It would seem this next section is going to be another multiparter to go through, but it is the final section of the season two writer’s guide for the original Star Trek. Last time we finally finished the terminology section, so now I have a whole new way to pad out the intro.
I’m not sure why there’s a “Some Questions And Answers” section. Maybe they were anticipating questions from new hires, especially the ones for whom this was the first science fiction gig. Maybe it’s questions asked by writers after earlier revisions of the writer’s guide. Remember this is the third revision, from April 17th of 1967, that I’m working from. That would make this something of an early FAQ (frequently asked questions, if you ever wondered what that acronym stood for), trying to answer as much as they could going into the second season. Whatever reason, there will be some new ground covered and possibly more clarification for that old ground in previous sections of the guide. I noticed one asking about the transporter, which was already gone over in the terminology section. That means my fingers will have more chances to misspell “transporter” as “transfporter” because for some reason my fingers keep hitting the “f” despite not being close enough to the “s” or “p” to happen EVERY @#$%$#%$# TIME I TRY TO WRITE TRANSPORTER! Sorry, it’s getting on my nerves and I was hoping I was done writing that world for this series.
This first batch of questions is a bit generic, going over writing science fiction in general for newbies to the genre and getting a better handle on the script writing processes specific to this show. We have eight pages total and we’ll be covering a page and a half just for this set of questions. I’ll try to keep this interesting, but even the terminology section was feeling long to me after a while. This is more about making a good writer’s guide, which is why the site I got this from posted it, but I do get to complain about modern storytelling. That’s always fun, right? So, how do you lay out an acceptable script for this series?
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