Welcome to the "Star Trek: Athena" website, a site on the Web featuring the stories of the Starship Athena. On this site, in addition to the stories, is some background information on the ship and the characters. The creators of this site welcomes reader submissions and ideas and corrections to the stories and any other details that can be found here.
NEW ON THE SITE:
January 18, 2012: The next three episode of Series 3 are now posted. The first is David. While the Athena is at Earth and Captain Thorpe is lobbying for the next mission, Commander Bayanhong meets a former friend. Up next is By Thy Own Hands. The Athena is underway, and Thorpe finds himself involved in the world of the continuoulsy-running holodeck characters, especially that of Eperingham Shore, and he has to decide if they are true lifeforms or not. Finally, there is The Underside, in which security chief Sal Hakamura works undercover on a civilian ship to find out who is running weapons to a prewarp planet. September 3, 2011: Three more episodes of Series 3 are now posted. The first is Revisited, and in this story, a time-shifting story, Captain Thorpe and Commander Matsubara find themselves in an alternate future, which Thorpe believes is wrong. They set out to make things right again. The second is the two-part story Winter In Winnipeg, Spring in Kyoto. Here, Matsubara, on the verge of giving birth, spends a little time on Risa, only to have Thorpe again follow his heart and not his head on matters concerning his father. Will he finally get the answers this time, even if the search takes him to the Gamma Quadrant? August 10, 2011: The next three episodes of Series 3 are now posted. The three are Until the End of the World, Soul Selling and Once More Into the Fire. This is actually a three-part story, in which the crew of the Athena first head to Rigel to try to understand what is happening with the star there and also to deal with the disruption of subspace. Finding the consequences far more serious than anticipated, the ship and its crew travel first to Cas and then deep into the galaxy. July 1, 2011: The download file for "Dead In Space" is now posted. Go to the Series 3 episode list to access the file. June 29, 2011: The first two episodes of Series 3 are now posted. In Dead In Space, the Athena, with the combined crews of the Athena and the Alexandria, is heading back to Earth when something disrupts subspace, making warp travel impossible and trapping the ship far from any star. In Once They Were Cyborgs, the Athena is at Earth, and Commander Matsubara announces her pregnancy to her family, just as there is another Borg incursion at Earth. This Borg cube, however, acts a little differently than the previous ones. June 22, 2011: The last three episodes of Series 2 are now posted, Confidence Man, Confluence (Part One) and Confluence (Part Two). The Series 2 episode list page has the synopsis for these stories, but I can safely say that Series 2 does not end with a cliffhanger. I do not write them like that. I know thta I assumed that I would get these posted by the end of April, but as it turned out, my estimate was somewhat off. Suddenly having fifty- to sixty-hour workweeks will do that. However, they are up now. In addition, the Series 3 episode list is also posted. There are a lot more stories with the crew of the Athena to come.
COMING NEXT
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At last, after many years, the novel "The Gaze of Night" is now available. The entire novel, all twenty-six chapters, are now posted. In addition to reading the novel on-line and the downloadable version, there is also the e-book version. The novel can be downloaded as a standard e-book file and installed in an e-book reader like the Kobo Reader (check the link above for further information). The novel "The Gaze of Night" deals with the story of Nadine Johnson after she left the Athena at the end of the Dominion War. She was promoted to captain and given command of the U.S.S. Majestica, the first Epic-class starship in the service of the Federation. In the proving and test flights of the new ship and her new crew, things did not go well at all. This novel is the story of what happened next.
In addition to the novel, four more episodes have also been posted, Tribal Rights, Troubles and Tribbles, All's Quiet On the Antispinward Front and Pursuit or Capture. See the series-two index page for further details on what these stories are about. As usual, for the episodes, on-line reading and downloading the stories are the available options, as e-book versions of these are not available yet. Did you know, that if you have a portable device, such as an iPhone, an iPod touch, an iPad, an Android smartphone or other device that can access the Internet, you can read "Athena" stories on your device? The story pages do display and are readable on such devices (I have an iPod touch and know it works).
The next group of three episodes in Series three, "Scrambled Eggs," "Hook&" and "Home Ground" should be posted soon. These are three stand-alone episodes inspired by plots that were given to me by other writers on the Trekcreative forums, so they could be a little different in tone from other "Athena" episodes.
First-time visitors to "Star Trek: Athena" should read About Star Trek: Athena first, to understand exactly what is going on here. Like all other "Star Trek" fan fiction sites, there are slight differences between the "Star Trek" universe as portrayed in television and film and the universe as it is revealed in these stories.
