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.
As the holidays come round once again and we all think back to times long past, gather round the hearth and hear a story of the Aerostar crew, shortly after they were thrown into the Delta Quadrant, seven years ago. At the time, it seemed there wasn't much to celebrate. But Counselor Peterman was determined to show that a little thing like getting stuck 70,000 light years from home was no reason to feel down in the dumps! Will she succeed in bringing the crew together? Will Captain Baxter succeed in asking Peterman out to the holiday dance? And will everyone have a happy holiday, after all? Find out in Past and Presents, jingling all the, um, way. Unwrap it here:"Past and Presents."
COMING IN 2007...ER, THAT IS, 2008!
When last we left the USS Explorer crew, the situation was dire indeed. Baxter, Richards and J'hana attempted to infiltrate the Idlewild, only to discover that Dr. Maura Drake was now working with Alvin Ficker, and if that wasn't bad enough, Richards was Shot and J'hana was immobilized by a nasty Vulcan. On the Explorer, matters weren't much better. Counselor Peterman had just discovered that Ariel Tilleran had been controlling the crew's minds for months, and has now been thrust into command of the Explorer at an extremely inopportune moment. Will the crew make the best of a bad situation, overcome Ficker and the Idlewild crew, and win the day...or will they find themselves victim of this latest set of Wildcards (Part Two)? Find out in late January - I promise!
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.
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