> Our esteemed moderator, David Johnson, champions scenarios which would
> serve as the basis for new stories set in the Piperverse.  I submit that
> a "lawless frontier" in the earliest decades (or perhaps centuries) of
> Federation expansion is a setting ripe for such stories.  So I will
> shamelessly throw that idea into the air and see how far it flies.  (Or
> boot it into hyperspace and see how many light-years it travels. <grin>)

I think this is a fun idea, so long as "Fan-Canon" is clearly marked
apart from the original source material.

Not because the ideas we come up with are in any way inferior - but just
for the sake of mental honesty.