For those who have a story idea
or even a complete story that they would like to see developed
into a "Star Trek: Athena" episode, submissions are
most welcome, but read the Reader Submissions
page first.
To learn a little about the men and
women who are the starring characters for "Star Trek:
Athena," not to mention the supporting cast in terms of
other members of the crew, check out the Crew Profiles page. There are eight individuals who could be
called the "main characters," as well as a whole
shipful of secondary characters.
The Athena is a Nebula-class
starship, although there are differences from other Nebula-class
vessels as seen in the movies and various episodes, not to
mention other fan fiction sites. To learn a little more about the
ship, consult the Starship Specifications page. One warning, though, your browser must support graphics for this page.
Click on the icon to the left to view the Athena dedication plaque, the one found on the bridge. Some of the names on the plaque represents those who helped put this site together. To return to this page, click on the browser back button.
Stories of the Athena are not the only ones on this site. Stories of other ships and crews have been written, and a selection will appear on the Other Ships index page.
These are the longer stories, the novels basically, although so far, there is just one.
The stories that make up the majority of the website can be accessed on the series list page. Click on the icon to go to the series list, which in turn link to the individual series and the stories in each series. Instructions on how to navigate through the stories are given on the individual series pages.
No website is complete without links, and the links page have some of the better "Star Trek" related ones. These are relatively stable sites and the links should be unbroken.
The map of Known Space where the Athena conducts its travels, showing the relative location of the major space powers is found here. This is an on-going project and more maps will be added in the future. Graphics are required for this section.
Enjoy the stories and the other contents on this site, but remember that "Star Trek" is a licensed property of Paramount Pictures. For that reason, this site is provided for the non-commerical enjoyment of the author of the stories and the visitors to the site. All content on this site belongs to the author and White Tornado Publishing and cannot be used for any commercial purposes. Please do not take content from this site and post it on another without permission of the author.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
This website was created on a notebook computer with a 640X480 screen set at 64K colors, and the page was tested on Internet Explorer 4.0. If your configuration is the same at that, then the "Star Trek: Athena" site should look as I created it. If you are using a different combination, especially a higher-resolution monitor, it might not look right. If there are problems, e-mail me with the problem and I will attempt to rectify the situation so that the site displays properly on more configurations. Be warned that this site uses some HTML tags not supported by Netscape Navigator.
If there are any questions, any comments or any concerns that you may have about "Star Trek:
Athena," you are welcome to E-Mail
Me. If possible, I will respond to e-mails I receive, and if the comments are of general interest, there could be a "reader response" page on this site in the future. Thank you for taking the time to visit "Star Trek: Athena", and I hope you enjoy your stay here.
The "TrekCreative Writers Guild" is a new attempt to create a directory of Star Trek fan fiction sites, including this one, and other good and recommended sites. The latest story on each site is (usually) listed, especially if the site owner, Garry Stahl, can keep it up to date. Click on the logo to go to the new Trekcreative Writers Guild site for more original-character "Star Trek" fan fiction.
The following are four original-character Star Trek fan fiction sites that I strongly recommend because of the quality of the story-telling and the effort that the creators have put into making interesting and informative "Star Trek" sites. They features some top-quality story-telling. Although their vision of the "Star Trek" universe do not necessarily agree with mine, they are still quality sites.
The stories of Garry Stahl, with various ships and captains set in various eras of the Star Trek universe; very well done with a well-developed alien race, the Ane, always a positive feature in fan fiction when done as well as it is here.
"Star Trek-Outwardly Mobile" is a large collection of well-written stories by Jay Hailey, featuring the captain with the same name (but not the same person). Well done and thought-provoking, and now he has a new and improved site.
"USS Liberty" is the work of Joseph Manno, who not only writes interesting and compelling stories, but also devotes serious time to editing, something not often seen in fan-fiction writing. This site is just about as good as it gets.
A great new site to check out is "Star Trek: Dark Horizons," the work of Michael Gray. Climb on board the largest starhip in the Federation, the U.S.S. Chamberlain, on its voyages. This site is one of the best for the images and illustrations that accompany the stories and background materials on the site.
Also check out the TrekCreative Home Page, if you really want to see what I and the other authors here look like, plus brief bios of us and the others on the "TrekCreative" mailing list. If you are interested in the "TrekCreative" mailing list, click on the TrekCreative Writers Guild link and follow the instructions there.
