<SteveKrutzler> ADMIRAL ON DECK
<BradleyThompson> I'll vouch for that
<SteveKrutzler> indeed
<StevePerry> I love it when he says Admiral on Deck
<StevePerry> so offical
<SteveKrutzler> Welcome to Bradley Thompson's FIRST live chat session!
<DilberTrek> Yayayay Bradley :)
<SteveKrutzler> Welcome Bradley, thanks for being here tonight!
<SteveKrutzler> Would you like to make any opening remarks before we delve into questions?
<StevePerry> Remember folks, send questions to moi (that's "me," ok?), not to Steve
<BradleyThompson> Does this mean everything's done?
<BradleyThompson> Weyoun is in the season finale. And that's probably the last hint I'll give you about it.
<BradleyThompson> Are we waiting for something?
<BradleyThompson> Thanks
<SteveKrutzler> ok
<SteveKrutzler> here we go...
<BradleyThompson> No. Just fire away.
<SteveKrutzler> our first question...
.<SteveKrutzler> From Psi Phi: The credits for "The Reckoning" read "Teleplay by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson", compared with the usual "Bradley Thompson & David Weddle". Does this mean David did more work on "Reckoning" than you, or will you be flip-flopping who goes first every other episode, the way Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe did in the fifth season?
<BradleyThompson> We're flip-flopping.
<BradleyThompson> By the time we've finished a draft, nobody knows who did what, anyway.
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> From DamonJai: What made you come up with the idea of Section 31 in "Inquisition"? Did you feel the Federation needed its own Pseudo-intelligence agency?

<DilberTrek> Section 31 was Bradley's idea? Wow ... great idea. :)

<BradleyThompson> The freeformers got the answer to this earlier -- We wanted to pit Julian's brain against the most beaurocratic thing we could think of. It eveolved into something Khafkaesque, and then Ira came up with the idea that it was starfleet. With Julian's record that was the most likely.
<BradleyThompson> Section 31 was IRA's

<BradleyThompson> Need more details, or does that answer it?
<SteveKrutzler> That probably covers it. :-)
<SteveKrutzler> From BorgMom: For a show like "One Little Ship" the staff must have had a lot of extra set building to do. As a writer, how much do you have to worry about the cost of the production values for a show you are writing and how do those issues get resolved?
<BradleyThompson> Or was it Hans?
<BradleyThompson> I'm still trying to recall. The two of them gave it the name.

<BradleyThompson> Re sets -- we were very careful to use existing sets for Little ship.
<BradleyThompson> We do worry about the cost a lot. It was going to be a heavy optical show, so we have to bring the budget down somehow. Which is one reason we ended up doing it aboard the Defiant.

<BradleyThompson> The issues are resolved in meetings. If you have enough meetings, the problesm usually go away.
<BradleyThompson> #

<StevePerry> Sounds like the opposite of bureaucracy there :)
<DilberTrek> Didnt notice any problems when watching the ep ;D
<BradleyThompson> Opposite of government, anyway.
<SteveKrutzler> From rms: We now know that Jadzia Dax will die in 'Tears of the prophets'. How much notice did you have from Terry Farrel that she was going to leave. Do you think you have managed to intergate her departure into the storyline as well as you would have liked?
<BradleyThompson> #

<BradleyThompson> Terry's departure was integrated into the final episode from the time we broke it. We wanted to give her a sendoff befitting a much beloved character.

<BradleyThompson> #

<BradleyThompson> The dailies on that show are looking quite nice and the show seems to be working on a lot of levels.
<StevePerry> Oh, you can keep talking about the finale is you want to! :)
<DilberTrek> No one will stop you.. ;-D
<SteveKrutzler> no one'll mind :-)
<SteveKrutzler> heeh
<DilberTrek> (Wink wink, nudge nudge, hint hint ;D)
<StevePerry> Do we have lag? If anyone is experiencing lag, message me

<SteveKrutzler> From Thunderlove: How did you get past the basic Kira-reaction to "One Little Ship's" silly concept, and actually turn it into an entertaining episode?!

<BradleyThompson> Rene and Ron helped us get off on the right foot -- We knew we had to give everyone permisssion to laugh right from the start or we's be sunk.

<BradleyThompson> Once you know that we know that the idea's whacky, and we say, yeah, but come on the ride anyway,

<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> Well, it was a good ride
<SteveKrutzler> I thought :-)
<SteveKrutzler> Next question...
<SteveKrutzler> From Berserker: I am very excited about "The Reckoning." Any way you could slip us a tidbit telling us what it is about?

