User:Calgodot

Cal Godot grew up watching Star Trek: The Original Series (which they just called Star Trek in those days) on his grandmother's knee. His childhood included a thorough indoctrination into science fiction. Inclined to a life of books and imagination, he decided at the age of seven to become a writer. By the age of ten he was writing his own 60-page Star Trek scripts by hand, following the format of published episode scripts and using the information found in the series bible (a copy of which he'd purchased by mail). Of course, by this time it was 1972 and the series had long been cancelled. Star Trek: The Animated Series, while mostly entertaining, just didn't do it for him. For the next ten years, Cal watched daily reruns of the show on a channel with snowy reception until he went away to college and discovered cable television. And women. And beer. Several drinks later, he had a party when the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered. He watched religiously and once broke up with a girl because she thought Captain Picard was "snooty." A few years later he met Melinda Snodgrass at a poker party and pitched a couple of ideas to her. But she was not impressed. There was no way he was going to write for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, so as sad as Puff was when Jackie grew up, Cal forgot about Star Trek for a while and uploaded himself to the Internet. It wasn't until Captain Janeway 'drafted' him for the Star Trek: Voyager audience that his Trekker genome was re-activated and he began to dream once again of writing for a Star Trek series. Sadly, he was at that time drowning in Seattle, mired in the dot-com mania, and busy trying to make independent films. His brain was sodden with rain, Godard, and HTML. He eventually escaped and made his way to Los Angeles, where he regularly plays GURPS Prime Directive and awaits the sixth coming of the series with pitches, treatments, and scripts in hand.