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5.1.2 "School's Out For EVER!"
Parallax Perception is a tricky thing. Sometimes you’re sure you’re moving forward when all you’re doing is circling back around....
Ric Crossman
Aug 29, 202112 min read
4.1.2 "And We Did It Without A Single Bilitrium Bomb Being Detonated"
Past Prologue So this is how it’s done. The Kohn-Ma Clustercuss “Past Prologue” is about as far from “The Naked Now” as one can get. Back...
Ric Crossman
Aug 26, 20219 min read
3.1.2 The Starfleet Doping Scandal
The Naked Now (Content warning: contains discussion of sexual consent and ways in which that principle may not be respected). After a...
Ric Crossman
Aug 24, 20219 min read
2.1.2 The Sehlat Effect
Yesteryear Sticking with the theme of kid’s behaviour, then… Trying Not To Think About Time Well, kind of. Eventually. First I want to...
Ric Crossman
Aug 22, 20218 min read
1.1.2 "I Didn't ASK To Be Born Again As A God!"
Charlie X Well, it’s just terrible, isn’t it? A twelve-shaded nightmare. Utterly terrible on multiple levels and in multiple directions....
Ric Crossman
Aug 19, 20218 min read
6.1.1 The Archers' Bows Have Broken
Broken Bow Let us take the process of growth into our own hands. Let us show Mother Nature how things are done. Speed her up a little....
Ric Crossman
Aug 17, 202111 min read
5.1.1 "...Because We Can't Find Reverse"
Caretaker Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a Starfleet officer and a survivor of Cardassian rule walk into bar. Then an...
Ric Crossman
Aug 15, 20219 min read
4.1.1 How Sisko Got His Groove Back
Emissary Sometimes you've just got to boldly stay. Progress And Paradox Ira Steven Behr once said that the biggest problem The Next...
Ric Crossman
Aug 12, 20218 min read
3.1.1 Jean-Luc's Ladder
Encounter At Farpoint Our first step into a wider galaxy. Onward And Upward We open on a star-field. Of course we do, this is the post...
Ric Crossman
Aug 10, 202110 min read
2.1.1 That 70s Show
Beyond The Farthest Star "Beyond The Farthest Star" was not an episode written to be a pilot. Like the show which burned so this one...
Ric Crossman
Aug 8, 20216 min read
1.1.1 Trapped Amongst Man
The Man Trap Our very first taste of Star Trek turns out to be an unusual one. Too much salt, maybe? Salt On The Fingers It’s now old...
Ric Crossman
Aug 5, 20219 min read
0. 0. Destruct. 0.
It was a shot heard round the world. Well, not a shot, really. An explosion. And everyone picked it up at different times. And it was in...
Ric Crossman
Jul 15, 20213 min read
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