<BradleyThompson> Prophecy. Even the Prophets have enemies.
<DilberTrek> I reckon he could. ;D
<BradleyThompson> #
* StevePerry slaps DilberTrek
<SteveKrutzler> From CaptainCrunch: So, do you guys get assigned story ideas, or do you come to Behr or whomever with independent ideas?
* DilberTrek likes making Bad, BAD jokes ;D
<BradleyThompson> It happens all kinds of ways. Inquisition came by twisting an idea I took in a pitch beyond all recognition.
<BradleyThompson> Sons and Daughters came from something somebody said at lunch.
<DilberTrek> Figures. Did they puke right after they said it? ;)
<BradleyThompson> With the first war arc, we were given a choice of doing the Worf story or the fifth episode as our first bit on staff.
* DilberTrek likes Sons and Daughters deep down... in the pit of my stomach ;)
<BradleyThompson> Drink grapok sauce
<SteveKrutzler> LOL
<StevePerry> ha ha

<DilberTrek> LOL
<BradleyThompson> Incidentlally, the fifth episode was too much like the first, so Favor the BOld was born from the ashes

<SteveKrutzler> interesting.

<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From DC Al Fine: What is your favorite episode that you have done so far?

<BradleyThompson> Inquisition
<BradleyThompson> #
<StevePerry> Agreed. That one rocked

<SteveKrutzler> LuNaTiK asks: Have you or any other DS9 writer thought about writing how the Federation fell to the Dominion, and how Starfleet Officers fight to free themselves from the oppressive Dominion regime? Sort of like building a new Starfleet?
<BradleyThompson> I can't answer for what anyone else is thinking... and if we're planning that, I certainly wouldn't say so.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From LOYD: One Little Ship had the Alpha Jem Hadar speaking of a new order. Is this foreshadowing of things to come?
<BradleyThompson> The Alpha Jem'Hadar seem to have a few bugs in their programming.
<DilberTrek> Kinda like Windows 98.
<BradleyThompson> Yeah
<DilberTrek> Oh wait, he said a FEW bugs
<SteveKrutzler> I see someone watched NBC news tonight. :-)
<StevePerry> Both seek conquest too..
<BradleyThompson> Except Win95 doesn't try to kill you
<DilberTrek> <--Laughed when Win98 crashed on Gates ;D
<SteveKrutzler> LOL
<StevePerry> But the Justice Department can't stop the Jem Hadar
<SteveKrutzler> okie doke guys... the MS discussion is one in and of itself
<DilberTrek> LMAO Steve
<SteveKrutzler> From Earl: We already know that Dax will die in the season finale, but at a recent chat, Terry Farrell said that she wanted to come back for the last episode. Does this mean that the Dax that dies could be a changling? (please)
<BradleyThompson> That would be kiss and tell, wouldn't it.
<SteveKrutzler> depends on how ya look at it :-)
<StevePerry> I'm puckering up :)
<BradleyThompson> The bit about "we already know" seems to come from All The President's Men.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From Bexter12: Who is your favorite DS9 character to write for?
<BradleyThompson> I love them all. O'Brien and Bashir are two guys hanging out, and David and I are two guys hanging out, so that's fun. And Nana can make ANYTHING work.
<DilberTrek> Dax is my guess. Soooo many ways to kill her. ;D

<BradleyThompson> She's been shot a lot
<SteveKrutzler> hehe
<SteveKrutzler> From Centurian Bochra: First a compliment. I loved "Business as Usual". It's good to see Quark doing something besides slapstick once and awhile. Simple question. How's it feel being the new writer? Did you have to brush up on the show, or were you familiar with it already?

<BradleyThompson> Once we got the shot to pitch, we made it our business to get familiar FAST
<BradleyThompson> Thanks for the compliment. Business as Usual gave us a psychotic with nukes, which is always fun.

<SteveKrutzler> sure, can't go wrong with nukes!
<DilberTrek> Nukes ... nah, not going there ;>
<DilberTrek> (Nuke B5 ;>)

<SteveKrutzler> From Cainus: Are you going to write the follow up to "Inquisition"?

<BradleyThompson> Me?
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> hehe
<StevePerry> Or you and David...
<BradleyThompson> We know we made a promise. We try to keep our promises.

