Fellow Sci-Fi Fans,
Greetings, my Milky Way living and loving Earthlings and all other sentient life forms throughout the known galaxy. I’m beyond excited to become part of the Substack family!
I’ve been meaning to join up for awhile, and finally, I figured I had no real excuse not to do so. Well, I actually did come up with a Top 10 Reasons Not To Join Substack, but I promptly lost it in the ever enigmatic, nebulous cloud. Procrastination has officially ended, here I am courtesy of faster than light travel.
I can’t wait to see the thrilling sci-fi adventures we’ll launch and share together, as we explore this ever expanding multi-verse of limitless possibilities - or at least salivate with acid spittle over some really kickass space based operatic battles.
Listen to the cosmic chatter closely…. Can’t you just hear them calling us…… Luke, I am your Big Bad Dueling Darth Daddy. Live Long and Prosper and Procreate and Bloviate and Procrastinate… Oh, the pain… the insane in the membrane pain….
I’ve been a dedicated science fiction lover since before I even attended grammar school. As a kid growing up in the legendary badlands of NJ, I never missed watching The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, The Bionic Woman, Lost In Space and Star Trek, just to name a select few of my all time favorites. I’m also a diehard horror fan. So, I guess considering that potent combo, Alien, The Blob, Jason X and Hellraiser IV pretty much sum up my genre loves and or guilty pleasures.
My Trek to Trek
That last childhood television perennial - Star Trek - became a passionate favorite, then a time occupying preoccupation and finally an authentic obsession. When Gene Roddenberry’s Wagon Train To The Stars warped into The Next Generation, I joined in on the fantastical fun. Before the hit syndicated series had ended its seventh season, I’d written an episode.
Yes, I actually penned an episode. It was a dream come true and elegantly fulfilled. In ways I still can’t believe it happened, because although I always wanted to write for TV and movies, scoring a TNG episode is pretty heady stuff for anyone - especially when it’s their first script sale made without a Hollywood agent sealing the deal.
About a year later, I scored a 2nd Trek episode sale with my Deep Space Nine script - which became the Ferengi centric episode, Prophet Motive. Since then, I’ve written articles, essays and several books, including an exploration on the more romantic side of Captain Kirk and his galant planet hopping crew.
Lately I’ve been honing my comedy and parody skills of spacey satire with my Laugh Trek website. Sci-fi is, if nothing else fun, and like any Trekker knows, can often be hilariously funny. From Dr. McCoy and Spock’s epic intellectual throwdowns to Pavel Chekov’s Russian boasting along with Scotty’s miracle worker rep, Roddenberry’s Trek is - next to the delicious laugh fest of DS9 - by far the funniest of them all.
Going forward, I’ll bring you the very best of my sci-fi, horror and fantasy musings - along with a healthy dose of exclusive celebrity interviews and other goodies - to make your experience as fun and informative as I can make it. From Star Trek, StarGate to Star Wars to Logan’s Run - the classic film and the woefully underrated TV show - to Gene Roddenberry’s last great TV show, Earth: Final Conflict, and everything else under our hastily constructed solar sails, let’s see what’s out there.