Blindside
You may be looking for the Stargate Atlantis story Blindsided.
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| Title: | Blindside |
| Publisher: | Orion Press |
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| Author(s): | Caroline Kummer |
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| Illustrator(s): | no interior art |
| Date(s): | 1995 |
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| Genre: | het |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Blindside is a het Star Trek: TOS 102-page novel by Carol Kummer.
It is also a story in Orion Archives: 2283-2284 Interludes.
From a Flyer
Take a quiet little system in the backwater of the Federation. Add Romulan operatives, phantom ships, and a woman from Spock's past, and you have the ingredients for this fast-paced Star Trek novella!Biindside incorporates the taut action of the original Star Trek series with the kind of character exploration fans of the series have come to expect. Prepare for warp-speed excitement, and enjoy the ride! Here's a brief excerpt:
Admiral Robert Wesley's image appeared on the huge forward viewscreen. "Enterprise, you are hereby ordered to increase speed to warp seven and proceed directly to the Edam. When you reach the outer boundary of the system, hold position. You will be met by the Federation ambassador to Edam. Diplomatic ties have been severed, and all Federation representatives have been ordered out."
There was a pause, then Wesley continued. "Jim, we don't know what happened out there, but that system is vital to Neutral Zone protection. It's provided a key buffer area for our border patrols, and now all of sudden the Federation has been booted out, and a whole sector is left unprotected. Ambassador Carlysle is as much in the dark as we are. There have been no reported Romulan violations of the Neutral Zone, but interplanetary activity has increased within the system in the past six months, Get the ambassador's group aboard the Enterprise and report back. The Edanii have ordered them out within three days, so you people will have to move it. We'll be waiting to hear from you. Wesley, Starfleet Command, out."
Kirk glanced around at the silent bridge, his eyes finally coming to rest on his first officer. "Well, Mister Spock. Comments?"
Dead-pan, Spock replied, "Bon voyage is indeed appropriate."
Author's Notes
"You've written a what?"That was a question (comment?) I began getting as soon as I admitted to a few select folks that I'd written a Star Trek novella.
And (gasp!) it featured the Original Characters! From twenty years ago! As the shock wore off, some asked me why I did it You might be wondering the same thing, so I'll try to answer as best I can! Rule Number One: Nature Abhors a Vacuum. My nature was not satisfied with the six-times-a-year publication schedule of Original Trek novels set by the commercial publisher. I filled that vacuum by toying with my own stories. Many of these ideas ended up stuffed in a drawer or trashbin, until I began Blindside. Once I started, this one seemed to write itself. I used every spare moment to continue writing—stealing fifteen minutes while waiting to go on assignment at work (I am a TV news photographer), writing by the light of the dome bulb in my car, late at night, early in the morning—and finally a stack of spiral bound notebooks held the completed first draft of Blindside.
Rule Number Two: Write the story you want to read! That's exactly what I did. At the time, it mattered not whether anyone else would want to read it (although I secretly harbored fantasies that they might). The important thing was that I had filled the vacuum sufficiently for myself. I tried to explore the friendship and loyalty that makes the Enterprise crew the most famous space-faring collection in history. I tried to stay true to the characters. I introduced new characters, and gave them some "history" in the context of Star Trek. But in the end, I simply wrote the story that I wanted to read.
Rule Number Three: Rule Number One applies to everything (and everyone)! I know if you're reading this, you too hunger for more Trek. I offer you Blindside, with the hope that I have written a story that you want to read, and that in some small way it fills your vacuum as well!