Space, the indefinite frontier. These are the seemingly neverending voyages of the Starship Explorer. Her crew's incessant mission: To explore brave new frontiers of boredom and incompetence, to seek out new neuroses and new cheap parodies, insanely going, and going, and going where no spin-off has gone before (again)...
INTRODUCTION
Star Traks: The Vexed Generation is a series of stories spun off from Alan Decker's Star Traks that follows one crew between two quadrants and two ships, and various states of dementia. Confused? Then click the "Series Information" link to the left and learn about the Aerostar, the Explorer, and the crew that straddles (figuratively) those two ships. Then dive into Year One's stories and follow the trials and tribulations of Captain Baxter and company as they try to get out of the Delta Quadrant. The crew's continuing mission takes them to all four quadrants, deep, deep space, and alternate times and universes. The only question is how long they can go before their incompetencies and emotional baggage finally catch up with them.
Everyone is on their toes when a Klingon talk show host comes to interview the Explorer crew. They realize this is a chance they sorely need to redeem themselves. But there may be more to this than just a primetime special. What dark secret lies in wait for Lt. Commander J'hana? And how many times can Baxter stand to be called a coward?
Answers to these questsions and more, plus Andy Rooney, in "Cling on Me."
Coming October 5!
The crew's willful suspension of disbelief is put to the test when they are called in to respond to complaints of ghosts on a Federation colony world. So Richards, Tilleran, J'hana and Piper beamed down, armed with tricorders and lots of skepticism. Which is all well and good, of course, until stuff starts going...well, wrong...
LEADERSHIP: THE FINAL FRONTIER
To prove that something academic can be done with Star Trek, I set out to design a skills-building workshop on leadership and teambuilding, all based on the lessons we've learned from Trek. This workshop has been presented several times on the college campus of University of Baltimore. No, really, I'm not kidding! The workshop is called "Leadership: The Final Frontier," and the resource materials can be found here. Want me to provide this workshop at a location near you (and hopefully, reasonably near me)? Let me know.
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Questions? Comments? Want to write your own Star Traks: The Next Vexed Thing story, or tell me you think this whole relaunch thing is lunacy? E-mail me at Antular7@aol.com, or I will cry like a baby.
Star Trek is a Registered Trademark and all its references are property of Paramount, Inc. and Viacom Communications. Thanks to the ST:TNG technical manual for some images. Star Traks, the Secondprize, Waystation and a big, fluffy teddy bear are all the property of Alan Decker. Thanks also to Alan Decker for the site redesign. Many thanks to Brennan Brazeau for the title image. All the rest is mine: Anthony Butler, Copyright 2004.
