Thank you people for all of your comments and questions and I will try to
answer them all-more or less (smile). This is a quickie to answer some of
the questions posed in the reviews. It will be posted until Monday
December 1, 2003.
From: WBH21C(): Is the new Thunderbolt class a two-seater or a single- seater?
-The far majority are 2 seaters even though there are single seat variants: ***
From: andrewjameswilliams author of 'Destiny's Child', a story I am hoping HE WILL CONTIUNUE SOMEDAY!
.I have got to wonder though what is going on, why the Drakh suddenly decided to pull out. Have the Shadows gone and activated the Thirdspace device and the Thirdspace aliens come through to pound them with superior weaponry. If the Shadows were under such major attack I could see the Drakh running to their masters aid leaving the Centauri to face the pissed off forces of the rest of the galaxy on their own.
-This is exactly correct. The Drakh have abandoned the Centauri to help the Shadows against the 3rd space aliens. The Shadows captured the artifact and woe to them and the galaxy at large. There's a lot of story here to tell.
I also wonder what's going to happen when Voyager comes into this briefly - I mean she's probably far more powerful than Picard's Enterprise what with her isomagnetic disintegrator banks, phasers, quantum torpedoes, photon torpedoes (which I think are type-VI they were in the show at any rate) and her transphasic torpedoes. The Drakh and Shadows would be in for a very nasty shock if they challenged her.
-Voyager uses a type VIII phaser array. Everyone will be in for a shock. But they will need everything that they can get because Pandora's box has been opened and the Shadows are leaving town. This portion will be explained in 'Londo's Diary' chapter coming up in mid December. I keep telling people that the B5 universe may not survive and no one believes me! Ah, well. ***
What kind of "Job" did Janeway agree to do for Q?
-Wait and see. It's part of a crazy plan by Q and the others. ***
I was wondering that too. Why is Griffin a Colonel at the beginning and a Major at the end?
-Albert make boo boo mistake and put Colonel where major supposed to be. Major Griffin is Major Griffin. Major Griffin becomes Colonel when Albert Kills everybody off. But that's in future. Albert, Sorry.
Version 2 of this story is coming out and the many mistakes will be corrected so that many more can be created. *** From Sir Charles Nelson of the 'A tangled Web' Fame: Refresh my memory, please. Who are the Aeriana? And the Xindi? I don't recall ever hearing of them before.
-I actually stumped the master of the crossover story? On an easy one? Yes! The Xindi are part of the 'Star trek: Enterprise' story going on now. They're the major threat and now since the temporal cold war is spreading its wings there I have to include it here. The Aeriana crystal in the V'ger story was mentioned in 'Evolutions: Gleanings past and future' chapter one. It was always alive but only now is it starting to communicate with us lower life forms.
Are you still thinking of using Gary Seven? The time traveling agent Kirk met in 1960's around NASA? He had the black cat that turned into a Woman when you weren't looking. He'd be a great agent in your Temporal War.
-I will not because I am spread very far right now and I would lose track if I added Gary and his people into the mix.
What are the names of the time traveling aliens that are giving Captain Archer headaches all the time?
-The 'somethings or others'. I've forgotten for now.
Could you have some time capsule clues tucked away by Archer to give to Janeway? Or since we don't know how Archer dies maybe he could have just time traveled into the future to deal with some event? Or he could quantumly inhabit Tom Paris and try to figure out what he needs to do to help chuckle - quantum leap joke. Anyway, just something for you to think about.
-Sorry. No Archer or quantum leaps in this story. Only quantum slipsteams, quantum universes and variable possibilities in relation to time-space phenomena. (My family hates it when I talk like that!)
Now Sela of Romulus is evidently part of the expedition (very glad of that) but what about Spock and the remnant of Romulans that survived the Cylon and Borg attack?
-Sela and one Romulan Centurion are onboard Voyager. She's about to meet her mamma and they both have issues. Should be interesting. Spock was only guess staring.
You wrote Worf's dead wife's name as Janzia. Worf was married to Jadzia Dax. Unless this is part of the Temporal War mess-up, I think you've Made a mistake.
-Yes, that is yet another error that is being corrected today. Again boo boo to be corrected.
And could you give me definitions to Imperixe, the Sinhindrea and the Cionas?
