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>Speaking of Terkos stories.  My interest in the Trek universe goes=20
beyond what happens to people in uniforms on starships.  I want to know=20
how Joe Earth lives or Joe Vulcan.  (Or would that be T'Joe Vulcan?)=20
 What about those faces they never attach anything to, Andorians or=20
Tellerites?  RPGs have made an attempt to put some flesh on the spare=20
bones, and I gladly make use of all the materials I can lay my hands on.=20
 My son commented on the number ot Star Trek Reference books I own.=20
 About 50 or so.  Reference books, not novels.  There is some good world=20
building in the FASA Trek and LUG Trek.  I'll take it from whence it comes.

That's true, looking into other lives would be interesting, but a Romulan
e= xpatriate
on a space station (I'm assuming it's at El Nanth, but it's hard to keep
th= ese things
straight without rereading) is not exactly Joe Earth or his Vulcan wife
T'J= oe Vulcan.
Given his situation, he'd be presenting a unique and different view on this=
 universe,
not a typical view of the average human on Earth.

I have encorporated some scenes that focus on this civilian position in the
Federatiion in the stories, including the scenes on Tiberius in "The
Memory=
 of the
Man."  An upcoming story has Indesakar paying his father a visit at
the fam= ily home
in India.  I like scenes like that, since it does allow the reader to
relat= e something a
bit closer to his life than the average life on board a Starfleet vessel.

I own nowhere near the same number of reference books, excluding for the mo= st
part the RPG books, since I never got involved in role-playing games.  I
ha= ve a few, and
I read through their information on places like Betazed, Andor and the rest=
, and then
fit it into what I might have already established on the places.  In canon,=
 Earth and
Vulcan are well-understood, while in Steve-Trek anyway, so is Kent.  Andor = and
Tellar are more open, although I have views on both of these races that are=
 expressed
in the stories.  I'm looking forward to that upcoming episode of
"Enterpris= e" that is
supposed to show an Andorian ship.  I wonder how much they resemble what I = feel
Andorian ships are supposed to look like.

>This is where the Terkos stories came from.  I didn't intend ot write=20
more about the Romulan expatriate, but he demanded more of a say. 
"The=20 Price" got written.  High Crystal Station, which I never
intended as a=20 story setting suddenly had things being written about it. 
Then Jay fed=20 me conversation he wrote between an unnamed nuisance and
Terkos.  I gave=20 the nuisance a name and wrote about him and  "The
Duel" came out of it.=20
 Cinderella had her foot wear mistranslated and "Murder in the Rue de=20
Verre" was created.

That would make him an interesting character, perhaps because he presents
t= he unique
view, almost the "stranger in a strange land" approach used in
Trek by putt= ing aliens
on human ships.  He would not really represent the common view, though.  Wh= en you
create interesting settings and interesting characters, stories do get
writ= ten.  I've
thought the same way about Starbase G1.  It could be interesting.  I could = put some
interesting people on it and tell stories about it, but I doubt it would be=
 as interesting
if it was a run-of-the-mill station with a run-of-the-mill crew.  Anyway, I=
'll give the
latest story, "Murder In the Rue de Verre," a read.  I can't
promise that I=
 will like it,
but I'll see if it has anything to say to me.  Oddly, detective and police
= shows rarely
do.  It's just not a genre of story-telling that I can get into.

Steve
The Universe Unbounded.

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>Speaking of Terkos stories.  My interest in the
Trek universe
goes
beyond what happens to people in uniforms on starships.  I want to
know
how Joe Earth lives or Joe Vulcan.  (Or would that be
T'Joe Vulcan?)
 What about those faces they never attach anything to,
Andorians or
Tellerites?  RPGs have made an attempt to put some flesh
on the spare
bones, and I gladly make use of all the materials I can lay my hands on.
 My son commented on the number ot Star Trek Reference
books I own.
 About 50 or so.  Reference books, not
novels.  There is
some
good world building in the FASA Trek and LUG Trek.  I'll
take it from whence it comes.
That's true, looking into other
lives would be
interesting, but a Romulan expatriate
on a space station (I'm assuming
it's at El Nanth,
but it's hard to keep these things
straight without rereading) is not
exactly Joe
Earth or his Vulcan wife T'Joe Vulcan.
Given his situation, he'd be
presenting a unique
and different view on this universe,
not a typical view of the average human on
Earth.
 
I have encorporated some scenes
that focus on this
civilian position in the
Federatiion in the stories,
including the scenes
on
Tiberius in "The Memory of the
Man."  An upcoming
story has Indesakar paying
his father a visit at the family home
in India.  I like scenes
like that, since it
does allow the reader to relate something a
bit closer to his life than the
average life on
board a Starfleet vessel.
 
I own nowhere near the same number
of reference
books, excluding for the most
part the RPG books, since I never
got involved in
role-playing games.  I have a few, and
I read through their information
on places like
Betazed, Andor and the rest, and then
fit it into what I might have
already established
on the places.  In canon, Earth and
Vulcan are well-understood, while
in Steve-Trek
anyway, so is Kent.  Andor and
Tellar are more open, although I
have views on
both
of these races that are expressed
in the stories.  I'm
looking forward to that
upcoming episode of "Enterprise" that is
supposed to show an Andorian
ship.  I wonder
how much they resemble what I feel
Andorian ships are supposed to look
like.
 
>This is where the Terkos stories came from.  I
didn't intend ot
write more about the Romulan expatriate, but he demanded more of
a say.  "The Price" got written. 
High Crystal Station, which I never intended as a story setting
suddenly had things being written about it.  Then Jay fed
me conversation he wrote between an unnamed nuisance and
Terkos.  I gave the nuisance a name and wrote about him
and  "The Duel" came out of it.
 Cinderella had her foot wear mistranslated and
"Murder in the Rue de Verre" was
created.
That would make him an interesting
character,
perhaps because he presents the unique
view, almost the "stranger in
a strange land"
approach used in Trek by putting aliens
on human ships.  He would
not really
represent
the common view, though.  When you
create interesting settings and interesting
characters, stories do get written.  I've
thought the same way about
Starbase G1.  It
could be interesting.  I could put some
interesting people on it and tell
stories about
it,
but I doubt it would be as interesting
if it was a run-of-the-mill station with a
run-of-the-mill crew.  Anyway, I'll give the
latest story, "Murder In the
Rue de Verre," a
read.  I can't promise that I will like it,
but I'll see if it has anything to say to
me. 
Oddly, detective and police shows rarely
do.  It's just not a
genre of story-telling
that I can get into.
 
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
 
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com;">http://ussathena.iwarp.comhttp://ussathena.iwarp.com">http://ussathena.iwarp.com;
 





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