written your own Star Trek novel?
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I wrote a really crappy novel about the TOS crew in an alternate universe, it was so silly, I even blew up Vulcan lol. I ended up just throwing it in the trash, the idea was just too stupid.
I've never tried. The only time I've ever attempted to write fan fiction I was in elementary school and I wrote a Star Wars comic book. it was awful and full of stick figures.
Go on Greg - go for it. Don't be ashamed - we promise not to laugh at your efforts !I honestly can't figure out how to answer this without it sounding like a shameless plug . . .
Don't drag in arguments from another thread. You've made your point - move on. Future derailments like this will be seen as spamming.
Go on Greg - go for it. Don't be ashamed - we promise not to laugh at your efforts !I honestly can't figure out how to answer this without it sounding like a shameless plug . . .
How about I just point at my sig?
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Go on Greg - go for it. Don't be ashamed - we promise not to laugh at your efforts !I honestly can't figure out how to answer this without it sounding like a shameless plug . . .
How about I just point at my sig?
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Greg - I've read a lot of your stuff - in fact it's some of the best Treklit. I'll be starting The Rings Of Time soon.
For anyone reading this who hasn't sampled Gregs work, you should !
I wrote one a couple of years ago that was kind of crappy and then I completely forgot about it.
Then STXI came out and I re-wrote it as a NuTrek fanfic. Started to write another one after it, but the combination of a second job and getting my son into pre-school ate up a lot of my spare time.
Then STXI came out and I re-wrote it as a NuTrek fanfic. Started to write another one after it, but the combination of a second job and getting my son into pre-school ate up a lot of my spare time.
I have a full-length TOS novel written out--a thriller about Yeoman Janice Rand, referring to her backstory from Enerprise: The First Adventure. Needless to say, it violates a lot of the guidelines from Pocket for a first-novel submission. It's archived in my MS Word--obviously not published.
I'm proud of it--and friends of mine have read it and told me they loved it. Still, it was basically my "practice", a way for me to hone my writing skills.
I have a lot of fanfic, which you can read in the BBS Fanfic Forum.
I also wrote up a "submittable" proposal--Synopsis, three chapters, the works. A DS9 tale. Just haven't looked for an agent, yet....
I'm proud of it--and friends of mine have read it and told me they loved it. Still, it was basically my "practice", a way for me to hone my writing skills.
I have a lot of fanfic, which you can read in the BBS Fanfic Forum.
I also wrote up a "submittable" proposal--Synopsis, three chapters, the works. A DS9 tale. Just haven't looked for an agent, yet....
I've written dozens of fanfics, many of them featuring ships and crews of my own invention from various points in Trek history. I wrote them all to be a certain length (about 40 pages each) so they'd come across as novelizations of TV episodes like James Blish did for TOS.
The closest thing that ever came remotely close to a full-length novel, however, was actually the very first Trek story I ever wrote. I think I was around twelve years old, and had just discovered my mom's old manual typewriter in the basement. Blew off the dust, brought it upstairs, and decided to write a novelization of the first four issues of DC Comics' Star Trek series (circa 1983). I had been reading paperback novels since I was six, so I wrote my manuscript using the spacing and identions of that format.
Such a geek...
The closest thing that ever came remotely close to a full-length novel, however, was actually the very first Trek story I ever wrote. I think I was around twelve years old, and had just discovered my mom's old manual typewriter in the basement. Blew off the dust, brought it upstairs, and decided to write a novelization of the first four issues of DC Comics' Star Trek series (circa 1983). I had been reading paperback novels since I was six, so I wrote my manuscript using the spacing and identions of that format.
Such a geek...
Greg - I've read a lot of your stuff - in fact it's some of the best Treklit. I'll be starting The Rings Of Time soon.
For anyone reading this who hasn't sampled Gregs work, you should !
Thanks! Hard to believe I've written over a dozen Trek books and stories now. Where did the time go?
I did try once to write a Next Gen story. Here was the scenario: Riker and Worf are sent back in time by an alien machine, which then self-destructs. The time and place they are sent to is a couple of hundred years earlier and on a planet facing imminent invasion by the Klingon Empire. One major plot thread would follow them on this planet, the other the efforts of Picard and the Enterprise-D to recover them.
The universe reset around the Enterprise, which was insulated from the changes, and is now dominated by the Romulans. A subplot dealt with the saucer section, left behind as unneeded bulk, as the Enterprise (battle section only) traveled into the past.
The universe reset around the Enterprise, which was insulated from the changes, and is now dominated by the Romulans. A subplot dealt with the saucer section, left behind as unneeded bulk, as the Enterprise (battle section only) traveled into the past.
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I wrote a TNG story about tensions in the prime directive (and other laws), and how a seemingly innocuous Starfleet agency known as Multi-Operations Directorate games the rules for its own self-interests. The directorate appears unimposing from the outside, its purpose merely being large scale coordination of projects and allocation of assets for UFP and Starfleet purposes. They do not, for example, "officially" initiate projects, but merely facilitate the purposes of projects (as much as they can without substantially impacting other projects). To undertake this effort, however, is massive as the UFP is huge. It requires coordinating world governments, star systems, resources spread out over the entire Federation. Consequently, the directorate has been given increasing latitude, over the years, to amend official policies, interpret policies, and even temporarily suspend them (think eminent domain) in times of crisis. This latitude drew the attention of traditional black ops outfits, who quickly colonized the directorate to help facilitate off-the-books projects which need wiggle-room.
At any rate, a young Starfleet Captain becomes suspicious when he gets conflicting orders which are ultimately trumped by the Multi-Operations Directorate. Should he risk his career and crew to untangle the abuse of power? Would he even be right to do so (do the ends justify the means in this case? should he be a good soldier?). Is the price of the far flung interests of Starfleet that much different than that of any empire and is the upshot the same in either case?
It's a kind of "the price of power"/"the price of peace" sort of story with questions about the classic tropes of the principled vs. the practical being weighed and argued as this captain and his senior officers struggle with their odd mission. In the end they wind up sort of splitting the difference, but in a way that fractures the increasing power of the directorate.
At any rate, a young Starfleet Captain becomes suspicious when he gets conflicting orders which are ultimately trumped by the Multi-Operations Directorate. Should he risk his career and crew to untangle the abuse of power? Would he even be right to do so (do the ends justify the means in this case? should he be a good soldier?). Is the price of the far flung interests of Starfleet that much different than that of any empire and is the upshot the same in either case?
It's a kind of "the price of power"/"the price of peace" sort of story with questions about the classic tropes of the principled vs. the practical being weighed and argued as this captain and his senior officers struggle with their odd mission. In the end they wind up sort of splitting the difference, but in a way that fractures the increasing power of the directorate.
Yes I have! 
Go to: http://lynx677.byethost12.com/
and choose the link "Kes Stories". The first story was supposed to be a novel. I tried to sell it to Pocket Books but they weren't that interested back then. The other two stories can be considered as novels as well due to the length of the stories.
Go to: http://lynx677.byethost12.com/
and choose the link "Kes Stories". The first story was supposed to be a novel. I tried to sell it to Pocket Books but they weren't that interested back then. The other two stories can be considered as novels as well due to the length of the stories.
I tried - several times - but I never get very far. I lack the self discipline, I guess. I did write a few shorter fan fiction stories of which at least some can still be found in the Fan Fiction section a few forums below this one. Two of them should be in the winning entries (for the monthly challenge) thread.
I lack the self discipline, I guess. I did write a few shorter fan fiction stories of which at least some can still be found in the Fan Fiction section a few forums below this one. Two of them should be in the winning entries (for the monthly challenge) thread.
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