EVA-Trek [NGE x Star Trek]

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EDIT 2023.02.10: EVA-Trek is now available on Ao3 in case the Google Drive links aren't properly showing.

EDIT 2023.10.28: All posts up through episode 14 have been updated with a fresh coat of paint, making formatting more consistent throughout the thread, and adding in the script annotations that are included with the Ao3 versions.

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What if the characters of Evangelion inhabited the world of Star Trek? And not only that, what if it was written like a Star Trek series?

Those two basic ideas are the driving force behind this script-fic.

Nearly one year ago, I had the sudden idea to do a drawing that combined two of my favorite franchises, Star Trek and Evangelion. At the time, I thought it would be a one-and-done idea, but as it turned out, I was incredibly wrong. Over the next few months, I started doing more and more drawings that put Eva's characters into Trek's 24th Century. This ultimately drove me to start brainstorming ideas about how I could fully integrate them into a story. This would be the first time I've ever attempted writing fanfic, after reading reams and reams of fics and being inspired by Genocide, Advice and Trust, and Yui's Words, in particular.

By last fall, I started developing this crossover as a full-fledged series. As I'm a bit of a screenwriting nerd and an amateur screenwriter, I decided to test my skills to see if I could make this work. By the start of this year, I'd completed the first draft pilot episode script and a complete writer's guide/bible, codifying my ideas into one source. In the spring, I worked on developing the story over the arc of the series, while beginning to outline and write the first few episodes.

Below is the final revised "shooting script" of EVA-Trek's pilot episode, "New Way Home." As I've said, I'm taking the screenwriting format seriously, so I've tried to format and write this as close to how the writers on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine did their scripts in the 90's.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yhs3zS1Em_dylPfwZ9vn3VUA4D4EYc38/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Page 3: White Day is on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day. In Japan, it's customary for those who received gifts on Valentine's to repay the favor on White Day.
• Page 4, Scene 5: A well-known example of a Lurian is the ever-present Morn on Deep Space Nine, who never once had a spoken line.
• Page 5, Scene 6: In the 24th century, the Command division switched from red to gold, with no in-universe explanation, though it's lampshaded in DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations." The real-world reason? When the uniforms were being designed for TNG, the producers decided Patrick Stewart looked better in a red tunic than gold.
• Page 5, Scene 9: Shoyu ramen is a ramen dish with a soy sauce-based broth, noodles, and various toppings.

Act One

• Page 8, Scene 13: I'm tweaking Japan's school system of the future to be 2 years of middle school (7th/8th grade), and four years of high school.
• Page 16: Gendo's evil finger-tenting pose of doom remains a constant in every timeline.
• Page 16, Scene 19: Shuttlepod Okuda, named for graphic designer and Star Trek legend, Mike Okuda.
• Page 18, Scene 29: For the music cue, imagine a more majestic, 6/8-time version of the Ambassadrice Rouge track from Eva 2.0.
• Page 20, Scene 35: The VISOR, or Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement), is a device used to return sight to the blind. The most famous wearer was, of course, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge.

Act Two

• Page 25, Scene 40: Making some further adjustments to canon with a change to Sakura's age, who's originally Touji's much younger sister.
• Page 27, Scene 46: The junior officer's quarters are the smaller, more spartan rooms without any windows. Worf, Data, and Geordi had these quarters aboard the Enterprise-D. Following the filming of Star Trek VI in the spring of 1991, the original junior quarters set (originally built for Star Trek: The Motion Picture) was significantly remodeled for season 5 and beyond.
• Page 29, Scene 49: The Evas in the original series had a sliding scale for their height depending on the shot. In order for them to fit within the saucer section of a Galaxy-class vessel, I fixed the height at 40 meters.
• Page 31, Scene 50: USS Crazy Horse, NCC-50446, was last seen in TNG: "The Pegasus," set about a year or so before this episode.
• Page 32, Scene 53: The DS9 Technical Manual says the Excelsior class typically accommodates 750 crew members, but since the Crazy Horse was in drydock, you could assume a lower amount of personnel were aboard for repairs.

Act Three

• Page 36, Scene 59: Inertial dampeners are the tech Starfleet uses to ensure personnel aren't flattened by gravitational forces when ships accelerate.

Act Four

Act Five

• Page 63, Scene 133: Elsewhere in Trek, the fateful first mission of the USS Voyager is about to begin.
• Page 65, Scene 134: I realize that canonically the name is Keel Lorenz, but I felt that "Commodore Kiel" rolled off the tongue better.
• Page 68, Scene 135: Betazoids are a telepathic and empathic Alpha Quadrant species. Notable examples are Counselor Deanna Troi and her mother, Lwaxana Troi... daughter of the Fifth House, holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed.

Appendix

• Page 69B, Scene 140: Dr. Goldberry - as in Peggy Goldberry, the medic of the Tuatha de Danaan in Full Metal Panic.

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I hope everyone enjoys the first "episode." The goal will be to release a new script each month of the 26-episode "season," ending with a two-hour finale.

Also, since I've got a huge backlog of concept art and "scenes" from assorted episodes I've drawn over the last year, I'll be posting some along with each script. Here's the batch for the pilot:

Initial concept sketch, June 2021:


Conceptual design - Evangelion-class entry plug:


USS Nerv - dedication plaque:


Scene 128 - INT. SICKBAY:

 

[Allansfirebird]

And here's episode 2 of EVA-Trek, "Enough Space."

Stardate 48344.2: In the aftermath of the first angel's attack, Shinji recovers and starts to get settled in onboard the USS Nerv. Meanwhile, Misato has to deal with an old acquaintance in the final preparations for the Nerv's launch from Earth.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QV-aQ3KhfSygTZ0fRXtXPx0dwsI8inJ-/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title page: Starting with episode 2, I'm "assigning" a director to each script in the same manner that the 90's Star Trek series did. James L. Conway directed multiple episodes of TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise.

Act One

• Page 10/11: Misato's referring to her buddy Will Riker's awful eggs that only a Klingon could love from TNG: "Time Squared."
• Page 12/13, Scenes 13-17: Adapted from the shooting script for TNG: "Relics." Based on a concept from the Shatnerverse novel "The Ashes of Eden" that said Kirk's escapades in TOS had been turned into holonovels.
• Page 19, Scene 26: Yes, I've canonized the opening line to Enterprise's opening theme song, "Where My Heart Will Take Me." Deal with it.

Act Two

• Page 23: Neural gel computer components at this time were installed aboard the Intrepid-class, such as the USS Voyager.
• Page 24.1: Tuesdays have been a favorite equipment install day at the dockyards ever since the launch of the Enterprise-B in Star Trek: Generations.
• Page 24.2: Lieutenants Troy Barnes and Abed Nadir did short stints at Greendale Community College, one of the most legendary universities on Earth that managed to withstand the upheavals brought about by the Eugenics War and World War III in the 21st century, prior to their joining Starfleet.
• Page 25.1: The California-class, as seen in Lower Decks, has always been intended on a ship class that's been around for a while.
• Page 25.2: Winchester refers to Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester, III from MASH and DiNozzo is Agent Tony DiNozzo from NCIS.

