About Excalibur Logs
Excalibur Logs started out with the writings of a Middle School kid, when the only Star Trek avaiable was the original Star Trek. I had already watched all 79 episodes to the point where I could recite the lines.. I moved on to reading every novel, buying what referece material there was, and when all that was exhausted, I thought of another idea. Write my OWN Star Trek. Now.. mind you, I was in MIDDLE SCHOOL, and the stuff that went on paper with my trusty number 2 pencil wasn't much at the time, but for a young mind, it was an excercise, a chance to dream, and to explore facets of Star Trek that were not yet available to me at the time.
My first foray into writing was about (extreme embarrassment), MYSELF. I put myself in the center seat and wrote about exploits that I'd dream of pursuing.. After a few years of that.. I wanted to do something different. I created a sister to my namesake's character, Captain Kelly Davis. By this time, I was in High School, and I wrote a story about Captain Kelly Davis assuming command of the USS EXCALIBUR.
I liked writing the character so much, I moved on to exclusivingly exploring that ship, and its characters. I crewed her ship with more women than men. It just seemed natural, a female Captain, so more female crewmembers. Watching the original Star Trek, it seemed that with Captain Kirk and company were far more men than women. For a High School guy obssessed with Star Trek and at my age at the time, WHO wouldn't want to dream of a
ship crewed primarily with women.. (SHRUG).. Thus was born the characters of the Excalibur Logs. What made this even more fun, was that I could mix in my old crew with my namesake and the new crew with his sister.
Enlisting in the Navy, I was then given my military and naval background that helped me write in protocol associated with serving on actual combat ships. Adding my maturity that went along with growing up into adulthood, the stories became much less "silly" and were some pretty fun writing experiments. With the advent of the personal computer and the Word Processor (THANK GOODNESS, no more Number 2 pencils), and I was really cooking.
With all the stories to choose from, "Who Haunts This Ship?.." was one of my favorites. It doesn't borrow too heavily from estalished Star Trek, and was one of my more original ideas. The "ghost" story, visiting an alien starship, their conflict, and the drama within the drama also added to the texture of this story I really enjoy.
In 2012, I was approached to adapt a story for a live action web series, and I chose this story. Afater seeing it adapted as "Haunted" for "Dreadnought Dominion", I REALLY wanted to SEE and HEAR the original story. Producing this "Illustrated Audio" series has fullfilled that dream, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it..
“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible..”
– Ray Bradbury