Premiering on August 2nd, 2011, in weekly free write #38, the prompt was a first line one. In this case it was “It had to be you” so I took the opportunity to tell this story about how Hank got kicked off his first ship. Told in 1st person present tense.

Hello everyone. With the discussion forum down and not all of us having our Ad Astra blogs up and going I thought I would try to create a little round robin story where we can all post a little response to my posited ‘How do we cope when technology fails?' prompt.

Our heroes would have to tackle Star Trek life without the magic of their technology - say no transporters, no replicators, no grav-plates, no warp power, etc. Maybe they find themselves in a crutch, maybe it ends up with some hilarious or fish out of water moments, or puts their lives in mortal peril. Have at it. Remember to keep it clean given the K rating and that this is just for fun to help us while over the absence of the forum.

Just post your prompt response as a new chapter and sign your name to the ‘chapter' you write. Well that's the plan. Fingers crossed as to whether this works! Remember, just write it, don't edit it to death - for this one time on the archive! ;)

The story of Peter Kirk, son of James, and how he survived successive losses on the path to becoming a hero.

The staff of DS9 must rescue Keiko O'Brien--from the former staff of the MASH 4077th?

Kirk's Enterprise is back in the 1960's, but instead of a USAF Pilot, Four Lads come on board. Is Spock The Walrus?

A series of drabbles seeing ST character-types in other shows.