written your own Star Trek novel?

[JWD75]

In high school a wrote a TNG short story and a short TOS novel. The TNG story was pretty bad and a disgarded it a long time ago, but the TOS novel I'm rather proud of and I dig it out every five or six years and re-read it.

 

[xortex]

Is it better than Greg Cox's 'Rings of Saturn'?

 

[Anji]

This is interesting.

I thought I was the only one out there who wrote Star Trek.

I guess my follow up would be: "Did you write the story/novel because something that happened on the series upset you or because there was an error in cannon that needed correcting or did you just want to add to the Star Trek universe?

And when you wrote did you plan on publishing or did you do it for your own enjoyment?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

This is interesting.

I thought I was the only one out there who wrote Star Trek.

There's a whole forum of it on this very BBS.

I still have, somewhere, the Mary Sue I wrote in high school about Captain Kirk. As I recall the heroine had violet eyes and translucent teeth

 

[sojourner]

As I recall the heroine had violet eyes and translucent teeth

Reverse chesire?

 

[C.E. Evans]

This is interesting.

I thought I was the only one out there who wrote Star Trek.

I guess my follow up would be: "Did you write the story/novel because something that happened on the series upset you or because there was an error in cannon that needed correcting or did you just want to add to the Star Trek universe?

For me, it was always a case of either adding onto what came before (for example, a 25th-Century Enterprise) or doing an alternate universe version of it with rather major changes (like someone other than Kirk taking over the TOS Enterprise from Pike, or the Federation and Starfleet not coming into existence until the 24th-Century).

And when you wrote did you plan on publishing or did you do it for your own enjoyment?

Always for my own enjoyment (I keep all my manuscripts--complete with fully-colored ship and character drawings--in a big box in my closet when I'm done with 'em). In fact, there was only one time that I actually posted a story online anywhere, and it was here in the fanfic forum about a decade ago.

 

[Forbin]

Not enough ideas for a novel, but I've dabbled in short fanfics:
http://www.inpayne.com/trekfanfic/trekfic.html

Got a half dozen more started with a severe lack of ideas how to continue.

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

I wrote a Voyager thing in script form.

 

[Lynx]

This is interesting.

I thought I was the only one out there who wrote Star Trek.

I guess my follow up would be: "Did you write the story/novel because something that happened on the series upset you or because there was an error in cannon that needed correcting or did you just want to add to the Star Trek universe?

And when you wrote did you plan on publishing or did you do it for your own enjoyment?

I admit that my first story "Coming Home" was written in anger after Kes was dumped. Originally I had started with a story about a Maquis ship stranded on a planet where two nations were at war. I was a bit fascinated by the Maquis at a time before Voyager showed up in my life. The story was never finished but I used parts of it for my Kes come-back story "Coming Home".

First of all, I tried to sell it to Pocket Books but there weren't that interested. After "Fury", I re-wrote the story slightly to get rid of the damage made to the character in that horrible episode and tried to sell it to Paramount as a possibly Kes come-back episode. A friend of mine who had some experience with writing scripts for TV and film helped me to make a script out of the story. I did get some good response, some people were obviously interested in the story but not the right people. Probably it was about the wrong character.

When Voyager ended and the books took a different turn, I decided to put out the story on the Kes Website instead, mostly because I couldn't or wouldn't re-write the story since I was happy with it as it was.

The other stories I've written are simply the continuing stories of Kes's and Voyager's adventures after the end of the series.

I do have more stories "in the can" but I have to get time to finish them and sort a few things out in them as well. we'll see if I can get some spare time this summer.

 

[Butters]

I wrote about 60k words of first draft pure shite that ended up as eco-brick fuel, but it did start with a detailed account of a terrorist attack on a world that the Enterprise was visiting as part of Federation Membership proceedings. The Enterprise was docked to a large orbital facility and was targeted, along with a large glass tower. This was back in 2000.

There was also a subplot where McCoy had a relationship with a Klingon single mother whilst on a back packing holiday, which I think could be salvaged.

 

[MacLeod]

Nope never written a novel, though I did once sumbit an outline for a SG novel. Closest I've gotten to writting is in PBEM's, in one of them my character was one of the main protoganists after the Captain. Suffice to say those two characters mine and Captain where put through the wringer, it seemed as if the universe was out to get them, well maybe not the universe but the antagonist.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I wrote a Star Trek comic when I was in 7th grade. I drew it too, aping the style of TAS. Does that count? I also wrote a short story for Strange New Worlds. Since it was rejected, it probably wasn't very good. Then there was my prequel idea that I played with, but it wasn't a novel, just a show outline. I've shared bits of that in other threads.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

As I've said before in t his thread I never wrote or tried to write one but I did have an idea for one set on DS9 featuring a visit from Scotty. It's a sequel to Wolf in the Fold. I've no idea how to write a murder mystery so I just never attempted it.

 

[MacLeod]

^Well the only way to learn how to write one, is to write one or at least attempt to. Sometimes when I wrote for PBEM's I would go through dozens of drafts refining it a little bit each time.

 

[malchya]

Oh, lord, yes! I remember so well my outrage during the first season of TNG concerning the placement of children aboard a starship. I crafted a 63,000 word rant disguised as a story wherein the Enterprise is involved in a running battle with an alien ship (caused by a misunderstanding, no less) for more than three days (heavily influenced by Patrick O'Brian's Desolation Island I'm sure...) until communications can be opened. I described in grisly detail the effect of energy weapon's fire and vacuum on children. Finally they are able to actually communicate, discover that it is all a misunderstanding based on mis-recognition and Picard brings a newly-discovered technologically-advanced race into negotiations with the Federation. Cheers and whistles ensue.

Picard is the fly in the ointment. He demands a court of inquiry to consider the placement of families and, particularly, children on a vessel intended to explore an unforgiving and hostile environment. The last 38,000 words become court room drama as evidence is heard from multiple witnesses who have suffered the loss of non-combatant loved ones. Dark stuff.

I couldn't change the course of the canon universe so, in the end, StarFleet ruled that there was insufficient justification to change their policy. Picard and Data are in the turbolift afterwards, cue final scene:

"I surmise that you are displeased with StarFleet's final ruling, Captain."

Picard, his expression shadowed with fatigue and a deep, ineradicable sadness, considered his second officer gravely. Then he sighed.

"Ask me that again, Mr. Data, the next time I have to bury a child."

The end.

Man, was I ever emo!

 

[Count Zero]

Did you ever publish it somewhere It sounds quite interesting.

I wrote a Star Trek comic when I was in 7th grade. I drew it too, aping the style of TAS. Does that count?

Hey, cool. I also drew comics as a child/teenager but never got very far. They were non Trek related, though.