Our first question tonight comes from Kelly... Could you tell us a bit about your background, and how you came to work on Farscape?

I grew up (though some would debate that) in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, US of A, then headed west to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California's film school (slightly after George Lucas).

My first writing gig came a mere eight years after graduation: a freelance script for a short-lived television show called Shadow Chasers (starring Trevor Eve) with then-writing-partner Hans Beimler (hi, Hans!). We then went on to a staff writing job on the last season of Fame and eventually landed on Star Trek: The Next Generation, where we met then-freelancer David Kemper (hi, DK!).

Hans and I also created and ran an X Files-ish show called Beyond Reality, ran the series version of TekWar, and even ventured into Brit SF with a freelance episode of Space Precinct.

After Hans and I went solo (Hans Solo? Sorry), he went off to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and I pitched a SF series to the Jim Henson Company. They didn't buy it because they already had one in the works - some weird-sounding thing called Space Chase with creator Rockne S. O'Bannon (hi, Rock!) and (of all people) David Kemper. I then pitched and sold a freelance script, Throne For a Loss, and the rest is, as they say, the rest.