JMS on GEnie / December 6, 1995

[b5jms-owner at cs.columbia.edu]

Forwarded message to B5JMS list.
Originally From: dstrauss at netcom.com (David Strauss)

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SFRT II RoundTable
Category 18,  Topic 1
Message 787       Tue Dec 05, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 21:37 EST
 
     Garibaldi's rank is that of chief warrant officer.

                                                              jms
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SFRT II RoundTable
Category 18,  Topic 1
Message 799       Wed Dec 06, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:26 EST
 
     From what I've heard in email, and seen in public forums, the show tends
to have an impact on those already *in* the space program, rather than
inspiring people *toward* the space program.  The greatest impact, as near as
I can determine, are in nominally "softer" areas such as the areas touching on
introspection and philosophy and sociology.  I get tons of mail from ministers
and rabbis drawing on themes of the show for their sermons; students writing
masters' theses on the survival of culture into the future, from teachers and
others.  

      For my money, Star Trek pointed up at the stars; now that we've
established that concept, B5 tries, I think, to point to the future, and more
importantly, it points to our selves, who we are, and who we should be, when
the future arrives.

                                                                     jms
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SFRT II RoundTable
Category 18,  Topic 2
Message 738       Wed Dec 06, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:28 EST
 
     Sharon: we've been approached by some licensing folks about including
means of getting non-fan club stuff (mailing addresses or what have you), and
for the reasons you cite, the fact that sometimes it's kind hard to FIND this
stuff, it makes sense on one level...I'm just wondering if that would put too
commercial a spin on it.

     Finding the right thing to do never gets easier.

                                                                    jms
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SFRT II RoundTable
Category 18,  Topic 26
Message 563       Wed Dec 06, 1995
STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 03:32 EST
 
      The issue was referring to any part of an actor's body.  In the Claudia
situation, she had a line about how talking to someone was like "talking to
her own right foot."  Upbraided for this, she followed with "I have a sublime
and perfect relationship with my right foot."  (Don't recall if this made it
into the final cut or not.)

     Came time to shoot that episode...and she broke her right foot, and that
then had to be worked into the script.  In Jerry's case, a line calls for an
actor to say "What, you've got a broken arm or something?" in answer to a
request from Garibaldi...and just as we began shooting that selfsame episode,
Jerry broke his arm. 

     I've been asked NOT to give anyone the line, "I need this like a hole in
the head."

                                                                   jms
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