Penname: Robert Bruce Scott [Contact]
Real name: Robert Bruce Scott
Member Since: 20 Jun 2019
Membership status: Member
Bio: Robert Bruce Scott is a musician living in Indianapolis. Lead singer and mandolinist for il Troubadore - the 16th Century Rock Band. RBS has published one book of short stories available on Amazon for download: Wide Awake and Staring - Readings for 3:00 a.m. RBS stories tend to blend the fantastic with horror, but are, at heart, stories about human realities.
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Stories by Robert Bruce Scott
Summary:

Here's a challenge, that's narrower in scope than most, but hopefully a fun and challenging . . . challenge.


Write a story that features Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. You can bring in other characters, but those three must be featured. It can be dramatic, funny, tragic, laid back, etc. - your choice. No word limit, but I suggest a short story rather than a novella. Deadline to submit your entry is June 26. Voting will end June 30.

 

The Horta

A Mother Horta has been illegally transplanted in hopes of mining a distant moon.

When things go wrong, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are called in for a consult...


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Original Series
Characters: None
Genre: Family
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek Challenge Stories
Completed: No    Word count: 856    Read Count: 218
[Report This] Published: 07 Feb 2023 Updated: 07 Feb 2023
Summary:

This is my response to the Trek BBS January/February 2023 Challenge: Write a short Trek fanfiction about pets. 

I chose Porthos.

And a foul-mouthed little lizard-like creature from Dr. Phlox's menagerie...


Chapters: 1    Table of Contents
Categories: Enterprise
Characters: Ensemble Cast - ENT
Genre: Action/Adventure, Family
Warnings: None
Series: Star Trek Challenge Stories
Completed: Yes    Word count: 1816    Read Count: 75
[Report This] Published: 06 Feb 2023 Updated: 06 Feb 2023
Summary:

PART NINE OF NINE

 

Episode 26 - Rain Over Rising Sun - As the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire begin to work more closely on the Saketh project, a terrorist plot is underway on the Federation colony of Rising Sun...

 

Episode 27 - Sword of Destiny - Tensions between the three great powers in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants reach a flashpoint...

 

Episode 28 - The Covenant - The haunting conclusion to the Star Trek Hunter series... Hint - think BORG...


Chapters: 63    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Crusher, Wesley, Doctor, The, La Forge, Geordi, Picard, Jean-Luc, Q, Riker, William, Worf
Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror, Humor
Warnings: Adult Language, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: No    Word count: 55815    Read Count: 97442
[Report This] Published: 22 Apr 2021 Updated: 01 Sep 2021
Summary:

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PART ONE of NINE (Episodes 1 - 4 of 28)

A doctoral dissertation by an obscure professor of Philosophy at Harvard University exposes a flaw at the heart of the Federation - and rocks the mighty UFP to its core.

These are the stories of the U.S.S. Hunter - a Star Fleet patrol vessel - and its small crew of brilliant misfits who are charged with cleaning up this awful mess…

Episode 1: Flash Forward - A view into the future of Star Trek Hunter (This Episode is a twin of a scene in Episode 20: Surrender.)

Episode 2: The Colony of New Hope - The crew of the U.S.S. Hunter are tasked with the trial of a planetary Governor...

Episode 3: Breakfast Serial - A serial killer strikes and the U.S.S. Hunter's crew are tasked to investigate...

Episode 4: Run to Earth - The U.S.S. Hunter is ambushed on its return to Earth...


Chapters: 47    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Crusher, Wesley, La Forge, Geordi
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 40687    Read Count: 41578
[Report This] Published: 20 Jun 2019 Updated: 19 Jul 2021
Summary:

PART EIGHT OF NINE

 

Episode 23 - JAG Wars - Now the flagship of a new fleet of ultra-fast Prowler Class patrol vessels, the U.S.S. Hunter and its new captain are on the front lines of growing strife within the Federation...

 

Episode 24 - A Trillian Problem - The U.S.S. Hunter's new captain is about to be tested in back-to-back police actions on the Vulcan and Andorian colonies on Weythan and on Trillus Prime...

 

Episode 25 - I Dream of Shiva - While Captain Dolphin stands trial for his actions on Trillus Prime, a terrifying new religion is taking hold deep within the Romulan Star Empire...


Chapters: 50    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Crusher, Wesley, Doctor, The, La Forge, Geordi, Worf
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 49666    Read Count: 48335
[Report This] Published: 16 Dec 2020 Updated: 27 May 2021
Summary:

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PART SEVEN OF NINE

 (Yeah... No Jeri Ryan jokes, please...) 

 

Episode 20 - Survival - The U.S.S. Hunter returns to far side of the Romulan Star Empire in search of their missing 1st and 2nd officers...

