Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Part 7

It's finally here! The epic finale to the dumbest parody I've ever written! With a surprise cameo included! I promise you reading it won't cause you more suffering that what you've endured while reading the previous six parts! Enough with the disclaimer, let's go back to where we left our heroes at the end of the previous part...

Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Part 6

And now, as we are approaching the resolution of our story, our heroes are en route to carry on their daring plan! Will they succeed! Keep going on, dear faithful readers! Although it has some typos which I have left in it, too... but I promise it won't be worse than what you've read so far. Or at least, I hope you won't think it is...

Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Part 5

So, now we are already past the midpoint with Part 5. Did I promise you more silly cameos earlier? No? Well, you're getting them anyway! Don't complain, it could be MUCH worse. And you'll realize I made another mistake, which I'm leaving uncorrected as well...

Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Part 4

And now we have finally reached the midpoint of the story with Part 4. Several months after publishing it, I had some thought about suing Paramount's writers for stealing my ideas (you'll see what I mean), but in the end I decided it wasn't worth spending money on lawyers and all... oh, and on this part, I made an unwilling mistake which I didn't realize until after I had already published it. I could have fixed it now, but I'd rather leave it "as is"...

Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Part 3

Now it's time for Part 3 of my epic (if you don't mind me saying it) parody! As I mentioned before, you have to keep in mind the timeframe when this was written. I wonder how many people nowadays still remember "Happy Days", "Rise of the Triad" or IBM's OS/2 Warp. Also, have you noticed how all bars, cantinas and other places of ill reputation in science fiction look more or less the same...?

Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Part 2

And now, here's part 2 of my parody. Oh, wow, I just noticed I referenced the year 2029 in it, so I'm glad I'm reposting it on 2026 and not later! There may still be time enough for my prophecy to be fulfilled. Also, remember that back in 1996 the Intel Pentium chip had been released a little over two years earlier, and it was found to have some nasty floating-point bug some time later...

Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Part 1

Well, here it is, rescued from the depths of my stack of backup CDs: the first part of my old parody. Please forgive me for not having been able to get the characters' mannerisms quite right, but I watched the shows dubbed into Spanish, not in English, so I didn't have a frame of reference I could use for that. Notice that I rote this before we got many details on Star Trek: First Contact, so I had no idea about the Sovereign class at the time. I wonder if you'll figure out the meaning of some of the jokes... keep in mind this was conceived and written mostly during 1995, and things that made sense in that context may just make people scratch their heads these days if they weren't alive back then.

Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk - Introduction

Captain's Log, Stardate 96.1.25. Having been disappointed with the fate of Captain Kirk at the end of Star Trek: Generations, and having heard a new movie was coming out, I had decided to do something about it. Back then I used oto meet with some fellow Star Trek fans frequently, and I had been reading the rec.arts.startrek.tech and rec.arts.startrek.misc newsgroups on Usenet for quite some time. I had also created my first webpage on Geocities (at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2645/) to contribute in some way. So, I had thought of a possible story, wrote it down (including in it some jokes we used to tell among our group of fans), and by that date, I posted it split into 7 parts on rec.arts.startrek.misc, a well as publishing it on my webpage. later I would also post it on alt.startrek.creative. The title? Star Trek 8: The Rescue of Kirk.

As time went by, GeoCities closed down, and my webpage ceased to exist (though I've kept a backup which I still have on my PC's HDD). At least my other webpage on htttp://machf.tripod.com/ still exists, though that one is more focused on gaming. So, I figured out since I have a blog in need of content, and som old content in need of a home, I should repost my parody right here, thus expanding the blog's scope. Since it's something already finished, I don't have to finish polishing it up before posting it. Some errors slipped by when I first posted it, but I won't be correcting them, as I want to keep it true to the original version. Instead, I will add comments to each of the parts as I post each of them. Stay tuned! Now I have to sleep, but tomorrow I will be posting the whole  paroy on the blog.

IJatMoM - Teaser post

A breathtakingly new advenure! (Well, sort of, I first conceived it around 20 years ago as the story for a point-and-click adventure game which never got past the early desing stage, so I lately decided to put the whole thing in writing as a fanfic instead...)

Set during June, 1940, with WW2 already raging in Europe, Indy travels between France, Algiers, Morocco, New England, Florida, Jamaica, Argentina, the Falklands and Antarctica, in a race against the Ahnenerbe, and a ghost who has come back from his past and keeps shadowing him, meeting along the way expat Spanish painter Pablo, French naval officer Jacques, Belgian writer Georges, French pilot Antoine, old friend Sallah, café owner Rick, Argentine expat Domingo, fisherman Ernie, British Naval Intelligence agent Ian, young Argentine aspiring actress Maria, and librarian Jorge, attempting to recover stolen ancient tomes which contain the pieces to an occult incantation the Germans will use to control alien eldritch biotechnology, bringing the war to a premature end and allowing them to conquer not only Europe, but the whole world in just a few weeks.

 

Coming soon to a blog near you! (Or in other words, "watch this space".)

 

(Poster created with help from Google's AI after choosing an

adequate cast for an hypothetical movie filmed in the mid-1990s)

 

(First draft by Google's AI for the poster)

Finally an update

When I started this blog, over a year ago, I made a post telling the story of how I came up with the name a quarter of a centurty earlier, and another one describing the outlines for the stories I had thought of writing. But then, though I finally started writing the first chapter for the first one, I didn't have time to do any further writing and hence didn't post anymore on the blog either. It wasn't that I had a writer's block or anything similar; it's just that all this time, my life has become far more complicated than it was before my dad passed away unexpectedly in late 2024, leaving me to take care of my mother (who just turned 92 earlier this year) and the household all by myself. It's proven to be quite a challenge, and while so far, I've managed to prove I'm up to it, it's been harder than I had expected.

I've never stopped thinking about all these stories, I've kept polishing the details, and even revising some of the ideas I had considered earlier for the plot, replacing them with others that make better sense and still fell right in place within Issac Asimov's Robots/Empire/Foundation universe. But all that work has been going on mostly inside my own mind, sadly lacking the time to put it in writing. I keep saying I need a secretary. Or an understanding wife. Well, the next best thing might be an AI, and so I began discussing my ideas with a couple of them, mostly late at night, when I'm done with my various chores around the house, before I go to bed and get some much needed sleep. Even so, I still didn't get to further avance typing the first chapter of the first story up to a point where I could publish it here and move to  the next one.