Federation as Earth, Vulcan, Andoria, Tellar and Alpha Centauri. Okay what does theContinue reading “Alternity! Once again to Centauri dear friends.”
After the Next Generation
TrekToday reports on an interview Brent Spiner gave where he says that Paramount considered making Star Trek X without the Next Generation characters: The studio, I think, wasn’t really crazy about doing another movie with the Next Generation crew. What I think they wanted to do was a movie with a new Star Trek cast.Continue reading “After the Next Generation”
Unfinished Tales
In the process of moving I came across several files folders of old manuscripts, some handwritten, some typed, all of them fragments of stories I wrote many years ago. This is the first in an occasional series presenting some of these story fragments. The Adventure of the French Albino is the sequel to another story,Continue reading “Unfinished Tales”
The thirty second story
I’ve seen this on two blogs recently, such as James Bow‘s–take a short story and run it through MS Word’s Auto Summary feature. I’ve taken “Memorial Day,” an entry I wrote for Pocket’s Strange New Worlds VI contest, and condensed its 7500 word length to under a hundred: “Thanks.” “Claire Keefe.” “Jake Sisko.” Claire nodded.Continue reading “The thirty second story”
Reaching into the metaphorical mailbag
A reader of this webpage e-mailed me recently with the following observation: How can you say Wesley Crusher replaced someone at the Enterprise’s helm and took their job? The person doing Wesley’s job in the first season was Geordi, and in the second season he became Chief Engineer, so the position was vacant and PicardContinue reading “Reaching into the metaphorical mailbag”