AMALGAVERSE Crew #20 · You M02 · Mon 19 Oct · 12:01 p.m. ET

19 incredible crew members. And...you!

The Amalgaverse

The Amalgaverse is the daily choose-your-own-adventure on X by Joseph Mallozzi, writer and showrunner on Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, Universe and Dark Matter. A crew drawn from Star Trek, Stargate, Farscape, Andromeda and Babylon 5 is stranded in one universe, and every day at 12:01 p.m. ET the story stops so you can decide what happens next.

Your first choice · Opening post, 21 Sep 2026

Do you set your phasers, zats, force lances, and Peacekeeper pulse pistols to fun and join the Alt. Enterprise-D and its crew on their maiden voyage?

The cold open · 21 Sep 2026

Cold open · Fade in:
Int. Your kitchen — Day

You’re just finishing up lunch, considering that last cookie on the counter when, suddenly, you are assailed by a blinding flash.

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Vertigo. Pitch blackness. A few seconds of incoherence.

Cut to: Int. Alt. Enterprise-D

Then, when you awaken, you find yourself transported to an alternate universe, a far future where the Federation, Galactic Empire, Earth Alliance, Twelve Colonies, and many other factions vie for power.

An elite ship is commissioned and an equally elite crew formed, comprised of the very best of myriad realities, every one of them stranded - like you - in this amalgam setting. Their mission: to explore this strange new multi-universe, to seek out new clues and answers to their cosmic quandary, to boldly go - and figure out a way for everyone to get back home. …

Words: Joseph Mallozzi, opening post, 21 Sep 2026 (scene headings are ours) · Read it on X (opens in a new tab) · Read it on his blog (opens in a new tab)

Latest mission · Complete

Mission 02 begins Mon 19 Oct, 12:01 p.m. ET

The Ghost Ship

Still: the derelict freighter adrift, its masts and superstructure dark against the stars
Contact one

23 Sep – 16 Oct 2026 · five acts · 25 decisions, every one made in the replies

Captain Kirk’s crew answers a distress call from a freighter drifting cold inside a spatial anomaly. Five acts later the Waldorf Astoria is gone, and Maia 3352, its android caretaker, has joined the crew.

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Season one is planned as 20 missions: ten, a brief hiatus, then ten more. Mission 01 is complete; Mission 02 is next.

M01 · CompleteM02 · Mon 19 OctSeason one · 20 planned

Three ways in

Come aboard

How the daily vote works, who is on the bridge, and the question that started it all.

The crew

Nineteen seats were filled by fan vote, one bracket at a time, over a year on X. The twentieth is yours.

Meet the crew →

Origins

24 Sep 2025 “Choose one and tell me why”

  • Time Travel593 · 41.6%
  • Interstellar Travel539 · 37.8%
  • Multiverse TravelHis pick184 · 12.9%
  • Dimensional Travel109 · 7.6%

1,425 votes. Time Travel won; his own pick was Multiverse.

Origins →

Next time · Mission 02

Mon 19 Oct · 12:01 p.m. ET—

Seat 20 is still yours. The story stops at 12:01 p.m. ET and waits for your reply.