Intersection Point

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Title:	Intersection Point
Author(s):	Juanita Coulson
Date(s):	1971, 1976
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Genre(s):	gen
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Intersection Point is a story by Juanita Coulson.

It is in T-Negative #10 (1971) and Star Trek: The New Voyages #1 (1976).

Summary

"Intersection Point": the Enterprise has collided with another dimension. Somehow a necessary part of the ship has been lost in this other reality, and the crew of the Enterprise must find a way to retrieve it before the connection is severed and the ship is destroyed.

Reactions and Reviews

1976

Intersection Point by Juanita Coulson I had already read. I don't dislike it, but neither do I like it. I don't fault the writing or the development of the story, I just can't accept a story in which the Enterprise is seriously damaged by colliding with 'nothing.'

Juanita Coulson's "Intersection Point" was first published in T-Negative #2. I would venture to guess that this story of the Enterprise collision with another dimension was originally planned as a script submission. It has a tight, suspenseful plot typical of an hour TV show. The characters are handled adequately but not brilliantly. It is structured with the same format as a typical TV episode. One can even easily imagine the commercial breaks. The story appears here virtually unchanged. There There is one minor improvement. In two places in the original Coulson referred to Nurse Christine Chapel as Chris: these were changed to Nurse Chapel.

1977

For an interdimensional sleeper, there's nothing like Intersection Point. All I can say is, if I was grading this, I would give it a failing grade for both creativity and writing style. Juanita Colson [sic] should receive a card saying "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass 'go', do not collect $200." Anyone who would hinge a story on the fact that Spock is more invulnerable than any human, and not even do that tactfully, should be ridden out of town on a rail. This is definitely a story worth missing. The introduction is by James Doohan.

2008

This one is not that bad. It captures the adventure and the action part of Star Trek, focusing a bit more on Scotty’s character.

The ship somewhat manages to get stuck into a weird singularity-time-space-distortion, and is in grave danger, so someone must fix it out…

Short and to the point, it could have been made longer, but as it’s a short story format, it fits exactly as it should. Even so, you still feel something was a bit missing, like why go to all this trouble to just say “Whew, that was a close one”…

2009

Nowt much in this one. The story's pretty ordinary too. Typical Enterprise-encounters-trouble story, and not one of the best I've read.