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This story might seem like an odd choice for the next to last Boldly ever. It’s a light character piece rather than some big build-up that ends in a cliffhanger. A lot of the reason for that goes back to what I said was our reasoning for not spending the whole run on the Dillon Consortium arc. We wanted the opportunity to tell other kinds of stories. The last one was a choose your own adventure, and this one was…well…this. | |||
Anthony, Brendan, and I have all used Star Traks to talk about events in our lives. At its core, “Please Hold For Oblivion” was really my way of working through some of my feelings about being so far from the friends I’d made in college after I graduated and moved away for grad school. I won’t speak for Anthony and Brendan here, but I know some of the real life events they’ve used in their stories. | |||
The A plot of “Born to Rom” is me being a bit wistful about the fact that both of my kids are adults now. Several of the bits between Vioxx and Neb are pulled straight from my own parenting experiences. I tried playing Coma with my kids when I was tired. I worked about as well for me as it did for Vioxx. And my son actually told me that I’d done too good of a job of raising him to be independent. As for the rocking a child to sleep while singing the same Pearl Jam song over and over, that also happened…to Anthony. He very kindly came over to watch my son when I needed to take my then wife to the emergency room for a really bad flu. When we came home, Anthony was rocking the boy and singing (Although, I can’t remember exactly which Pearl Jam song it was. He just said it was the only song he knew all the words to), and apparently had been there like that for a very long time. He was willing to stay there the whole night if he had to. | |||
The B plot was us having fun with various therapists from TV, history, and other Traks stories. Hopefully it doesn’t matter too much if you aren’t familiar with them all. Really the end goal was to push Prosak to do something. Maybe not the right something. But it is something. | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
[https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-5-BG-BORN/ Born to Rom] | [https://www.star-traks.com//boldly/stories/series10/10-5-BG-BORN/ Born to Rom] | ||
Revision as of 17:14, 28 October 2023
| Star Traks: Boldly Gone | |
| Episode name | |
|---|---|
| Season | 10 |
| Episode number | 5 |
| Writer(s) | Alan Decker, Anthony Butler |
| Year | 2503 |
| Stardate | 179348 |
| Chronology | |
| Previous in series | Consequences You Otherwise Avoid [BG] |
| Next in series | |
| Previous in timeline | Consequences You Otherwise Avoid [BG] |
| Next in timeline | |
While Captain Bain is away on leave, Commander Vioxx is left in command and forced to face something that his years of training and experience in the Romulan Imperial Navy in no way prepared him for. Meanwhile, Commander Prosak has to deal with a crisis of her own, this one more of the existential variety.
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
- Cabral
Author's Comments
This story might seem like an odd choice for the next to last Boldly ever. It’s a light character piece rather than some big build-up that ends in a cliffhanger. A lot of the reason for that goes back to what I said was our reasoning for not spending the whole run on the Dillon Consortium arc. We wanted the opportunity to tell other kinds of stories. The last one was a choose your own adventure, and this one was…well…this.
Anthony, Brendan, and I have all used Star Traks to talk about events in our lives. At its core, “Please Hold For Oblivion” was really my way of working through some of my feelings about being so far from the friends I’d made in college after I graduated and moved away for grad school. I won’t speak for Anthony and Brendan here, but I know some of the real life events they’ve used in their stories.
The A plot of “Born to Rom” is me being a bit wistful about the fact that both of my kids are adults now. Several of the bits between Vioxx and Neb are pulled straight from my own parenting experiences. I tried playing Coma with my kids when I was tired. I worked about as well for me as it did for Vioxx. And my son actually told me that I’d done too good of a job of raising him to be independent. As for the rocking a child to sleep while singing the same Pearl Jam song over and over, that also happened…to Anthony. He very kindly came over to watch my son when I needed to take my then wife to the emergency room for a really bad flu. When we came home, Anthony was rocking the boy and singing (Although, I can’t remember exactly which Pearl Jam song it was. He just said it was the only song he knew all the words to), and apparently had been there like that for a very long time. He was willing to stay there the whole night if he had to.
The B plot was us having fun with various therapists from TV, history, and other Traks stories. Hopefully it doesn’t matter too much if you aren’t familiar with them all. Really the end goal was to push Prosak to do something. Maybe not the right something. But it is something.