Did science have a high profile from Next Generation onwards? Michael Piller called it Piller filler. Were you writing more tech stuff in there?

If you look at the dialogue in the Next Generation there is probably a lot more technical language than we heard on the original series. There were a lot of interesting scientific phenomena that they encountered: quasars and black stars and they invented some terminology like class M planets for Earth-like planets and so forth. It was more a part of the language of the show because these are scientists and engineers exploring the galaxy and they are technically very literate people. They are on a ship that is state of the art high technology and they are out there to explore, to do research and to learn new things about the physics, astronomy and biology of our galaxy.

Certainly there are times when we probably used it a little excessively. I suspect on the new show we won�t be doing it quite as much because I think we want to try to get back to the more pure adventure and action format of the original series. The technical language will still be a part of the new series though, as these are technically literate, capable people dealing with technical problems and doing scientific research.