I've created continuity
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wiseheart... where there wasn't any before.
So, I'm currently working on this very AU Enterprise series called Enterprise - The Maiden Voyage. The first story of which only needs perhaps another chapter or two to be finished. However, right now I'm writing one of the later parts because the muses are capricious creatures: a completely different Shuttlepod One version, the beginning of which I've posted here a few entries previously.
Anyway, there ought to be at least two other stories between the two, one of which would be Minefield and the other one Dead Stop - you know, the one with the automated repair station that captures visitors to use their brains as its central processor unit.
I wanted to do something really different with this unit, and since the actual series never told us who built the station and why, I started looking for similarities in the area of Trekverse known to me, which would be from TOS to ENT and nothing beyond. And I rediscovered the doubtlessly worst episode of all these series, namely "Spock's Brain" from the original series.
I don't have to explain older Trekkies why this episode was hideously bad, idiotic and - as Leonard Nimoy himself put it - a total embarrassment. However, it had one element, the computer system needing an organic brain to operate properly, that I could connect to Dead Stop.
So I did a bit of research and decided that the original, technologically advanced inhabitants of Sigma Draconis VI (the ones who built the underground complex) actually left the planet when the ice age (the one still going on in the 23rd century) encroached their world, and went to the stars to create new colonies. I theorized that the automated repair station was built to be a stop for their starships, and that it originally operated with volunteers. However, the computer system - just like the Teacher (=the interface helmet that looked like a cybernetic hedgehog) in 'Spock's Brain' - was configured so that it would be only compatible with the brains of its builders. Once those died out, the station started capture other sentient beings, but they all suffered brain damage after a while, so they had to be replaced regularly.
I know it's a bit far-fetched, but at least it makes a certain sense to link these two episodes with all the unanswered questions; and in my Shuttlepod One story Hoshi and Reed will crash land on a planetoid that has a similar complex on the surface, so that's basically three episodes linked together across two different series, and I'm fairly proud of my idea. *g*
Other than this creative outburst, we're still suffering from the heat. We take nap after nap and even decided against going to the café in the morning because we are both too exhausted to get up early enough when it wouldn't have been so horribly hot yet.
NB: I've decided to give these little angels a try, eventually, so I've started putting together the necessary materials.
So, I'm currently working on this very AU Enterprise series called Enterprise - The Maiden Voyage. The first story of which only needs perhaps another chapter or two to be finished. However, right now I'm writing one of the later parts because the muses are capricious creatures: a completely different Shuttlepod One version, the beginning of which I've posted here a few entries previously.
Anyway, there ought to be at least two other stories between the two, one of which would be Minefield and the other one Dead Stop - you know, the one with the automated repair station that captures visitors to use their brains as its central processor unit.
I wanted to do something really different with this unit, and since the actual series never told us who built the station and why, I started looking for similarities in the area of Trekverse known to me, which would be from TOS to ENT and nothing beyond. And I rediscovered the doubtlessly worst episode of all these series, namely "Spock's Brain" from the original series.
I don't have to explain older Trekkies why this episode was hideously bad, idiotic and - as Leonard Nimoy himself put it - a total embarrassment. However, it had one element, the computer system needing an organic brain to operate properly, that I could connect to Dead Stop.
So I did a bit of research and decided that the original, technologically advanced inhabitants of Sigma Draconis VI (the ones who built the underground complex) actually left the planet when the ice age (the one still going on in the 23rd century) encroached their world, and went to the stars to create new colonies. I theorized that the automated repair station was built to be a stop for their starships, and that it originally operated with volunteers. However, the computer system - just like the Teacher (=the interface helmet that looked like a cybernetic hedgehog) in 'Spock's Brain' - was configured so that it would be only compatible with the brains of its builders. Once those died out, the station started capture other sentient beings, but they all suffered brain damage after a while, so they had to be replaced regularly.
I know it's a bit far-fetched, but at least it makes a certain sense to link these two episodes with all the unanswered questions; and in my Shuttlepod One story Hoshi and Reed will crash land on a planetoid that has a similar complex on the surface, so that's basically three episodes linked together across two different series, and I'm fairly proud of my idea. *g*
Other than this creative outburst, we're still suffering from the heat. We take nap after nap and even decided against going to the café in the morning because we are both too exhausted to get up early enough when it wouldn't have been so horribly hot yet.
NB: I've decided to give these little angels a try, eventually, so I've started putting together the necessary materials.
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Date: 2024-09-04 03:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-04 03:50 pm (UTC)I've stopped following Star Trek when Enterprise ended, since 1) I don't have the means to stream the new stuff and 2) I heard too many bad things about them.
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Date: 2024-09-04 04:50 pm (UTC)There are days when I am very, very happy that I never tried to build my own fantasy world. I was never good at doing research...
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Date: 2024-09-04 06:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-04 07:50 pm (UTC)And the little angels are very sweet — good luck with them.
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Date: 2024-09-04 08:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-04 08:31 pm (UTC)I've always thought they should have done Spock's Brain on an MST episode.
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Date: 2024-09-05 05:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-05 10:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-05 05:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-08 11:07 pm (UTC)TOS has not aged well. At the time, there was nothing like it, and it was amazing.
Kudos to you for all the digging and research you've done to find a path to continuity between the stories.