* DilberTrek wants to know who 'David' is. ;D
<SteveKrutzler> [David Weddle, Bradley's writing partner]
<BradleyThompson> Whether it's David or Rene or Ira or Hans or Ron -- it'll be a doozy
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> we look forward to it!
<SteveKrutzler> From Matthew: Do you think that season 7 seem a little too busy? Next year seems to be the year in which a whole lot is going to happen perhaps too much! DS9 has to wrap up a whole lot of old stories, Riker, Opaca, Dax,Dominion story, Section 31 and a whole lot more. Not only that but they might even start new stories like Ensign Ro. What the writters needed to do was start the compleeting stories this year. Do you think they should have done this?
<BradleyThompson> As Pilate said, What is written is written.
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> From JoseG: Without giving away any major spoilers (as I know writers loathe to do), can you tell us how this year's finale compares to some of DS9's previous ones?
<BradleyThompson> I haven't seen it yet, but every year we try to top the last

<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From Emony_Dax: Will the next host for the Dax symbiont be male or female?

<DilberTrek> Will most likely be Worf.
<BradleyThompson> If the symbiont survives, we'll see.
<DilberTrek> :)
<StevePerry> I'll take that as a "no comment"
<SteveKrutzler> ah, we'll see indeed (so suggests Ira anyway)
<BradleyThompson> He's a good source.
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> From Sue DS9: Can you give us any input to either "Out of Time" ? And will we see more or less of Colm in the next few eps leading up to his eps.???
<DilberTrek> "Out of Time"-- (n) what Ira says to Bradley when it's time to turn a script in
<BradleyThompson> "Out of Time" will feature Colm. And the title's been changed to "Time's Orphan." Has some nice stuff with Dax and Worf, too.

<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> ah, new title.
<SteveKrutzler> I'll note that for my listings. :-)
<SteveKrutzler> From porthos: would you like to make a cameo in an episode like RH Wolfe did?
<BradleyThompson> You heard it here first.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> :-)
<BradleyThompson> He did it as he left the show. I'd like to stick around a while.
<BradleyThompson> #
<StevePerry> he he :)
<SteveKrutzler> From Frued: What episode of yours do you think did not come off the way it should have, if any?

<BradleyThompson> Still thinking about that one.
<BradleyThompson> We're proud of everything we've been done.
<BradleyThompson> ugh -- horible English there.
<BradleyThompson> ugh -- horible English there.

<SteveKrutzler> that's why you're paid the big bucks!
<SteveKrutzler> :-)
<StevePerry> Don't worry, it happen to all of us
<BradleyThompson> For the typing rite?
<SteveKrutzler> hehe
<SteveKrutzler> so, there isn't a show that you'd like another crack at?

<DilberTrek> Quick Q: Is that Bradley typing, or a typist? ;)
<SteveKrutzler> It's Bradley
<BradleyThompson> From my fingers to your screen.

<DilberTrek> Kewl :)
<BradleyThompson> You should see the first drafts!
<DilberTrek> LOL!
<SteveKrutzler> feel sorry for Ira
<SteveKrutzler> har har
<SteveKrutzler> LuNaTiK asks: DS9 is a show of shades of grey, and I applaud yourself and the rest of the DS9 staff for exploring it successfully. Will we ever be able to see any officer who is "battle shocked" by the horrors of the war and the toll taken on Starfleet?

<BradleyThompson> That's why we have a script department. They make us look literate.
<SteveKrutzler> (Lolita tries :-)
<BradleyThompson> What's battle shock? Sisko was pretty shoecked with the casualty lists.
<BradleyThompson> Lolita's a doll.
<SteveKrutzler> so I hear

<DilberTrek> Lolita Fajita?
<DilberTrek> <--Cant spell her name.

<SteveKrutzler> I think Sisko in "Pale" was pretty shocked. Maybe the questioner means along the lines of mental instability, such as Dukat....
<StevePerry> FATJO!

<BradleyThompson> Everyone on the station is feeling the effects of the war. Ron has a show later this season that examines one aspect of this.
<BradleyThompson> #
<BradleyThompson> Fatjo

<SteveKrutzler> Would that be... "Sound of Her Voice?"
<BradleyThompson> Yes
<SteveKrutzler> From RobinSmith: Do you have any ideas as to what you want to see happen with Section 31?
<BradleyThompson> OK I'll go back to the shock thing.
<BradleyThompson> We've looked at that in Kira, and how it hardened her. We've seen Jake look into himself after finding out that the difference between a hero and a coward can be as small as time of day.
<BradleyThompson> Section 31 is a wonderful playpen. The questions we've come up with are often more interesting than the answers -- such as with Garak. Did you believe Sloan was who he said he was?
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> in the end, only marginally.
<BradleyThompson> Good.
<SteveKrutzler> From UncleWacky: Hello, Mr. Thompson, and thanks for being here...My question is, what is the most difficult process of breaking a script down into acts that fit within the confines prescribed
<SteveKrutzler> by Paramount syndication?
<BradleyThompson> As long as the commercial doesn't fall on the half-hour so you'll change that dial, we can break them for what suits the drama the best.

