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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [QB] This is the kind of story we might have gotten on TNG if GR and co hadn't alienated some potential writers early on. I remember David Gerrold mentioning (probably in his STARLOG column) some of the folks interested in contributing to TNG back in 87, and one of them was the guy who created THE PAPER CHASE. He wanted to explore some aspects of space law and was anticipating getting to do a Trek or two. That idea of exploring legalities stuck in my mind (I bet Melinda Snodgrass read it as well, since I remember the column talked about the idea of exploring Data's legal status, and this was before the show was on the air or she had written MEASURE OF A MAN on spec), and when I pitched there in 90 one of my notions was a kind of space version of THE DEFECTION OF SIMAS KUDIRKA, which was a true story done on CBS about a quarter century back, about a Lithuanian sailor on a Russian ship jumping from his ship onto an American ship to defect, but then he found out the only legal way they could accept him required him to be IN THE WATER first! Of course, when he goes back in the water, his people grab him back and he gets hard labor. It had Alan Arkin and Richard Jordan -- Jordan was the American ship captain who had to follow orders and put Arkin back in the water -- and I remember thinking doing something along these lines for Trek would have been awesome. Basically I did it as persecuted 'boat people' who are picked up in lifeboats by Enterprise, but the rendezous happens within the system, so technically they were still subjects of the persecuting local authority, and Picard would have to hand them back over even though they'd be killed. Damn, the more I look back on the stuff I pitched, the more I think Jeri Taylor was smoking some bad shit that day, cuz some of these would have been dynamite shows, even if they only bought the premise. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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