I just reread that story. I recall the authors created a timeline for that story. I cannot find it on my computer and their joint website cannot be access or the domain does not exist. Does anyone have a copy they can post or send to me?
The Tears of Eridanus annotations
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Do you mean The Tears of Eridanus!? Lol
Autocorrect did me in agsin!
Yes I meant Tears of Eridanus.
Yes I meant Tears of Eridanus.
Maybe someone saved it off.
It was confusing to me. I was thought Trek literature had really changed since my last visit to the book store.
Yes, the domain lapsed when Michael and I moved onto other things. I think it was all stored on the server, not locally (Michael organized it, not me).
I have periodically looked for the content we had there. For some reason I have never been able to find some of it, which is very disappointing. Like, surely I must have emailed the file to him so he could put it up, but I can find nothing in my email if so. No documents on my old flash chip or my externals. I just don't see how this could happen!
I once emailed Michael to ask if he had it, but he couldn't find it either.
I have periodically looked for the content we had there. For some reason I have never been able to find some of it, which is very disappointing. Like, surely I must have emailed the file to him so he could put it up, but I can find nothing in my email if so. No documents on my old flash chip or my externals. I just don't see how this could happen!
I once emailed Michael to ask if he had it, but he couldn't find it either.
Thanks. I suppose it is gone.
I'm so sorry to hear the annotations and supplimentary material for the story was lost. 
I'm going to edit the title 
So I still have not found the actual document we posted on our old site.
But in looking for it, I did find the document I wrote up before we started writing the book, for our own use in making sure we had the history clear and consistent. I am pretty sure I adapted this to be the document that got put up on the site, making it more of a public-facing thing, and also making it consistent with what the final novel established, as we tweaked some elements during the writing process.
I went ahead and threw it up on my blog: https://lessaccurategrandmother.blo...s-of-eridanus-draft-timeline-annotations.html (I am strapped for time these days, so discovering thousands of words of pre-written blog content is a Godsend!)
I actually have a lot of material about the genesis of this project, including the very different original pitch that was rejected by Marco, so if there's interest, I'll probably put some more of that up on my blog in the coming weeks.
But in looking for it, I did find the document I wrote up before we started writing the book, for our own use in making sure we had the history clear and consistent. I am pretty sure I adapted this to be the document that got put up on the site, making it more of a public-facing thing, and also making it consistent with what the final novel established, as we tweaked some elements during the writing process.
I went ahead and threw it up on my blog: https://lessaccurategrandmother.blo...s-of-eridanus-draft-timeline-annotations.html (I am strapped for time these days, so discovering thousands of words of pre-written blog content is a Godsend!)
I actually have a lot of material about the genesis of this project, including the very different original pitch that was rejected by Marco, so if there's interest, I'll probably put some more of that up on my blog in the coming weeks.
Thanks for the link. Any additional information you choose to post would Be welcome.
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Love this bit! "Back in 2004 or so, I was apparently bored enough to create a BASIC program to generate Andorian names. I went through Ian’s Rogues Gallery and split all the first and last names into two halves and identified all of the prefixes that could go on last names, and then made a program to combine them at random. That’s where I got 'Thirrilan', 'Satheddet', and 'Corpek'."
(I guess I had avoided reading the online annotations, as I had not yet read the story, but I had definitely linked to them on an old Geocities site of mine.) Loved that you used Vanda M'Giia and Phelana Yudrin - and paid homage to Threllvon-da.
And this Tuckerism - "Waste Extraction Crewman Shantherin th’Clane..." - which I first heard about via a weird, brief email from one of your readers, who had asked how my character got into his new occupation and demotion. Took me a while to work out that one. I was just beginning to build a tall unread pile.
Very cool, I was disappointed a couple years back first reading the story but then finding that the page was down, but, this is amazing.
For example, "Thirrilan" combines "Thir-" from Thirishar ch'Thane and "-rilan" from Igrilan Kor. I wonder if I still have that somewhere? There would be a lot more names to feed into it now!
The tricky thing about doing an Andor-centric alternate timeline is that there are very few canonically established Andorian characters, and none would be likely to serve under Sulu. So I dug up a lot of my favorite noncanonical ones. In the finished novel, Lamia from Jeanne Dillard's novels puts in an appearance, too.
The Shantherin thing was a bit of a cheeky joke. A timeline where you got everything you wanted... but your Tuckerization had a much worse career!
Any more archived data and explanations are appreciated.
That was really interesting, thanks for sharing it. I always love getting to read this kind of behind the scenes, worldbuilding stuff.
As promised, here is the original pitch for The Tears of Eridanus (then called Errand of Logic), and why and how it was rejected: https://lessaccurategrandmother.blo...es-tears-of-eridanus-original-pitch.html.html
Incidentally, since this could be useful to everyone and future generations, Archive.org has a page explaining how to manually ensure a web page is archived, including extensions for popular browsers that add a button that lets you archive a page with one click, and instructions for creating a bookmarklet if you use a less-popular browser (or Safari, since the Safari extension link is wildly out of date and doesn't go anywhere).
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