<BradleyThompson> A five minute act might raise some eyebrows though.

<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> re five minute act: Sacrifice of Angels :-)
<SteveKrutzler> (with the Prophets)
<SteveKrutzler> From rms: Is it true the actors contracts for the 7th season also allow them the option of doing a DS9 movie?

<BradleyThompson> I have no idea what their contracts say.#
<SteveKrutzler> From BrianMeloche: How long did it take for you and your partner to come up with stories to pitch? Speaking from my experience, some of my best stories have come within 24 hours of pitching, when the chips are down. What about you?
<BradleyThompson> David and I worked for quite a while on our pitches. Business as Usual came after a month of mulling over something that Ira said -- that he was looking for a show that tested the limits of Quark's greed
<BradleyThompson> Rules of Engagement came to me after reading a book about computer failures -- and David and I almost dumped the idea.
<BradleyThompson> How long does it take to get an idea? I have no idea how you measure that. Some of the one-line ideas that were really bad took a long time. Others that Ira didn't buy took a lot less time.
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> From Emony_Dax: Will we be seeing Alexander anytime soon or later in the future?
<BradleyThompson> No plans -- but we're going to try to cover all the bases next season.

<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From Weyoun: What did it feel like seeing your first DS9 episode produced? Did you feel like it had been a success?

<BradleyThompson> Yes!!!! Ron did a great job with the script, LeVar Burton with the directing and we were just tickled beyond belief.
<BradleyThompson> Then the Assignment hit the screen we were very happy that so much of our work remained -- and that Hans had topped us beautifully.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From JoseG: Bradley, I thought "Inquisition" was just superb. Was there any thought of actually making Bashir turn out to be a spy, or was this episode always really about the introduction of Section 31?
<BradleyThompson> We did talk about having Bashir turn out to be a spy, but it felt
<BradleyThompson> too much like we'd already been there with him when he
<BradleyThompson> was a Changeling.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From UncleWacky: Who are writers that inspire your scripting efforts?
<BradleyThompson> Joseph Heller, Joseph Conrad, William Manchester, Raymond Chandler ---
<BradleyThompson> Stephen Ambrose, Ambrose Bierce, Franz Khafka
<BradleyThompson> there are more.
<BradleyThompson> #
<StevePerry> Nice selection from different fields there...
<BradleyThompson> Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein
<BradleyThompson> Orson Scott Card
<SteveKrutzler> From Brian: Have you ever pitched to Voyager?
<BradleyThompson> Yes
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From Omega Supreme: What happened to the Tholians and the Breen? They haven't been mentioned since the beginning of the war! Maybe the Federation could have a status report on these races and what they are doing with the Dominion.
<BradleyThompson> They were looking for something weirder than we had in our samples box.
<BradleyThompson> Let me catch up here.
<StevePerry> Yeah, we got our signals crossed...
<SteveKrutzler> Vgr likes weird stunts :-)
<BradleyThompson> The Tholians signed a non-aggression pact with the Dominion. The Breen are hunkered down waiting to see who they can exploit
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> UncleWacky follows-up: Ever think of adapting Bierce's "Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge" into some type of DS9 teleplay?
<BradleyThompson> It's been done enough times already.

<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> How long have you and David been writing, and have you pitched to other shows?
<SteveKrutzler> (From LB4747)
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<BradleyThompson> David wrote a play in 1980 that he had the wisdom to cast me in.

<BradleyThompson> We traded screenplays before that in an acting class and liked each others work

<BradleyThompson> In 1985, I asked him if I could adapt the play to the screen and he said go ahead.

<BradleyThompson> I did a draft -- he liked it. He did a draft off that, I liked it. We didscovered we worked well together.
<BradleyThompson> Then he went off to write journalism for fifteen years and I went into educational film.