Act Three

• Pages 34-40: Scenes that are entirely in italics like this are intended to denote flashbacks, in case that wasn't clear.
• Page 38, Scene 62: An EMP refers to an electromagnetic pulse.
• Page 40, Scene 68: I couldn't help refer to Kirk's line in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock after discovering Bones in Spock's cabin.

Act Four

• Page 42: Ohigan is one of two days in Japan where it's traditional to pay respect to the family grave and pay remembrance of deceased family members.
• Page 46, Scene 74: Mok'bara is essentially a form of Klingon tai-chi.

Act Five

• Page 79.1: A lot of the pre-flight dialogue is based off the leaving drydock sequence in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
• Page 79.2: For more on Meika Komi, see afterword.
• Page 55, Scene 82: LCARS, or Library Computer Access and Retrieval System, is Starfleet's main OS for all computer terminals and equipment.
• Page 55, Scene 83: Pitch, roll, and yaw are the relative movements of a ship around its X, Y, and Z axis, looking down at the ship from above.
• Page 56, Scene 85: Ambassadrice Rouge (The Red Ambassador) is from the Evangelion 2.0 soundtrack. When I first heard it, the image it conjured up in my head was of a ship majestically leaving drydock. So this entire sequence of Nerv leaving dock was one of the first things I had in my head when developing the series.
• Page 57, Scene 95: According to its dedication plaque, the Enterprise-E would not be launched for another 8 or 9 months.

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Episode Artwork:

Sc. 80 - Close Shot - Fuyutsuki


Cast Photo - Lt. Commander Misato Katsuragi


Cast Photo - Captain Gendo Ikari


Concept Art - Attempting to draw the Wunder bridge bunnies in Sadamoto's 90's art style

 

[Allansfirebird]

EVA-TREK

"Episode 103 Preview"​

FADE IN:

A WHITE SCREEN

With a TITLE: "Next Episode." Music OVER.

MISATO (V.O.)​

Next time, on EVA-Trek...​

CUT TO:​

EXT. ORBIT - NERV (OPTICAL)

She sweeps in toward a beautiful blue-green world.

MISATO (V.O.)​

The Nerv is rerouted for a cargo drop-​

off at a Federation colony...​

CUT TO:​

INT. CORRIDOR

Misato confronts Mari.

MISATO (V.O.)​

However, tensions are mounting between​

Misato and Dr. Amagi, catching the interest​

of Counselor Makinami.​

​

MISATO​

(to Mari)​

You will not interfere, and consider that an​

order!​

CUT TO:​

CLOSE-UP - HITOMI

She sighs, massages her temples.

CUT TO:​

MED. SHOT

Sakura yells at an irritated Touji while Shinji, Rei, Hikari, Kensuke, and Mana look on.

MISATO (V.O.)​

Meanwhile, things aren't much better for​

Shinji and his class.​

​

SAKURA​

(to Touji)​

You beat up Shinji?!​

CUT TO:​

EXT. ORBIT (OPTICAL)

Shamshel approaches.

MISATO (V.O.)​

Unfortunately for everyone, another angel​

appears.​

CUT TO:​

EXT. TAU CETI IV (OPTICAL)

The Hakone fights off Shamshel as the two, locked together in struggle, enter a rapid barrel roll.

MISATO (V.O.)​

Will Shinji be able to get it together in time​

to save the day?​

​

CUT TO:​

INT. BRIDGE

Misato looks on in concern as we can hear Shinji SCREAMING on comms.

MISATO (V.O.)​

Find out next time on EVA-Trek, episode 3...​

​

CUT TO:​

WHITE SCREEN

With the TITLE: "Fraternity"

MISATO (V.O.)​

"Fraternity." Stay tuned for no guarantee of​

fan-service!​

FADE OUT.
​

 

[Allansfirebird]

ANNOUNCER (V.O.): "The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC..."



ANNOUNCER (V.O.): "It's EVA-Trek! Episode 3, "Fraternity."

Stardate 48399.4: Starfleet reroutes Nerv for a cargo drop at a Federation colony when an angel attacks, putting strain on Shinji and the rest of the crew.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ip-fTSUpoiJChibe9sUSl0fQl7pYKoH/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• A general note on the voice cast I have in my head when I'm writing each episode: I picture the cast to be an amalgam of the various English dubs of the franchise. For Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Misato, and Gendo, it's their ADV voices from the Director's Cut episodes. The rest of the OG Eva cast is voiced by the Netflix/VSI dub cast. Characters from the Rebuild films use the actors from the Amazon dub. Finally, I envision Dr. Hitomi Amagi being voiced by Carrie Keranen (Misato in the VSI dub), and Stephanie McKeon (Asuka in the VSI dub) as Mana Kirishima. Nerv's computer is of course peformed by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.
• Title Page: Dan Curry is a legendary figure among Star Trek production personnel. He was a visual effects supervisor for all of the Rick Berman-era shows, while also creating the Klingon bat'leth weapon, mok'bara, and many other ships and props during his tenure.
• Page 1, Scene 0A: Sadly, Nichelle Nichols, known to Star Trek fans as Nyota Uhura, passed away during the writing of this episode.

Act One

• Page 9.1: An Okudagram is a term used by Star Trek production personnel to describe a diagram created for the various LCARS displays on the sets. The name is derived from Mike Okuda, who created the LCARS user interface for TNG, and worked in Star Trek's art department for years. He is also the co-author of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the TNG Technical Manual, and the Star Trek Chronology, among other official Trek publications.
• Page 9.2: Ritsuko and Fuyutsuki's summary of biblical angels is indeed based on the original text.
• Page 15.1: Tau Ceti III is the location of a "quite exotic bar" that Jean-Luc Picard originally met Walker Keel at, as mentioned in TNG: "Conspiracy."
• Page 15.2: Daystrom-Hakone is shorthand for The Daystrom Institute's complex in Hakone, Japan, a satellite campus of their main location in Okinawa.
• Page 19-19A and 20: A little reference to Gregg Landsman's "Nobody Dies."

Act Two

• Page 22, Scene 27A: Sarpeidon was the setting of the penultimate TOS episode, "All Our Yesterdays."
• Page 24: A reminder that in this timeline, Touji and Sakura are fraternal twins.
• Page 27, Scene 33: Nurse Henry Park originates from Seth MacFarlane's "The Orville," where he has managed to have been killed twice. I swear he'll be treated (somewhat) better in this timeline.

Act Three

• Page 39, Scene 72: A tricorder is basic Starfleet issue equipment for Away Teams. Essentially a handheld computer, it can scan just about anything.
• Page 40, Scene 72: Cetacean Ops refers to the section of Galaxy-class vessels manned by orcas, specifically Takaya's Whale. They are navigation specialists that aid in piloting the starship. Our first time actually seeing this was in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Act Four

• Page 46, Scene 97: Generally during battle situations, Ritsuko and Maya split up sensor monitoring duties. Maya handles all incoming transponder data from the Evangelions, while Ritsuko monitors the status of the angel and the environment around them.
• Page 50, Scene 106: Evangelion-class entry plugs are inserted with the pilot facing downward towards the Eva's feet, but since the plug has its own grav-plating, one must take care when boarding that they'll be pulled towards the floor of the plug.