The Ciona Imperixe (the full name in collaboration with Louis Hill and myself) is the name given to the parasites (by us) that attacked the Federation in the first season of ST:TNG. I have a developed very detailed life history on them that would make parasitologists proud. And because I have studied this complex life cycle, I can't follow the DS9 books just out concerning those same parasites. Simply put, I don't like the way the parasites are portrayed so I am going in another direction. The Sinhindrea are another race of predatory beings whose presence will be felt everywhere in the chapters to come. I don't want to give it away but I will send you that chapter today which will clear up all of your immediate questions. The rest will not get it until February or so, I believe.
The background history is mentioned in the 'Ruination Imperatives'. See below:
Sire Forsen quietly turned to Captain Riker and nodded his head at Q. "Does he always go on like this?"
"He act's like this only when he's very worried. And despite appearances, he's very worried right about now."
"Quiet Human scum," Q said indignantly. "I have the floor now." He took a dramatically faked breath and continued. "There are a few great powers that give the Collective pause in their relentless pursuit of perfection. There is the Yongi-Sinhidrea, the Ciona Imperixe, you know, those little bugs with the great ambitions for your Federation. And there is, of course the Great Machine Intelligum of the Baroni cluster. These three are terrible powers that the Borg, in their arrogance, have tried and failed to subject or destroy. Of the three Great Enemies, the Great Machine Intelligum is considered by the Borg to be the most valuable and thus most coveted. But the Intelligum has resisted the Borg for close to two hundred years with no end in sight. However the Borg did discover a weakness. "
"V'Ger."
"Exactly." Q appeared next to Spock in a flash. "Would you care to continue?"
Nodding, Spock began without preamble.
"V'Ger was a combination of an Earth probe and advanced technology from the Intelligum. In my -exuberance, I tried to join with the entity and was rebuffed. But not before I obtained a glimpse of that made Voyager six, which was considered primitive, but still a kindred spirit, into V'Ger. It had a wish and that was to evolve but it could not do so on its own. It desired to join with its creator. It needed to touch its creator, in essence to discover its purpose. Its knowledge spanned this universe and it needed to evolve. It literally joined with its creator, a representative of humanity. Captain Willard Decker, a perfect mechanical copy of a Deltan navigator named Ilia and V'Ger itself joined together to create a new life form unlike anything in this galaxy." "And that is exactly why the Borg lusts after V'Ger, or should I say the children. The union between V'Ger and Human ape and Deltan sex fiend produced unexpected results. The Deltan aspect required a lot of attention and the human aspect, Decker who had a previous relationship with Ilia, fit the bill perfectly. The Union became a duality, which produced several offspring, humanoid in appearance, Intelligum by design, with the mindset both organic and mechanical. Only two children were viable, but their energy and intelligence were remarkable, if I must say so. Each contains the best of both worlds."
"This of course attracted the Borg in droves and fight has lasted until now. The kids hate the Borg and will instantly destroy anything that approaches them containing Borg technology. This is where Anika Chakotay will come in. Thousands of cubes were destroyed which, I may add, is just one of the reasons why they haven't come to your section of space in swarms. Kate, you and your other self hurt them more than you know." _______________
And have you decided what the V'ger children are going to be like?
-That is a secret for now but your notes and comments in our earlier discussions helped me a lot in forming them.
And what kind of job would Q need Janeway to do for him? Talk to you later, Charlie.
-That's still a secret forthcoming very soon. Take care. AG ***
From Art M.
Hey Albert: Regarding the Narn Battlecruiser, I refer you to . I find a lot of "interesting" stuff in there. You might find some, too!
In reference to the "Battle Of The Line" comment I made, I point out the thought made by COLONEL Griffin: "Colonel Paul Griffin, Second in command of the Defense expedition and the rest of the crew onboard the EAS Evanston watched in awe as the largest collection of battleships since the Defense-of-the-line moved into formation." Like I said, no more capital ships during that Last Stand. I guess I just wasn't clear enough on what I was "critiquing".
-For Paul during that time, whatever was left (I believe it's coming on Sci- fi channel this week) still had to have made an impressive sight. I am sure that there were a 'few' Capitial ships left. In what shape they were in I cant vouch for. But for Paul it still made an impression.
