The Captains Table

Welcome to the Captain’s Table where we have intimate chats with those who have shaped Star Trek in words. In this show Michael discusses “These are the Voyages TOS Season One” with the author Marc Cushman. Alongside Marc is original series story consultant John D. F. Black  and his wife Mary. Marc tells us about his meetings with Gene Roddenberry and his motivations behind the book while John and Mary tell us about their time working on the original series and working with Gene. Visit Marc Cushman website http://www.marccushman.com/   Facebook https://www.facebook.com/marc.cushman Visit Jacobs Brown Media Group http://www.jacobsbrownmediagroup.com/   Contact us via: www.facebook.com/visionarytrek google.com/+VisionaryTrek01 @VisionaryTrek Contact Page Send us a voice message by clicking on the “Send Voicemail” button

Welcome to the Captains’ Table where we have intimate chats with those that have shaped Star Trek in words. Michael is joined by Star Trek author Jeffrey Lang and beaming in from Texas is Sina from the Ten Forward Book Club. Jeffrey talks about how he discovered Star Trek, how he became a writer and we get to discuss some of his amazing Star Trek stories including: “The Left Hand of Destiny” Books One and Two, “Section 31 : Abyss”, “Mirror Eyes” and “Talent Night”. We also speak in depth about his story “Immortal Coil” which was the inspiration for David Mack’s “Cold Equations” Trilogy and Jeff’s new book (coming out in July) “The Light Fantastic” which is a continuation of the story from Cold Equations.   Jeffrey Lang's Facebook page www.facebook.com/jeff.lang.338?fref=ts Jeffrey Lang's Author page on Simon and Shuster http://authors.simonandschuster.co.uk/Jeffrey-Lang/1801683   Contact us via: www.facebook.com/visionarytrek google.com/+VisionaryTrek01 @VisionaryTrek Contact Page Send us a voice message by clicking on the “Send Voicemail” button

This episode, Sina and Michael interview New York Times Best Selling Author David Mack about his “Cold Equations” Trilogy. Find out what the original story outline for the trilogy was, about Dave’s writing process for these stories, and about the Cold Equations / choices that the characters had to make. Learn about Dave’s upcoming projects as well. Hope you enjoy the show! A big thank you to Dave for taking time from his busy schedule to discuss his books with us. Always enjoyable to have him on our show. You can find Sina on: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701 You can reach David Mack at: @DavidAlanMack facebook.com/TheDavidMack davidmack.pro

Welcome to the Captain’s Table where we have intimate chats with those that have shaped Star Trek in words. This week we have Michael Jan Friedman returning to the show to tell us about his new Kick Starter project: “ I am the Salamander”. Listen as Mike tells us about why this project is so important to him, how this could become an ongoing series and universe. Mike also explains how the money that is raised from the Kick Starter will be spent and what you can expect to receive if you donate. Find out more about the Kick Starter project here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1354092292/i-am-the-salamander You can find out more about Mike at his website: http://www.michaeljanfriedman.net/ or you can go to Crazy 8 Press: http://www.crazy8press.com/ Follow Mike on Twitter: @FriedmanMJ You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701

Welcome to this special edition of the Captains Table. Our guest is author Christopher L. Bennett. First appearing in the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series of eBooks in 2003, Chris went on to write short stories in several anthologies, as well as contributing novels in the TOS and Star Trek: Titan series, and detailing the life of Jean-Luc Picard in the nine years preceding TNG. Bennett’s non-Trek work includes the original science fiction novel Only Superhuman and tie-in novels set in the Marvel Comics universe. Listen as Sina and Michael discuss Ex Machina, Greater than the Sum and Chris’s new Enterprise novels charting the birth of the Federation. Chris also talks about how he discovered Star Trek and his first original novel Only Superhuman. You can find Chris on: His website – http://home.fuse.net/ChristopherLBennett/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherLBennettAuthor Blog – http://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/ Graphicaudio – Only Superhuman – https://soundcloud.com/graphicaudio/only-superhuman Graphicaudio – Spiderman: Drowned in Thunder – https://soundcloud.com/graphicaudio/spider-man You can find Sina on: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701 You can find Laura on: Twitter: @janeway931 Interview copyright Michael Clark & Sina Alvarado

