Stardate 06-08-2007
From Sci Fi Wire- A News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Fans Invited To Write Trek Story. Click HERE to see an introductory video with Wesley Crusher and Sulu.
Star Trek actors George Takei and Wil Wheaton and writer Andre Bormanis have teamed up with FanLib.com and CBS Interactive for Kirk vs. Picard, an event in which fans will be invited to write pieces of a new online Trek narrative.
The event, which kicks off June 13, marks the first time that CBS has ever allowed the use of Star Trek characters for an official online fan-writing event, organizers said.
The storyline will require that Capt. James T. Kirk be pitted somehow against Capt. Jean-Luc Picard.
Takei (Sulu) and Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) will act as online "hosts" for the endeavor. Bormanis will moderate and help fans navigate the site.
Writers of winning scenes and several other winners will be featured prominently online during the event and will win prizes, including a trip to Las Vegas with a VIP tour of Star Trek: The Experience, Apple MacBook computers, an Apple iPhone and Star Trek merchandise and memorabilia.
Readers of the Ministry of Truth--How awesome is this? This sounds like so much fun to me. We have some talented writers and some creative minds in the family. We should get together and come up with a story to submit. Basically how it works is that they will have an online forum where people can discuss ideas and issues. Then the moderators will give direction and a basic story outline to those who want to participate. Each week a new scene gets written for the virtual experience and fans get to vote on which one they think is the best.
Lets get started with some basics. Kirk or Picard? Who would win in a fist fight? a mind battle? a space battle? who has the better crew? who gets more ladies? which one do you like more and why?
Why would they fight against each other? how and where would they meet up in time?
Any and all ideas are welcome. I'll even allow females to post, even though their ideas probably wont be worth much.
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very cool. I see Kirk as interesting because he is innovative and unpredictable. I'm having a harder time defining Picard. Disciplines and diligent? He's also innovative, but not quite as much as Kirk.
I'm game for this!
I agree. Pickard is the tentative warrior. He is much more diplomatic and uses force only when all other attempts have failed. In other words, he's a bit of a pansy.
Thanks for the input. Keep thinking.
This is so awesome. The first task, as I see it, is to get Kirk and Picard in the same time-space continuum. That means a worm hole or maybe a new enemy whose main weapon is a laser blast that sends you into space-time warp. Either one would be cool.
Also, you need to get them to fight each other. I would go from the point in time where the original Enterprise was destroyed in Star Trek III and Kirk and the Enterprise crew had to come back in a Klingon Bird of Prey. On their way back to Starfleed headquarters, the Enterprise NCC 1701-D appears out of time-space warp. Picard doesn't know what has happened, where he is, or in what era. All he knows is that he is staring down a Klingon Bird of Prey and that his shields are down because of the turbulence in the time-space warp. And thus the stage is set for one of the greatest battles ever.
Excellent thought Ian. We will add that to our list of possible ideas. I think the easiest Dues ex Machina way to get them together would be Q, though this may be the most uninteresting.
I'm thinking that the breakout of a Federation Civil War may be cool as an idea that we could explore.
Perhaps Pickard could be sent back in time to kill Kirk or to stop Kirk from doing something that set up the events for the Civil War to happen. (Sort of like The Terminator or "Save the cheerleader, save the world" idea)
Hopefully dad would act as a consultant to us throughout this creative endevour.
I pick Picard. If he can do Shakespeare he can win the battle. I cannot think of a more perfect storyline for the men in the family to work on. Your Dad will be an excellent consultant.
This also beckons Ian's age old question of who would win in a battle between Gandolph and Dumbledore? I pick Dumbledore.
Are you suggesting William Shatner couldn't do Shakespeare? I think he would be a phenomenal Hamlet.
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