Concerning the "The Passing Of The Technomages" trilogy: given the level of advancement made by the Shadows and Vorlons (each 1 million plus older than the younger races (in the Trilogy, the Shadows were a few years older than the Vorlons!), it is very highly likely that one person can control a Battlecrab. Most humans use only about less than 5% of their brains. What the Shadows do is COMPLETELY wipe the brain of the CPU (sentient being). So, in a sense, you are correct in that Anna Sheridan is a completely new and different person. The original Anna Sheridan is gone. In the Trilogy (officially sanctioned by JMS, BTW), Anna Sheridan was being coached by Morden and "Jason". But of course, like you said, there are big "gaps" in her personality. IF you can find these books, I highly recommend that you buy them. They are an interesting and stimulating read!
-I may consider doing so after I finish this story. The reason being is that it is so easy to be influenced and swayed by another interpretation as I am writing my story. Plus unless it is canon I won't modify what I have written because I don't believe that the Shadows would have only one crew member who controls the ships and the smaller vessels completely independently. If I can't convince myself, I can't convince my readers. It's the same thing with DS9's novels representation of the parasites.
The Trilogy also talks about Galen--a lot about him, actually. He's one of my favorite characters in the JMS "Bab-verse". It also talks about how he is the most powerful of the Technomages. Am I intriguing you into reading the Trilogy, yet? Hope you include him in your later chapters; especially since you gave me a little teaser there in Chapter 23 in "A Universe..."!!!
-We shall see, with whatever's left of the B5 verse.
So, you're bringing Janeway and Voyager-B, eh? You bringing the Admiral's little Task Force with her?
-Maybe.
Are you going to ignore the Prime Directive and let her upgrade the "-C" and "-D"?
-Interesting point. Let's see where it takes us. After all, the C and D may not even survive the 3rd space onslaught. I keep telling people this.
Actually, having Janeway and Garrett interact would be a hoot!!! Can't wait for that one!
_This is a big chunk of story coming up. Actually Kathryn and Rachel and Picard and Sisko will have a-meeting.
How about "my" Starfleet Marines? What's the mission that you will have them do?
-Patience. Cylons are a pain and so are 3rd space aliens.
Thank you people. I will be posting after the holiday. Comments are welcomed. Remember this is version 1.0. Albert
From: WBH21C(): Is the new Thunderbolt class a two-seater or a single- seater?
-The far majority are 2 seaters even though there are single seat variants: ***
From: andrewjameswilliams author of 'Destiny's Child', a story I am hoping HE WILL CONTIUNUE SOMEDAY!
.I have got to wonder though what is going on, why the Drakh suddenly decided to pull out. Have the Shadows gone and activated the Thirdspace device and the Thirdspace aliens come through to pound them with superior weaponry. If the Shadows were under such major attack I could see the Drakh running to their masters aid leaving the Centauri to face the pissed off forces of the rest of the galaxy on their own.
-This is exactly correct. The Drakh have abandoned the Centauri to help the Shadows against the 3rd space aliens. The Shadows captured the artifact and woe to them and the galaxy at large. There's a lot of story here to tell.
I also wonder what's going to happen when Voyager comes into this briefly - I mean she's probably far more powerful than Picard's Enterprise what with her isomagnetic disintegrator banks, phasers, quantum torpedoes, photon torpedoes (which I think are type-VI they were in the show at any rate) and her transphasic torpedoes. The Drakh and Shadows would be in for a very nasty shock if they challenged her.
-Voyager uses a type VIII phaser array. Everyone will be in for a shock. But they will need everything that they can get because Pandora's box has been opened and the Shadows are leaving town. This portion will be explained in 'Londo's Diary' chapter coming up in mid December. I keep telling people that the B5 universe may not survive and no one believes me! Ah, well. ***
What kind of "Job" did Janeway agree to do for Q?
-Wait and see. It's part of a crazy plan by Q and the others. ***
I was wondering that too. Why is Griffin a Colonel at the beginning and a Major at the end?
-Albert make boo boo mistake and put Colonel where major supposed to be. Major Griffin is Major Griffin. Major Griffin becomes Colonel when Albert Kills everybody off. But that's in future. Albert, Sorry.
