How rewarding is it to write for a science fiction series?

I like science fiction because it allows you to explore ideas that you couldn't normally explore on, say, a police show or a hospital show or something like that.

I like action, and Star Trek certainly allows for a lot of interesting, high concept action. Science fiction's a pretty good genre to work in.

I've always thought of Star Trek as an anthology show. We can do any genre and we have over the years done everything from a Western to Medieval times to time travel to romance, we've done every genre of drama, because science fiction allows you to do that, between the holodeck and time travel you can virtually do anything. So, it's been creatively rewarding.

I also do long to write more contemporary characters, because Star Trek is a period piece that just happens to take place in the future.

With Enterprise, we're trying to get more contemporary, we're placing the show closer to today. So, hopefully, we're going to create characters that are a little bit more loose and more fun to write.