Star Trek: “We, the Living Dead”
From perfection to imperfection; from finity to infinity
Abstract
In this fan episode of the Television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, we discover the true essence of the Q Continuum, and meet some “living dead”: conscious beings (including humans) who reportedly died, but actually were saved and still live a prosperous life some place else in the universe, as well as “vampires”: individuals who never died and have instead remained alive since they were born.
A Star Trek episode to end all Star Trek episodes, (and, more generally - story to end all stories).
Read Online or Download (Formats)
EPUB eBook - (free download).
Raw HTML - (view online without style and formatting).
Version control repository for the screenplay’s source on GitHub. It is useful for cloning, sending pull requests, and filing bugs/issues in the bug tracker
Screenplay’s Homepage on the Star Trek Fan Art Wikia (so-called “Star Trek Expanded Universe”)
Common Elements in the Story
This episode will contain many elements, a lot of them are common in other stories of mine:
- Geek girls and female hackers.
- Computers, software, maths, logic and technology.
- Neo-Tech and Objectivism and related topics like individualism, greed and free economy.
- Modern life.
- History of the old world (Near East, Europe, etc.).
- Individualism, carving your own destiny and anti-Fatalism.
- Judaism, and Israel.
- Religion, Philosophy, and Mysticism.
- Friendship, love, and human relationships.
All of these will be integrated into one coherent (or completely incoherent) whole.
I consider this piece, my most far-fetched (or as we say in Hebrew: “הזוי” or “deluded”) piece yet. However, a Star Trek enthusiast who read it said he had read much more far-fetched Star Trek fan-fiction. A likely candidate for such a work, might be Harry Potter and the Return of James T. Kirk, which I have not read, but indeed seems extremely far-fetched.
Links
Star Trek Links
- Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki - a comprehensive wiki for Star Trek.
- The Star Trek Expanded Universe Database - a wiki for Star Trek fan fiction.
- Star Trek Deep Space Nine fan fiction over at FanFiction.net. (More Star Trek shows fan fiction is available under their T.V. shows directory.)
- Star Trek on the Wikipedia.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Star Trek - The Next Generation - a wonderful cross of both the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Free ebook: From Memories of the Future Volume One - by Wil Wheaton, under CC-by-nc-sa.
Links to the Philosophy Behind the Story
- “Guide to Neo-Tech” - a small article I wrote introducing a willing reader on getting started with Neo-Tech.
- Objectivism in the Wikipedia
Links to Judaism and Israel
Israeli Images - it’s not all desert, not all Jews there are orthodox, it is an industrialised country, and people there lead happy, peaceful lives.
“Dispelling some Myths about Israel.” - an essay I wrote.
Define “Zionism”! - an essay I wrote about: 1. Why Zionism now has several meanings. 2. What Israel is doing wrong? and - 3. How people confuse anti-Zionism, anti-Israelism, and anti-Semitism.
A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - another essay of mine.
Psychological Bicameralism on the Wikipedia - explains about Julian Jaynes’ theory about the emergence of human consciousness (meaning “sentience” - not “awareness”) relatively late in history at around 1300 BC to 300 BC, presented in his book which makes a good read from the historical perspective and similar perspectives, whether or not it actually happened.
Links about Hackerdom
- “Open Source, Free Software and other Beasts” - an essay I wrote introducing the free and open-source software world to people who are not familiar with it.
- Eric Raymond’s “How to Become a Hacker”
- The Human Hacking Field Guide - another story I wrote about hackerdom.
See Also
Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (a Buffy parody) - a parody and modernisation of the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer that has many ties to this screenplay, and also features some characters and concepts from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and from other sources.
The Selinaverse (= Selina-universe) the world in which both screenplays take place.
Coverage
Archive of Our Own
Star Trek - We the Living Dead - shlomif [Archive of Our Own] (with some discussion). On Archive of Our Own, a site for syndicating, discovering, and discussing fan art, including crossovers.