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Posted by: Don, January 8th, 2016, 7:37pm
The Big Bang Theory - The Roddenberry Effect by Doug & Kent Tolbert - Series, Comedy - A Star Trek series marathon has all four guys dreaming of commanding the Enterprise while Penny has a close encounter with the man himself. 46 pages - pdf, format 8)
Posted by: BrittanyL, January 9th, 2016, 1:54pm; Reply: 1
Hey, guys, I see this was written in 2014? And even so it is a little bit dated since you include Mrs. Wolowitz who died during that year and you also include Priya. And Penny working at The Cheesecake Factory again... She's been working for the pharmaceutical company for a few years now, I believe. I didn't read the entire thing, so can't really give you any big suggestions on story or anything, just that the whole thing feels like I'm watching an episode from 2010 thru 2013.

One other note, from looking at the script a bit more, it looks like you have pretty much the whole show playing out as a daydream. The daydreams work in this show all the time, but they always cut back to real life multiple times. I think you all might be overdoing it with the whole episode being the was it is now. Although it might be something they'd try right before the new Star Trek comes out. In that case, you'd definitely have to bring it more up to date and involve some more of the rest of the cast like Raj's girlfriend, Stuart, maybe Kripke could be the voice on the screen in place of Mrs. Wolowitz, etc...

On the positive side, the characters did sound like themselves so it definitely shows you guys know the show well enough to pull this off.

Hope this helps and good luck!
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