Dan Dassow wrote:
> On Feb 16, 12:10 pm, Jon Schild  wrote:
>> Those same effects didn't look that bad when they were new. For
>> comparison, consider Lost in Space, especially the episode "The Great
>> Vegetable Rebellion."
> 
> I thought I had forgotten the horrible vision of Jonathan Harris
> dressed as a giant carrot.
> 
>> As I recall, a lot of episodes of TNG were also written by freelancers.
>>   Maybe Voyager would have been less terrible if they had followed the
>> same practice.
> 
> The producers of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager did
> solicit spec scripts. Someplace in my archives I have a story
> guidelines packet written by Lolita Fatjo (http://www.imdb.com/name/
> nm0268877/), a pre-production associate on TNG and DS9, and a pre-
> production coordinator on Voyager. At first the spec scripts for TNG
> and DS9 came primarily from professional freelance writers.
> Unfortunately, towards the end of TNG and DS9's run and much of
> Voyager the spec scripts tended to be mostly fan fiction.

My wife submitted a spec script to "Voyager" that was substantially 
better than some of the ones they shot. It got her onto their "approved 
pitchers" list, but she eventually got tired of hearing them say, in 
horror, "But you can't DO that!"

And so ran the Squeezy Cheesy Peas revolution.

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