{"id":226,"date":"2002-10-04T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2002-10-04T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=226"},"modified":"2014-11-19T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:19:01","slug":"unfinished-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Adventure of the French Albino is the sequel to another story, The Adventure of the Anonymous Agent.  I wrote the first story over New Year&#8217;s weekend 1994-5 and vented much of my frustrations with <b>Star Trek: Generations<\/b> and attempted a rather bizarre fix of one of the film&#8217;s more glaring plotholes &#8212; shouldn&#8217;t there be <i>two<\/i> Picards atop the mountain on Veridian III when Kirk and Picard leave the Nexus?  The sequel story would have been written in the spring of &#8217;95.  What exists makes for a nice scene and captures much of the Sherlock Holmes flavor, though I can&#8217;t recall that I ever had a clear direction for where the story should go beyond the endpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=226\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Unfinished Tales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,75],"tags":[199,4102],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","category-writing","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}