From: kfr@pro-freedom.cts.com (Kurt Roithinger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Help needed with storyline idea
Date: 28 Dec 92 01:24:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Dec27.182456.2837
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In <emm.725331835@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>
emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Wendigo) writes:

>I have an idea for a ST:TNG story line involving a meeting with
>the aliens from the Aliens movies, and I was wanting some information
>that could be relevent to the story.  (Yes, this is a crossover)
>
>First, some of my ideas of things that will occur in the story:
>1) A Starfleet ship will be invaded by the Aliens, loosing all bar
>   one crewmember...
>2) The Enterprise will discover a Borg ship that has been massacared
>   and is completely dead...
>3) At least one major character has got to die.  I've already decided
>   but I'm not telling you who  :-)  (I bet Rez could guess, couldn't
>   you?  Don't do so out loud thought :-) )
>
>I'm tossing up two titles for the story, either "Uninvited Guests"
>or "Ko-by Oshi Maru" (sp?  Spelt if more or less phonetically here)
>
>Theres are few other details that I've thought of already which I wont
>post now, so as not to spoil the story too much if it ever gets written.
>
>I would like a bit of technical information about some things in the
>StarTrek and Aliens universe before I go on:
>1) How exactly are you suspose to spell "Ko-by Oshi Maru"?
>2) About the U.S.S. Enterprise:
>   a) What is the class of ship.
>   b) What is the number of the ship.
>   c) How many people are on the ship.
>   d) How many children are on the ship.
>3) About the U.S.S. Hood:
>   a) Anything known or mentioned about this ship in the ST:TNG series?
>   b) The class of the ship.
>   c) The number of the ship.
>   d) How many people are on the ship.
>   e) Any biographical material about her crew that is available.
>4) In StarTrek VI, the president of the United Federation of Planets was
>   an alien with all white hair and white or blue eyes (I can't remember)
>   I also remember seeing another of that race in StarTrek IV on one
>   of the ships disabled be the probe.
>   Any and all information available about that race would be helpful.
>5) Any and all information about the Alien race could proove helpful.
>   i.e. Is there actually a name for the race?
>        A home planet?
>        How great is their intellegence?  Just above an animal cunning?
>          Or greater?
>
>Thanx to any and all who provide info.
>
>I'm really just letting the ideas mull around in my head at the moment
>and am working on hammering out a complete story-line outline before
>a start writing.
>
>CREATIVE Crticism and plot ideas are welcome (as long as they're not
>copyright :-) ), I don't want this to be just a "Aliens infest ship
>and start killing everybody, and crew wonder how to get out of this
>fix" type story (although I guess with Aliens, that'll be a fair
>part of the story), I would like to have some sort of underlying
>intrigue to the thing, I'm not sure how or what yet.
>
>Comments such as, "Don't bother, I hate crossovers" or "I hate Aliens"
>will be used to fill up /dev/null.  If you don't like it, you don't have
>to read it, but there are many who do like crossovers and would like
>to read (I hope) this sort of material.  Tolerance and acceptance of
>anothers preferences is a virtue, any Trekkie should be able
>to tell you that :-)
>
>Thanx.
>
>Evan McLean.
>-- 
>Wendigo                                    | Every day in every way I'm getting
>          [ Occasionally thought of as     | better and better, at least that's
>            emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au ] | what the little green men from
>   { Sometimes answers to Evan McLean }    | mars keep telling me!

1. i think "kobyashi maru" is the correct spelling.
2. the enterprise was the third ship comissioned of the galaxy class
starship; the registry is ncc - 1701 D ("fifth starship to bear that name")
i think a recent episode put the crew of the enterprise at somewhere
between 1200-1400 people with more the its share of spouses and kids.
3. i think the hood was in one of the episodes and most likely was one of
the many excelsior class starships that pop up on the series (in the novel
"imzadi" a 50-year old wesley crusher was captain of the uss hood...)
4.the novel of STVI said that the fed president was a deltan (i still don't
really buy it, though...weren't they supposed to be bald?).
5. ***ugh.***
from what i remember from the various dark horse "Alien" comicbook series:
-i don't remember them ever being named (although i do like the short and
simple "bugs")
-they are generaly hive creatures who seem to have sorta moved through
space by a diasporra of sorts (propably some poor schlep landed on a
planet, looked around and took a little surprise with him...)
one series ("earth war", i think) had something like an alien homeworld in
it, although my memory is sketchy at best,,,
-aliens have no eyes but seem to have a radar of sorts (or they can smell
you from miles away or whatever...) and seem to be a somewhat lower
lifeform when it comes to intelligence. a pack a predators used them as the
designated prey in the "aliens vs. predators" series. and they do seem to
have severe trouble snuffing humans even if they outnumber then severly.


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