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Enterprise
Oct. 25th, 2020 12:03 pmHey, look what I found in the dusty recesses of my hard drive!
Many years ago, they announced the beginning of a new Star Trek series, to be called Enterprise.
As part of the pre-show publicity, they released parts of the writers' bible - giving an outline of the characters, including a linguist (Sato, who was male in the original synopsis), T'Pau, a Vulcan, and Archer, the captain, who was "an explorer first, then a scientist, and a military man when forced to be."
I wrote a synopsis for an episode, which I intended to try to sell to the new show, having no idea how to do so. My plot riffed off of the original series Errand of Mercy, in which the Enterprise encounters a planet full of pacifists. Only instead of turning out to be super-powerful energy beings, they were just ordinary people who did not believe in killing. They didn't like that the Enterprise was full of weapons, despite Archer's insistence that they would only ever be used in self defense. The Enterprise would end up standing between the planet and the Klingons, saving them from assimilation into the Klingon Empire, but the planetary government then refused to trade with them, as the Earthers had shed blood on their world.
But, of course, before all that unfolded, I decided to start the script with a detailed discussion of linguistics because that's always good for a laugh:
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Many years ago, they announced the beginning of a new Star Trek series, to be called Enterprise.
As part of the pre-show publicity, they released parts of the writers' bible - giving an outline of the characters, including a linguist (Sato, who was male in the original synopsis), T'Pau, a Vulcan, and Archer, the captain, who was "an explorer first, then a scientist, and a military man when forced to be."
I wrote a synopsis for an episode, which I intended to try to sell to the new show, having no idea how to do so. My plot riffed off of the original series Errand of Mercy, in which the Enterprise encounters a planet full of pacifists. Only instead of turning out to be super-powerful energy beings, they were just ordinary people who did not believe in killing. They didn't like that the Enterprise was full of weapons, despite Archer's insistence that they would only ever be used in self defense. The Enterprise would end up standing between the planet and the Klingons, saving them from assimilation into the Klingon Empire, but the planetary government then refused to trade with them, as the Earthers had shed blood on their world.
But, of course, before all that unfolded, I decided to start the script with a detailed discussion of linguistics because that's always good for a laugh:
( Read more... )
