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Lstx-2000: Lost in Space and Time A Star Trek: The Next Generation Novel The Quarantine Planet A Star Trek: Voyager Novel I
haven't included any main links at this site for the
two Star Trek serial novels
that I wrote in the mid to late 90s. Since they are not actually part
of the Temspace Variant series and they are not short-stories, I simply
failed to fit them in while creating the master pages for the site.
Now it occurs to me that if I hadn't already posted them online at Scifiminds.net, it is more than likely that i wouldn't have been so negligent and probably would have managed to fit them in somewhere. In time, perhaps I will, but until then, the best I can do is provide the links to the two novels at Scifiminds (provided above). Actually, Lstx-2000 does connect with the Temspace Variant series, but not directly. It is mainly a Next Generation story (written as a script, submitted to Paramount and rejected in 1999) but it also includes the main protagonist from The Lost Planet Trilogy, Ron Querzo, who has acquired a vehicle capable of traveling through time. Querzo is originally from the 21st century, but accidentally encounters the Starship Enterprise and its colorful crew after chasing 2 galactic criminals to the 24th century. The Enterprise crew and Querzo find themselves facing the same problem when the 2 criminals attempt to create an artificial intersection between parallel universes. On the other hand, Quarantine Planet is in no way connected to the Temspace Variant series and was written simply as an honest attempt to seize the opportunity that Voyager might go on to the same kind of big screen thing that ST:TNG followed. When The Quarantine Planet was written, in 1999, Voyager was still airing its final seasons, and there was no way I could possibly know that it wouldn't continue on to the big screen. It certainly seemed popular enough at the time, so i gave it my best shot. Oh well. In any case, the novel exists and is available for all to read if they are interested. The Quarantine Planet was actually conceived out of inspiration from a dream I experienced in which I saved Captain Janeway and some of her bridge crew from enemy aliens, of which at least one, i recognized, was a Kazon. I have to admit, I had a bit of a romantic crush on Janeway, from a distance (of course), and thought about the dream for some time afterwards. Over a couple of weeks time, the whole story began to unfold within my subconscious, like a distant memory being revisited, and it evolved into The Quarantine Planet. I have to admit, this was the fastest novel I ever wrote in my life. Except for one minor problem with an anticlimatic ending which was somehow misplaced, I wrote 99 percent of the novel in about 3 or 4 months (a record for me, to be sure). The Quarantine Planet puts Janeway and her crew in a conflict with the Prime Directive, when Voyager is damaged during a battle and is forced to hide on a frozen moon in a system that includes another moon (both orbit a gas-giant) that maintains a pre-warp-drive civilization. They need raw dylithium for the warp-drive and detect traces on the inhabited moon, but despite all attempts to keep themselves concealed, the members of a spatial outpost station on the opposite side of the frozen moon discover them. After that, news about their existence spreads to a corrupt caste while the enemy Voyager hides from enters the system searching for them. But the leader of the Quarantine Planet warns the alien intruders of a dreadfully fatal disease that has plagued their poor little planet for centuries, and Voyager is somehow caught in the middle, on the run for its lives. Nick Zentor, 12/14/06 Scifiminds.net A Great Site for Amateur Sci-fi Writers |
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