The Star Traks Reunion Special
| Star Traks: The Original Series | |
| Episode name | Please Hold For Oblivion |
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| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2393 |
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| Previous in series | Please Hold For Oblivion [TRK] |
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Eight years after the Forever incident, Alexander Rydell gathers officers and friends from the USS Secondprize for a reunion.
Summary
"The Star Traks Reunion Special" consists of several short stories surrounded by framing material set at the reunion. The stories are...
- Picnic - The Secondprize answers a distress call from a Yynsian ship, the crew of which is acting strangely. After transporting the crew to the Secondprize's sickbay, Commander Travis Dillon and Lieutenant Commander Jaroch beam aboard. Soon Jaroch begins suffering the same symptoms. He attacks Dillon and sends the ship racing away from the Secondprize. Dr. Rebecca Singer determines that a batch of irradiated potato salad is to blame. Rydell is able to contact the battered Dillon and orders him to get rid of the potato salad on the ship. Dillon, running from Jaroch the entire time, puts the potato salad the only place he can, in his stomach. Free of its effects, Jaroch returns to normal, but suffers some nasty digestive after-effects.
- Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Summary to follow
- Uncle Dork - Summary to follow
- You're the Inspiration - Summary to follow
- The Road to Feruk'Zin - Summary to follow
- Thanks For Your Support - Summary to follow
- We Welcome Your Suggestions - Summary to follow
- Viva Lost Vega - Summary to follow
- The Secret Life of Trininan - Summary to follow
- Experimental Outcomes - Summary to follow
Featuring
- Alexander Rydell
- Travis Dillon
- Jaroch
- Scott Baird
- Patricia Hawkins
- Emily Sullivan
- Andrea Carr
- Monica Vaughn
- Lisa Beck
- Claire Webber
- Elizabeth Aldridge
- Trinian
Also Featuring
Author's Comments
The first thing I wrote for this project was the Prologue, appropriately enough. At that time, I didn't even know it was going to be a project. The conversation between Rydell and Travis just popped into my head, and I typed it up, not sure what it would become. As the idea for the reunion special as a whole formed, I had a a thought of "Am I really going to do this?" I wasn't sure that I wanted to go back to the well, as it were. Did I really want to risk messing up what I'd done in Oblivion and Lost Years? I decided that this was going to be different. I wanted to go back to telling some fairly simple funny stories and to have a good time with the characters. In the end, the reunion special achieved that for me. Your milage will vary. Of course, the end did get a bit more on the sentimental side. Sometimes I just can't resist.
"Picnic" was originally written as a script for a Star Traks comic that never ended up happening. A reader had contacted me about wanting to draw a Traks comic and wanted to know if I would provide a story. I did. Unfortunately the project never took off. The storyline fit in with the type of thing I wanted to do for the Reunion Special, so I rewrote it as a prose story and included it.
Links
The Star Traks Reunion Special (text)