For for the last year or so I've been obsessed with a project that has been banging around in my head for a couple of years now which I call, laughingly at this point, A Brief History of the United Federation of Planets. In short, it was an attempt to pick out the stories in Star Trek that tell the story of Star Trek, if you know what I mean. Sifting through the lore and finding the stories and arcs that advance the history of the Federation. That meant not not going over a lot of mission of the week type stories even though those are some of my favorites and recapping a few stories that I would rather not revisit.
If I'm being honest, this entire document has been banging around in my head pretty much fully formed ever since watching Discovery's Unification III, where I realized what the through line for the "Star Trek Saga" would be: the life lineage and legacy of Spock.
If one only considers Canon sources, and you consider that Sarek was born 4 years after the formation of the Federation, it's very easy to place him in the formative years of the Federation. However, I've always liked the notion that was introduced in the Star Trek collectible card game that the Vulcan that landed in Bozeman Montana and shook hands with Zephram Cochrane was actually Solkar, grandfather to Sarek and great-grandfather of Spock. That would place Spock's family right there at the beginning of the story. Extend that to the 32nd century where we know Spock's Legacy in reunifying the Vulcans and Romulans and Burnham's role in bringing the Federation back together bringing the whole thing under a single family line. It's kind of epic.
I covered the entire history of Star Trek, with some shows getting more attention than others for various reasons. Larger story arcs from serialized seasons got a little more detail than episodic stuff Voyager got a little short changed because it takes place in the Delta quadrant and didn't have a lot of day today effect on the Federation.
I'm about a week away from publishing the first chapter and I'm only waiting for the final episode of the Kha podcast to drop. My work won't really give any spoilers to that story, and I highly recommend it, but it added some incidental details to the Eugenics Wars era that I incorporated into the first chapter and I want to wait for it to finish before publishing chapter 1, which of course covers the eugenics wars.
The last thing in the world I wanted to do was publish the world's longest Memory Alpha article, so I keep character recaps concise to the point where you really only need the information to know who they are and what brought them to this place of the story. Some characters intros are longer than others. As is the nature of the project, there is a lot of play-by-play, but I tried to be concise without the overbearing bloat of detail of a Memory Alpha article and hopefully with an entertaining narrative flow.
I do consult beta canon sparingly, mostly for incidental details in areas that feel incomplete. Most primarily in the Lost Era where I use a lot of the details established in the novels to fill out an era that we know next to nothing about. Little details like character first names and stuff like that.
Anyway, I'm going to start posting it a chapter a week I hope you all enjoy it. It's not really an original fanfiction by the standards of it not really being an original story, it's the story that you already know. But I'm just putting it all together in a way that feels cohesive to the whole saga.
It was an obsession to the point where I started dictating emails to myself and bought a computer and keyboard for my home after I realized I needed to clear up space in my head in order to pump it out. The Fanfictions I wrote in the last year were while taking mental breaks from the larger narrative and extrapolating some stuff of my own.
See you all in a week.
If I'm being honest, this entire document has been banging around in my head pretty much fully formed ever since watching Discovery's Unification III, where I realized what the through line for the "Star Trek Saga" would be: the life lineage and legacy of Spock.
If one only considers Canon sources, and you consider that Sarek was born 4 years after the formation of the Federation, it's very easy to place him in the formative years of the Federation. However, I've always liked the notion that was introduced in the Star Trek collectible card game that the Vulcan that landed in Bozeman Montana and shook hands with Zephram Cochrane was actually Solkar, grandfather to Sarek and great-grandfather of Spock. That would place Spock's family right there at the beginning of the story. Extend that to the 32nd century where we know Spock's Legacy in reunifying the Vulcans and Romulans and Burnham's role in bringing the Federation back together bringing the whole thing under a single family line. It's kind of epic.
I covered the entire history of Star Trek, with some shows getting more attention than others for various reasons. Larger story arcs from serialized seasons got a little more detail than episodic stuff Voyager got a little short changed because it takes place in the Delta quadrant and didn't have a lot of day today effect on the Federation.
I'm about a week away from publishing the first chapter and I'm only waiting for the final episode of the Kha podcast to drop. My work won't really give any spoilers to that story, and I highly recommend it, but it added some incidental details to the Eugenics Wars era that I incorporated into the first chapter and I want to wait for it to finish before publishing chapter 1, which of course covers the eugenics wars.
The last thing in the world I wanted to do was publish the world's longest Memory Alpha article, so I keep character recaps concise to the point where you really only need the information to know who they are and what brought them to this place of the story. Some characters intros are longer than others. As is the nature of the project, there is a lot of play-by-play, but I tried to be concise without the overbearing bloat of detail of a Memory Alpha article and hopefully with an entertaining narrative flow.
I do consult beta canon sparingly, mostly for incidental details in areas that feel incomplete. Most primarily in the Lost Era where I use a lot of the details established in the novels to fill out an era that we know next to nothing about. Little details like character first names and stuff like that.
Anyway, I'm going to start posting it a chapter a week I hope you all enjoy it. It's not really an original fanfiction by the standards of it not really being an original story, it's the story that you already know. But I'm just putting it all together in a way that feels cohesive to the whole saga.
It was an obsession to the point where I started dictating emails to myself and bought a computer and keyboard for my home after I realized I needed to clear up space in my head in order to pump it out. The Fanfictions I wrote in the last year were while taking mental breaks from the larger narrative and extrapolating some stuff of my own.
See you all in a week.
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