by Meneks » Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:57 am
No one is later to the party than me....
Who am I? Name is Maija, and I'm an addict. What I am an addicted to, I'll leave up to you. At any rate, I am fish biologist who currently works in Nevada. Yes, before you ask, there are fish in Nevada. It isn't all sagebrush, just most of it. Someday I'll escape to wetter climes where a lunker fish is more than 10" long, but that is another story all in of itself.
I've always been writing something or another, back as far as I can remember: if you ask nicely, I'll even allow you to read some of my projects. As far as Star Trek, I'll blame my mother on that: she, not a great sci-fi fan, sat me in front of the TV to watch Star Trek when I was a wee one, and, well, something *clicked*. Star Trek and Perry Mason and original Battlestar Galactica and Monty Python's Flying Circus...those are the shows I recall growing up with. And when I was reading, it was 'light' books such as Robinson Cruseo, 20-Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Swiss Family Robinson (/much/ better than the Disneyfied version), and Gulliver's Travels. Oh, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (I still have these very dog-earred books). Understand, I was reading all these when I was ten years old. Probably reveals more about me than I wish.
I discovered Star Traks while an undergraduate in college. Something about it just *clicked*. I don't know if it was that same *click* when I watched Kirk and Spock kick ass while red shirts died horrible deaths, but it was close. As I had been keeping up with all the Trek series over the years, I immediately thought about what I might be able to write. For whatever reason, I was drawn to the concept of the Borg. Everyone wants to write about the 'hero'; and I felt that it would be a much greater challenge to write a villian. And not only write a villian, but to write it in such a way that keeps him/her a villian to those he/she interacts with, yet allow the reader a degree of...some word that is on the tip of my tongue, and which I will recall sometime in the middle of the night. No matter. Regardless of my brain-farts, I started writing from the Borg point of view, sometime in there contacting Alan. Thus Star Traks: BorgSpace was born. Or assimilated.
Currently working on -
Star Traks: BorgSpace - Book 3, Part 1 - "Invocation of the Birds - Ruffled Vulture, Dusty Pheonix"
--Time is merely an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space
(Anonymous)