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LSTX-2000:
Lost in Space and Time

A Star Trek: Next Generation Novel

Introduction

   After the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation series ended, I decided to try my hand at a Star Trek: Next Generation novel which could form the base for a possible screen-play adaption. I started LSTX-2000: Lost in Space and Time in 1993, but lost my job with a local department store before it was completed, and in the spring of 1994, had a very hard time finding another. What made it worse still was the fact that I was rejected unemployment benefits due to the circumstances of my job-loss; refusal to do somebody's else's job. I was a clerk and the manager wanted me to do the janitor's work. I refused and he fired me. I applied for unemployment and was rejected insurance benefits by the company that owned the department store I was fired from.

   Well, within a month, my severence pay was gone and I had nothing. I was looking at homelessness again. After my experience with homelessness in the early 80s, I didn't like the idea much, but I was ready to hit the road and see where it took me. Before doing that, however, I decided to try to collect welfare. I ran into some bad friction at the welfare office for some unknown reason, but when I went ahead and applied anyhow, I was flatly denied it as if there was absolutely no possible way i could collect, upon the basis that welfare funds were at an all time low and my case was not considered serious enough. They told me, in a total lack of sympathy whatsoever, "Go get a job, ya bum!" without actually saying it.

   Little did they know just how hard a task that was for a civil-psycho-war victim such as myself.
   Well, I finally managed to collect Social Security, after it was decided that there was a surplus that could be used to take some pressure off of the broken welfare bank. Of course, by doing so I pretty much turned myself into a second-class citizen, forced also to feel older all of a sudden, with a bad back and constant pains all over my body due to extreme tension and an anxiety disorder. But wait, hold on, that's always been a problem, i just now realized it. I was born into poverty, raised in pain, and graduated from hell with no money and nowhere to turn. After 35 years of that, anyone would develop an anxiety disorder.

   So much for that personal digression. The point is, however, that even though I started LSTX-2000 in 1993,
the sudden loss of my job in 1994 made it impossible for me to complete the novel until years later. When I finally got back to it in 1996, I made considerable progress before running into more trouble with a couple of noisey neighbors. The low-rent lodge I was stuck in at the time was a bit of an animal house, the rooms very small and cheap, the restrooms public and filthy half the time, and the walls were very thin. Under such circumstance, I suppose I should consider myself lucky that i got any work on my books done at all.

   Before LSTX-2000 was completed, in the cold winter of 1997 I suffered from a noisey neighbor that snored so damn loud it went right through the walls and buzzed my head like a chainsaw all night long, keeping me awake the whole time, and another dysfunctional neigbor that enjoyed banging the wall of my room, right behind my head, at least 2 or 3 times a day, at random. I absolutely had to escape that hell-hole to retain my sanity, so I went camping in the mountains, from the spring of 97 to the last of October, just before the cold weather began.

   Consequently, it wasn't until 1999 that i finally got back to LSTX-2000, and after I completed it and submitted it to Paramount, it was returned with a notification that they were not accepting Next Generation scripts any longer because the movies were apparently at the budgetary limit and production was due to end within a year or two. Some such jazz. In any case, the message was quite clear; I had failed to get the script in before the dead-line.

   Well, that was just another big disappointment, like so many others in my life, and I accepted it without too much of a problem. It was pointless to even think that I could convince anyone at Paramount otherwise, I had failed to meet the dead-line and that was the last of it. I'm quite certain that they would have showed no sympathy whatsoever about the extremely difficult time I had working to get the dang thing done!

   Anyho, I finally decided that if I couldn't sell it to Paramount or any of those big shot producers, the least i could do was small-publish the dang thing myself. So I did so, in 2000, and just tossed it into my personal library with my collection. Later, after purchasing a 2003 computer, I revised and polished all the word-files nicely, and posted it at Scifiminds.net in 2004.
   Finally, I started Ts-variant.net in late 2006, and found a home for it and my other works.

   LSTX-2000: Lost in Space and Time is about a time-traveler known as Ron Querzo that helps the U.S.S. Enterprise recover 3 of its lost bridge-officers after they are dislocated by 2 alien time-traveling criminals, both of whom are well-known by Querzo. The search leads them to ancient Mars, of all places, where the last era of a dying civilization is fighting to survive.

   LSTX-2000 introduces an original concept to the 'Next Generation' which has never been explored before by the series; the idea that extra-terrestrials preceded and influenced human civilization on Earth in prehistoric
times and those same aliens continue to have influence in the present and future. It also introduces the Star
Trek realm to a mysterious Earthling from its own 21st century who was lost in space during early space
exploration beyond Mars. The plot of LSTX-2000 involves the loss of key Enterprise bridge-officer personnel,
the effort to recover them, and the precariously difficult job of preventing contamination of the time-line and
altercation of key prehistorical events.