Version 2 of this story is coming out and the many mistakes will be corrected so that many more can be created. *** From Sir Charles Nelson of the 'A tangled Web' Fame: Refresh my memory, please. Who are the Aeriana? And the Xindi? I don't recall ever hearing of them before.
-I actually stumped the master of the crossover story? On an easy one? Yes! The Xindi are part of the 'Star trek: Enterprise' story going on now. They're the major threat and now since the temporal cold war is spreading its wings there I have to include it here. The Aeriana crystal in the V'ger story was mentioned in 'Evolutions: Gleanings past and future' chapter one. It was always alive but only now is it starting to communicate with us lower life forms.
Are you still thinking of using Gary Seven? The time traveling agent Kirk met in 1960's around NASA? He had the black cat that turned into a Woman when you weren't looking. He'd be a great agent in your Temporal War.
-I will not because I am spread very far right now and I would lose track if I added Gary and his people into the mix.
What are the names of the time traveling aliens that are giving Captain Archer headaches all the time?
-The 'somethings or others'. I've forgotten for now.
Could you have some time capsule clues tucked away by Archer to give to Janeway? Or since we don't know how Archer dies maybe he could have just time traveled into the future to deal with some event? Or he could quantumly inhabit Tom Paris and try to figure out what he needs to do to help chuckle - quantum leap joke. Anyway, just something for you to think about.
-Sorry. No Archer or quantum leaps in this story. Only quantum slipsteams, quantum universes and variable possibilities in relation to time-space phenomena. (My family hates it when I talk like that!)
Now Sela of Romulus is evidently part of the expedition (very glad of that) but what about Spock and the remnant of Romulans that survived the Cylon and Borg attack?
-Sela and one Romulan Centurion are onboard Voyager. She's about to meet her mamma and they both have issues. Should be interesting. Spock was only guess staring.
You wrote Worf's dead wife's name as Janzia. Worf was married to Jadzia Dax. Unless this is part of the Temporal War mess-up, I think you've Made a mistake.
-Yes, that is yet another error that is being corrected today. Again boo boo to be corrected.
And could you give me definitions to Imperixe, the Sinhindrea and the Cionas?
The Ciona Imperixe (the full name in collaboration with Louis Hill and myself) is the name given to the parasites (by us) that attacked the Federation in the first season of ST:TNG. I have a developed very detailed life history on them that would make parasitologists proud. And because I have studied this complex life cycle, I can't follow the DS9 books just out concerning those same parasites. Simply put, I don't like the way the parasites are portrayed so I am going in another direction. The Sinhindrea are another race of predatory beings whose presence will be felt everywhere in the chapters to come. I don't want to give it away but I will send you that chapter today which will clear up all of your immediate questions. The rest will not get it until February or so, I believe.
The background history is mentioned in the 'Ruination Imperatives'. See below:
Sire Forsen quietly turned to Captain Riker and nodded his head at Q. "Does he always go on like this?"
"He act's like this only when he's very worried. And despite appearances, he's very worried right about now."
"Quiet Human scum," Q said indignantly. "I have the floor now." He took a dramatically faked breath and continued. "There are a few great powers that give the Collective pause in their relentless pursuit of perfection. There is the Yongi-Sinhidrea, the Ciona Imperixe, you know, those little bugs with the great ambitions for your Federation. And there is, of course the Great Machine Intelligum of the Baroni cluster. These three are terrible powers that the Borg, in their arrogance, have tried and failed to subject or destroy. Of the three Great Enemies, the Great Machine Intelligum is considered by the Borg to be the most valuable and thus most coveted. But the Intelligum has resisted the Borg for close to two hundred years with no end in sight. However the Borg did discover a weakness. "
"V'Ger."
"Exactly." Q appeared next to Spock in a flash. "Would you care to continue?"
Nodding, Spock began without preamble.
