Hi,
It's great to have a screenwriter such as yourself on this site. I have a couple of questions:
1) Were you daunted or excited when you first got to write for such a massive franchise as the Star Trek universe?
2) Star Trek has some of the most devout (and occasionally unforgiving) fans. Have you ever been on the wrong end of this devotion? Have you ever been called out about some minor detail or plot point?
Thanks again for all your insights and advice. I, and all the other writers and fans on here, really appreciate it.
I was excited. It was my first job and I was thrilled to show what I could do, and to get paid as a writer, which probably overshadowed any nervousness I might have felt.
Oh, doubtlessly, but honestly, I don't pay much attention to that sort of thing. I take my lumps for the episodes that were actually, you know, bad. But when it comes to messing up some minor detail, I'll let you in on a little secret. Internal consistency in Star Trek has never been perfect, and after so many episodes, there's no way it actually could be. Which goes double now with the tangle of alternative timelines and parallel universes and time jumps. There's no way it will all ever make sense in every particular detail. So while I always did my best to make things fit into canon, and keep things consistent, if something fell through the cracks, or maybe had to be fudged to make a story work, well, c'est la TV.