Act Five

• Page 55, Scene 126: I envision Kensuke's father to be voiced by Garrett Wang, also known as Ensign Harry Kim from Star Trek: Voyager.
• Page 56: For Mr. Suzuhara's voice, long-time Star Trek veteran guest actor Vaughn Armstrong.
• Page 58: Misato's "talk to the hand" gesture was inspired by Captain Janeway's propensity to do the same thing.

Appendix

• I actually had a lot of this backstory, merging Second Impact in with the events of Star Trek's 21st century, floating around in my head before Strange New Worlds codified it in their first episode. It was partially inspired by a tweet from Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas that mentioned the chaos of the 21st century on Earth wreaked havoc with the official records, so nobody in the time of Star Trek's future actually remembers the dates correctly.

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The usual artwork is in the episode preview post above.

Next time on EVA-Trek: "Come Alive"

 

[Allansfirebird]

And now, it's episode four of EVA-Trek, "Come Alive."

Stardate 48422.1: Nerv encounters a new angel on its journey, whose power threatens to overwhelm the ship and its crew.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dmUxdJ79vbjqqAs7eefX6kUNVFqaRE8I/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title Page: Since 1987, you can't have a Star Trek series without Jonathan Frakes - William T. Riker himself - directing or even acting in an episode or two.
• Page 1.1: This entire sequence is an homage to the classic western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Hyuga's got a penchant for old Hollywood movies.
• Page 1.2: 2.35 Panavision refers to the widescreen aspect ratio format for films, which Butch & Sundance was filmed in. In this system, a lens anamorphically stretches the image to an aspect ratio 2.35 times in length vs. the height.
• Page 3: Though the 90's Trek series were filmed for the boxy 4:3 TV ratio, I've always imagined EVA-Trek to be formatted to fit a normal widescreen TV.

Act One

Act Two

• Page 24.1: Galaxy-class sickbays feature a larger patient bed in the center of the room for major operations. The "clamshell" is an added piece of equipment that fits over the bed and contains specialized equipment for stabilizing the patient.
• Page 24.2: Cordrazine was originally used as a stimulant by Bones McCoy in TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever." It's tricky stuff and can easily cause an overdose if not administered properly.

Act Three

• Page 23.1: The Battle of Wolf-359, as originally seen in TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds" and DS9: "Emissary."
• Page 23.2: Quantum torpedoes were introduced as a higher-yield version of photon torpedoes and first appeared on DS9.
• Page 25, Scene 37: A PADD, or Personal Access Display Device, were Star Trek's version of the iPad before they were a thing. To the 90's series, PADDs are treated more like individual books, leading to several episodes where we see desks littered with them instead of showing them as loading multiple browsers.
• Page 28.1: Clearly, Takao ascribes to the Spike Spiegel school of philosophy.
• Page 28.2: Kaji and Takao saw some action during the Federation-Cardassian War, which ran up until TNG's third season.
• Page 29.1: The now Admiral Leonard H. McCoy was mentioned to have several artificial organs in the Shatnerverse novel "The Return." Seems only logical for a spry country doctor at the age of 144 to switch out the parts when they wear out. When we first saw Bones in "Encounter at Farpoint," he'd been shuttled over from the USS Hood, which was Commander Riker's previous post.
• Page 29.2: Bones is still making his old McCoy family recipe beans, first seen in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
• Page 34: This first silent exchange between Shinji and Mari was inspired by a similar scene in the MASH finale, "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen," featuring Hawkeye and Sidney Freedman.

Act Four

Act Five

Appendix

• Page 59: Lots of cameos here. We've got Barnes and Nadir from Community, Lemming and McAllen from Full Metal Panic, John Robie from Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, Roger O. Thornhill from Hitchcock's North by Northwest, Medaka from My Charms Are Wasted on Kuroiwa Medaka, Kazuya Kinoshita from Rent a Girlfriend, and finally Shiro Amada and Aina Sahalin from Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.

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Episode Artwork:

Scene 4 - EXT. SPACE - NERV (OPTICAL)


Scene 36 - INT. OBSERVATION LOUNGE (OPTICAL)


Cast Photo: Ensign Rei Ayanami


Cast Photo: Lt. Commander Ryoji Kaji and Lt. Commander Misato Katsuragi

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Ok, this is a very cool crossover. Been a long while since I've seen a script-Fic and they didn't usually looked this professional.

 

[Allansfirebird]

Ok, this is a very cool crossover. Been a long while since I've seen a script-Fic and they didn't usually looked this professional.

Click to shrink...

Thanks! Making sure the whole format of EVA-Trek looks like 90's Trek scripts is something I've had as part of my goal since I started writing it last year. I generally find it easier to write in the screenplay format than I do with prose.

 

[Allansfirebird]

Here's this month's installment of EVA-Trek, "Ain't it the Life."

Stardate 48497.2: While the crew is repairing damages to Nerv after the last angel attack, Shinji reconnects with someone from his past while Kaji is on a mission of his own.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aQWJZsv169UmUu_wfDk0Yso_lVggOUTk/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title Page: David Carson is another Star Trek regular director. He helmed the first Next Gen film, "Generations."
• Page 1, Scene 2: The Excelsior-class USS Sagan is named for astronomer Carl Sagan. This ship type was first seen in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock with the eponymous prototype vessel, the USS Excelsior. The Oberth-class USS Jemison is named for astronaut Mae Jemison, the first black woman to travel to space (and also appeared as a Transporter Chief in TNG: "Second Chances"). Oberth vessels likewise first showed up in Star Trek III as the USS Grissom.

Act One

Act Two

• Page 23, Scene 16: The split-delta logo was established in Star Trek: Discovery's first season (however silly it is for a covert agency in Starfleet to have their own symbol to advertise themselves, but canon is canon).
• Page 24, Scene 21: Picture the same white space where Q visited Picard at the beginning of TNG: "Tapestry."

Act Three

• Page 27, Scene 28: Kasseelian opera was first mentioned on DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad."
• Page 30.1: Of course, they're talking about Captain Jonathan Archer. It's Bakula Time, baby.
• Page 30.2: The NX-01 Enterprise was mentioned as being housed at the Fleet Museum in ENT: "These Are the Voyages..." and was finally canonized in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard.
• Page 31, Scene 32: Raktajino is the Klingon equivalent of coffee, a favorite of many personnel at space station Deep Space Nine.

Act Four

• Page 39, Scene 40: Tanabata is a Japanese festival that celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi, and it roughly occurs some time during the months of July and August.
• Page 39, Scene 41: Yukatas are a summer variation of a kimono used in less formal settings, like a Tanabata festival.
• Page 41: Yui's outrage at Kiel's promotion echoes Khan's anger at finding out Kirk was promoted to Admiral in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
• Page 43, Scene 46: The date of Archer's death was on a bio that was written for a display in ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II," was was not actually seen in the episode itself.
• Page 46: "Deputy Director" Luther Sloan (played by William Sadler) was first seen in DS9: "Inquisition." Whether or not he's that high up in Section 31 is impossible to know, due to his pathological tendency for subterfuge.
• Page 47: Kaji quotes Blanche DuBois' immortal line from "A Streetcar Named Desire."