<BradleyThompson> He wrote the superb biography of Sam Peckinpah "If They Move, Kill 'Em" that Ira read, liked and invited him to come to the set.
<DilberTrek> Getting late...I'm off to bed, gang. :) have a good chat..thanks for coming Bradley :)

<BradleyThompson> Then--- David asked if he could pitch the show. And remembered me.
<BradleyThompson> G'nite D.
<BradleyThompson> #
<StevePerry> Later Dilber

<SteveKrutzler> Ah, the backstory of Weddle and Thompson revealed :-)
<BradleyThompson> Put Dilbert to sleep.

<SteveKrutzler> always good to know about your Trek writers.
<SteveKrutzler> hehe, he went downhill after his Sons & Daughters joke :-)
<SteveKrutzler> From Penguin: Out of curiousity why have the Ferengi been completely ignored during this war? When they were created in TNG they were designed to be an evil race but became good later. Wouldn't the Ferengi still have a large fleet tha SHOULD be mentioned somewhere. I think they should come in by surprise in some episode something that wouldn't be expected.

<BradleyThompson> I know how that feels
<SteveKrutzler> what? S&D jokes?
<BradleyThompson> OK The Ferengi. They're the ones that first contacted the Dominion, if I recall. This is all their fault.
<BradleyThompson> Quark did it!!!
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> figures
<SteveKrutzler> :-)
<SteveKrutzler> From MikeWhipple: Do you plan to write further episodes
<SteveKrutzler> on the rest of the cast like O'Brien,
<SteveKrutzler> Bashir, Nog, Jake?
<BradleyThompson> We're looking forward to doing our share next season.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From bexter12: Will we see any kind of civil war between the Gem H'Dar alphas and gammas?
<BradleyThompson> Not out of the realm of possibility, though I would think the Founders
<BradleyThompson> would work out the glitches in the Alphas before that could get serious.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From deep inside Cardassia Prime, Weyoun asks: I am going to lump a bunch of quesitons into one, and hope you can answer part of them. Does the season finale "Tears of the Prophets" have to do with a new orb coming out of the wormhole? and is this how Jadzia Dax will die?
<SteveKrutzler> Also it has been said that Weyoun, Damar, and Dukat will all be in the Finale, will they be responisble for the death of Jadzia? And i know i am harping on this issue but Nana Visitor has been quoted as saying that they will put dax in a
<SteveKrutzler> new host and that the new host will want to stay married to worf. Can you shed any light on these issues?
<SteveKrutzler> (long one)

<BradleyThompson> OK -- No new orbs.
<BradleyThompson> Our favorite bad guys (with apologies to Dukat's Women) will show up in the finale.

<BradleyThompson> And what Nana says is what Nana says. Maybe she's talking to someone I'm not.
<StevePerry> Pesky actors!
<BradleyThompson> Gotta love em.

<SteveKrutzler> From the infamous "Berserker" (or "Berserk-," as Ira calls him): Since Reckoning airs next week, I feel it is appropriate to ask this: DS9 use to be Bajor, Bajor, Bajor every week, and now it is war, war, war. Any way of finding a middle ground with the war AND Bajor?
<BradleyThompson> Not without the Ferengi
<BradleyThompson> We try to balance things with the tale the Series is telling. War tends to take center stage. Especially if they're shooting at you.
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> From UncleWacky: Can you give an example of a significant character revelation that you scripted or pitched that was rejected?

<BradleyThompson> Not really, because we'll go back and try again. The bad ones I'd just as soon not mention. But of note--
<BradleyThompson> Rene originally pitched the idea that became One Little Ship back in the TNG days. They
<SteveKrutzler> ...turned it into "Rascals?"
<BradleyThompson> didn't want it. He brought it up again at DS9 and Ira gave him and absolute NO WAY.
<BradleyThompson> He took it to Voyager
<BradleyThompson> Another no.
<SteveKrutzler> hehe, I can see Ira & Brannon telling Rene to burn it! :-)

<BradleyThompson> Then were in the right mood, found the right hook into it -- I think it was Hans that brought it back up.
<BradleyThompson> Rene thought we were putting him on when we told him it was on the table.
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> From Kookabura, King of the Bush Tree (don't ask me): What's your take on technobabble? One Little Ship was the first time Trek used "acretion disk." That just SOUNDS good, you know? Anyway, how do you feel about the tech talk?

