March 25, 2003

Trektoday has posted an question & answer session recently held with Christie Golden, author of the upcoming Star Trek: Voyager relaunch books.

Sonia Wong: Ms. Golden, first and foremost, allow me to say that you are a superb writer, you rank among my fav authors. I have a question, what got you into Star Trek?

Christie Golden: Sonia, thank you! What a great thing to say. This is a good question, as there's a fun story as an answer. When I was in the fifth grade, they were starting to show Star Trek reruns on TV. I had a friend, Debbie, that I played with almost every day after school. Well, one day, she told me she couldn't come out to play because she was watching this show called Star Trek. I was pretty mad at her! So I decided that day to watch this show, to see what kind of a show could keep Debbie inside instead of outside playing with me. I was hooked! I even remember the first episode — "Operation: Annihilate!" From that moment I was a fan and started writing Star Trek scripts in my math classes. My apologies to all the math teachers out there.

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Ricky C.: I think your Voyager novels are great! Did you ever pitch stories to the series while it was on television?

Christie Golden: Thanks, Ricky! Yes, actually I did travel out to LA to pitch for Voyager. I had a lovely conversation with Jeri Taylor, who was very friendly and pleasant. Two of my ideas were apparently too close to what they were already working on, and one she simply didn't like. (I later used that idea as the basis for my story Hard Crash in the SCE series, so nothing gets wasted!) It was kind of nice to know that I was so in tune with what they were looking for, however.

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