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U.S.S. Equinox
Welcome to U.S.S. Equinox, the interactive Star Trek storywriting site. Actually, it hasn't been active since September of 2000. The basic idea of the site was that participants would each create a character who lived aboard the U.S.S. Equinox (not the same Equinox from the Voyager episode of the same name, as this site was created before that episode aired), and then each one in turn would write a story focused primarily on their character, that usually also built on what had already been written.

In all, 98 stories were written for the site. It was planned that story 99 would wrap up the immediate storyline and story 100 would begin a new "season" that would bring several changes and set several new plot threads into motion. However, life got in the way and U.S.S. Equinox was instead discontinued. I've decided to keep the site up for anyone who would like to read through the existing stories, since I am thankful to everyone who stuck with the site, even through slow updates, while it was still active.

* UPDATE - 6/23/10 *

All of the stories have now been newly re-edited. This was done primarily to clean up the formatting and fix spelling and grammar errors. However, some edits have been made for clarity and readability, without changing the story content iteself. The top of the page includes links to all newly edited stories, but links to the originally posted versions are available at the bottom of this page. Links on the Chronology page all now link to the new versions.

In addition, as a bonus I've posted six previously unpublished stories. These were stories that had been submitted by participants, but could not be posted, usually because of inconsistencies that were not corrected in a reasonable time frame by the author. One, however, was a story a participant submitted, but then requested it not be posted, submitting a different story instead. These stories have been edited for general formatting, but are otherwise exactly as I received them.

Lastly, I've included a file with 22 character signups that I actually received in the course of running the site, but that were not accepted. The reasons for not accepting them ran the gamut from obvious joke signups, characters that could not believably be serving on a starship or had too close a relation to major Star Trek characters, signups with too little information, signups that were in some way inconsistent with established Star Trek canon (and for which the submitter did not reply when e-mailed and asked for a revised signup), and one signup that was not submitted in English. I believe one or two were characters that were accepted, but the participant didn't submit a story on their first turn. E-mail addresses have been removed, but the signups are otherwise exactly as I received them.

All 98 official Equinox stories, in the order they were written:
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98

Previously unpublished stories: Unpublished 1  Unpublished 2  Unpublished 3  Unpublished 4  Unpublished 5  Unpublished 6

Non-accepted character signups:   Rejected Characters


  New Stories  
      The latest installments of the Equinox's adventures.
 
      Every Equinox story written, listed chronologically.
  Chronology  
 
 
  Story Guidelines  
      The the guidelines used when writing stories.
 
      Got a character idea and want to participate? Signup here. (no longer active)
  Signup  
 
 
  The Ship  
      All there is to know about the Federation Starship Equinox.
 
      Info on all the major and minor characters.
  Characters  
 
 
  Links  
      A fun selection of web sites for you to visit.
 
      I love feedback. Send me an E-mail.
  E-mail me  



Originally posted versions of all stories:
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98



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