Number One was born and bred for her job. I had developed my own backstory for her that on her planet, she was raised in a litter, so she was raised for her job. But she had heart. I think you’d have found as she developed that she would have showed that heart. There would …
[Winn] wanted power and she was ambitious. She was sort of a Margaret Thatcher in space, or, as I used to say, I was the Pope in space. People would say, ‘Oh, you’re doing Star Trek. Who are you playing?’ I’d say, ‘Think the Pope in space, except she’s like an ancient Pope, from the …
July 20: Wishing a very happy birthday to Merri Howard, who made a huge impact behind the scenes on Trek, as an assistant director on TNG and producer on TNG, Voyager and Enterprise. Fun fact: Beverly Crusher’s maiden name was even established as Howard in her honour! According to Merri Howard: I worked on Trek …
Page from a daily Trek calendar, transcribed below “A human, Janeway is by no means the only female Captain in Starfleet. But it is generally acknowledged that she is among the best-male or female. She embodies all that is exemplary about Starfleet officers: intelligent, thoughtful, perspicacious, sensitive to the feelings of others, tough when she …
From These Are The Voyages: TOS, Season 1 by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn: Roddenberry wrote to [Sam] Peeples suggesting many changes and specifically asking that Dehner be portrayed as ‘something less than a ‘swinger,’” that she be “a little overly intelligent and inhibited.” NBC’s Donald Bays wrote to Roddenberry after reading an early script where Gary …
I’m a mother of a four-year-old boy. At the time [of writing ‘Final Mission’], my son was a little younger, but still, the idea of that incredible bond and how people create it with their children and with other people’s children was obviously in the forefront of my mind. So I wanted to work with …
For my review of “The Enemy Within,” click here. Note I’m not a fan. From These Are The Voyages: Star Trek TOS, Season 1 by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn (TW for discussion of sexual assault): It was important to [writer Richard] Matheson that the attempted rape be included. It wasn’t part of his story outline merely for …