Strange New Worlds 8
Introduction
Dean Wesley Smith
Every year you, the fans, take me on a pleasure ride into the amazing past of the Star Trek® universe.
Now, granted, I am a story junkie. I'm a person who loves reading Star Trek more than anything else I can think of doing (except writing Star Trek). Every October, boxes and boxes of great stories arrive at my doorstep, and every year those stories usher me into the Star Trek universe, in ways, and to places, I would have never thought to go by myself.
But besides that, your stories take me into my own past.
The original Star Trek series premiered in September of 1966 and was aired on Friday nights in Boise, Idaho. I remember how I would rush home from high school to watch it. I never missed an episode back in the days before videotape machines. I didn't dare -- there was the awful chance that the episode might not air again. (Yes, I realize that I just dated myself and told you how old I really am.)
The superb Star Trek stories you send in to the contest take me back to my high school days. They remind me of my friends and take me back to the ... read full excerpt from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 8 ebook