Star Traks: The Original Series
Author
Series Synopsis
Series Status
The series is complete...unless Alan decides to write more at some point.
The Stories
See List of Star Traks: The Original Series Stories
Major Characters
- Captain Alexander Rydell
- Commander Travis Dillon
- Lieutenant Commander Jaroch
- Commander Scott Baird
- Lieutenant Patricia Hawkins
- Ensign Emily Sullivan
- Dr. Rebecca Singer
- Lieutenant Lisa Beck
- Counselor Claire Webber
- Ensign Kristen Larkin
- Ensign Andrea Carr
- Dr. Elizabeth Aldridge
- Trinian
Listed ranks are from the character's introduction and may change during the series
Minor Characters
- Lieutenant Craig Porter
- Lieutenant Sean Russell
- Yeoman Tina Jones
Series Notes
Star Traks: The Original Series was created somewhat by accident in the Fall of 1992. Alan Decker was in his Freshman year at Old Dominion University at the time, and a game had started among his friends to determine, if they had a starship, what crew positions would they have. During a conversation at lunch one day in October 1992, the real world version of Alexander Rydell suggested that Alan should write some of this up at some point. Alan took things a step further. Rather than putting himself and his friends on a starship, Alan created caricatures loosely based on aspects of their personalities and wrote the first chapter that same afternoon. He took that chapter with him to dinner that night and, after getting encouragement from his friends, continued on from there, adding in more characters and developing the Joegonot plot as he went.
After Star Traks 1 was completed (which at the time was titled "Star Traks: The Generation After That One"), Alan thought that would be it, but later that year, he had the idea that became Star Traks 2. Most of the first round of short stories were written in the summer of 1993. At that point, it had officially become a series.
Over the remainder of Alan's college years, he wrote Star Traks 3, Star Traks 4, Sensitivity 101 (With Tasha Campagnola), Star Traks 5, several more short stories, made a movie of Sensitivity 101 with his friends, and finished things off (so he thought) with Star Traks 6 in the Fall of 1995.
Alan graduated from Old Dominion in December 1995 and moved on to graduate school the following Fall at Louisiana State University. While there, he developed the plot for Please Hold For Oblivion, which he felt would put a nice cap on the series. He also revisited the original crew in Of Gods and First Officers, a crossover with Star Traks: The Vexed Generation. Again he felt he was done with the characters. Then he wrote It's Good To Be King. It was supposed to be a one-off story with an idea he felt he just had to write. Before long, he had decided to do a few more stories than that, and what was supposed to be one tale grew into The Lost Years.
The Lost Years project was completed in 2001, and once again Alan was done with the original series...until he wrote The Star Traks Reunion Special, which was posted in June 2004. That has been the last official original series project; although, original series characters have popped up in stories Alan has written for Star Traks: The Vexed Generation and Star Traks: Silverado.