In the 23rd Century A.D. , (After Departure) four years after the Roamulan War, Commander Starry-Eyes rejoins her ship on Starfleets first voyage of exploration since the War. It has been twenty-two hundred years since the Princesses left Equestria to let Their Little Ponies fulfill their potentials on their own. Ponykind has stumbled on as best they could, learning hard lessons along the way. The Eugenics Wars are over and they have made Friends in the darkness. Now the Stars beckon and Ponies essay the Final Frontier looking for answers... or at least a pair of beloved faces they haven't seen for so, so long...
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Don't you mean Star Trot?
D'oh! ...Wish I'd thought of that!
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2439198 You can change the name!
I like what I've seen here. You've done a good job laying the ground-work, and I think Gene would have approved. Yeah, First Gen Trekker here.
But carry on. I think you've got a good concept here.
Well, nice to see this isn't the Enterprise, much as I'd like to see Starry and Sunny butt heads with Kirk. They paid way too much attention to that show-boat. And his crew.
I like what's happening here, and not just for the chance to hear Starry wax lyrical (and other noises) about Sunny. Warp Speed.
I can't help a feeling of foreboding, here. It all seems too perfect.
Achievement: Old Trekker's Disbelief Suspended. You win a large jar filled with Toll House cookies.
2459423 I've always maintained that what the Franchise needed was a good, pre-TOS Trek Story! Enterprise was a good effort, IMHO, but... like with so much recent Trek... there's too much revising of the original canon history!
This story has been added to the folders of our group, Star Trek Ponies
Not quite the original series, not quite Enterprise... I added it to the 'other' folder, unless you think it should go elsewhere.
I see what you did there: "I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true." Beautifully done.
I thought your descriptions could have fit into FoE (from other fics), but it really didn't matter. Post-apocalyptic descriptions all have the same overall feel (total devastation), and if done right, you won't know which source someone used. If any. "Just let your imagination run wild..."
2475855 True enough. What irritated me the most happened in the Enterprise pilot, and it didn't get much better after that. A line from the parody Star Drek had it right long before the re-issue: "To find new life in old plots..."
I think a perfect line for the end would be Hermes coming back, and someone looking at the Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C or D) and saying, "Wow, check this out."
Followed by the Chief Engineer replying, "What a bucket o' bolts!"
Careful. Breaking Pinkie Promises isn't done lightly.
Enough Monty Python references to make Eric Idle happy.
2486266 Er...yeah. I'm rather a fan. At the risk of giving a spoiler alert... that won't be the last of them! *wink,wink! Nudge, nudge!*
2477414"Beware! Beware!/ His flashing eyes and floating hair!/Weave a circle 'round him thrice!? For he hath feasted on the honey dew and drunk the milk of paradise!' ...About all I (mis)remember from Kubla Khan. The Rule of Three is an ancient Magical Tradition and I thought it only natural that the ancient Alicorns would know their way around it, eh?
2475994That's perfectly fine by me. I'm just glad that someone is reading it!
2489067 "Say no more!"
2489103 Absolutely true, and I know of a few of those Traditions.
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That being the case, Merry Met to you!
2493671 Thank you, and the same.
"Is the parking brake on?"
Let's don't do that. Please?
Hmm, I wonder how life on the "small boys" will be for Sunny? Should be a wake-up call...
You're not doing badly. As I said before, First Gen Trekker here, and don't think I won't call out any sour notes.
Stick with Franz Joseph; he won't steer you wrong. Okuda ... not so much, 'kay?
2495465 'Small Boys'? Is that some sort of Naval jargon? (My only Military Experience comes from hundreds of hours playing various Avalon Hill wargames... not to mention dozens of games of Star Fleet Battles!
)
2500590 "Small boys" refers to smaller ships such as destroyers, scouts and frigates.
Avalon Hill ... (shudder)
2502790 What's wrong with Avalon Hill?
It beats the squatily-doo out of Parker Bros!
2504925 If you've nothing else to do with your life for a day, nothing.
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just a quick question from a fellow Trekkie/er, how are you defining "first gen trekkER"? I think of myself as a trekkIE, because I've never been to a con or part of a fan collective physical group, and that trekkIE belongs to the people that watched the over the air original broadcasts of both TOS and TAS while starting the convention concept itself. I got hooked with a 79-80 repeat of TMP.
2511981 Well, IMOHO, a first-gen Trekkie is someone who enjoyed TOS when it was on during Prime Time on NBC running opposite NBC's abysmal 'Lost in Space'. *spits*
Practically speaking, though, ANY fan of any Trek is a Trekkie and that's Good Company I don't care who you are!
(Though I'm less than thrilled with all the Trek revisionist history that's become status quo with the latest movies and series. Really! What was wrong with the original timeline from Roddenberry's day?
