Poking around the internet I came across “James Dixon’s Fandom Star Trek Chronology 17”, a scarily detailed (and anti-establishment, it even ignores stuff said in many episodes in favour of obscure fan technical manuals) take on Star Trek’s future history (the anti-Enterprise rant and rave is hilarious. I’d love to hear this guy’s take on the new Trek film!).
The chronology has a fascinating end: circa 10260 AD, after disastrous contact with several new races the Federation crumbles amongst civil wars and splits up into many smaller alliances. It goes on to describe 600 years of apocalyptic battles (the “Great Invasions”) that wipe out any trace of the Federation in the Milky Way galaxy. The chronology says this info comes from an article called ‘The Fall of the Federation’ in ‘The Best of Trek #2’ which is a mashup of the best bits of an old (unofficial) mag called ‘Trek’ (I have no idea what these things were like/about. I’m just using Google).
With these books being unofficial and never to be reprinted, I was wondering if any of you could shed any light on what this ‘Fall of the Federation’ article was like? Was it any good? Was it a timeline? A short story? Any chance of a rundown or something (or even a scan considering it’s unofficial and unlikely for reprint ever)?
I find all this Star Trek apocalypse-in-space stuff fascinating (One of the reasons I loved Destiny) and weird 80’s unofficial versions of it in the distant future doubly so.
While I’m here, what the hell would Trek people be like in the 101st century? I’d imagine being ‘human’ or ‘Klingon’ or whatever would be more a lifestyle choice than anything else, considering how varied Enterprise’s Crewman Daniels’ family tree was in the 31st century.
(also I’m only online at a public computer at the mo. Back in a day or two!)
The chronology has a fascinating end: circa 10260 AD, after disastrous contact with several new races the Federation crumbles amongst civil wars and splits up into many smaller alliances. It goes on to describe 600 years of apocalyptic battles (the “Great Invasions”) that wipe out any trace of the Federation in the Milky Way galaxy. The chronology says this info comes from an article called ‘The Fall of the Federation’ in ‘The Best of Trek #2’ which is a mashup of the best bits of an old (unofficial) mag called ‘Trek’ (I have no idea what these things were like/about. I’m just using Google).
With these books being unofficial and never to be reprinted, I was wondering if any of you could shed any light on what this ‘Fall of the Federation’ article was like? Was it any good? Was it a timeline? A short story? Any chance of a rundown or something (or even a scan considering it’s unofficial and unlikely for reprint ever)?
I find all this Star Trek apocalypse-in-space stuff fascinating (One of the reasons I loved Destiny) and weird 80’s unofficial versions of it in the distant future doubly so.
While I’m here, what the hell would Trek people be like in the 101st century? I’d imagine being ‘human’ or ‘Klingon’ or whatever would be more a lifestyle choice than anything else, considering how varied Enterprise’s Crewman Daniels’ family tree was in the 31st century.
(also I’m only online at a public computer at the mo. Back in a day or two!)
