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.
Baxter and company have been chasing after Alvin Ficker for the better part of a year. But when they finally come face to face with the Idlewild, will they be able to defeat Ficker and his crew? One thing's for sure. The timing couldn't be worse. The crew of the Explorer have a lot on their minds at the moment. Find out why in "Idle Hands!"
Coming April 2009!
After recent events, the crew could use a good party. But when the Explorer visits Earth for Harlan Baxter's promotion to Fleet Admiral, and to drop off the cadets at Starfleet Academy, not everyone's in the mood to celebrate. Join us in saying goodbye to our fearless cadets, and find out why the confrontation with Alvin Ficker is just beginning.
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 present 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.
