For a couple years now – ever since I finished watching Star Trek: TOS for the first time – I’ve had the desire to create my own reboot for the Star Trek Universe. This isn’t because I think the show or its movies suck – far from it, in fact – but because I felt that the series, for all its good characters and stories, never really realized its full potential, hampered as it was by storytelling conventions and technological limitations of 1960s television.

Since I was only recently acquainted with the ST Universe at the time, I didn’t feel comfortable writing the first story in a ST reboot right then and there; I was afraid I’d fail in doing the characters justice without a proper handle on their voices. I’m still afraid I’ll fumble the ball, so to speak, but the desire to start upon this reboot has been growing ever-stronger for months now, so I feel I have to make this first attempt or I’ll explode.

The name of this story is “These Are the Voyages”, and it is to be the pilot episode of this reboot series. I’m using two separate stories – the novel Enterprise: The First Adventure and the comic “All Those Years Ago …” – as sources of inspiration for the plot, but ultimately I hope it will be its own story.

My end goal is to write five 13-episode seasons for ST: TDS and, eventually, move on to reboots for TNG and DS9. Since I’m operating alone, that’s going to be a daunting task, so I probably won’t get that far. Nothing ventured, though, nothing gained …