James Kirk stared into the darkness on the viewscreen before him. The blackness was absolute. It went beyond the black space between galaxies, it was more than simply a starless void. He had seen those. This was as if all light, all life had fallen into an infinite pit. And now his ship was going in after them. . .
"Anything, Spock?" Kirk spoke without taking his eyes from the screen.
"Nothing in any direction as far as the sensors can scan, Captain." Was that a hint of emotion in his First Officer's voice, Kirk wondered. Was there something there that felt like fear? No one, not even Spock, could look into that infinte oblivion and not feel afraid.
"Are we even sure we're moving?" Kirk's voice was steady, but his pulse was racing.
"Engines at full thrust, Captain." Sulu's deep voice seemed to quaver. "Warp six and holding."
Kirk turned his chair, but not his eyes. "Scotty -- tell me something."
"All the engines are functioning perfectly, Captain," said the Chief Engineer. "No permanent damage from our rough ride."
Kirk swung back. "Any thoughts on what that was, Spock?"
"Only a guess, Captain," said the Vulcan, and Kirk knew how much Vulcans hated to guess. "We passed through a dimensional barrier of unknown nature. Whatever we are now maneuvering through, it is not conventional space, or subspace, as we know it."
There was a Next Generation/X-Men novel, so the prospect of a TOS/Fourth World novel is not far fetched at all. Although with this computer modeling it would be a shame to have no visuals.
Maybe a large format novel with "paintings" interspersed for the best of both worlds?
Regardless of the form, it would be the perfect JB project.
I just had to respond to this unbelievable thread. Awesome is the only word that I can even think of to come close to the feelings this brings me. ANd the snippet of script just gives me goosebumps of what might have been and may even be. Dang that looks awesome.
Nice to see this thread again. Now that it's months old and is literally learning to walk around the board, can we rename this child? It was a good thread name in the moment, but the other threads are going to make fun of it on the playground.
And yet another opportunity to say I think this would be an excellent JB project. Kirk Vs. Darkseid - holy guacamole that would be cool
Re: Son of "e;Hey, Craig! I Lied!!"e; -- The Renamed Thread
December 31 2003, 2:10 PM
This is another edition of my personal crusade for this project see the light of day. This is my favorite thread of 2003 unless someone can think of something really spectacular in the next few hours.
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Re: Son of "e;Hey, Craig! I Lied!!"e; -- The Renamed Thread
December 31 2003, 6:07 PM
I was told something once by one of the editors who work on the STAR TREK novelizations that seems pertinent.
When DC had the rights to do STAR TREK comics, they thought it might be a neat idea to do a Superman crossover. They whipped up a proposal and shipped it off to Paramount, which rejected it, on the grounds that Superman was a fictional character.
Funny on a lot of levels....
(This was some years before the crossovers with X-Men, so they must have changed their minds.)
So I guess you can't bump old threads to the top spot on the new board, which means we won't be able to throw old gems like this one into syndicated reruns. So please excuse this shameless bump
Re: Son of "Hey, Craig! I Lied!!" -- The Renamed Thread
April 21 2004, 3:59 AM
Sure you can! You can bump old threads to the top spot at the new place. In fact, just for you Tim, I started this thread over there. Thought you'd like that. Bump it to your heart's content.
You're right, Matt - I was confused by the "sticky posts" and for some reason was under the impression the posts weren't "bumping" but were instead being listed in the order they came in as new threads. Trust me - my technical ignorance surprises even me.
And this is another cheap excuse to bump this thread. I'll think of some more cheap excuses for the new board.
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