DEEP SPACE NINE took that to another level. We were so tight as a writing staff, we loved the show so much, that we could sit in that room and literally scream at each other. Hans Beimler and I could just go at it, hammer and tongs, yelling and really getting upset. We would just sit there and yell about story points, and then, ‘Where are we going to lunch today?’

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I think people mistake the campy-ness of the original
series for its appeal—that it has a sort of kitchy value. I have heard Rick say
things like, ‘Kirk is the prototypical sixties hero. He had a babe in one arm
and a phaser in the other.’ That’s kind of his popularized image of Captain
Kirk and what that whole series was about. But really it was about Kirk as a
man, as a character, as a human being, and what he experienced out in the
galaxy, and the way he led that ship.

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