My editor has been working on her own projects (as long as it's on her own time, I don't mind). The latest one she showed me piqued my interest. She's always trying to come up with money-making ideas, that feline.
She thinks the time is right for a radical reboot of Star Trek. When I told her that - fat chance - Paramount owns the rights, she spit up a fur ball and told me she has a distant cousin who is Chat du Maison in Bob Bakish's household (the President & CEO). They use a lot her programming tips, my editor tells me.
"Who do you think suggested Sly Stallone for Tulsa King? Only a feline intellect could come up with that!"
After I cleaned up the spray of matcha latte I just sipped (some of it even got my poor tabby between the whiskers), I looked over the sketch she had made:
"My cousin's coming over to form a game plan tomorrow morning. Of course, Mrs. Bakish is tagging along. By the way, you should pick up a bag of Royal Canin Persian Dry Cat Food."
"For Mrs. Bakish?"
"No, silly. You can serve her tea and biscuits like all your human guests. My cousin is one-quarter Persian and one-quarter Maine Coon. She simply can't abide the cat food you purchase for moi." She gave me the feline equivalent of a sneer.
Sometimes I wonder if there are better species to look for an editor...
Hugs,
Sammy
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Deep Space Nine Lives
It's doable -- it's eminently doable!
- iolanthe
Star Trek: The Next Litter
Maxine Purr-kins, my adorable editor, loves your suggestion and has added it to her list of proposed spin-offs. She's just about to leave for her meeting with Paramount in L.A. I'm driving her to the airport after lunch. She insisted that I accompany her as her comfort human.
Hugs,
Sammy
Encounter at Furpoint
"Mrowww! Mrowwww! Hiss!!" ('Dammit Q; that's enough! Turn us back!!')
"What's the matter, Jean Luc? Cat got your tongue? Oh, I'm so witty!"
Which could be one idea for the reboot of TNG, with Picard played by one of those weird hairless cats. But actually Star Trek actually has had a feline bridge officer, that anthro-catwoman Lieutenant M'Yoww or whatever her name was in the late-60's cartoon series. Along with the stilted low-budget animation she was one of the reasons I never gave the animated series a chance when it came out; As a "sophisticated" teenager I thought the character was just plain stupid, but being far less sophisticated and a bit of a Furry myself now I think she was the best thing about that series!
I was happy when the newer series LOWER DECKS (with their penchant for revisiting all the very dumbest ideas from 60+ years of Star Trek; the Pacleds, the thing in a box that drives you crazy if you look at it, that alien who only said things like "Jojo, his arms open over the water!") brought her species back with the good ship Cerritos's doctor, very much modeled on crotchety old Bones McCoy only it's catnip she has a taste for instead of Kentucky bourbon. And having the whole crew of a Starfleet vessel be cats is definitely something I'd watch these days, and probably love. "For I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..."
~hugs, Veronica
(It's uncanny how much the one in the blue shirt looks like Spock!)
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Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
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On the occasion of a Caitian
Lieutenant Shiboline M'Ress, communications officer serving on The USS Enterprise under Captain Kirk:
Hugs,
Sammy
I like the choice of which breeds represent who. :)
Kirk is a marmalade tabby American Shorthair; no more appropriate breed could be chosen. :) Chekhov is a Russian Blue. Uhura is a Havana Brown, close enough. Scotty is a Scottish Fold. Spock is some exotic Siamese-derived breed I don't recognize. Bones appears to be a Maine Coon Cat derived breed or cross. Sulu probably could be represented as a Japanese Bob Tail but isn't -- the one clear miss, I guess. :)
Good work!
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.