Act Five

• Page 53B: If you're wondering why Mari has glasses in the 24th century, she's one of a handful of patients (like James T. Kirk) allergic to Retinax V, a medication that restores eyesight without the need for an operation.

Next time on EVA-Trek: "The One"

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Episode Artwork:

Sc. 6 - INT. HYUGA'S QUARTERS


Cast Photo - Lt. Maya Ibuki


Cast Photo - Ensign Rei Ayanami

 

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It's not TV, it's not HBO, it's this moth's installment of EVA-Trek, "The One."

Stardate 48566.4: Shinji and the rest of Nerv are in for an interesting time as Lt. J.G. Asuka L. Soryu arrives onboard.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TzvtpGdoHZFl_yjhROtD4-lugUFixk7v/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title Page: Roxann Dawson originally played Lt. B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager, before becoming a talented director of her own.
• Page 1: A similar day on the Enterprise-D, Captain Picard Day, was first seen in TNG: "The Pegasus."
• Page 2: Even to the kids aboard Nerv, Gendo's finger-tenting pose of doom is legendary.

Act One

• Page 5, Scene 2: Originally, this was instead going to feature a crossover with Martian Successor Nadesico with the USS Nadesico-C, but this was scrapped in favor of The Orville.
• Page 5, Scene 3: Isaac in his canon form as a Kaylon would be at odds with the Star Trek universe, so the logical choice was to make him a full-blooded Vulcan instead.
• Page 7.1: It might be questionable whether Gaghiel's canon form would work here, but just remember - the original Enterprise encountered a Space Amoeba, so...
• Page 7.2: A targ is a klingon pet with a face not even its mother could love.
• Page 12, Scene 16: The bat'leth is a bladed Klingon weapon, originally developed for Worf on TNG.

Act Two

Act Three

• Page 28: The Kobayashi Maru is an infamous no-win scenario every cadet at Starfleet Academy must try as part of their curriculum. The first person to defeat it was Cadet James T. Kirk... who reprogrammed the test so that it was possible to win.
• Page 33: A reminder that human languages constantly evolve, so it's entirely possible words like "dork" could become obsolete in another 300 or so years.

Act Four

• Page 38: The restaurant set is a redress of the French bistro from TNG: "We'll Always Have Paris."
• Page 46, Scene 80: Now you know where Gendo learned his finger-tenting pose from.
• Page 47: Bricks are the largest denomination of latinum, the currency used by the Ferengi Alliance, the Cardassians, and other races in the Alpha Quadrant.
• Page 52, Scene 88: This calisthenics program was used multiple times in TNG and DS9 by Worf.

Act Five

• Page 54, Scene 90: Sorry, our universal translator doesn't work with Penguinese.

Special bonus content with this month's script is a technical memo covering the how the addition of the Eva Cages to Nerv altered the typical internal arrangement of a Galaxy-class starship.

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Next time on EVA-Trek: "Walking After You"

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Episode artwork:

Scene 70: INT. EVA CAGES


Scene 88: INT. HOLODECK


Cast Photo: Lt. J.G. Asuka Langley-Soryu

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Special Feature: A bonus one-shot comic I drew last fall that inspired the teaser for this episode.

Spoiler

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Ok, that comic is pretty funny.

 

[Allansfirebird]

The final EVA-Trek episode of the year is ready to go, so please enjoy "Walking After You."

Stardate 48587.7: After a disastrous first attempt to fight an angel that nearly destroyed a major city on Klaestron IV, Shinji and Asuka are forced to do special training to make them a better team.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R55Plm0LU9UKBAXdPAL2ugemNeJWw4oc/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title Page: LeVar Burton is best known to Star Trek fans as Geordi La Forge, among other roles in his illustrious career. Following Jonathan Frakes' lead, he eventually joined the ranks of Trek actors that became television directors.
• Page 2, Scene 4: Klaestron IV was first encountered in DS9: "Dax."

Act One

• Page 4, Scene 6: Starbase 375 will become an important locale in the quadrant during the upcoming Dominion War.
• Page 6, Scene 8: Gravitational lensing is the phenomena wherein large gravitational fields have the ability to bend light itself. This effect is commonly seen in computational models of black holes.
• Page 11, Scene 23: Kotzbrocken roughly translates to "piece of shit."

Act Two

• Page 19: The solenoid-type organ Ritsuko refers to is also known as the S^2 Engine in the canon timeline.
• Page 22.1: Ferengi Commerce Authority's Liquidator Brunt, as played by the wonderful Jeffrey Combs, is a recurring character over on DS9, always looking for a way to screw over Quark.
• Page 22.2: Rule of Acquisition #94 states "Females and finances don't mix," as mentioned in DS9: "Ferengi Love Songs."
• Page 24: This is technically an unofficial rule, but was codified as rule 257 by Star Trek Online.
• Page 25, Scene 46: Grand Nagus Zek is the leader of the Ferengi Alliance at this point in time.
• Page 28: Residential corridors for ensigns were first introduced in Lower Decks. Technically, Galaxy-class starships should have more than enough room to give each ensign and lieutenant junior grade their own cabins, but the Eva Cages and their support facilities ate up a lot of room in the saucer section.

Act Three

• Page 30, Scene 52: Misato's cabin number on deck 8 is a reference to Star Trek V's release date - June 9, 1989.
• Page 52: See episode artwork for a concept sketch of Shinji and Asuka's training outfits.
• Page 34, Scene 53: If you need a band with driving, consistent drum beats, AC/DC will do the job every time.
• Page 35.1: The Great Bird of the Galaxy was a nickname given to Gene Roddenberry by producer Robert Justman during the time of TOS.
• Page 35.2: A petaQ, according to the Klingon Dictionary, literally translates to "weirdo," its use over the years in the various shows it's difficult to nail down a direct translation.
• Page 35.3: qu'vatlh is an expletive on the order of a petaQ.
• Page 46: Pieter is another shout-out to Gregg Landsman's Nobody Dies.

Act Four

• Page 51, Scene 75: Kelbonite is a mineral that can interfere with certain types of scans and weapons, first introduced in TNG: "Silicon Avatar."

Act Five

• Page 57, Scene 100: Bones McCoy referred to Beastie Boys as "classical music" in Star Trek Beyond, so anything from the 20th century would seem like classical in the 24th.
• Page 58, Scene 100: I couldn't help myself from giving Misato the tsundere's mantra.

Appendix

• Appendix A: This is backstory established from James T. Kirk's childhood in TOS: "The Conscience of the King."

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Next time on EVA-Trek: "My Hero"

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Episode artwork:

Sc. 7 - INT. BRIDGE (OPTICAL)


Sc. 13 - INT. HAKONE ENTRY PLUG (OPTICAL)


Concept Art: Shinji and Asuka's training outfits

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Awesome and amazing work, as usual.

 

[Allansfirebird]

It was the night before Christmas and all through the ship, Captain Ikari desperately tries to give Counselor Makinami the slip...

