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"Star Traks 5" was divided into three acts with an intermission between each act: | "Star Traks 5" was divided into three acts with an intermission between each act: | ||
'''ACT ONE: THE DISCOVERY''' | '''ACT ONE: THE DISCOVERY''' | ||
Dr. [[Rebecca Singer]] has been removed from duty and shipped off to [[Tantalus V]], leaving the [[USS Secondprize]] without a Chief Medical Officer as they travel into unexplored regions of the Beta Quadrant. The ship detects a signal that the universal translator is unable to understand. Lieutenant [[Lisa Beck]], who has been feeling unfulfilled in her position as Communications Officer, sets to work trying to determine if the signal carries a message. [[ | Dr. [[Rebecca Singer]] has been removed from duty and shipped off to [[Tantalus V]], leaving the [[USS Secondprize]] without a Chief Medical Officer as they travel into unexplored regions of the Beta Quadrant. The ship detects a signal that the universal translator is unable to understand. Lieutenant [[Lisa Beck]], who has been feeling unfulfilled in her position as Communications Officer, sets to work trying to determine if the signal carries a message. [[Jaroch]] locates the source of the signal, and the Secondprize goes to investigate, arriving at a deserted Class M world just as Beck completes her translation. It's a welcome message providing landing coordinates. | ||
Commander [[Travis Dillon]], Jaroch, Beck, and Lieutenant [[Sean Russell]] beam down to investigate and find what appears to be an automated hotel. Beck translates a sign indicating that this place is the edge of [[Multeks|Multek]] space, called [[Edgeworld]] and apparantly the Mutleks don't believe their is anything beyond this point but an empty void. In short, they've discovered a tourist attraction. Soon thereafter, a unfamiliar ship approaches Edgeworld. When Captain [[Alexander Rydell]] contacts the ship, the Multek who responds screams in horror upon seeing Rydell, opens fire on the Secondprize, and transports the away team off of the surface before fleeing. | |||
As the Secondprize pursues, the away team find themselves in a brig. Up on the bridge of the Multek ship, Captain [[Wuddle]] is having a crisis. He's just the captain of a cruise ship, and his species does not believe in the existence of other sentient life in the universe. Now he's supposedly holding four beings who can't exist in his brig. The Multeks decide they are hallucinating. This gets a bit more complicated when their hallucinations escape. The away team captures a Multek and finds a tiny shuttlepod. Jaroch and Russell take the Multek back to the Secondprize in the shuttlepod while Beck and Dillon remain on the Multek ship and try to take the bridge. Beck and Dillon end up in a hand-to-hand battle with Wuddle and his crew, surprising Wuddle with the fact that his hallucinations have rather solid fists. The Multeks get the upper hand and are about to blast Beck and Dillon, when the Secondprize takes down the Multek ship's shields and beams the two officers away. The Secondprize heads back toward Federation space before Wuddle can call in reinforcements. | |||
Revision as of 11:44, 27 March 2008
| Star Traks: The Original Series | |
| Episode name | Star Traks 5: In-The-Way-Station |
|---|---|
| Season | |
| Episode number | |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2373 |
| Stardate | 50216 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | Reason to Panic [TRK] |
| Next in series | Commanding Presence [TRK] |
| Previous in timeline | Sensitivity 101 [TRK] |
| Next in timeline | House Arrest [WAY] |
A run-in with a not-so-friendly alien race (They never are) leads to big changes for the USS Secondprize crew. Determined to protect Federation space from this new enemy, Starfleet hastily constructs a new outpost to watch over things and transfers members of the Secondprize crew to man it.
Summary
"Star Traks 5" was divided into three acts with an intermission between each act:
ACT ONE: THE DISCOVERY
Dr. Rebecca Singer has been removed from duty and shipped off to Tantalus V, leaving the USS Secondprize without a Chief Medical Officer as they travel into unexplored regions of the Beta Quadrant. The ship detects a signal that the universal translator is unable to understand. Lieutenant Lisa Beck, who has been feeling unfulfilled in her position as Communications Officer, sets to work trying to determine if the signal carries a message. Jaroch locates the source of the signal, and the Secondprize goes to investigate, arriving at a deserted Class M world just as Beck completes her translation. It's a welcome message providing landing coordinates.
Commander Travis Dillon, Jaroch, Beck, and Lieutenant Sean Russell beam down to investigate and find what appears to be an automated hotel. Beck translates a sign indicating that this place is the edge of Multek space, called Edgeworld and apparantly the Mutleks don't believe their is anything beyond this point but an empty void. In short, they've discovered a tourist attraction. Soon thereafter, a unfamiliar ship approaches Edgeworld. When Captain Alexander Rydell contacts the ship, the Multek who responds screams in horror upon seeing Rydell, opens fire on the Secondprize, and transports the away team off of the surface before fleeing.
As the Secondprize pursues, the away team find themselves in a brig. Up on the bridge of the Multek ship, Captain Wuddle is having a crisis. He's just the captain of a cruise ship, and his species does not believe in the existence of other sentient life in the universe. Now he's supposedly holding four beings who can't exist in his brig. The Multeks decide they are hallucinating. This gets a bit more complicated when their hallucinations escape. The away team captures a Multek and finds a tiny shuttlepod. Jaroch and Russell take the Multek back to the Secondprize in the shuttlepod while Beck and Dillon remain on the Multek ship and try to take the bridge. Beck and Dillon end up in a hand-to-hand battle with Wuddle and his crew, surprising Wuddle with the fact that his hallucinations have rather solid fists. The Multeks get the upper hand and are about to blast Beck and Dillon, when the Secondprize takes down the Multek ship's shields and beams the two officers away. The Secondprize heads back toward Federation space before Wuddle can call in reinforcements.
ACT TWO: THE DIVISION
ACT THREE: THE DEFENSE
Featuring
- Captain Alexander Rydell
- Commander Travis Dillon
- Lieutenant Commander Jaroch
- Commander Scott Baird
- Lieutenant Patricia Hawkins
- Lieutenant Emily Sullivan
- Ensign Andrea Carr
- Lieutenant Lisa Beck
- Ensign Kristen Larkin
- Counselor Claire Webber
- Lieutenant Monica Vaughn
- Trinian
Also Featuring
- Commander Walter Morales
- Yeoman Tina Jones
- Lieutenant Craig Porter
- Lieutenant Sean Russell
- Dr. Amedon Nelson
- Colonel Martin Lazlo
- Bradley Dillon
- Leximas
Author's Comments
During the writing of Star Traks 4, I started thinking about the idea of a spin-off. I had so many characters running around the Secondprize that it was becoming hard to develop stories that used all of them in a satisfactory way. Lisa Beck was one of the obvious choices for the spin-off, since she had already taken command a couple of times, yet with Rydell, Dillon, and Jaroch around and Sullivan advancing, those opportunities would be harder to come by.
I didn't specifically set out to parody Deep Space Nine, but a space station series did seem like it would be a good change of pace. It would give me the opportunity to use civilian characters, such as Bradley Dillon, whom I had had fun writing in "Star Traks 4."
Originally "Star Traks 5" had a prologue on it involving the TV network that made the "Star Traks" television series. There's another story I never posted called "Contract Negotiations" that I wrote in college that involves this same reality. In it the actress who played Beck was trying to get meatier things for her character to do. And all of this came from the idea that the characters would occasionally stop to do the opening credits monologue in the early stories. It was all just overly complicated and not very funny. Both the story and the prologue can be found hiding at the very bottom of the Alternate Traks page.