{"id":79,"date":"2006-04-25T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/good-reads\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T03:24:10","slug":"good-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Good Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y’all have got to check out the latest issue of Emmy magazine<\/a>, which is dedicated to sci-fi\/fantasy television. Please try to get past the irritating cover photo of Jennifer Love “Boobs McGee” Hewitt (actually, that’s my only quibble with this ish: they couldn’t find a better cover subject for the sci-fi\/fantasy special? In the immortal words of GOB Bluth: Come ON!).<\/p>\n

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\nAmong the highlights of the ish:<\/p>\n

\n*A feature on four notable Star Trek: TNG<\/i> alums: Ron D. Moore, Rene Echevarria, Naren Shankar and Brannon Braga (yeah, kind of a “bleah” on that last one, but still! It’s a good article!). It’s really inspiring to read their stories — all four owe their first break in the biz to one of my all-time favorite writer\/producers, Michael Piller, who famously started an open-submission policy when he took over as head TNG writer\/exec producer in ’89. There’s also a nice sidebar tribute to Piller, who passed away last year. Says Shankar in the piece: “Unlike a lot of people, he was willing to take a chance on completely unproven talent. That doesn’t happen anymore. We owe our careers to this guy.”<\/p>\n

\n*Also on the Trek tip, a fabulous Q&A with the legendary Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana. A great read for anyone who loves Trekkian lore, and really, D.C. is just totally kick-ass. Select quotage, on why she writes as “D.C.”: “I wanted to write for Combat<\/i>, and they wouldn’t read it. They said, ‘What would a woman know about combat?’ I read a lot of military history, I’m very familiar with World War II history. I wrote two full scripts on speculation, and they wouldn’t even look at them. I got a little annoyed. They knew I was a woman — they said no. That’s when I started putting D.C. Fontana on the cover. I felt that if they don’t go in with any knowledge of who I am, they’ll at least read it and give me a chance.”<\/p>\n

\n*A sure-to-inspire-heated-debate list of The 25 Most Out-of-This-World Characters. They limited it to one character per show. The Good: Singling out Hurley, Willow, Leela and Scully. And recognizing the awesomeness of Benjamin Sisko. The Bad: Phoebe Halliwell? Really<\/i>? And Zhaan over Aeryn Sun? I like Zhaan, but Aeryn Sun is iconic. The I’m-Not-Sure: The #1 character and representative of TOS? Khan. I love Khan, but over Kirk or Spock? An interesting choice, if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Y’all have got to check out the latest issue of Emmy magazine, which is dedicated to sci-fi\/fantasy television. Please try to get past the irritating cover photo of Jennifer Love “Boobs McGee” Hewitt (actually, that’s my only quibble with this ish: they couldn’t find a better cover subject for the sci-fi\/fantasy special? In the immortal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}