<BradleyThompson> Accretion disk is the area that gets sucked into a black hole -- it's a real phenomenon.
<BradleyThompson> Technobabble is the incantation that allows us to believe the magic. And like all magic spells, must be used sparingly.
<BradleyThompson> Andre Bormanis spends a lot of time thinking about things like how to build a time machine and when he spins it out for us, it's a thing of beauty.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From Tony-O, with Miss Jan: I've heard talk of an "arc" or at least some pre-planning next season? Anything you can say on this?
<BradleyThompson> As someone mentioned earlier, we have a lot of loose ends to tie up.
<BradleyThompson> It will take some planning, and we're going to try and lay in the foundation as soon as the finale is in the can.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> LuNaTiK asks: Could Starfleet R&D (research and development), along with Klingon R&D and Romulan R&D form some kind of 24th century atom bomb that would dessimate the Dominion and parallel Hiroshima or Nagasaki?

<StevePerry> Sure!

<BradleyThompson> I don't think there will be a TECH fix to this war. We're going to have to slug it out and take our lumps.
<BradleyThompson> But, you never know.
<BradleyThompson> #

<SteveKrutzler> From Psi Phi: Where would you like to see DS9 go after its seventh season? An eighth season? Made-for-TV movies? A motion picture?
<BradleyThompson> I'l love to be wrking her this time next year, but I don't think that's going to happen. All things must pass
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From Negvar: I know that you don't want to show the Enterprise for various reasons, but will it ever be mentioned, just to give the big TNG fans a little treat?
<BradleyThompson> We mentioned her in Change of Heart
<BradleyThompson> #
<StevePerry> True..
<SteveKrutzler> ah
<SteveKrutzler> From Brian: What's next for you after Ds9?
<BradleyThompson> We have no idea. But Ira got us into this business and we like it. We'll be looking for work and trying to hustle the feature scripts we've accumulated.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> Bradley has time for two more questions...
<SteveKrutzler> From FAN: You don't appear to be credited for your staff position on ds9 (or at least you weren't last time I checked). Why is this and will this change next season?
<BradleyThompson> Staff writers are only credited on episoides they write. When they decided they liked us, they brought us on as Story Editors, which gets a cool title about third after the
<BradleyThompson> Executive producers at the end. Next year we get to be Executive Story Editor. My parents are thrilled.
<SteveKrutzler> I bet.

<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> From rms: Any chance of seeing a 'good' ominion in the Alternate universe? I would love to see Jeffrey Combs playing the hero for a change.
<BradleyThompson> Isn't he the hero?
<SteveKrutzler> hmm, interesting angle..
<BradleyThompson> Jeffrey's so versatile that he souldn't have to be Dominion to do another character.
<BradleyThompson> No plans for that though. And we routinely reject pitches for a second Dominion to bail us out of our troubles.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> I can agree with that! Jeff is spectacular (re: Far Beyond, and of course Weyoun)

<BradleyThompson> And Brunt, FCA
<SteveKrutzler> yeah
<SteveKrutzler> Ok
<SteveKrutzler> one more...
<SteveKrutzler> End the night on a humorous note...
<SteveKrutzler> From Berserker: Do your parents watch the show? Do you have to explain things to them, like the Dominion etc?

<BradleyThompson> My folks introduced me to Star Trek. I can remember that was the big night we all got to sit infront of the

<BradleyThompson> color TV and watch Kirk and Spock and McCoy...

<SteveKrutzler> mmm, color tv... mmmmm.. :-)
<BradleyThompson> but, I moved out, TNG came and went, and they'd never seen DS9 when I told them we'd sold a story. It think Ruels of Engagement was the first DS9 they saw.
<BradleyThompson> Yes. I had to explain stuff.
<BradleyThompson> I don't think they're following the arc of the show. My nephew however, loves it.
<BradleyThompson> I let him do the explaining.
<BradleyThompson> The weird thing was discovering how much of this world I actually live in now.
<BradleyThompson> #
<SteveKrutzler> I would like to thank Bradley Thompson for taking the time out of his Tuesday night schedule to participate in his FIRST ever Internet chat! We all appreciate it when those who make it happen week in and week out come to interact with the fans.
<SteveKrutzler> And I would also like to thank all the fans who came out tonight, and especially those who stuck it to the end!
<StevePerry> Thanks for coming dude! I hope The Reckoning rocks! The preview looks good
<SteveKrutzler> Bradley, you're second only to Ira himself, pushing the 2 hour mark right about.... now

<SteveKrutzler> We all wish you the best of luck with Season 7, and hope you'll stop by and chat again sometime next season!
<StevePerry> As I always say, thanks for hanging out with us nerds!
<BradleyThompson> Much oblidged. Glad to be of service. It's a kick to write something like this, and see such a wonderful response.

<BradleyThompson> I guess that says it all. Thanks for watching. It keeps me employed.
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