#StarTrek #DS9 Qs 30 Years Later:

In "Take Me Out to the Holosuite," Starfleet Capt. Solok commands an all-Vulcan crew. That homogeny seems implausible, counter to the mission, if the UFP and Starfleet are the inclusive bodies we hope they are.

If Solok had been in the Vulcan space force, an all-Vulcan crew would've been the norm.

#WordWeavers Apr 20: Do you plan out your themes or allow them to develop as you write?

Both. I go in writing toward a goal, a premise, but that often changes the further I get into it. While themes can be unplanned, I think it's better to recognize them as I write than to realize them only after I write. That said, readers will always see things in my writing that I don't. As writer I'm too close to have the perspective someone would reading it fresh.

#TV #CBS #Canceled #SoHelpMeTodd #CSI Vegas, potentially making room to renew #NCIS Hawaii for a 4th season. I think the strikes cost Todd its momentum from last season. Most of the shows renewed at CBS had more time to entrench themselves to ride out the strikes.

Nobody seems to have noticed it but the Mastodon project have been granted funding by @NGIZero in the Entrust fund.

This is amazing, but the best part is that this funding is targeted at implementing… Quote Posts 🎉

This effort started several months ago and we already did some preliminary work, but this will be a big feature for our next 4.4 version. This funding will cover the ActivityPub work, as well as backend, web frontend and official mobile app implementation.

I'm not sure the timing is right. In 2003, Gibbs told Rabb he had been interrogating ppl for 19 years. NCIS Origins, though, is set in 1991, and supposedly tells of Gibbs' probie days under Mike Franks. That said, I do count Gibbs' time as a military policeman. Maybe it does add up.

Still, I'd be even more interested if the Origins show featured younger Gibbs, Dwayne Pride, and Leon Vance forging their friendship.

#TV I wasn't too interested in the #NCIS Origins spinoff until #RobertTaylor of #Longmire was cast as Jackson Gibbs, the older version of whom had been played by #RalphWaite.

#PennedPossibilities 289. What is the longest amount of time you’ve spent on a WIP?

26 years on-and-off on what became my short story "Say Cheese": https://everydayfiction.com/say-cheese-by-gerald-so/

It began as a novel from the POV of a character I ultimately reduced to a supporting role in the short story.

It also depends who the protagonist and antagonist are. If I wrote a story outside mystery, the protagonist might do any number of things I would never do, and the antagonist might clearly be more like me. In that case, I couldn't say I connected more with the MC/protag.

#WordWeavers Apr 19

#WordWeavers Apr 19: Do you tend to connect w/ your MCs or your antagonists more?

I connect w/ both, but more of my connection to MCs shows on the page b/c I write mystery from MCs' POVs. A staple of mysteries is hiding antagonists/culprits for much of the story. #Columbo notably was an inverted detective series that revealed antagonists right away, the meat of the plots being Columbo's process of ensnaring the culprits.

#WordWeavers Apr 18: Do you write primarily in the same genre you read as a child?

No. As a child, I read sanitized children's versions of history. Today I would say I definitely write for ages 14+, not necessarily graphic or profane, but neither childish in any way.

More important to me than promoting my work is doing the best work I can, so when ppl find it, they appreciate its quality. I could talk up my work forever. That's meaningless if the finished work doesn't speak for itself.

#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 18

#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 18: How important is #SocialMedia in promoting your work?

If promoting my work were all-important to me, I'd be on every social network. However, I've avoided most of them, notably FB and Instagram.

Mastodon has less reach, but I prefer it to Twitter and the rest for the ability to see only as much as I want. I don't know how many ppl I reach, but as w/ my general Web presence, I trust that anyone looking for me can and will find me.

#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 17: What genres would you be terrible at writing?

Readers should be asked what genres I would be terrible at writing. I'd like to think I could write any genre well w/ enough study and practice. I'm saying my work would be satisfactory, not necessarily popular/lucrative.

It's also possible #Trump's myriad troubles have him bent out of shape behind the scenes and he occasionally nods off in public b/c he's been unable to sleep any other time.

Ppl say #Trump is unnerved and scared being on trial. I don't think he'd be nodding off if he were unnerved and scared. Falling asleep would seem to be the reaction of either a bored person or one who physically can't keep himself awake. And Trump sure seems to be able to stay awake when he cares to.

When you say you can't be impartial, you're saying it doesn't matter what evidence is presented, what arguments are made; you can't help seeing things one way, which dictates whether you'd convict or acquit.

One can be impartial to #Trump and convict him on evidence. That conviction would be based on the strength of the evidence and of the prosecution's case, not on one's feelings for or against defendant Trump.