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| Episode name | Back to the Well |
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| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2268 |
| Stardate | Unknown |
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| Next in series | Antares or Bust [TOS] |
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| Next in timeline | Antares or Bust [TOS] |
In exchange for repairs to the SS Clydesdale, Mike Harper agrees to transport a passenger, but said passenger’s choice of destination is a spatial anomaly that sane captains won’t go near. Why can’t people just pick Risa instead?
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Author's Comments
"Back to the Well" itself, it's a pretty basic first story: introduce the characters and setting, send them off on an adventure, and set up some continuing threads to follow later. The passenger the Clydesdale is roped into transporting turns out to be from another universe and probably recognizable to fans of another incredibly long-running science fiction series. Should I have brought in the Tenth Doctor in the first story of a new series? Possibly not. At the time I started writing this story, it really hadn't been that long since David Tennant had left the series, and he was (and still is) my favorite Doctor. I really wanted to write him, though.
Also, I was paying off something from a Star Traks: Waystation story that really didn't need paying off. There's a throwaway gag in the final Waystation story, Going My Way?, where Craig Porter sees a blue police box in the storage room of Dillon Enterprise R&D. A little bit later, it has vanished. That's it. I never intended it to be some bigger thing. But then with "Back to the Well," I had a reason for the TARDIS to be there. It doesn't matter at all in the grand scheme of things, but from what the Doctor says, you can piece together that he hit the Well in his universe, he and the TARDIS ended up in the Trek/Traks universe and got separated in time. With the unwitting help of the Clydesdale crew, he is able to return to the Well, recall the TARDIS, and return from whence he came (Now there's a phrase I don't get to use very often.). Since "Back to the Well" is told from the perspective of the Clydesdale's crew, they don't know or understand any of this. And for readers who don't get the Who reference, it's just about a guy from another universe who uses the Clydesdale to get home. Hopefully it works either way.
I am really happy with the opening narration in this one. I was going for the tone of an instructional video from the 1950s. It works for establishing things, but I didn't want to carry it throughout. I think it would have gotten old fast. I also don't think I could have sustained it anyway.