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Revision as of 16:25, 26 January 2024
| Star Traks: Boldly Gone | |
| Episode name | The Bain Supremacy |
|---|---|
| Season | 9 |
| Episode number | 2 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker, Anthony Butler |
| Year | 2503 |
| Stardate | 178305 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | Trial And Error [BG] |
| Next in series | We'll Always Have Romulus [BG] |
| Previous in timeline | Trial And Error [BG] |
| Next in timeline | We'll Always Have Romulus [BG] |
Having escaped the Breen, Captain Reginald Bain lands right in the clutches of the James T. Kirk Hologram. Meanwhile, Commander Vioxx has the minor problem of all-out war with the Breen to handle. Some guys have all the luck.
Summary
Featuring
- Captain Reginald Bain
- Commander Prosak
- Commander Vioxx
- Lieutenant Commander Tovar
- Lieutenant Shelly Marsden
- Sub-Commander Remax
- Dr. Natalia Kasyov
- Centurion Nortal
- Sub-Lieutenant Zantak
- Engineer Selex
- Cabral
- Admiral Kristen Larkin
- Thot-Phul
- James T. Kirk Hologram
- Rosalyn Bain
- Gridloo
- Pridloo
Author's Comments
I doubt that anyone will be too surprised to find this out, but even though every Boldly Gone story has both of our names on it, Anthony and I often write them separately. We’ll talk about each run, look at our schedules and who has ideas, and then divide up the stories between us. Some insanely obsessive person with way too much time on their hands could probably go through the previous 8 runs of Boldly and figure out, based on our other work, who wrote what. That said, we much prefer those rare opportunities when we can work on a story together. In the case of Series Nine, we got that chance on the first two.
That wasn’t the original plan, though. Anthony initially took on 9-1 himself, but, after getting a good three-quarters of the way through it, he decided he wasn’t really satisfied with the direction the story was taking (he can jump in and correct me if I’m wrong here). We had scheduled a night to hang out together, so one Saturday evening I was driving along the winding Baltimore County backroads leading from my end of the world to his trying to figure out if I had any ideas to offer on the story. I love inspiration (what writer doesn’t?). Sometimes generating ideas can be torture, but other times they just appear. This was one of those times. The entire sequence of events from Tovar, Prosak and Marsden rescuing Bain from the Breen to Bain defeating the Kirk hologram leapt into my head almost completely formed. If I remember correctly, I called Anthony as I was driving and started babbling to him about it. By the end of that visit, we had most or maybe even all of 9-1 done, and we split up 9-2 into sections for each of us to write.
I don’t often say things like this about the stories, but I am very happy with “The Bain Supremacy.” While the images I initially had in my head of Bain just ripping his way through the Allegra in pursuit of an increasingly-panicky Kirk hologram didn’t quite fit in the finished story, the overall concept works well, I think, and several of the gags made me chuckle all over again as I was editing the story for posting.
I’ve probably mentioned this at some point as well, but I love writing for Bain. There was a danger with him that we might make him too perfect, which I believe that we’ve generally avoided. He’s got his flaws and he can be downright oblivious about certain things, but he is a hell of a lot of fun.