Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Dean Wesley Smith

STAR TREK®

Whales Weep Not [Third Prize]

Juanita Nolte

One Last Adventure

Mark Allen and Charity Zegers

Marking Time

Pat Detmer

Ancient History

Robert J. Mendenhall

Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer

TG Theodore

A Piece of the Pie

G. Wood

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION®

The Soft Room [Second Prize]

Geoffrey Thorne

Protecting Data's Friends

Scott William Carter

The Human Factor

Russ Crossley

Tribble in Paradise

Louisa M. Swann

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE®

Fabrications

Brett Hudgins

Urgent Matter

Robert J. LaBaff

Best Tools Available

Shawn Michael Scott

STAR TREK: VOYAGER®

Homemade

Elizabeth A. Dunham

Seven and Seven

Kevin Hosey

The End of Night

Paul J. Kaplan

Hidden 230

Jan Stevens

Widow's Walk

Mary Scott-Wiecek

ENTERPRISE™

Savior

Julie Hyzy

Preconceptions

Penny A. Proctor

Cabin E-14

Shane Zeranski

SPECULATIONS

Our Million-Year Mission [Grand Prize]

Robert T. Jeschonek

The Beginning

Annie Reed

Contest Rules

About the Contributors

About the Author

Dean Wesley Smith is the author of over 30 Star Trek novels either solo or written jointly with Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He has edited all six volumes of the Star Trek STRANGE NEW WORLDS short story anthologies and lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Reviews

This anthology of original fan fiction is good news for anyone who's memorized videos of the original Star Trek and its increasingly attenuated descendants; it gives more chances to watch favorite characters cope with time travel, tribbles and all the other usual gimmicks. For everyone else, the book is less cause for celebration, since understanding, let alone enjoying, the stories depends on not just knowing the characters in general but also remembering specific episodes or scenes. The writers' ingenuity is challenged as they speculate on the consequences of some detail while staying within the established history of the several series and movies. In fact, it is good to see more of the Star Trek crew. They're good people to be with especially, sometimes, the non-humans. In the original series, Gene Roddenberry created an extremely attractive vision of a future in which ingenuity, empathy and adolescent enthusiasm could solve almost any problem. We remember those stories because we want to believe the message. The sequels are somewhat more mature and less enthralling. But fans like those new characters, too, and don't want to see them hurt, just challenged a bit to let them show what they can do. That's what the stories here mainly offer. It's not a contemptible purpose in writing, but the results are rather odd: fiction that's attractive not in spite of but because of readers' knowing how it will come out. (May 8) FYI: As with the previous three volumes in this series, a contest determined the contributions. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.