Nick Zentor, 4/14/08

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Tsv-08-100 LSTX-2000: Lost in Space and Time Chapter One: A Temporal Displacement Chapter Two: An Exitor and an EM Egg Chapter Three: Under Cloak and at the Edge Chapter Four: Shanghaied by Martian Slavers Chapter Five: The Ntzeon Effect Chapter Six: Lost Survivors in Space Chapter Seven: Stealth About Midnight Chapter Eight: Back Through Time Chapter Nine: Zeta 4 Chapter Ten: The Ntzeon Plant Chapter Eleven: The Voyage Across Time	LSTX-2000: Lost in Space and Time A Star Trek: Next Generation Novel Introduction After the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation series ended, I decided to try my hand at a Star Trek: Next Generation novel which could form the base for a possible screen-play adaption. I started LSTX-2000: Lost in Space and Time in 1993, but lost my job with a local department store before it was completed, and in the spring of 1994, had a very hard time finding another. What made it worse still was the fact that I was rejected unemployment benefits due to the circumstances of my job-loss; refusal to do somebody's else's job. I was a clerk and the manager wanted me to do the janitor's work. I refused and he fired me. I applied for unemployment and was rejected insurance benefits by the company that owned the department store I was fired from. Well, within a month, my severence pay was gone and I had nothing. I was looking at homelessness again. After my experience with homelessness in the early 80s, I didn't like the idea much, but I was ready to hit the road and see where it took me. Before doing that, however, I decided to try to collect welfare. I ran into some bad friction at the welfare office for some unknown reason, but when I went ahead and applied anyhow, I was flatly denied it as if there was absolutely no possible way i could collect, upon the basis that welfare funds were at an all time low and my case was not considered serious enough. They told me, in a total lack of sympathy whatsoever, "Go get a job, ya bum!" without actually saying it. Little did they know just how hard a task that was for a civil-psycho-war victim such as myself. Well, I finally managed to collect Social Security, after it was decided that there was a surplus that could be used to take some pressure off of the broken welfare bank. Of course, by doing so I pretty much turned myself into a second-class citizen, forced also to feel older all of a sudden, with a bad back and constant pains all over my body due to extreme tension and an anxiety disorder. But wait, hold on, that's always been a problem, i just now realized it. I was born into poverty, raised in pain, and graduated from hell with no money and nowhere to turn. After 35 years of that, anyone would develop an anxiety disorder. So much for that personal digression. The point is, however, that even though I started LSTX-2000 in 1993, the sudden loss of my job in 1994 made it impossible for me to complete the novel until years later. When I finally got back to it in 1996, I made considerable progress before running into more trouble with a couple of noisey neighbors. The low-rent lodge I was stuck in at the time was a bit of an animal house, the rooms very small and cheap, the restrooms public and filthy half the time, and the walls were very thin. Under such circumstance, I suppose I should consider myself lucky that i got any work on my books done at all. Before LSTX-2000 was completed, in the cold winter of 1997 I suffered from a noisey neighbor that snored so damn loud it went right through the walls and buzzed my head like a chainsaw all night long, keeping me awake the whole time, and another dysfunctional neigbor that enjoyed banging the wall of my room, right behind my head, at least 2 or 3 times a day, at random. I absolutely had to escape that hell-hole to retain my sanity, so I went camping in the mountains, from the spring of 97 to the last of October, just before the cold weather began. Consequently, it wasn't until 1999 that i finally got back to LSTX-2000, and after I completed it and submitted it to Paramount, it was returned with a notification that they were not accepting Next Generation scripts any longer because the movies were apparently at the budgetary limit and production was due to end within a year or two. Some such jazz. In any case, the message was quite clear; I had failed to get the script in before the dead-line. Well, that was just another big disappointment, like so many others in my life, and I accepted it without too much of a problem. It was pointless to even think that I could convince anyone at Paramount otherwise, I had failed to meet the dead-line and that was the last of it. I'm quite certain that they would have showed no sympathy whatsoever about the extremely difficult time I had working to get the dang thing done! Anyho, I finally decided that if I couldn't sell it to Paramount or any of those big shot producers, the least i could do was small-publish the dang thing myself. So I did so, in 2000, and just tossed it into my personal library with my collection. Later, after purchasing a 2003 computer, I revised and polished all the word-files nicely, and posted it at Scifiminds.net in 2004. Finally, I started Ts-variant.net in late 2006, and found a home for it and my other works. LSTX-2000: Lost in Space and Time is about a time-traveler known as Ron Querzo that helps the U.S.S. Enterprise recover 3 of its lost bridge-officers after they are dislocated by 2 alien time-traveling criminals, both of whom are well-known by Querzo. The search leads them to ancient Mars, of all places, where the last era of a dying civilization is fighting to survive. LSTX-2000 introduces an original concept to the 'Next Generation' which has never been explored before by the series; the idea that extra-terrestrials preceded and influenced human civilization on Earth in prehistoric times and those same aliens continue to have influence in the present and future. It also introduces the Star Trek realm to a mysterious Earthling from its own 21st century who was lost in space during early space exploration beyond Mars. The plot of LSTX-2000 involves the loss of key Enterprise bridge-officer personnel, the effort to recover them, and the precariously difficult job of preventing contamination of the time-line and altercation of key prehistorical events. Nick Zentor, 4/14/08 Chapter One
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