Well That's Just Typical
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| Title: | Well That's Just Typical |
| Publisher: | Ashton Press |
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| Author(s): | Doctor Beth |
| Cover Artist(s): | Laura Quiles |
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| Date(s): | March 2017 |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek Beyond/Star Trek AOS |
| Language: | English |
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Well That's Just Typical is a gen Star Trek Beyond novel by Doctor Beth. It has 44,500 words, contains 152 pages and is digest sized with comb binding.
The color cover is by Laura Quiles and the zine also contains a black and white cartoon by Leah Rosenthal.
It was one of the Fan Q Award's five Honorable Mentions in 2018.
Summary
An injured Spock and a determined McCoy struggle to find the crashed saucer of the Enterprise on Altamid. Slowly, Spock's condition worsens and, unbeknownst to either Spock or McCoy, his mental condition worsens, too. This is a look into the in between of "Star Trek Beyond," the action we didn't see on screen and the lengths one friend is willing to go for another.
Author's Comments: 2019
Now I'd always watch Star Trek, of course. [After] the first time after I watched Star Trek Beyond, at first I went and scoured everything on a [unclear word] and fanfiction... and hardly anybody was writing anything about the movie, and I just was like, I was dumbfounded because it was such a great movie. It's a great hurt/comfort for me.
[...]
So I scoured the internet trying to find stories, and I found very, very few and then the few that started emerging weren't very good. So I started writing a missing scene... And then... I kept adding things to it and expanding things to it, adding, expanding things and adding things. And then I started reading some of it to Alayne , who was coming over to my house and she was like laughing in all the right places. Like, I mean, for example, I had gone to a scientific meeting with a couple of colleagues and we were exploring the island of Hawaii in a rental car... in our spare time. And so I was spending a great deal of time with these people that I knew really well, but we were like, you know, like 10 hours in a car. And so we were talking about all sorts of things. So then I was like, "Well, what would Kirk and Spock and McCoy talk about when they were trapped on this planet for hours and hours and days?" And so that's kind of how it evolved from there.
It became a novel. It became close to fifty thousand words and Ashton Press published it and it was called "Well, That's Just Typical." I only have to say it like this, "well, that's just typical," because that's how Dr. McCoy would have said it. [1]