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>Similarly with the Atlas Story.  I am gussing that Steve was more
emotionally involved in "Nothing is Faster..."  and the Atlas
story more so than other Athena stories.

It's hard for me to define what "emotionally involved" really
means.  I did=
 give
this episode a lot of thought, and made some changes to it (the original
draft was somewhat different, and even referred to "Star Trek" as
a televis= ion
show that was played on "classic" channels, but I dropped that). 
Another original aspect of this story was to show what Earth might be like
using so= me
aspects of Trek (a lack of genetic engineering and an overabundance of
intelligent computers) but retaining the physical law that nothing can
trav= el
faster than light (hence the title).

>Um, no.  Why did the Athena's crew have the "Delusional"
memories of the
alternate world witrh Starships and all that impossible stuff?

I realized after sending my initial message that this was what you meant.  = There
are two ways to look at this.  First of all, a lot of the people in the alt= ernate
world would have no counterpart in the "real" world and would
have no alter= nate
memories.  The second part is that it took something from Thorpe to reactiv= ate
the memories in the minds of the crewmembers that he encountered, or else
it took seeing the Borg images transmitted from the Alpha Centauri probe. 
= It's
also possible that whatever mysterious event took the crew to the alternate=
 Earth
might have involved only members of the crew or select members of that crew= .
I'm not really clear on that, since this story did involve more mysterious
= "magic"
than most other Steve-Trek stories.

>Oh, yeah.  it would signifigantly alter the spin of the character

>not saying this would be a bad thing.

So far, nothing has really come up that would really make Thorpe reflect on=
 these
alternate memories, but they are on the back of the mind and could flare up=
 at
some opportunities.  A sequel story is also possible.

>Are you saying you're not clear on the mechanism either?  Not that this
is a criticism.  If it justifies a cool story then it works.

Actually, the ending scene was the most worked-over and thought-over part o= f the
story.  In the original outline, I thought I had a logical way for Thorpe
t= o undo the
effects of the "stealth Borg," but in writing the story, I found
holes in t= he logic and
had to try to work things through.  Naturally, I had to undo the changes in=
 the
story, otherwise, "Star Trek: Athena" would have ended in the
form that we = have
known it.

Steve
The Universe Unbounded.

Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com








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>Similarly with the Atlas Story.  I am gussing
that Steve was
moreemotionally involved in "Nothing is
Faster..."  and the Atlas story
moreso than other Athena stories.
 
It's hard for me to define what
"emotionally
involved" really means.  I did give
this episode a lot of thought, and made some
changes to it (the original
draft was somewhat different, and
even referred to
"Star Trek" as a television
show that was played on
"classic" channels, but I
dropped that).  Another
original aspect of this story was
to show what
Earth might be like using some
aspects of Trek (a lack of genetic
engineering and
an overabundance of
intelligent computers) but
retaining the physical
law that nothing can travel
faster than light (hence the
title).
 
>Um, no.  Why did the Athena's crew have the
"Delusional" memories
of thealternate world witrh Starships and all that impossible
stuff?
 
I realized after sending my
initial message that
this was what you meant.  There
are two ways to look at
this.  First of all,
a
lot of the people in the alternate
world would have no counterpart in
the "real"
world
and would have no alternate
memories.  The second
part is that it took
something from Thorpe to reactivate
the memories in the minds of the
crewmembers that
he encountered, or else
it took seeing the Borg images
transmitted from
the
Alpha Centauri probe.  It's
also possible that whatever
mysterious event took
the crew to the alternate Earth
might have involved only members
of the crew or
select members of that crew.
I'm not really clear on that,
since this story did
involve more mysterious "magic"
than most other Steve-Trek
stories.
 
>Oh, yeah.  it would signifigantly alter the spin of the
character>not saying this would be a bad
thing.
 
So far, nothing has really come up
that would
really make Thorpe reflect on these
alternate memories, but they are
on the back of
the
mind and could flare up at
some opportunities.  A
sequel story is also
possible.
 
>Are you saying you're not clear on the mechanism
either?  Not
that
thisis a criticism.  If it justifies a cool story then
it works.
Actually, the ending scene was
the most
worked-over and thought-over part of the
story.  In the original
outline, I thought I
had a logical way for Thorpe to undo the
effects of the "stealth
Borg," but in writing the
story, I found holes in the logic and
had to try to work things through. 
Naturally,
I had to undo the changes in the
story, otherwise, "Star Trek:
Athena" would have
ended in the form that we have
known it.
 
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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