Stape's first
Star Trek episode work was a
Star Trek: The Next Generation story called "Shadowdance", which involved the character
Lt. Worf, and his adoptive brother, Nikolai Rozhenko. It eventually became the seventh-season episode
"Homeward", which aired in January 1994. His next
Trek story was for the
spinoff Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The story, called "Charity", involved the character
Quark. It became the third-season episode "
Prophet Motive", which aired in February 1995. In 2007, Stape wrote an article criticizing the writing abilities of former
Star Trek television and movie producer
Rick Berman. Stape pointed out that Berman wrote more
Star Trek: Enterprise episodes than he did any other
Star Trek television series, and Enterprise remains the most critically lambasted incarnation of
Star Trek. Stape wasn't alone in going public with criticism of Berman,
David Weddle, who wrote for
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a staff writer and producer, also has been critical of Berman's handling of the
Star Trek franchise. In 2015, publisher Bearmanor Media released Stape's first book,
Star Trek Sex: Analyzing The Most Sexually Charged Episodes Of The Original Series. ==Notes==