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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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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,

Starfleet Commbadge from the 2360s by Kris Trigwell

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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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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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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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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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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

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WIP Progress Report: March 8, 2012

My WIP progress report for March and late February is right here! Did you all miss me? Posted Works No posted works since last time. Boo. WIP Corner Star Trek: Full Speed Ahead is still being written with the current episode, "Fever Five," still on the drawing board.

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Author's Commentary: The Better Part of Valor

I realize it might seem strange to do a flashback story so early on in the series, but I felt like it was important to show how Leone and Ariel were before they got to Farragut. Which is to say, not a whole lot different, but I think this episode

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Author's Commentary: Eternal Midnight

One of the aspects of Full Speed Ahead that I worked really hard to illustrate, was the relationship between the officers and enlisted aboard Farragut. We got to see this more often than not in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, however, I always felt that Chief O'Brien was

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WIP Report: February 12, 2012

So, I hope that jespah doesn't mind that I'm going to steal her post format in trying to outline all of the Works in Progress (WIP) that I'm reporting on in this entry. Posted Works My crossover novel, "The Chains of Error,"

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Author's Commentary: Milk Run

I'm going to start with Milk Run, because to me, this is the real beginning of the series. Milk Run represents the first episode after the novella-length 'pilot,' Damn the Torpedoes! Parts I, II, and III. It's also the first episode where we get

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Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Manderley, Again...

Kudos to anyone who recognizes the famous first line of this blog post. But last night before I reported in for work, Sam Redfeather and I had a chance to polish off the last bit of The Chains of Error and I wanted to write on my feelings about this

Aubery Plaza in Scott Pilgrim vs The World

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Ariel Must Die

Not too long ago in the crossover novel The Chains of Error (with Sam Redfeather's Gibraltar), a number of people were a little surprised to read that Ariel Elannis died in the line of duty while trying to bring the evil Colonel Galmesh to justice. I wanted to