Did anyone submit a script?

[Lynx]

Yeah i know, kes isn't in them. I think it's a shame you're boycotting the series because she's not there but whatever makes you happy

Well, I'm expecting the season 4 DVD:s to show up in my mailbox soon so we'll see what will happen.

 

[Sophie74656]

Well, I'm expecting the season 4 DVD:s to show up in my mailbox soon so we'll see what will happen.

I'm pretty sure you already have your mind made up

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Just remember, Lynx, that Roxann was pregnant that season and as the year goes on has a much reduced presence until she's gone completely.

Season 4 is known for the rise of Seven, but to me its also Chakotay's best season.

 

[Sophie74656]

Just remember, Lynx, that Roxann was pregnant that season and as the year goes on has a much reduced presence until she's gone completely.

Season 4 is known for the rise of Seven, but to me its also Chakotay's best season.

I've read that she worked right up until going into labor on set. Started having contractions and finished her scene before going to the hospital.

Seven is definately prominent but she was brand new and needed to be established. I feel like after that it became more even with most characters getting equal focus.

For me, season 4 is where the show changes and becomes great.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I've read that she worked right up until going into labor on set. Started having contractions and finished her scene before going to the hospital.

Wasn't Living Witness the only episode she was absent from?

 

[Australis]

I think Jeri Ryan made a huge contribution to Trek. Loved her in what I've seen her in, which is basically Dark Skies and Leverage for half a season, she was really good in that, and I recommend that show.

It was one of the reasons my first script focused on her, there was a lot to explore.

 

[Sophie74656]

Wasn't Living Witness the only episode she was absent from?

Yes that was the only full episode. She left durring filming of The Omega Directive, that's why Belanna wasn't in the briefing room later in the episode.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Yes that was the only full episode. She left durring filming of The Omega Directive, that's why Belanna wasn't in the briefing room later in the episode.

I just happened to see a blurb on IMDB today that said Dawson did not appear in the episode Unforgettable. Is this true, or just an IMDB mistake?

 

[Sophie74656]

I just happened to see a blurb on IMDB today that said Dawson did not appear in the episode Unforgettable. Is this true, or just an IMDB mistake?

So to be honest i skip this episode and don't remember. But I just pulles up the transcript and did a search for "B'elanna" and it does not appear. So if she's in the episode nobody addresses her and she has no lines.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Melinda Snodgrass, who wrote TNG's well-regarded "Measure of a Man" episode, explains the process of how to get into Hollywood as a scriptwriter, via her very own website:

http://melindasnodgrass.com/ask-2

 

[Tenacity]

Morn ... never spoke

My though on that is that Ferengi have very sensitive hearing and Morn is softly talking, it's just that Quark (and other Ferengi) are the only ones who can hear him speaking at what is a conversational level for his people.

For most people to hear him at all, he would have to be basically shouting.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Melinda Snodgrass, who wrote TNG's well-regarded "Measure of a Man" episode, explains the process of how to get into Hollywood as a scriptwriter, via her very own website:

http://melindasnodgrass.com/ask-2

Didn't she also write an Original series novel?

 

[2takesfrakes]

Always reliable, truthful and accurate Wikipedia states the following regarding her novels output as Melinda's site doesn't make it entirely obvious:

NOVELS

• Circuit series
  • Circuit (1986)
  • Circuit Breaker (1987)
  • Final Circuit (1988)
• Queen's Gambit Declined (1989)
• The Edge series
  • The Edge of Reason (2008)
  • The Edge of Ruin (2010)
  • The Edge of Dawn (2015)
• The Imperials Saga
  • The High Ground (2016)
  • In Evil Times (2017)
  • The Hidden World (2018)

Strangely, she does offer up a FREE copy of:
STAR TREK SCRIPT – The Ensigns of Command – Melinda’s original draft

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

I did.

It was called "Closer Than Sisters, And Further Away". Basic outline: Q comes aboard to cause chaos and confusion, the crew mock him, and in a fit of pique, he hurls them into an alt.universe, where a more powerful Borg had captured the alt.Voyager and incorporated the ship into a cube, and converted Janeway into a Borg drone, along with the rest of the crew. Meanwhile a piece of the Borg ship, embedded in the hull after a battle, assimilates a crewman, and sends out a tentacle to snake into the ship and begin converting it.

The core of the episode was Seven and Janeway meeting their Borg selves (alt.7 was even more Borg) and getting them to fight against it. Also had a bit I liked writing that this advanced Borg knew how to capture Q lifeforms, so just when Q thought he could only be seen by Janeway, her counterpart grabbed him bu the throat and told him he would be assimilated.

Now I can take no credit for what was done later, but...

This was written just after the arrival of 7 of 9 was announced, or certainly early in that season. Long before a Borg Janeway was announced. Also, there was a scene in Enterprise where a mad tentacle tried to take over the ship, and I was all "Hey, that seems familiar!"

So, on the strength of that, my very first full-length script I ever wrote, I was invited to pitch ideas to them, and during the remaining seasons I would intermittently talk with staff writer Rafe Green about ideas. One notable one was the idea of an automated space station that could repair the ship for them. To be fair, if they recycled my idea, they took it in the opposite direction to what I had in mind (my station was benevolent, their malevolent).

There were some good ideas, I'm thinking of recycling them into other stories. Never quite got there of course - they said the stuff I had was either "not a direction they wanted to go" or "too close to something we're already doing" but were always positive and encouraging.

Oh, and I wanted to write a VOY movie. Adm. Janeway has to take the ol' ship out to rescue Bashir and Chakotay who are on an undercover mission beyond Federation borders, and recruits Kira Nerys as her First Officer. (Spoilers: Chuckles doesn't make it.)

Sorry for the delay but I wanted to tell you how brilliant your script was, even if sometimes a little confusing between Janeway/Seven/Tuvo and their Borg stand in.
Oh and it was strange to see B'Elena Torres as Lt Commander while in the tv series, she was a temporary Lt Junior.

ANyway, I really liked your story a lot. Thank you for the sharing!!! :-D

 

[Australis]

I'm pleased you liked it, I do0n't get a chance to show it to many people.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Always reliable, truthful and accurate Wikipedia states the following regarding her novels output as Melinda's site doesn't make it entirely obvious:

NOVELS

• Circuit series
  • Circuit (1986)
  • Circuit Breaker (1987)
  • Final Circuit (1988)
• Queen's Gambit Declined (1989)
• The Edge series
  • The Edge of Reason (2008)
  • The Edge of Ruin (2010)
  • The Edge of Dawn (2015)
• The Imperials Saga
  • The High Ground (2016)
  • In Evil Times (2017)
  • The Hidden World (2018)

Strangely, she does offer up a FREE copy of:
STAR TREK SCRIPT – The Ensigns of Command – Melinda’s original draft

I could have sworn I remembered that she wrote the Original series novel Tears of the Singers. Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Tracey Trek, your instincts are correct:

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/co...ks/1185232470i/1560530._UY630_SR1200,630_.jpg

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1560530.The_Tears_of_the_Singers