June 18, 2006 – Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods

Television & Movies

Nifty article on Trek fan films

By Earl
June 18, 2006
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Click hereabouts for a nice NY Times article on the various and sundry Star Trek fan video projects. Part of me yearns to get back into this stuff; another part of me realizes I’d only be cast as the fat, belching Klingon ambassador from Star Trek V, and yet another part of me would rather just tell an original story instead of hanging on to the coattails of any single franchise with all the copyright complications involved. (That last part of me, however, also reminds me that I’m not that great at writing fiction, be it in prose or script form, and that maybe I should just keep aiming my video camera at my kitten.)… Read more

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Father’s Day baby horse roundup

By Earl
June 18, 2006
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Since it’s Father’s Day, it seems like a good day to check up on all those cute fillies who have arrived at our farm this spring, and see how fast they’re growing. … Read more

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Gene-ology 54 - Karate

Welcome to Gene-ology, where we explore the earliest TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek! Gene-ology begins its examination of Gene Roddenberry's 1960s TV writing with "Karate", a episode of The Detectives starring Robert Taylor, where our hosts find plenty to talk about, including some surprisingly heavy topics. Join us as…
Have Hot Takes, Will Travel

Does Gene's Paladin line up with Paladin in the rest of Have Gun -- Will Travel? Was Gene writing Paladin as Sam Houston? All three of Gene-ology's hosts - Ashley, Earl, and Norman C. Lao - gather to consider the story so far across Gene Roddenberry's scripts for Have Gun -- Will Travel.
Gene-ology 53 - Beyond Atlas

Welcome to Gene-ology, where we explore the earliest TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek! Gene-ology examines "Beyond Atlas", a one-off script for an unmade series might have been "West Point, but for the Air Force Academy" - except that, as written by Gene Roddenberry, it reads like a pitch for…