Preconceptions
Summary[]
Fifteen-year-old Trip Tucker is attending summer camp at Roykirk School. The class are shocked when their scheduled teacher is replaced by a Vulcan, Velik, who tells them he aims to submit three ideas from the class to the prestigious Cherenko-Cochrane Competition, which requires a new idea connected with space travel.
Trip's proposal for a new method of regulating plasma flow is one of those selected for development. Trip and his friend Chris work on it but Velik has to leave for Vulcan shortly before the end of summer, saying an ailment his people suffer from periodically has come on early. To everyone's shock, the replacement teacher Yelena Marinin reveals the deadline for competition submissions has passed with none of their ideas being submitted. Although Chris realises Velik made no promises and was trying to encourage them, Trip feels humiliated and distrustful of Vulcans, vowing to make it into space without their help.
References[]
Characters[]
- Chris • Yelena Marinin • Martha Nyquist • Charles Tucker III • Velik
- Referenced only
- Henry Archer
Locations[]
Races and cultures[]
States and organizations[]
- Roykirk School
Other references[]
- Cherenko-Cochrane Competition
Appendices[]
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Background[]
- This story establishes that Starfleet's first ever name - in 2130 - was the Global Aeronautics and Space Agency (or GASA).
Connections[]
| Star Trek: Enterprise collected short stories, novellas and short novels | |
|---|---|
| Strange New Worlds | V ("Remnant" • "A Girl for Every Star" • "Hoshi's Gift") • VI ("Savior" • "Preconceptions" • "Cabin E-14") • VII ("Earthquake Weather") • 8 ("Egg Drop Soup" • "Hero" • "Insanity") • 9 ("Rounding a Corner Already Turned" • "Mother Nature's Little Reminders" • "Mestral") • 10 ("The Dream" • "Universal Chord" • "You Are Not in Space") |
| Misc. short stories | "Prelude: Discovery" • "Have Beagle, Will Travel: The Legend of Porthos" • "Nobunaga" • "The Offer" • "Control" |
| Misc. novellas & short novels | "Age of the Empress" • "A Less Perfect Union" |
| Comics | "The Fragile Beauty of Loyalty" |
Timeline[]
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| Previous story: Savior |
Strange New Worlds VI
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Next story: Cabin E-14 |
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| Previous Adventure: Broken Bow Prologue |
Next Adventure: Daedalus 2139 |