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Revision as of 19:07, 29 October 2022
| Star Traks: TOSsed | |
| Episode name | The Khan Job |
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| Season | 1 |
| Episode number | 6 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker |
| Year | 2268 |
| Stardate | Unknown |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | Reign of the Clydesdale [TOS] |
| Next in series | |
| Previous in timeline | Reign of the Clydesdale [TOS] |
| Next in timeline | Trials of Youth [REJ] |
Colony supply runs are about as nice and easy as it gets…most of the time.
Summary
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Author's Comments
When I started writing TOSsed, I didn't have a complete plan. I knew some storylines that I wanted to do, but I assumed that as I got into it and developed the characters, more and more ideas would come to me and the series would grow like my previous ones had.
That didn't happen. Now whether that's due to limitations in the concept, my own failings, or just what was happening in my own life, I can't say. Regardless, "The Khan Job" in some form or another was always in my plans. How could I not use that title? And I knew early on that the Clydesdale and 2 other ships were going to be involved in some kind of standoff that resulted in the destruction of Ceti Alpha VI. I just didn't know for certain who was on those other two ships.
I had enough to get started with, though, so I started writing and got as far as the scene where Dr. Corbair is stuck in a fake bush scanning Khan and company. Then I stopped.
For several years.
Once we started talking about the Star Traks site revamp and redesign (which was longer ago that you'd think), I decided it was time that I got back to TOSsed. Considering my writing pace in the intervening years (glacial doesn't even begin to cover it) and my lack of new TOSsed ideas, I also decided that it was time to wrap things up in some fashion. That meant dealing with Dr. Corbair's plot.
I'd been laying in subtle hints that something was special about Ronnie since the first story. She can sense the Well before the others, then she is the one Light is drawn to a couple of stories later. All of that is enough to get Corbair suspicious and drive her to get her hands on a decent tricorder. All of that was already in place. I just thought it would come to a head a bit later on and not in this way. Ronnie was going to be fine, and Corbair might have stayed with the ship (I was going back and forth on that one. She was fun to write and brought an interesting dynamic, but it would be hard to keep her around after she was caught experimenting on Ronnie). With the decision to end the series, I was able to go bigger. And thanks to Discovery starting up between when I started writing the story and when I finished it, I had a canon version of a Section 31 vessel I could use for one of the two other ships. The third became the Path of Khan, who apparently continued on after this story but became the political party mentioned in the Waystation election arc.
Ronnie's abilities go back to one of those TOS things that no other series ever touched again. Way back in the first Captain Kirk pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," there's talk of ESPer ratings and the effect that the Galactic Barrier has on people with high ESPer ratings (In a completely unplanned coincidence, I posted this story in the same week that Discovery had an episode where they passed through the Galactic Barrier and Sally Kellerman, the actress who played one of the two crew members affected by the barrier back in "Where No Man Has Gone Before," died.). ESPer rating are never mentioned in TOS after that (or in that Discovery episode), so I threw in a brief explanation of why.
Since this is the last TOSsed post, I want to take a second to just appreciate how weird TOS was. ESP was fairly tame compared to giant green hands grabbing the Enterprise, Abraham Lincoln showing up floating outside the ship, brains being stolen, and so on. There's a lot. By comparison, almost all subsequent Treks seem so staid (I'm excluding TAS and Lower Decks, since animation has let them go pretty wild. Prodigy hasn't really gone to the weird yet.). I hope that Strange New Worlds actually takes the Strange part of its title to heart occasionally.
Despite not originally planning on this being the finale, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The finality allowed me to push Corbair, Ronnie, and Mike to a different place, which hopefully makes for a satisfying conclusion. If there had been a second run of stories, the overall arc was going to involve Noov. He wasn't seen much in the stories I wrote, which was intentional. I still like the idea I had for Noov. It's been around in some form or another since I developed TOSsed, even back when the Clydesdale was going to be a Starfleet ship. I'll probably use it at some point in something, so that's all I'm going to say about it right now.