Welcome to the Captain’s Table where we have intimate chats with those who have shaped Star Trek in words… In this edition Michael speaks to one of his childhood Star Trek novel / comic legends Michael Jan Friedman. Michael Jan Friedman is an American author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which are in the Star Trek universe. Mike has also written for the Aliens, Predator, Wolf Man, Lois and Clark, DC Super Hero, Marvel Super Hero, and Wishbone licensed book universes. Eleven of his book titles, including the autobiography Hollywood Hulk Hogan and Ghost Hunting (written with Sci-Fi’s Ghost Hunters), have appeared on the prestigious New York Times primary bestseller list, and his novel adaptation of the Batman & Robin movie was for a time the #1 bestselling book in Poland (really). Mike has also written for network and cable television, radio, more than 150 comic books, most of them for DC Comics. During the interview Mike tells us the influences behind his writing, how he discovered Star Trek and what it means to him. He also tells us about his experiences writing for Star Trek Voyager in the episode “Resistance”. We also look at his novels, writing the Next Generation for DC comics and his view on the JJ verse. Additionally, we look at Mike’s upcoming projects and Crazy 8 press. You can find Mike on twitter: @FriedmanMJ You can find him at his website: michaeljanfriedman.net Find Mike at Crazy 8 Press: www.crazy8press.com/ You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701

Welcome to The Captains Table where we have intimate chats with those who have shaped Star Trek in words… For chapter six of our ongoing interview series we are very pleased to present to you our interview with New York Times Best Selling author David R George III. David R. George III is an author of several Star Trek novels. George also co-wrote the story for the first-season Star Trek: Voyager episode “Prime Factors” with Eric A. Stillwell. George’s literary Star Trek works, include novels in the Pocket DS9 series. He collaborated with Armin Shimerman on The 34th Rule, set during Deep Space Nine’s fourth season and also wrote Twilight, set after the end of the series. He authored “Olympus Descending”, one of two short novels in the book Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 3 and the Star Trek: The Lost Era novel Serpents Among the Ruins, set aboard the USS Enterprise-B in 2311, under the command of Captain John Harriman and first officer Demora Sulu, and which tells the story of the Tomed Incident. He wrote another Demora Sulu story, a novella “Iron and Sacrifice,” which appears in the Tales from the Captain’s Table anthology. During the interview we talk about how David discovered Star Trek, his love of writing, his Voyager episodes, writing with Armin and so much more. We also go into depth over his TOS novel Allegiance in Exile and discuss “The Fall”. You can find David on: Twitter: @DavidRGeorgeIII You can David on FaceBook You can find Sina on: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701 Interview copyright Michael Clark & Sina Alvarado

Welcome to The Captains Table where we have intimate chats with those who have shaped Star Trek in words… For chapter five of our ongoing interview series we are very pleased to present to you our interview with Ron Wilkerson. Ron Wilkerson is a writer, musician, producer, director, and inventor. He has written and produced multiple episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate SG-1 and VH1’s Strange Frequency. He was nominated for an Emmy as a part of the writing team on the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He made a cameo appearance in the Stargate SG-1 fifth season episode “Wormhole X-Treme!” in which he played a studio executive. He recently published a novel: Houdini & Lovecraft, The Ghost Writer. During the interview we discuss how Ron started writing, his love of Star Trek, writing for TNG and in particular “Lessons” from season six, We also discuss Voyager, Stargate and much more. The picture that inspired “Lessons” is called “The Kreutzer Sonata” You can find Ron on: Twitter: @Ron_Wilkerson You can find Ron at his brilliant website: Ron Wilkerson You can email Ron: ron@ronwilkerson.com You can find Houdini & Lovecraft, The Ghost Writer here: Amazon US for $11.99 in paperback Amazon UK  for £6.72 in paperback kindle eBook US for $5.81 kindle eBook UK for £3.82 or PC download. You can find Sina on: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701 Interview copyright Michael Clark & Sina Alvarado