 

[marcoasalazarm]

Father and son activities galore, and ahoy.

 

[Allansfirebird]

EVA-Trek is back for a new year with its newest episode, "My Hero."

Stardate 48677.9: A routine survey of an intense nebula uncovers a juvenile angel, and Asuka is chosen as the one to risk her life to attempt its capture.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y4fqmNLd5Ze59DLaHj5HlONvCyWeSpcp/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title Page: Robert Duncan McNeill played Lt. Tom Paris for all seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager, and likewise became a television director, even directing an episode of Enterprise... while wearing his jumpsuit from Voyager.
• Page 1: Star Trek has been rather inconsistent on showing real bathtubs vs. sonic showers onboard starships. Therefore, I'm continuing that tradition by saying Misato's quarters has a combo sonic shower and bathtub in each bathroom.
• Page 2, Scene 2: The phaser range is one of the most inexpensive sets in Star Trek history - literally just a black room with a tiny ring in the center and the entry door.

Act One

• Page 11, Scene 8: At this point in the 24th century, all Starfleet vessels include the EMH, portrayed by Robert Picardo, as standard operating equipment. Be thankful Nerv doesn't have the Mk. II version of the program, played by Andy Dick in VGR: "Message in a Bottle."
• Page 12, Scene 9: TOS: "The Man Trap" established Vulcan's lack of sodium chloride in their blood.
• Page 14.1: Altana, a reference to the material from Gintama.
• Page 14.2: Murasaki-type nebulas were first seen in TOS: "The Galileo Seven."
• Page 14.3: Don't ask how long I had to research Compton scattering to be able to boil it down to a two-sentence summary...
• Page 17: Starfleet vessels have multiple levels of alert status, the most common being Red Alert. Yellow alert is a step below, indicating a ship-wide state of preparedness for a crisis situation.

Act Two

• Page 20, Scene 21: The Ed Whitefire blueprints were a set of schematics of the Enterprise-D that were done in 1990, intended for official release, but the license-holder let said license expire before they could be published. In Whitefire's set, he shows a mall/grotto area in the forward area of the saucer section, which I've adapted into the "Rec Center" set here.
  • Ed Whitefire's version:
  • https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lca...1d/whitefire-enterprise-ncc-1701d-sheet-7.jpg
  • Compare with Rick Sternbach's version from a few years later:
  • https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lca...ek-the-next-generation-enterprise-sheet-7.jpg
• Page 23, Scene 22: Klingon painsticks were first introduced in TNG: "The Icarus Factor." They're used as part of the Second Rite of Ascension ceremony to test the endurance of the subject.
• Page 28: The typical shield output of a Galaxy-class starship is 5,400,000 terajoules.

Act Three

• Page 29, Scene 26: That pearlescent glean of the Enterprise's hull in The Motion Picture still makes it one of the most gorgeous filming miniatures ever created.
• Page 36, Scene 47: An aortic dissection is a tear in the wall of the main artery to the heart, the aorta. In many cases, it is fatal if the outer wall of the aorta is breached. The actor John Ritter passed away from an undiagnosed aortic dissection, for example.
• Page 37: Vulcan pulse-rate is mentioned to be "practically nonexistent" in TOS: "The Naked Time."
• Page 41, Scene 49: An astronomical unit (A.U.) is equivalent to 93 million miles, or the distance between the earth and the sun.

Act Four

• Page 48.1: The SIMs beacon is a wrist-mounted flashlight, named for prop designer Alan Sims.
• Page 48.2: Technically, the terms quasar and nebula are at odds with each other. The original Murasaki 312 object in TOS: "The Galileo Seven" is described as being a quasar, which form from materials surrounding a supermassive black hole, while a nebula is formed from a dying star. Let's just say before the Altand star died, it cast off enough stellar material to form a nebula before it died and collapsed into a black hole.
• Page 48.3: Asuka's thirty minute time limit is to the gravitational point of no return.

Act Five

• Page 58: BSoD refers to the "blue screen of death," the condition when Windows computers throw a fault and crash.

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Next time on EVA-Trek: "Normal"

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Episode Artwork:
Scene 33: INT. KYOTO ENTRY PLUG


Cast Photo: Lt. J.G. Asuka L. Soryu

 

[Allansfirebird]

Stardate 48827.1: Welcome to a standard week in the life of Lt. Commander Misato Katsuragi - her regular duties, dealing with the Eva pilots, interacting with the crew, leading an angel attack, the usual.

Welcome back to EVA-Trek, everyone! As always, I own nothing of what I write here, and I'm sure everyone is glad I don't.

A quick announcement before we get into this month's episode. I've got a lot of IRL stuff going on for the next month, so this may affect my writing schedule a little. Thankfully, there shouldn't be any delays until episode 12, because I tend to keep about two months ahead of the release schedule. At any given time, I typically have one script in final revisions, one at a first or second draft, a third script in the outline phase, and finally scattered initial notes and concepts for the rest of the series. It helps to have done a bunch of planning early on when I was first developing the series last year!

This month, I'm trying something new for posting the episode. Now that the series is also being posted over at Ao3 (EVA-Trek - Allansfirebird - Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rebuild of Evangelion | Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition, Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, The Orville (TV) [Archive of Our Own]), I'm sharing a preview of the teaser here, followed by the usual Google Drive link.

So now, on with the show - partially inspired by M*A*S*H's "Dear Dad" and TNG's "Data's Day."

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qv2nwTj_tyFS4aHGdq8n6HyRBJG7S29q/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title page: Les Landau directed a total of 59 episodes during the Rick Berman era of Star Trek, including TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise. Beyond Trek, Landau also directed Beverly Hills 90201, seaQuest DSV, Sliders, among many others.
• Page 1, Scene 1: I'd wanted to use the TWOK-era "monster maroon" type uniform in this flashback, but Starfleet stopped using that uniform by this time, 14 years before the start of the series, around 2357.

Act One

• Page 10, Scene 7.1: N.D.'s refer to "no dialogue" actors, or extras.
• Page 10, Scene 7.2: Thanks to the TNG Tech Manual for giving me a better understanding how the Ops position works.
• Page 12, Scene 7: The Hekaras disaster refers to the events in TNG: "Force of Nature."
• Page 13, Scene 9: The two-story version of the Stellar Cartography set was first seen in ST: Generations.

Act Two

• Page 22, Scene 15: A pre-lap indicates a transition using sound before the cut.
• Page 22, Scene 16: Hyuga, much like me, enjoys the classics, like "The Italian Job."
• Page 25, Scene 27: It's entirely possible Hyuga watched more than his fair share of "Mission: Impossible."

Act Three

• Page 37, Scene 33: Turel was an angel featured in the original Evangelion proposal document. I decided to go with replacing Matarael because a gigantic space spider attacking the ship didn't feel like something I could've made work without feeling like I was being exceedingly lazy with my adaption.
• Page 37, Scene 34: Part of this episode's conceit is that the initial engagement and attack on the ship by Turel happened off-screen before the story began. Naturally, Misato's not going to tell her mother specifics about the angels on an open channel like this.
• Page 44: A recent inmate of the Auckland Penal Colony was Tom Paris.

