Hello, all. I just signed up here at the Star Trek BBS a few days ago. But I know quite a few of you from back in the day at the old PsiPsi message board. Some of you I still see on Facebook and what not.
I have a huge gap in my keeping up with the Star Trek lit community from whenever I drifted away from the boards “back then” to a few years back when I realized the old boards were gone and things had changed.
I’m trying to remember if I was a member here back in those early years but the various message boards from back them are kind of blurry in my foggy memories (aside from PsiPhi, which I remember for it’s very distinctive look). I tried to search for my own name here and didn’t find any old posts.
I did a search for “PsiPhi” here and found that someone has posted a link to a copy of part of the old site (an interview with Marco Palmieri about the then upcoming Deep Space Nine relaunch) at the Internet Archive website.
That got me curious to see if any of the old Message Board is also saved there. All I could find was a few scattered copies of the page, the earliest from 2000. The links to the messages don’t work, so all you can see are the thread names and the names of those posting messages, but I have to say that it sure brings back memories looking over the names. (I found myself asking something about the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series which must have just been about to being since the first calendar was for 2001. Margaret Clark responded, but, again, I can’t read now what was said.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001208225300/http://psiphi.org/book-bbs/get/startrek.html
Who all here goes back to those days? And does anyone know what became of the regulars who are not here? (I’m assuming that some have inevitably passed on. And that others simply moved on to other interests.)
And can anyone fill me in on the history of the Trek lit message boards? It appears from looking through the older messages here that the start of this board overlapped with the last years of the PsiPhi one as there are messages here talking about stuff going on over there. When did David Henderson pull the plug on PsiPhi (and why, if reason was given at the time)?
And wasn’t there another Star Trek lit message board back in the day that was around at the same time as PsiPhi? I seem to recall keeping up with two sites back then, PsiPhi and another one. I can’t remember if it was this one here or another now long defunct one. (Did there used to be one on America Online, perhaps?)
Anyway, I’ve been reading Trek books again of late. Some I’ve read over the past year plus have been the first two Eugenics Wars novels, the Crucible trilogy, “From History’s Shadow”, “The Last Best Hope“, “Desperate Hours”, and “Drastic Measures“. I just started reading the third Discovery novel, “Fear Itself“. Star Trek nonfiction I’ve read over the same period have been the two “Fifty-Year Mission” books by Gross and Martin, “Leonard” by Shatner, “Star Trek: Lost Scenes” by Tilotta, “The Art of John Eaves”, “These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s” volume one by Cushman, and reread “The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay” by Ellison.
I look forward to catching up with you guys and talking some Star Trek books talk again after all these years of me being pretty much away from it.
David Young
Brandon, Florida
I have a huge gap in my keeping up with the Star Trek lit community from whenever I drifted away from the boards “back then” to a few years back when I realized the old boards were gone and things had changed.
I’m trying to remember if I was a member here back in those early years but the various message boards from back them are kind of blurry in my foggy memories (aside from PsiPhi, which I remember for it’s very distinctive look). I tried to search for my own name here and didn’t find any old posts.
I did a search for “PsiPhi” here and found that someone has posted a link to a copy of part of the old site (an interview with Marco Palmieri about the then upcoming Deep Space Nine relaunch) at the Internet Archive website.
That got me curious to see if any of the old Message Board is also saved there. All I could find was a few scattered copies of the page, the earliest from 2000. The links to the messages don’t work, so all you can see are the thread names and the names of those posting messages, but I have to say that it sure brings back memories looking over the names. (I found myself asking something about the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series which must have just been about to being since the first calendar was for 2001. Margaret Clark responded, but, again, I can’t read now what was said.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20001208225300/http://psiphi.org/book-bbs/get/startrek.html
Who all here goes back to those days? And does anyone know what became of the regulars who are not here? (I’m assuming that some have inevitably passed on. And that others simply moved on to other interests.)
And can anyone fill me in on the history of the Trek lit message boards? It appears from looking through the older messages here that the start of this board overlapped with the last years of the PsiPhi one as there are messages here talking about stuff going on over there. When did David Henderson pull the plug on PsiPhi (and why, if reason was given at the time)?
And wasn’t there another Star Trek lit message board back in the day that was around at the same time as PsiPhi? I seem to recall keeping up with two sites back then, PsiPhi and another one. I can’t remember if it was this one here or another now long defunct one. (Did there used to be one on America Online, perhaps?)
Anyway, I’ve been reading Trek books again of late. Some I’ve read over the past year plus have been the first two Eugenics Wars novels, the Crucible trilogy, “From History’s Shadow”, “The Last Best Hope“, “Desperate Hours”, and “Drastic Measures“. I just started reading the third Discovery novel, “Fear Itself“. Star Trek nonfiction I’ve read over the same period have been the two “Fifty-Year Mission” books by Gross and Martin, “Leonard” by Shatner, “Star Trek: Lost Scenes” by Tilotta, “The Art of John Eaves”, “These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s” volume one by Cushman, and reread “The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay” by Ellison.
I look forward to catching up with you guys and talking some Star Trek books talk again after all these years of me being pretty much away from it.
David Young
Brandon, Florida
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