Now, I am well aware that anyone that has watched Star Trek has always sat there and thought, "Gee, they could have changed this," or "Gee, why'd they do that?"

Well, I've seen this type of thing happen as well when I watch DS9 or VGR with friends or family, and I've noticed that people just say it usually, sometimes write a letter to the magazine about, it, but that error or that uneeded line goes unchanged.

So let's write our own stuff!

Here's the idea: I start you out with a relatively easy story opener, "Star Trek: The Starship Egypt--The Other Secret," and then you add from there. Send your story "pieces" to me by E-mailing me And I will post them as soon as I can after recieving them. I accept almost any type of writing program format, so don't worry about conversions. If a story is sent in an unreadable format, I will return the e-mail and make sure the file is deletedd on my own computer until a readable version can be sent.

Here you are, Boys and girls...

The caves that these children inhabited must have run on forever, but here we are-the end, Cheval thought. The young lady continued to pull Cheval away from the group, calling out,

“Come! Come!”

Cheval couldn’t help but do so, so she ran with the little girl all the way. Eventually, they arrived at a giant cavernous entrance, with a giant piece of sandy rock barring the entrance. The giant stone slab was the only impediment to entering. Cheval slowly tried to think of what the young child had brought her here for.

“Um...Do you want us to try and open it?” Cheval questioned slowly, thinking of only that as her reason.

“No, silly!” The little girl exlcaimed. Her younger friends came to join her, and they all walked to the stone slab, and touched it. The slab seemed to glow around their fingers, a warm orange where the dirty yellow of the rock should have been.

Then, it opened.

The giant slab of sandrock slowly ascended into the top of the cave, revealing what was inside. Cheval had never seen such beauty.

A giant, beautiful garden lay out in front of them, spanning hundreds of meters. The garden was not all a little garden, however. It had giant orchard trees and bushes and shrubs of all kinds, all growing wildly in this giant, rain-forest-like utopia. The ceiling of the cavern let in light from somewhere unknown to Cheval; the cieling was so high up it was impossible to determine where exactly the Egypt might have beamed them in outside this place in the caverns. However, after the few minutes of running, Cheval and the little children must have covered a lot of ground.

The giant rain forest had animals, too. She slowly picked up on that as they began to hoot, and call eachother. “Do you like it?” The little girl asked. Cheval absently murmured,

“It’s beautiful...”

From this point on, let's see how this story might continue, end, begin, what leaded to the away mission, why is Cheval following the child, etc...

HOWEVER, I will be evaluating some of these e-mails. E-mails in which the Egypt's characters go overboard being very strange or silly will not be posted, as well as (I hope I don't have to read any of these) erotic story continuations and any story that deviates completly from the characters established in Egypt will not be posted. (That last one sounds a bit fierce, but if you read a little of the story background on the other page and a little of the writing I have on the page to see what to do, go to town.)

And remember...

Anyone can write a simple Star Trek story, just add monsters and planets and spaceships and then add Star Trek stuff. But to do a good episode which intrigues the viewer, (or in this case the writer,) really think about what you're going to write, and how you want it to sound. I can't give a complete lesson in writing, but I can say that it is a fun and rewarding activity when you go back and read your own work, refined or not.