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---"Steve Oostrom"  wrote:
> Today (February 5), I must've got on one
> of my ISP's better modems(they have some
> crappy ones, so it is a joy to get a good
> one), and I checked the "Dark Horizons"
> site again.  This time, the graphics
> loaded all the way, and I got to see
> the star map.  That's kind of cool,
> although I can't imagine the Tholians
> controlling that much space.
> Anyway, while watching the graphics
> load, I did not look at the image,
> but at the status bar, and I noticed that
> it constantly switched between
> the AOL banner graphics loading the
> content graphics loading.  The
> AOL graphics were frequently "done,"
> before the content graphics
> resumed reloading.  Maybe on a
> less-than-perfect connection, Internet
> Explorer might have interpreted the
> completion of a banner graphic to
> be also the completion of a content
> graphics.  That is likely the cause.

Steve,

Glad you finally got see the site as its supposed to be seen.  I in fact
had some odd experiences today with the banner graphics used by AOL. I know
a trick to make them not appear, but AOL says that's a big time
"no-no" so I guess I'm stuck with them.  (At least until I decide
to finally chuck the whole AOL setup and use another web hosting company.)

Glad you enjoyed the Federation Map.  When I started to produce that thing
I had not planned on having the Tholian territory so large, but then about
a week before I finished, Geoffrey Mandel came out with his Star Trek Star
Charts book where the Tholians have a huge territory,(pg 36-37) so I
decided I'd go with what he had since most everyone would see his setup as
at least semi-canon.  (There were a few things he had on his maps that I
simply thought didn't make sense so in those cases I went with my own
choices.)

>
> >By the way, I just started reading the first episode
> of Star Trek: Athena, "In Fire" and so far am enjoying
> it.
>
> Thanks.  I just had this thought... it's been five
> years since I wrote "In Fire."
> It's hard to believe that much time has passed.
>
> In other matters...
>
> I'm still reading the first "Dark Horizons" story.
> A heavy work schedule right now has limited my
> on-line time, but I want to read the story and get
> my impressions, although some of Garry's posts
> contain spoilers that I perhaps should not have read.

Thanks for sticking with it despite the graphics display problems.  I look
forward to your impressions and comments.  I'm hoping to finish up "In
Fire" this weekend along with stories from a couple other sites.

> Actually, as for the "Progenitors," I use
> the concept, mostly because it has appeared
> in Steve-Trek long  before "The Chase" (TNG).
> In 1980, when I came up with the Ksassans,
> I had them believe in two  things.  One is
> that there was an ancestral race that was
> humanoid and seeded planets throughout the
> galaxy with DNA to lead to human life.
> The second was that the Ksassans are the
> direct descendants of the ancestral race
> (I didn't use the term Progenitor
> race at the time), and are destined to
> rule the whole galaxy again.  The concept
> came about as a means to explain why the
> galaxy is so full of humanoid life and why
> truly alien species are unknown.  In
> Steve-Trek, the Progenitors created the
> Presevers (which is not "life as we know
> it") and set them up to actively guide the
> evolution on my different planets, along
> with other details. Simply seeding the
> planets would not be enough, as another
> agent would have to exist to guide the
> evolving humanoids, and some believe that
> there is some kind of deep purpose, some
> kind of end result that should come from
> this.
>

I don't want to go into too much detail about what I'm doing with the
Ancient Progenitors in the Dark Horizon storyline, because its part of the
developing overall plot, but one thing I think the Progenitors, the
Preservers, Iconians, etc. do is break the Earth-centric flavor of some
science fiction by saying that Earth and humanity weren't the first
lifeforms and might not be the central focus of existence.

I look forward, as I read your stories, to seeing how you deal with the
Progenitors in your writing.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm



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