You must have got some pretty strange scripts over your time with the show.

We had a couple. One time we got a Next Generation script, and the basic concept of it was very bizarre.

The Enterprise crash-landed on a planet made of Velcro. The whole planet was made of Velcro, so therefore everybody was stuck to the planet, and stuck to the people they met on the planet.

We had another one where Troi ended up somehow on a planet of Amish people, and her job was to milk the cows everyday. It was different.

Then we got one which I don't think we ever read because it was at the very end of The Next Generation deadline. We all realised that the person was just trying to get Ron Moore's attention, because when we used to do this workshop, Ron used to tell everybody that he was a fan of Elvis Presley, and he had a velvet Elvis in his office. Well, we got a script in one day called Elvis meets the Enterprise. We all had a good laugh at that one.

That's why one in fifty is probably about how many [got made]. The truth is, there were a lot of really really good scripts, but you can't use them all. We always used to tell people not to get discouraged if their story wasn't bought, because it was very possible that it was similar to something we were already doing. Which at least meant that they were on the right track.