"V'Ger was a combination of an Earth probe and advanced technology from the Intelligum. In my -exuberance, I tried to join with the entity and was rebuffed. But not before I obtained a glimpse of that made Voyager six, which was considered primitive, but still a kindred spirit, into V'Ger. It had a wish and that was to evolve but it could not do so on its own. It desired to join with its creator. It needed to touch its creator, in essence to discover its purpose. Its knowledge spanned this universe and it needed to evolve. It literally joined with its creator, a representative of humanity. Captain Willard Decker, a perfect mechanical copy of a Deltan navigator named Ilia and V'Ger itself joined together to create a new life form unlike anything in this galaxy." "And that is exactly why the Borg lusts after V'Ger, or should I say the children. The union between V'Ger and Human ape and Deltan sex fiend produced unexpected results. The Deltan aspect required a lot of attention and the human aspect, Decker who had a previous relationship with Ilia, fit the bill perfectly. The Union became a duality, which produced several offspring, humanoid in appearance, Intelligum by design, with the mindset both organic and mechanical. Only two children were viable, but their energy and intelligence were remarkable, if I must say so. Each contains the best of both worlds."
"This of course attracted the Borg in droves and fight has lasted until now. The kids hate the Borg and will instantly destroy anything that approaches them containing Borg technology. This is where Anika Chakotay will come in. Thousands of cubes were destroyed which, I may add, is just one of the reasons why they haven't come to your section of space in swarms. Kate, you and your other self hurt them more than you know." _______________
And have you decided what the V'ger children are going to be like?
-That is a secret for now but your notes and comments in our earlier discussions helped me a lot in forming them.
And what kind of job would Q need Janeway to do for him? Talk to you later, Charlie.
-That's still a secret forthcoming very soon. Take care. AG ***
From Art M.
Hey Albert: Regarding the Narn Battlecruiser, I refer you to . I find a lot of "interesting" stuff in there. You might find some, too!
In reference to the "Battle Of The Line" comment I made, I point out the thought made by COLONEL Griffin: "Colonel Paul Griffin, Second in command of the Defense expedition and the rest of the crew onboard the EAS Evanston watched in awe as the largest collection of battleships since the Defense-of-the-line moved into formation." Like I said, no more capital ships during that Last Stand. I guess I just wasn't clear enough on what I was "critiquing".
-For Paul during that time, whatever was left (I believe it's coming on Sci- fi channel this week) still had to have made an impressive sight. I am sure that there were a 'few' Capitial ships left. In what shape they were in I cant vouch for. But for Paul it still made an impression.
Concerning the "The Passing Of The Technomages" trilogy: given the level of advancement made by the Shadows and Vorlons (each 1 million plus older than the younger races (in the Trilogy, the Shadows were a few years older than the Vorlons!), it is very highly likely that one person can control a Battlecrab. Most humans use only about less than 5% of their brains. What the Shadows do is COMPLETELY wipe the brain of the CPU (sentient being). So, in a sense, you are correct in that Anna Sheridan is a completely new and different person. The original Anna Sheridan is gone. In the Trilogy (officially sanctioned by JMS, BTW), Anna Sheridan was being coached by Morden and "Jason". But of course, like you said, there are big "gaps" in her personality. IF you can find these books, I highly recommend that you buy them. They are an interesting and stimulating read!
-I may consider doing so after I finish this story. The reason being is that it is so easy to be influenced and swayed by another interpretation as I am writing my story. Plus unless it is canon I won't modify what I have written because I don't believe that the Shadows would have only one crew member who controls the ships and the smaller vessels completely independently. If I can't convince myself, I can't convince my readers. It's the same thing with DS9's novels representation of the parasites.
The Trilogy also talks about Galen--a lot about him, actually. He's one of my favorite characters in the JMS "Bab-verse". It also talks about how he is the most powerful of the Technomages. Am I intriguing you into reading the Trilogy, yet? Hope you include him in your later chapters; especially since you gave me a little teaser there in Chapter 23 in "A Universe..."!!!
-We shall see, with whatever's left of the B5 verse.
So, you're bringing Janeway and Voyager-B, eh? You bringing the Admiral's little Task Force with her?
-Maybe.
Are you going to ignore the Prime Directive and let her upgrade the "-C" and "-D"?
-Interesting point. Let's see where it takes us. After all, the C and D may not even survive the 3rd space onslaught. I keep telling people this.
Actually, having Janeway and Garrett interact would be a hoot!!! Can't wait for that one!
_This is a big chunk of story coming up. Actually Kathryn and Rachel and Picard and Sisko will have a-meeting.
How about "my" Starfleet Marines? What's the mission that you will have them do?
-Patience. Cylons are a pain and so are 3rd space aliens.
Thank you people. I will be posting after the holiday. Comments are welcomed. Remember this is version 1.0. Albert