Usually when thinking about alternate histories of the 2280s, I wandwave away the Probe. It’s all too coincidental. It shows up at precisely that particular moment when Kirk and his crew happen to be the only ship capable of going back in time to solve the crisis. It always seemed to me that, alter anyContinue reading “Alternity! The Probe”
Tag Archives: Star Trek
Reminder
Tonight’s episode of Enterprise is “Regeneration,” the Borg episode. Check it out if you’re curious to see the 22nd- and 24th-centuries collide. My speculations on the episode when it was first announced can be found here. For a possible result of the episode in the 24th-century, look here.
What if… No Khan Noonian Singh?
Try this on for size. It’s 2266. Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are zipping through space, and there’s an emergency distress call from a nearby colony, under attack. The Enterprise diverts from its routine patrol. Had the Enterprise stayed on its course for another day, Spock would have detected a derelict Earth ship from theContinue reading “What if… No Khan Noonian Singh?”
Hail and Farewell
Fred Frieberger, producer of the original Star Trek during its third and final season, passed away this past Sunday. He was 88. Trek fans of the old-school stripe tend to blame Frieberger for the third season’s failures but give him none of the credit for its successes. I find this behavior both unfortunate and deplorable.Continue reading “Hail and Farewell”
Alternity! Independence Day in the Star Trek universe
A really bizarre thought I had went something like this: Suppose “War of the Worlds” happened in the Star Trek history. So in the 1890s humanity learned that aliens existed, and the invasion fleet left lots of steampunk hardware around. The Great War gets a whole lot nastier, with both sides trying to use reverse-engineeredContinue reading “Alternity! Independence Day in the Star Trek universe”
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Somehow, in some twisted cosmic way, this is utterly appropriate. I am Khan. Khan Noonien Singh, ruler of one-quarter of the Earth, a gentically engineered superman. Khan. I like that. So says a Star Trek personality test, anyway. “It was only the fact of my genetically engineered intellect that allowed us to survive.”
Canon Fodder
I’m something of a grinagog, and certainly reading onward would give one that impression. I recently made these comments at TrekBBS regarding the Star Trek novels and what constitutes “canon” Star Trek, and for posterity’s sake decided to archive them here because I thought they were both amusing and informative. Thank you, Roger Waters [posterContinue reading “Canon Fodder”
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”
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”
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.”