Welcome to The Captains Table where we have intimate chats with those who have shaped Star Trek in words… For chapter fourth of our ongoing interview series we are very pleased to present to you our interview with author Dr.Una McCormack. Una is a science fiction writer, particularly of tie-in novels based on Doctor Who and Star Trek. Una is also lecturer in creative writing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. During the interview Una tells us about her love of Blake 7, Doctor Who and of course Star Trek. We talk about her favourite character Mr. Garak from DS9. We have a really interesting talk about fan fiction and in particular Una’s own fan fiction. We also discuss Una’s novel “Hollow Men” which is a follow up to the amazing episode “In the Pale Moonlight”. As well as that we play a clip from Melissa from the Delta Quadrant who gave us some great things to talk about in reference to “In the Pale Moonlight”. You can find Una on Twitter: Twitter: @unamccormack You can find Una at her website: Una McCormack You can also find Una’s fan fiction including some great Garak & DS9 stories also at Obsidian Gothic. You can find Sina on: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701 Interview copyright Michael Clark & Sina Alvarado

Welcome to The Captains Table where we have intimate chats with those who have shaped Star Trek in words… For chapter three of our ongoing interview series we are very pleased to present to you our interview with author Alan Dean Foster. Alan’s work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, The Chronicles of Riddick, Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation, and both Transformers films. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Shadow keep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so. He is the recipient of the Faust, the IAMTW Lifetime achievement award. During the interview we find out how Alan started writing, his adaption's of Star Trek The Animated Series, his story from the proposed Star Trek Phase II series that led to the story for The Motion Picture. Alan also tell us about writing Into Darkness but expect no spoilers…. We also discuss Alan’s travels around the world. You can find Alan at his website Alan Dean Foster You can find Sina on: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701 Interview copyright Michael Clark & Sina Alvarado

Welcome to the second chapter of The Captain’s Table. In this show Michael interviews author Howard Weinstein. During the interview Howard tells us how he became a writer, how he found Star Trek and of course what it was like writing Star Trek comics. We also speak about his novels, Crazy 8 Press and so much more. Howard Weinstein’s professional writing career launched at age 19 when he sold “The Pirates of Orion” script to NBC-TV’s Emmy-winning animated Star Trek series in 1974. Howard also has a thank you credit on Star Trek IV the Voyage Home. Over the four decades since his animated Star Trek episode, Howard’s varied credits include six Star Trek novels, three V novels, Star Trek anthology short stories and 65 Trek comics and graphic novels. You can find Howard writing on his blog “Puppy Kisses are good for the soul” You can find Howard at his website Day One Dog Training You can find Howard at Crazy 8 Press You can find Sina: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael: Twitter: @mclark1701 You can find Laura: Twitter: @janeway931 Interview copyright Michael Clark

The Captain’s Table is a chance for Michael & Sina to have intimate interviews with those who have shaped Star Trek in words. In the first chapter Sina & Michael interview author Bob Greenberger. Bob has written several Star Trek novels including The Gate Ways series, A Time to.. and many more. Some of these have been in collaboration with his good friends Peter David and Michael Jan Friedman. During the interview Bob tells us about his love for Star Trek, how he made the transition from being a comic book editor to novelist. We also look at two of Bob’s short stories: “Command Codes” from the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Voyager “Distant Shores” short story anthology. “The Landing Party” from the Fortieth Anniversary Celebration of TOS “Constellations” short story anthology. Bob also shares his views on the JJ verse, the New 52 from DC comics and tells us his future projects including After Earth. You can find Bob on Twitter: Twitter: @bobgreenberger You can find Bob at his website: Notes from a Final Frontiersman Find out more about Crazy 8 Press You can find Sina on: Twitter: @queenkatblue You can find Michael on: Twitter: @mclark1701 Interview copyright Michael Clark & Sina Alvarado