Act Four

• Page 54, Scene 76: A visual inspiration for this shot is Enterprise and Excelsior pummeling General Chang's bird of prey with torpedoes in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Act Five

• Page 62: Rei is referencing Hamlet, act III, scene II. Of course, you've never really experienced Shakespeare until you've read it in the original Klingon.

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Next time on EVA-Trek: "Resolve"

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Episode Artwork:

Cast Photo: Lieutenant Commander Misato Katsuragi


Concept Art: The Bridge crew of the USS Nerv, early sketch from summer 2021

 

[Allansfirebird]

Stardate 48902.5: When a mysterious spatial anomaly threatens a mining colony, Gendo and Fuyutsuki are in for more than they bargained after stumbling upon a hidden secret there.

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Welcome back to EVA-Trek, everyone! It's been one helluva month for me since the last episode went online - lots of IRL things, but on the bright side, I didn't slip on any production for future episodes of the series. There should be no breaks in the release schedule, at least until the break I'm planning on taking between episode 24 and the two-part finale to allow myself extra time to write what looks to be a considerably long script... and edit it down.

This month's episode was a fun one for me to tackle, and in many ways it was heavily inspired by the TOS episode "The Devil in the Dark" in terms of structure. Honestly, episodes 10, 11, and 12 are a fun grouping to bring the series' second narrative arc, or the "Asuka Arc," to a close, whilst getting us to the midway point in the show.

One final note from the casting department at EVA-Trek before we move on to the proceedings. For the part of Brenad, the lead miner, imagine him played by longtime Star Trek guest actor J.G. Hertzler - General Martok, himself. In the part of Altand, Brenad's lackey, he should be read in the voice of Jason Mantzoukas, currently playing Jankom Pog on Star Trek: Prodigy.

Gonna try doing something a little different this month, and attempt posting each act of the script here, rather than the Google Drive link.

And now, a 24th century odyssey continues...

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Spoiler: Teaser

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

• Title Page: Winrich Kolbe directed a total of 48 episodes of the Berman-era Star Trek series, including the TNG finale "All Good Things..." and Voyager's pilot episode "Caretaker."
• Page 1: Kaji's isolinear chip designation is a slight reference to Sherlock Holmes' address at 221B Baker Street.
• Page 3, scene 4: There is a reason I picked Genji for Kaji's brother's name... but I won't reveal that just yet.

 

[Allansfirebird]

Act One...

Spoiler: Act One

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

• Page 5, Scene 8: Koralis III and its mine were first seen in DS9: "Chimera," set approximately 3 years following the events of this episode.
• Page 5, Scene 10: More Lurians popping up, whether they're known associates of Morn, Sneed, or Quark remains to be seen.
• Page 6: Pergium was first introduced in TOS: "The Devil in the Dark" as the power source of the colony at Janus IV.

 

[Allansfirebird]

Act Two...

Spoiler: Act Two

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

• Page 16, Scene 17: the Teacher, of course, is referring to the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
• Page 20: I couldn't help referring to Mana's original counterpart in the game "Girlfriend of Steel."

 

[Allansfirebird]

Act Three...

Spoiler: Act Three

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

• Page 25: There's a long history of references to the number 47 throughout Star Trek, originating from writer Joe Menosky.
• Page 31: It's a shame TNG didn't have Geordi use his VISOR like a tricorder more often over the run of the series.
• Page 33: Mari seems to think of Shinji like a dog in every timeline, doesn't she?
• Page 36, Scene 33.1: Thoron fields were used multiple times on DS9 to mask the station's actual armament.
• Page 36, Scene 33.2: The yellow-winged Orion logo was first established in TAS: "The Pirates of Orion." Orions themselves were one of the first Star Trek species established in TOS: "The Cage."

 

[Allansfirebird]

Act Four...

Spoiler: Act Four

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

• Page 39, Scene 35: The mining encampment location is based on Monument Valley, Utah, a signature desert location made famous by the westerns of John Ford.
• Page 39, Scene 40: The Guard is played by Star Trek stunt coordinator Dennis "Danger" Madalone, for reasons that will become apparent.
• Page 46, Scene 69: FPS, as in "feet per second," the usual measurement of frame rate for film. Typically, film is shot at a rate of 24 FPS. Higher frame rates produce a smoother, almost dreamlike image.

 

[Allansfirebird]

Spoiler: Act Five

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

• Page 55, Scene 96: I will not be ashamed for referencing Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
• Page 56, Scene 98: The San Clemente and Burbank belong to the California class, first seen in LD: "The Stars at Night."
• Page 57, Scene 98: Gendo somewhat bastardizes a line from Robert Bolt's masterful screenplay for A Man for All Seasons.

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Next time on EVA-Trek: "Times Like These"

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Episode Artwork

Cast Photo: Commander (Doctor) Ritsuko Akagi


Concept Art: Initial Cast Sketch

 

[Allansfirebird]

Welcome back to EVA-Trek, everyone! This month's episode finally presented an opportunity to do a classic "trapped in the holodeck" type of Star Trek episode that has been overdone, to be sure, but there's some 90's Trek tropes I just have to explore with this series. It's also the penultimate installment of the series' second narrative arc and tees up a crossover I've had planned since I first started developing EVA-Trek nearly two years ago.

We're going back to the old posting format this month - I realized it was too time-intensive to post each act individually.

Without any further ado, it's time to grab a cup of raktajino, a jumja stick, kick back, and enjoy the show!

Stardate 49011.2: A sudden plague of system failures traps Shinji, Rei, and Asuka in the holodeck and puts the entire crew in danger.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TJ7i9_P12nAeyMSiwjKHFRyS-m9ozlGC/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Cover Page: Gabrielle Beaumont (1942-2022) was a prolific director, starting her career with the BBC before coming over to the states to direct for television. Her Star Trek credits include seven TNG episodes, a DS9, and a Voyager.
• Page 1, Scene 2: Cochranes are the standard unit of measurement for warp field energy. It's named for the inventor of warp drive, Zefram Cochrane.
• Page 2: Of course, Kaji's referring to Geordi La Forge.
• Page 4, Scene 6.1: Welcome back, Troy and Abed in engineeeeeeering!
• Page 4, Scene 6.2: Deuterium is the raw matter used in warp drive systems that is annihilated when coming into contact with anti-matter, generating the energy needed to generate the warp field.
• Page 8, Scene 11: The cast and crew were grateful for the opportunity to get outside and onto the Universal studio lot to film exteriors on the Courthouse Square set.
• Page 8, Scene 12: A little Quantum Leap nod, because it's always Bakula Time.

Act One

• Page 12, Scene 15: Hyuga's not the only starship pilot that loves having movie nights for his crewmates. He shares that trait with Tom Paris of the USS Voyager.

Act Two

• Page 18, Scene 21: This set was first used in TNG: "Evolution."
• Page 20, Scene 21A: Admiral Ross was a recurring character on DS9.
• Page 21: Remember that Marty McFly used the name of "Calvin Klein" as is alias, taken from his brand of underwear.
• Page 23, Scene 23: The number 47 has a long history of appearing in Star Trek.
• Page 26, Scene 27: Holy technobabble, Batman! You wouldn't believe how much I had to read through the TNG Tech Manual to ensure this made sense.

