VOYAGING ONWARD

pstrong pbLast Wednesday "Voyager"br / and its intrepid crew found theirbr / way back to the Delta Quadrant./b/p pWithout help of an evolving Kess,br / or beings from the Q-Continuum.br / /p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joseph Bolden/p pWe witness the Borg's transwarp nexus and the futuristic Admiral Janeway giving her life to bring all of her crew home. /p pThe Kirk, Spock,Q, Sisco, Picard, Janeway, Crusher, [Westly Crusher]or Archer Time paradoxes cause ripples in time and endless trouble for the Tempest, Entropy, Enterprise and other captains on Timeships. /p pAnother ripple could be in the form of Scott Bakula, formally of "Quantum Leap." /p pA guy "sliding" in and out of his own lifetime could be do well as Captain Jonathan Archer of the First Enterprise. He might know a few secrets, like what the future holds in store for a few budding cadets and their friends, possibly preventing their untimely ends. /p pYou see, Captain Jonathan Archer could be from the distant future and suddenly finds himself stranded on one his time missions, but he must keep mum about this. He accepts paradoxes like captains before and after and is willing to test and outwit fate. OK, it might be farfetched but given what happens in other shows, it could happen. Or could this be the pre sequel to stories about an undiscovered struggling Federation of Planets?/p pZefram Cochrane does what everyone except a few brave, hardheaded people think is impossible; he achieves warp drive. He has a shaky first contact with the seriously logical Vulcans. He is one of many brilliant young men and women of Earth and other alien species who are contributing to empower this weak fledgling federation. /p pBefore a chronoton serum made people immune to chronoton radiation, enabling then to cross time zones, many a ship's captain and crew would be unaware that they were in time loops. With lost legendary captains and their crews, the first mysteries began and some were solved. An older wiser Westly Crusher [Wheaton] might visit from time to time, correcting anomalies like a young Picard dying in an accident that didn't happen in alternate timelines./p pI hope this is enough to get present and future screen and TV writers to think about other Star Trek-inspired shows. Some of those people and crews violate Temporal Imperatives. Some of them are relatives of past star trek crews. Does this help create a few new series for Star Trek franchise? These were just a few ideas. I must beam away now. I have to meet some doctor in an old British phone booth. He said something about a faulty chameleon circuit, whatever that is./p pbPlease send donations to Poor Magazine C/0 Ask Joe at 255 9th St. Street, San Francisco, CA.94103 USA/b/p pFor Joe only my snail mail:br / PO Box 1230 #645 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94102br / Email:askjoe@poormagazine.orgbr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p