[8] The Entropy Effect was the first original story published in the Pocket Books' series of Star Trek novels, and was developed by McIntyre from a screenplay that she wrote at age 18.
[8]: 65 McIntyre created given names of several Star Trek characters that later became canon, including Hikaru Sulu and Kirk's mother Winona.
She asked the panel and audience if they had managed to see Starfarers, which she claimed was an amazing SF miniseries that had almost no viewers due to bad scheduling on the part of the network.
No such show existed, but after reflecting on the plot she described, McIntyre felt it would make a good novel, and went on to write Starfarers as well as its three sequels, later referring to it as "my Best SF TV Series Never Made".
[11] McIntyre's novel The Moon and the Sun, set in the court of Louis XIV of France, was rejected initially.