 

Episode 21 - The Enemy of My Enemy - The U.S.S. Hunter has been captured by the Romulans and taken into the hold of an enormous Romulan Battlegod...

 

Episode 22 - Sacrifice - Justice Minerva Irons must sacrifice everything to prevent war between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire...


Chapters: 48    Table of Contents
Categories: Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Expanded Universes, Next Generation
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure, Family
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 51850    Read Count: 42275
[Report This] Published: 18 Jul 2020 Updated: 11 Dec 2020
Summary:

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PART SIX of NINE

Episode 17: Terms of Surrender - Justice Minerva Irons must negotiate the surrender of Vulcan to the Romulan Imperial Senate...

Episode 18: World on Fire - The U.S.S. Hunter travels to a distant world to prevent the Romulan Star Empire from obtaining a particularly dangerous biological weapon...

Episode 19: The Ivonovic Commission - Federation CouncilMember Emory Ivonovic empanels a commission to investigate Star Fleet's culpability in the surrender of Vulcan...


Chapters: 43    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian
Genre: None
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 41432    Read Count: 34038
[Report This] Published: 05 Jun 2020 Updated: 26 Oct 2020
Summary:

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PART FOUR OF NINE

 

Episode 11 - Intersections and Reunions - The U.S.S. Hunter returns to Earth after its secret mission on the far side of the Romulan Star Empire...

 

Episode 12 - Prisoner in the Ice Castle - Justice Minerva Irons is called upon to mediate the selection of a new Emperor for the Andorian Empire...

 

Episode 13 - The 15,000 Cities of Cun Ling - The U.S.S. Hunter travels to the 2nd most highly populated planet in the Federation - an artificially constructed planet with thousands of cities named and designed after various fantasies and mythologies...


Chapters: 52    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: None
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 51423    Read Count: 43746
[Report This] Published: 19 Apr 2020 Updated: 21 Sep 2020
Summary:

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PART THREE OF NINE


Episode 8 - The Bolian Web - A weaponized virus threatens the survival of the Bolian people. The U.S.S. Hunter's crew must act quickly to contain the virus and find a way to defeat the virus.


Episode 9 - The Library - The U.S.S. Hunter travels to The Sanctuary of the Waterbirds on Cophus II in search of a cure for the Bolian virus in an ancient Vulcan library...


Episode 10 - The Philosopher - While the U.S.S. Hunter goes off in search of a far more ancient library, Lt. Dolpin returns to The Colonhy of New Hope to appear on Governor Emory Ivonovic's podcast...


Chapters: 52    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Riker, William
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Family
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 44499    Read Count: 43559
[Report This] Published: 05 Apr 2020 Updated: 17 Sep 2020
Summary:

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PART TWO of NINE

Episode 5 - The Fires of Pon Farr - The crew of the U.S.S. Hunter scatter across Earth on various missions. Ensign T'Lon enters Pon Farr and Lt. Dolphin gets caught up in it with her.

Episode 6 - BK2 (Breakfast Killer #2) - The U.S.S. Hunter heads for the Deep Space 9 space station in search of a powerfully telepathic serial killer..

Episode 7 - The Great Mushroom - On a planet dominated by a giant mushroom, Justice Minerva Irons is called on to adjudicate a case involving clairvoyance and intellectual property rights. Things become complicated when the Nausicaans become embrioled in a civil war...


Chapters: 41    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Garak, Elim
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 35056    Read Count: 27408
[Report This] Published: 25 Mar 2020 Updated: 11 Sep 2020
Summary:

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PART FIVE OF NINE

 

Episode 14 - When Death Comes - The crew of the U.S.S. Hunter are visited by death and are taken one by one...

 

Episode 15 - A Stitch in Spacetime - The U.S.S. Hunter is caught in a paradox caused by a malfunction of its new experimental warp drive. Wesley Crusher arrives to help... only to find Wesley Crusher has already arrived... and Wesley Crusher...

 

Episode 16 - Slavers - Orion slave runners are causing serious problems for the Federation, putting several planets at risk... Including Vulcan...


Chapters: 43    Table of Contents
Categories: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Expanded Universes
Characters: Bashir, Julian, Crusher, Wesley
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Character Death, Violence
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: Yes    Word count: 48757    Read Count: 37455
[Report This] Published: 04 May 2020 Updated: 02 Sep 2020
Summary:

Background Information about the Star Trek Hunter Series

STH cover art

Notes on the Chracters

The Star Trek Hunter universe

List of Episodes / Scenes

Comprehensive List of Chracters


Chapters: 14    Table of Contents
Categories: Expanded Universes, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager
Characters: Ensemble Cast - Multiple
Genre: Action/Adventure
Warnings: Adult Language
Series: Star Trek Hunter
Completed: No    Word count: 22023    Read Count: 8598
[Report This] Published: 21 May 2020 Updated: 21 May 2020