This episode, Jeff and Greg are tackling the (in)famous 'Roddenberry Rules' - the show rules creator Gene Roddenberry instituted and famously held to strictly. Though many trek fans seems to know of these rules, most of it's through heresy and legend, so we attempt to sift through it all.
SHOW NOTES
documents mentioned:
3 Must haves:
1. Action/Adventure/Drama - Entertainment
2. Involve the ship & crew
3. Capture the audience attention/relate to todays challenges
Believability!
13 Must Nots:
1. Stories that do not feature our main cast
2. No mysterious psychic powers
3. Not "galaxy's policemen"
4. not stories about "old" characters
5. not writing fantasy - based on a scientific fact/theory
6. no swords & sorcery
7. treat space travel like minor thing - distance traveled a thing
8. Not melodrama - believable people
9. No stories about warfare w/Klingons or Romulans and no Vulcan stories - new alien species
10. Prime Directive - not space meddlers
11. Specific characters, not whole civilizations
12. No mad scientist/science as bad guys
13. no characters intentionally doing something stupid, or bad tech
Music by Charles Michelfrom Pixabay