Act Three

• Page 32, Scene 30 to Page 35, Scene 42: Sequence adapted from Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis' script for Back to the Future.

Act Four

• Page 42, Scene 47: The USS T'Kumbra is a Nebula-class vessel with an all-Vulcan crew, first seen in DS9: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite."
• Page 50, Scene 64: Making a slight adjustment from canon here. In DS9: "The Way of the Warrior," the Venture ended up making it to the station.

Act Five

• Page 54, Scene 67.1: Adapted from the script of DS9: "The Way of the Warrior," conformed to the final filmed dialogue.
• Page 54, Scene 67.2: Gowron is Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, while Martok is one of his trusted generals. The Negh'var was a newly-created Klingon vessel, and Gowron's flagship.
• Page 57, Scene 68: A reminder that EVA-Trek's main title theme is a reworking of "Ambassadrice Rouge" from the Eva 2.0 soundtrack.

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Next time on EVA-Trek: "Good Grief," coming 2023.05.12

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Episode Artwork:

Scene 2: INT. ENGINEERING


Cast Photo: Lt. Maya Ibuki

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And a general comment, SPOILER tag because of Picard:

Spoiler: Don't click if you haven't seen Picard 3x09

I'm still overcome with emotion over seeing the Enterprise-D reborn, so getting to continue to write this series set aboard the Galaxy-class that was my first love means so much to me. In my own way, I've been trying to make the ship live again, 31 years after becoming a Trekkie for the first time, all thanks to TNG.

 

[Allansfirebird]

Welcome back to my slice of the 24th century mixed with a slice of mecha! This month brings a crossover episode with Deep Space Nine that I've been hoping to write for quite some time.

Sadly, I have to announce that I'm placing the series on an indefinite hiatus in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America strike. I cannot in good conscience continue to publish these scripts while the Guild fights for fair compensation for all screenwriters. The series shall return once the strike ends. In the meantime, I'm probably going to write a couple one-shot side-stories in prose format, and maybe release some of the non-spoilerific portions of the EVA-Trek writers guide.

Stardate 49012.1: Nerv stops at space station Deep Space Nine to aid with repairs in the wake of the Klingon attack. Amongst the activities are a promotion, some light espionage, and a life-altering experience.

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View: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1euBsTrIgFi50ufUvXizVrNwMN_Ch6nLd/view

Spoiler: Episode Annotations

Teaser

• Title Page: Olatunde Osunsanmi is a producer-director on Star Trek: Discovery.
• Page 1, Scene 1: Three gold pips is a full commander rank under the Starfleet uniform code at this time in the 24th century.
• Page 1, Scene 2: Hopefully my description of Texas Hold 'Em is correct, I don't play it myself, so I had to do some research on it in order to make it work.
• Page 2: As established on TNG, the First Officer and Ship's Counselor conduct annual performance reviews on the crew and give promotion recommendations to the Captain.
• Page 3: Depending on the vessel, there are typically 3-4 duty shifts for the crew - alpha, beta, gamma, and delta. Alpha shift is the "day shift," typically manned by the ship's senior officers. Delta shift is the "night shift."
• Page 5: Refer to episode 105 for Kaji's meeting with Section 31 operative Luther Sloan.

Act One

• Page 7, Scene 5: Morn, the ubiquitous and (seemingly) silent Lurian trader, has been known to be a bit of a ladies' man.
• Page 8.1: Around this time, Rom is still slaving away as a menial worker at Quark's Bar. Later this year, Rom instigates a strike for unfair working conditions in DS9: "Bar Association."
• Page 8.2: Saurian brandy comes in a rather distinct bottle, seen as early as TOS: "The Enemy Within."
• Page 10, Scene 5: The difference in Dax's personality refers to the inconsistent ways the DS9 staff wrote her during the first couple seasons before they finally figured out who Jadzia was supposed to be.
• Page 14: Since Garak is the best liar in the Alpha Quadrant, it's pretty easy to create an incident in his backstory and still have it work canonically.

Act Two

• Page 19.1: Jake's referring to the trip the Defiant will take in the second episode of DS9's fourth season, "The Visitor," which is one of the series' best installments.
• Page 19.2: Ben Sisko has a habit of breaking out Hungarian food whenever he tries to win someone over.
• Page 19.3: Thanks to writer Michael Piller, Sisko is probably the biggest baseball fan in the 24th century.
• Page 21, Scene 12: Gagh is a delightful Klingon dish consisting of serpent worms, served alive, though it could be stewed or served cold.
• Page 21, Scene 13: Andorians were one of the founding alien species of the Federation, and have a tendency to be hot-tempered, belying their cool, blue exteriors. On Enterprise, the character of Shran tended to call humans "pinkskins" as a pejorative. In the role of Barfly, I kinda hear Fred Tatasciore's voice for it - better known as Lt. Shaxs from Star Trek: Lower Decks.
• Page 24.1: Initially, I was going to have them taking part in the battle of Iwo Jima... but quickly realized having Japanese characters fighting against Japanese soldiers wouldn't look good.
• Page 24.2: Continuing a running joke on DS9 where writer Ira Steven Behr would refer to John Wayne movies, but then the characters would have no idea who he was.
• Page 25: Any good Ferengi tries to get all the profit he possibly can.
• Page 27, Scene 15: I imagine the Bajoran Monk sounds suspiciously like Yui Ikari...
• Page 27, Scene 17: The tears of the prophets, or orbs, are a byproduct of the mysterious non-corporeal entities who live in the Bajoran wormhole. This particular one is the Orb of Prophecy and Change.

Act Three

• Page 30, Scene 24: There's a bit of backstory I wrote in the series' writers' guide about some... things Misato, Ritsuko, and Kaji got up to in their Academy days. Maybe one day there'll be a spin-off about it.
• Page 32, Scene 24: Swaford is a single malt Scotch whiskey, first seen in PIC: "Seventeen Seconds."
• Page 32, Scene 25: Never imagined I'd have to research military hardware for this series, but here we are...
• Page 33: Felix, of course, would later write a few holoprograms for Bashir, including his James Bond knockoff adventure seen in DS9: "Our Man Bashir."

Act Four

• Page 39, Scene 29: Picking up on the copious book collection Mari has in Eva 3.0+1.0, I carried that trait of hers over to this timeline.
• Page 42, Scene 32: Romulan Ale is such a powerful intoxicant, it's outright banned in the Federation, though clever folks manage to sneak it in anyway.
• Page 47, Scene 35: Misato's tousle with the Andorians is inspired by a barfight in John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

Act Five

• Page 50, Scene 41: Whereas synthehol is used onboard starships, Quark's bar stocks the real stuff... which includes the very real hangovers afterwards.
• Page 52, Scene 41: The night before at Quark's you may well have seen Jet Black and Spike Spiegel, Kasidy Yates, Mal Reynolds, Captain Yurika Misumaru and Lt. Akito Tenkawa, and Captain Morgan Bateson amongst the crowd.
• Page 53, Scene 43: I was tipping this all along, but DS9 is where Misato picked up her Raktajino addiction.
• Page 54: Cardassians use data rods in their tech, as opposed to the isolinear chip in Federation design.
• Page 55, Scene 46: Ochazuke is basically green tea over white rice, a common hangover cure in Japan according to my research.
• Page 56, Scene 46: If one were to look at the Alpha Quadrant map, Nerv would have to take quite the detour around the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone if they kept their course along the ecliptic. By thinking three-dimensionally, it makes more sense to take the ship over Cardassian space and save time.

