Star Traks 1
| Star Traks: The Original Series | |
| Episode name | Star Traks 1: Joegonots |
|---|---|
| Season | |
| Episode number | |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2372 |
| Stardate | 49804 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | |
| Next in series | Secret Admirer [TRK] |
| Previous in timeline | Secret Admirer [TRK] |
| Next in timeline | Belch-O-Rama [TRK] |
In the first ever Star Traks story, Captain Alexander Rydell and the crew of the USS Secondprize face the most disgusting race in the galaxy to save a renown physicist.
Summary
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Featuring
- Captain Alexander Rydell
- Commander Travis Dillon
- Lieutenant Commander Jaroch
- Commander Scott Baird
- Lieutenant Patricia Hawkins
- Ensign Emily Sullivan
- Dr. Rebecca Singer
- Lieutenant Lisa Beck
- Ensign Kristen Larkin
- Counselor Claire Webber
- Lieutenant Monica Vaughn
- Trinian
Also Featuring
- Dr. Robert Tulson
- The Grand Leech of the Joegonots
- Anemia
Author's Comments
This is the first Star Traks story ever written. Before this, I had never written anything in the Star Trek universe despite being a fan since I was in 7th grade. I had, however, been writing other types of stories since I was in elementary school.
Star Traks came about as a result of conversations my college friends and I would have about what positions we would hold if we ever had a starship. One day at lunch in October of 1992, the real world inspiration for Alexander Rydell suggested in an off-hand manner that I should write some of this down at some point. I'm still not sure if he was serious. Oh well. Too late now. I'd like to pretend that a great deal of planning went into this, but really it didn't. Instead of trying to write my friends, I decided to use caractitures, amplifying aspects of their personalities. The first chapter was done that afternoon, and I took it down to dinner in our dorm that night to get opinions. The reactions were generally positive, so I continued on, adding in more characters as I went. Writing the story took about a month. I had no plot outline, no real idea of where I was headed, and certainly no concept that this was going to become a series.
Because of this, the characters are not quite formed yet. Rydell in particular comes across as far more put-upon and angry than he does in the later stories. For continuity purposes, I suppose this could be chalked up to having to deal with the Joegonots and his taking a fair amount of abuse in this story, both physical and mental.
Occasionally I think about going back and re-editing "Star Traks 1," but frankly I'm a bit scared of overtinkering with things. I have no desire to become George Lucas. No. Wait. I would love to be George Lucas. I would just be a George Lucas who didn't go screw with my past work. Anyway, there are some passages in this story that make me cringe now, but I'm going to leave the story pretty much as is. I was 18 when I wrote it. It shows in places, but there's still a lot of gags here that I am very happy with.