You're doing great work. I hope that when you end your DS9 seasons, you might consider writing your own original Trek series or tackling another one of the shows. Maybe Enterprise?
Would love to, but I have to admit that I am
way behind. I read the first few you did way back in season 8 and enjoyed them, so I have grabbed all the subsequent ones for later reading.
Kudos for sticking with it all this time, and for giving us a new way to enjoy more DS9.
Thanks! The DS9 novels (starting with "season 8") are definitely where this all came from, but even after filling in the gaps with my own ideas, the novels were always at least my starting point and I went from there. To be honest I haven't read the
Enterprise post-finale novels, although I hear good things, so I'm not sure what the story even is.
What has appealed to me about this, and kept me continuing it, was less about coming up with my own new ideas and more about following the
existing ideas to see where they went, if that makes sense. I never really wanted to shoehorn my own wacky fan-fic into the Star Trek universe. The "boobs and guns and shipping" side of fan-fic doesn't do it for me at all, no insult intended to those who do enjoy that. I just wanted to get to know the people, and kept asking "what happens next?"
So for me it's always been about looking at the already-existing stories and filling in the holes, fleshing out the bits that weren't as deeply explored as we might have liked, maybe tweaking and rewriting some stuff if I thought it could be better or more to my taste. Like with Season 13 right here, as I said way back in the first post, I started with "Okay so we have Dax on the
Aventine and Sisko on the
Robinson, and the
Enterprise-E doing Andorian things for some reason. But what
else happened?"
Once I finish with season 14 though, I think I'll probably try to concentrate on my own non-Star Trek stories. I've been doing these for like 15 years or something ridiculous like that, and with the existing TrekLit universe coming to an end, it seems like a sensible place to stop and move onto something else. But I certainly hope people have enjoyed them, and that they'll pick up more readers as time goes on. My very first story has over 10,000 views on AdAstra, which is quite flattering.
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