Top Ten things overheard at
a TNG writer's meeting
10. "Playmates says they want another race of aliens for the toy line make one up"
9. "One more reference to Kei & Yuri and I'm going to hurl"
8. "Lets spin the wheel of plots..."
7. "So what if it contradicts something said in the first season nobody is going to notice"
6. "I don't care if the astrophysicist says we are wrong, who is writing this show anyway?"
5. "Want to call Nichelle Nichols and see if she wants to appear?"
4. "Hey, think any of those fan scripts in the warehouse are any good?"
3. "Oy, another contest winner, give them a line or two like normal"
2. "It's a tender love story about Barclay falling for a shy Betazed Medical officer, so what can we have threaten the Enterprise?"
1. "Well they never said we *couldn't* use a transporter for that"
William Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high school years.
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
~Alan Alda