) (...Thus saith the guy with the Pony crossover story
)
2507466 Well as a nerdy guy growing up in an undisclosed location in Ohio I didn't have much else to do with my time
...Besides (He said trying to defend the good folks at Avalon Hill!) the wargames gave a very good look into hows and whys historical conflicts were resolved. (I always loved reading the designer's notes in the rulebooks!
)
2511981 I watched it first run, 66-69. Didn't go to a con until 1980, when Walter Koenig was at Origins in the Philly area.
TrekkIE sounds too much like screaming groupies, while TrekkER sounds a little more sedate and thoughtful. According to what reading I've done through the years, the less "hysterical" fans prefer TrekkER.
In other words, me. I'm awesome that way.
2512619 I understand, but if I want complications, I'll play Starfleet Battles. Or I'll gouge my eyes out with a spoon. Tough call.
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that's easy enough to explain. after the flop that was Enterprise AND the last next G movie, the franchise was considered tired and ready to die. JJ was brought in to liven it up. we're lucky, 'cause it COULD have been Michael Bay instead!
PS, gave yerself away, boss, with a "merf" and a paw...er HOOF-fasting
Verdigris strikes me as a geewunner, a phrase coined by TF fans to diss anything not transformers TOS. I'm a multifan
2513128 I'll admit I still have TOS (includes the Flimation series) as my first love, but I warmed to TNG and DS9. Most of the movies (Why Nemesis?
)
Enterprise and Voyager, though ... (urge to seriously harm Piller, Berman and Braga rising).
However, that doesn't stop me from enjoying good Trek cross-overs.
2513040 Ah, SFB!
I've whiled away many an hour pitting the various ships vs. one another! Had a horrible moment in the Defense game when my hapless Federation Destroyer got hit with 4, count 'em, 4 Type-R Romulan Plasma Torpedoes! The horror...the horror! (That was before I got a deck of the damage allocation cards... thot I'd sprained my wrist with all that die rolling!
) (I know I could have just written the ship off but there's something morbidly fascinating about watching a ship die roll by roll...
)
2513128 I admit nothing! Culpable deniability, THAT'S the American Way!
Well, ok, I'm a big anthropomorphic fan. too!
....And (Dare I say it having read the other comments?
) a fan of Enterprise. *waves cease-fire flag frantically!* It was a good effort at a 'pre-TOS history' show... if only they didn't indulge in quite so much revisionism.
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author, CHILL. just be careful with the anthro references, there's bronies who detest the reference to the other community because of its rep.
>> verdigris why does nemesis suck? forgot about Galaxy Quest? That affectionate Parody is considered not only part of trek canon by some fans, but is the one that broke the sequence of "even number, good, Odd number, bad" trek movies. to the point that some of us have been working actual game-models of the Protector!
2514655 The revisionism is what killed it for me. After introducing what couldn't have been, I just walked away. Later eps were all right, but I just couldn't get into it. The only one I actually liked was the one where Surak's katra ended up in Archer for a while. Too bad there weren't more like it.
2516262 I didn't watch much, but what I saw didn't ring true. And come on, "the first time" Riker?
Continuity? Wat dat?
2516262 Oops! I didn't realize such antagonisms existed. I'll make sure to keep an eye on such for future reference. ...But aren't the FIM stories basically anthropomorphic anyway? Thank goodness I didn't elect to do a clopfic!
Nice to see someone had enough foresight to foal-proof the unicorns.
Hmm, at first I thought that was a figurine of a Changeling, but now I'm not so sure. All I am sure about is it's going to be trouble in the future.
Should be "interesting".
Flutterpony reference?
Also, I like the attention to technical detail you're paying here!
I know this is getting 'way ahead, but I'm waiting to see how everypony reacts when they find Luna and Celestia. As said in the introduction, they'd be waiting, and interested in seeing what their little (and not-so-little) ponies have been up to.
Please try not to be too disappointed, Princesses.
2531930 Flutterpony? You've got me on that one! I'm not familiar with the creature. Must've missed that one in the series!
2531751 Hmmm.... You know, I never thought of a Changleing! 'Realistically' though, given the mileau of the story, the Changleings, Griffons, and the Dragons were early casualties of the Superponies. After all, they would want to eliminate ALL competition for domination in the world they wanted to make, no?
2532804 I was going to answer that... but I don't want to trip any spoiler alerts!
...But is it in Celestia's nature to be so judgmental?
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Flutterponies haven't been referenced in FiM -- I only know them from fanfiction and Google, but they were in earlier My Little Pony series. They had insect wings, and I wondered if the Fairy was a tip of the hat to them. No worries that it wasn't, I was just curious.
2535011 And here I was feeling all clever about introducing a supernatural species to Equestria
I mean, not to indulge in spoilers, ...maybe! 
2534913 Depends on your take on Celestia. You can have high hopes, and there can be disappointments, but that doesn't necessarily mean she'll be judgmental. Just disappointed.
That's how I see her.
2537667 Hmm...food for thought, Good Sir
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