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Task Force Vanguard Redux

Over the course of the past six months, I have been migrating Full Speed Ahead's Task Force Vanguard trilogy from the old Ad Astra site to the new one.

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Borderline Logic: The Vulcan Philosophy of Command

One of the recurring themes in Star Trek is how different species bring their unique cultures and philosophies into their roles within Starfleet. My friend, Sam, has explored this many times in his stories (most recently with the Tellarite captain Glal commanding USS Gol in his Starship Reykavik series). I

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The Trial of Pantsing (WIP Report)

Every writer's journey has its unique twists and turns, characters that pop up and demand their stories be told, and inspirations that come from the unlikeliest of places. Today, I want to take you behind the scenes of my current project, "Trial of Transfer," which is the opening saga in the "Star T

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WIP Progress Report: December 2015

Well, my last progress report was all the way back in January, so I figured it would be a good idea to post something here. Posted Works None since the last time. WIP Corner The biggest WIP to discuss here is obviously the first entry in our new INDEFATIGABLE series,

Indefatigable

Soon...

I'll just leave this here, to entice our readers... Coming this summer to an Ad Astra archive near you...

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WIP Progress Report: January 2015

Since the last progress report, I've been pretty busy with writing new stuff! Posted Works None since the last time. WIP Corner "Mater Semper Certa Est" and "Gens Una Sumus" have both been completed at this point.  "Gens" is our third and

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WIP Progress Report: 2014, thus far...

What have I been up to since the last progress report?  Quite a lot, actually... Posted Works Published the Prologue of Mater Semper Certa Est. WIP Corner AJ and I are only a few scant chapters away from completing "Mater," which would be great because that story leads

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Author's Commentary: TQB "Bellerophon"

In this next episode of Author’s Commentary, I’ll be discussing the impetus and execution of the second part of The Quarterdeck Breed, “Bellerophon.”  Reading the story prior to reading the commentary is strongly advised, otherwise you might be lost amongst the referential material. Inspiration Academy stories in the

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WIP Progress Report: September 30, 2013

Here's the WIP Progress Report for September 2013!  This will include the months in between now and the last update. Posted Works Finished posting the rest of "Turbulence."  That's pretty much it. WIP Corner A.J. and I are working on "Bitter Pills&

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Prompted: Originality Triumphs

And here is yet another prompt from the Ad Astra Blog Community, but this time it's talking about original settings.  This topic is definitely relevant to how I write within Trek. What’s the best setting for an original character? Is it as a lone figure, thrust into

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Prompted: Branching Out

As part of the Ad Astra Star Trek Fanfiction Community, I'll participate from time to time with the prompts being published by our new fanfic review/commentary blog, Boldly Reading.  And because it seems my blogging has become rather sparse lately, I decided to try my hand and

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WIP Progress Report: July 30, 2013

Here's the WIP Progress Report for July 2013!  This will include the months in between now and then. Posted Works A.J. and I finished up a number of episodes since January.  We've posted "A Great Perhaps," "The Unreturned Prodigal," "Timing,

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WIP Progress Report: January 31, 2013

It's the WIP Progress Report for January 2013!  I'm sure you all were holding your breath since I hadn't posted one since July of last year. Posted Works I actually took down "Eight the Hard Way" and "Fever Five" from

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Best Laid Plans

As with all things, sometimes when you make a plan, things don't turn out that way you thought they would.  Full Speed Ahead is no different, and the big multi-season plan has changed pretty significantly as to warrant whole episodes being rewritten wholesale.  In this post, I'

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To Triumph and Not to Mourn

As I said in a previous post, the latest Full Speed Ahead story, "To Triumph and Not to Mourn," was completed. It has now been fully published at Ad Astra!  I wanted to take a few moments to talk about what went into the production, so if you&

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Task Force Vanguard

Full Speed Ahead warps to take its place within the huge United Trek crossover event: Task Force Vanguard! As a member of the United Trek Star Trek Fanfiction Universe, sometimes the authors get together to do a big event.  Right now, there are two such events transpiring: "Task Force

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FSA Series Bible: Part Two (section 2)

Continuing our series of blog posts on Full Speed Ahead's bible, we look into the Ship's Specifications and History: II-1.    Starship Specifications Class: Nebula-class (Flight II) Dimensions: 442.23m (length), 316.11m (beam), 130.43m (height) Mass: 3,575,000 metric tonnes Crew: 780 (170 officers,

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Author's Commentary: TQB "Agamemnon"

In this next episode of Author's Commentary, I'll be discussing the impetus and execution of the first part of The Quarterdeck Breed, "Agamemnon."  Reading the story prior to reading the commentary is strongly advised, otherwise you might be lost amongst the referential material. Inspiration

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FSA Series Bible: Part Two

We continue with our posting of the FSA Series Bible with Part Two in this series. II.    The Starship Farragut USS Farragut (registry NCC-60597) is a Federation Nebula-class Multimission Heavy Cruiser.  Its crew compliment is 780 total (170 commissioned officers, 530 enlisted/NCO).  It is considered the precursor to the

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WIP Progress Report: July 20, 2012

My WIP progress report for July is right here! Did you all miss me? Posted Works None this month, so far. WIP Corner I put in a decent amount of work on Star Trek: The New Threat. I won't be posting anything from it until it is completed,

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Author's Commentary: The Quarterdeck Breed

Back in 2002, I was kind of on a writing tear with my fanfics.  I had completed a novella called "The Misadventures of January McKenna," and since I was on a serious roll, I was looking for another project to work on and I ended up writing an

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FSA Series Bible: Part One

I treat Star Trek: Full Speed Ahead like a series on television; I write the episodes to around 10,000 words, which is roughly 55-60 pages of material. In order to keep things in an organized fashion, I'm putting together a Series Bible with all the information contained

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WIP Progress Report: June 24, 2012

My WIP progress report for May and June is right here! Did you all miss me? Posted Works I finished and posted Act Three for Full Speed Ahead's "Fever Five." WIP Corner I've pretty much been chipping away at Star Trek: Full Speed Ahead

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WIP Progress Report: May 10, 2012

My WIP progress report for April is right here!  Did you all miss me? Posted Works No posted works since last time. Boo. WIP Corner Star Trek: Full Speed Ahead as held most of my attention, though I've kind of moved off from "Fever Five" due

Linear

Prelude to Linear

When I got the idea for writing Linear, I also was kind of referencing another story that I had an idea for, but it has nothing to do with Star Trek or fanfics.  It was a straight-up contemporary story about a semi-professional baseball league in the state of California.  If