A note to my readers: I’m going to take the opportunity here to take a short break in posting chapters of the novel, and give newcomers to the site some time to catch up. My illustrator also needs a little more time to get the final look of the ship finished, which he hopes to [...]
The captain’s shuttlecraft settled his shuttlecraft just above the chilling water of Galagus III, near the edge of the large iceberg. He could tell that the outside was extremely cold, and he would need to wear a lot of warm gear. He wasn’t particularly looking forward to climbing up the iceberg. But he knew that [...]
“Our E.T.A. is thirty-two seconds,” the ensign reported. The little dots on the screen zoomed right passed the ship. This was the first chance that they tested the ship’s warp engines. Smooth, Seth thought. Not so much as a rumble. “Captain, we’re approaching the asteroid field.” “Drop out of warp, slow to impulse.” “The Excelsior [...]
It was the next morning, and Seth had gotten up early. He had accepted Santiago’s challenge to pit the Dragonfly against the Excelsior. In fact, they worked out the details over several more beers that night. Santiago had clearly been thinking about this challenge a great deal in the few hours since Counselor Jenovia had [...]
Seth walked into Ten Forward. Like the rest of the ship, the room was dark, but was lit strategically by the tables and the counter at the bar. Like many of the desks all over the ship, the tables looked as though they floated in mid-air. Though the overall décor matched the rest of the [...]
Captain Seth was rather exhausted now, perhaps from getting pummeled by holograms, or maybe it was the extremely philosophical but dizzying conversation he had with his engineer. But in looking at his roster, he saw that he had only one more officer to meet: his counselor. The computer informed him that the counselor was located [...]
“Err…,” LeCroy began, “Yes and no. ‘Yes’ in that how all of the working parts come together in an artificial being was inspired by Lore. ‘No’ in that BX-12’s brain will be synthesized totally differently. But the truth is we really don’t know what made Lore the way he was, whether it was just a flaw [...]
Captain Seth entered the laboratory to meet his next crewmember: his Chief Engineer, Jean LeCroy. Of all of his senior staff, LeCroy was actually the most publicly known. He was a highly accomplished engineer, and worked on some of the most ambitious projects over his career in the Federation. He was responsible for many of [...]
Captain Seth proceeded towards the doors of the holodeck. He cradled his dislocated left arm, which now hung out of its socket. The pain seemed sharper now, now that his adrenalin was subsiding. I guess now’s a time as good as any to meet the new doctor, the captain thought to himself. He couldn’t help but [...]
The Breen were a reclusive, war-like race and were once enemies of the Federation. All Breen soldiers have been known to wear refrigeration suits, but the reason for them was never made entirely clear. They seemed to enjoy being shrouded in mystery, and will sometimes make up facts to maintain, or even encourage, that mystery. [...]