Star Trek is... (project)

Star Trek is... is a fan fiction project started by Tim Thomason on June 3, 2007. The premise is that they are stories belonging to a single series (Star Trek is...), and as such is intended to focus on seven season, with about 12-14 episodes each.

Contributors
See below if you want to contribute!

Direct Contributors

 * Tim Thomason (Star Trek is..., Triumvirate, Q&A)

Indirect Contributors

 * Nonimportant (Talk:Star Trek is...: Characters (Regular))

Contributions
Anyone and anything can contribute to any page of this project in any style. Hence why it is placed on a wiki and not on some other site (that and the fact that its free, and User:Tim Thomason is only comfortable in wiki editing).

It's requested that users use their best judgment in order to make sure that any page does not conflict with each other.

Canon
There are two types of canon in Star Trek is...: internal and external. Internal canon is making sure everything adds up and doesn't conflict with other pages on the project. External canon is making sure nothing conflicts, heavily, with official Star Trek canon.

Given the nature of this project attempting to emulate a fictional series, any official or unofficial non-canon Star Trek work should be ignored as much as possible, as it would be impossible to not conflict with these works.

Q&A project
After many of the first and second season episodes are written, the penultimate episode of the second season, "Q&A," is intended to be written.

The basic outline of this episode is that April (or someone else?) will be "spirited away" by a mysterious Thomas Halloway (a Q, but that's never stated). April, for some reason, will be given a chance to ask as many questions as he likes and Halloway will answer them as much as possible, albeit, in occasionally cryptic or humorous ways.

The episode is intended to help, with the episode "For the Republic," shift the series in a different direction for Season 3 and beyond by answering questions that have popped up throughout the series and solving old mysteries.

Anyone can forward a question to be answered on Talk:Q&A or an answer to a question there, or a question and answer to be provided, and the author(s) of Q&A will try to include them all as is reasonable for the story.

Other ideas
Another idea yet-to-be initiated includes adding some type of legend or onscreen description at the end of an episode to help make canon connections in ways that would be hard to tell in text. This would be necessary in script-based stories.

Running jokes that have been considered include making (almost) everything Skurpaj says a question and making cryptic references to Travis Mayweather (while revealing as little as possible) in every episode.

Pre-Fiction Wiki Works

 * Star Trek is..., the original pitch written by Tim Thomason in December 2005. (currently 13 of 30 pages re-written from notebook pages)
 * Star Trek is... Appendices: I, II, III, IV, written variously between February 2006 and January 2007.
 * Triumvirate (see below), originally written by Tim Thomason elsewhere on the internet.

Season 1 (Pitch)
Season 1 storylines are in the original pitch and when written, should roughly correspond to the storylines.

Season 2
Only 5 of 12 episodes are planned for Season 2.

Season 3 and Beyond
Since it is currently intended for April to accept the Republic position, Season 3 will feature less of April as it will focus on both the crews of the Republic and the Yorktown (perhaps in alternating and interconnected stories).

The Yorktown is planned to be destroyed in the final episode of either Season 3 or Season 4 and many of the main characters will be spread out. The current intention is that the crew will be (mostly) reunited in the 7th season aboard the USS Republic.

Nonimportant has suggested a mirror universe episode. An idea planned could include Skurpaj being somehow transported to the mirror universe and tortured (perhaps by "himself"), before returning and being secretive to the crew about it (War should record that Skurpaj has a Section 31 past). This could also be second season episode (which would fit the symmetry of both Star Trek and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine having their first mirror universe episode in the second season).

Criticism
Some have criticized Star Trek is... for lacking any antiheroes or morally ambiguous characters. Steps should be taken to avoid this, but it should still be a relatively optimistic future populated by "good guys" who encounter most of the "evil" outside of the Federation.

The title "Star Trek is..." is seen as not indicative of the series. It is taken directly from a fan name for Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek pitch. It is supposed to be the opposite idea of Enterprise, which took the "Star Trek" out of the title (at first), as it made "Star Trek" a necessary qualifier of the title.