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Next Time on EVA-Trek: "Lonely as You," release date pending the resolution of the Writers Guild strike.

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Episode Artwork:
Scene 5: INT. QUARK'S


Cast Photo: Lt. Junior Grade Asuka L. Soryu

Spoiler: #WGAStrong

 

[Allansfirebird]

Welcome back (sorta) to EVA-Trek, everyone! We're a month into the writer's strike, and there looks to be little-to-no change in the negotiations. On the bright side, SAG-AFTRA (the actor's guild) has voted in favor of a strike authorization, and there's a lot of pushback within the Director's Guild against the dubious "historical" agreement their negotiators made with the AMPTP. Should make for an interesting summer if the DGA ends up having no writers or actors to make their films and shows with.

If you're interested in showing support for the various unions against corporate greed, please consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund. It'll go a long way to helping writers (and potentially actors) during this time until they're able to get back to work.

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This month, as I previously said, there's not going to be a new episode posted in solidarity with the WGA. What I'm going to do instead is crack open the EVA-Trek vault back to the beginning. From the start, I treated the show as if I were creating a television series, and during development of pilot episode and concept, a vital document I needed to create was a writer's guide, or show bible. In the television industry, a bible outlines the characters, plots, settings, and the overall themes for the series. Many times, the bible is part of the package that writers use to pitch the show to the network, but then continues to evolve and change over the life of the show once it's been picked up.

The first draft of the series bible was completed in November, 2021, with another couple of polishes over the next couple months. The "final" draft came shortly after finishing the first draft of "New Way Home," the pilot episode, and acted as a main springboard for the characterizations of my treatment of the Evangelion cast. This version you see here is a cut-down version of that from last summer, which pruned about 15 pages of spoilers from the 56-page document. Following the series finale, I'll post that full version, along with the Series Arc Notes document that had my initial rough ideas for every episode.

And now, without further ado, here is the July 16, 2022 Revised Final Draft of the EVA-Trek Writer's Guide, by me, based on the Star Trek: TNG writer's guide by Gene Roddenberry and David Gerrold.



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These are the voyages of the starship Nerv.
Its continuing mission: to develop "Project E"
to protect and defend the Federation from any threat
to seek out and stop the menacing lifeforms known as "angels."


THE MISSION OF THE USS NERV

STARFLEET OPERATING ORDERS:

STARSHIP: NERV
DESIGNATION: NCC-71855
COMMANDING OFFICER: CAPTAIN GENDO IKARI
STARDATE: 48200.2

SHIP'S MISSION:

To provide for Earth/Federation security.
To seek out and engage the lifeforms posing a threat to Earth, known as "angels."
To facilitate the continued development of Project E.
To expand the body of Federation knowledge.
To seek out new life, new civilizations.
To provide assistance as required to Earth/Federation colonies, commerce and travelers.


EVA-TREK

EVA-TREK is dated around the time of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE's third and fourth season, the years 2271 and 2272. Tensions between the Federation and Dominion are beginning to heat up as a prelude to the inevitable war. In this section of the history, we find the characters of the NEON GENESIS EVANGELION franchise transplanted here as if they were always a part of the Prime Timeline.

The object of the series is to see the ways living in Trek's 24th century would benefit the characters, or in some ways, open them up to pitfalls they never would have suspected. Familiar faces we've known now for twenty-five years may appear differently, act differently, may even fight for different sides. In addition, we aim to see how the typical stations of the Eva canon could be integrated and make the struggles against the Angels and SEELE play out over the backdrop of the build-up to the Dominion War. Will our crew make it out alive with their sanity intact, or is history doomed to repeat itself?

Along the way, we should not forget that we are playing around in the Star Trek universe and that we are aboard a Federation starship patrolling the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Remember that only 20% or so of the galaxy has been charted around the time of DS9.

If only one out of a million of the stars in the galaxy had worlds and if only one out of a million of these worlds were capable of supporting life, and if only one out of a million of those bore intelligent life, there would still be millions of inhabited worlds for us to visit.

So much for the question: "Are there any star Trek stories left?"


THE SCRIPT

What We Must Have:

• Action/Adventure/Drama Entertainment --
• Involving our Starship Crew and Vessel --
• Plus, once the above has captured the audience's attention, our usual comments about challenges which humanity now faces.

THE SCRIPT -- FORMAT

THE FORMAT of an Eva-Trek script is a TEASER and FIVE Acts.

The Teaser can run as long as 7 pages if necessary, but should not be shorter than 3. Each Act should be approximately 10-11 script pages long.

The total length of the First Draft script should not be more than 61-62 pages.

Because the style of the show is a fast-paced action/drama, long rambling scenes are to be avoided. The actual running time of each episode will be 43 minutes.

TAG:

We've fought against an angel or come across an interesting phenomenon. Having Captain Ikari order the ship to "warp out" at the end of each episode puts us in harm's way, dramatically speaking.

Our new optical effects shots of Nerv entering into warp speed last no more than a second or two overall. The ship appears to stretch like a rubber band, then snap forward and is gone from sight much too quickly to allow our composers to "button off" the end of the show with a proper music cue. We need to finish each show with a shot of the ship that lasts a lot longer than that.

The writing staff can help us in this regard by writing dialogue in the last scene that doesn't refer to speed. The Captain can order Hyuga to "set course for ________" or "take us out of here" or to "take us out of orbit" or whatever -- just so long as warp speed isn't specified. This gives us a chance to use any shot of the ship we want for as much screen time as we need.

EVA-TREK uses the narrative device of the ship's log to provide necessary exposition for our stories.

PERSONAL OR CAPTAIN'S LOG:

Since many episodes will follow from Shinji's point of view, the Personal Log is a voice-over supplement to the narrative of our story. In cases where Gendo drives the story, we would use a Captain's Log. Any other crew would use a Duty Officer's Log, or a similar title. Example: "Personal Log, stardate 48313.2. The Nerv is in final preparations to leave drydock..."

One purpose of the log entries is to move the story along rapidly and economically with a few words sometimes doing the work of several scenes. It also allows our characters to annotate their personal responses and feelings about a situation as it is occurring.

Log entries are ALWAYS introduced with a stardate.

STARDATES

A stardate is a five-digit number followed by a decimal point and one more digit. Example: "49110.4" The first digit of the stardate is always "4." The 4 stands for the 24th Century. The 9 indicates the year/season, relative to the start of TNG. In our case, it will go from "8" to "9" by the finale. The additional three leading digits will progress unevenly during the course of the season from 000 to 999. The digit following the decimal point is generally regarded as a day counter.