tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post4318606360614042375..comments2008-01-20T14:00:30.482-08:00Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-76609587529543238452008-01-20T14:00:00.000-08:002008-01-20T14:00:00.000-08:00What a surprise. Another long-winded response from Russ.<BR/><BR/>Let's see if I have it straight: You didn't grasp <I>Star Trek's</I> position on war so you wrote something that violated the show's standards. It was good enough to buy, apparently, but not good enough to film.<BR/><BR/>The thrust of your comment is promoting yourself. As usual.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-22099314486082034212007-08-21T01:06:00.000-07:002007-08-21T01:06:00.000-07:00Writerfella here --<BR/> Not only interesting, but BEAUTIFUL! writerfella got to meet Margaret Armen and then to thank her for such a beautiful romance, no matter how many stereotypes got added to her teleplay in its execution. As always, the story itself was the most important factor. That is where critics miss it all: they pick on the details and miss the forests of story for the trees of minutiae.<BR/> During the run of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, writerfella and his ex-Marine cousin, Milton Paddlety, sold the series a teleplay called "Brothers Of The Blood." The story updated "Paradise Syndrome" into its future and had the Native people of the first story, once having become technological, go in search of 'the people from beyond the sky.' Their spaceship was made of carven stone and used the power source of the asteroid-deflecting obelisk for propulsion. It repelled against all matter to its rear to reach light-speed, and then repelled from all matter ahead to go sub-light. Aboard Picard's USS ENTERPRISE is Ens. Benton SkyHorse, a Kiowa member of StarFleet who saw in his Earthside vision quest that the ENTERPRISE would meet the people of the world of Miramanee, named after 'the mother of their race.'<BR/> Suffice it to say that, if that story had been done, it now would now have its own cultish following. By the bye, it was not done because the main framework of the story involved the ENTERPRISE's mission to aid three former Federation colonies amid a vast civil war. The producers decided they would do no stories about 'war.' Alas...<BR/> The thrust of the story is that Ens. SkyHorse and Worf become blood brothers, after surviving a battle together. writerfella knows, and always has done, stories about 'parallelism,'...<BR/>All Best<BR/>Russ Bates<BR/>'writerfella'russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111681906238053379noreply@blogger.com