About a year ago, I wrote a spec script for Star Trek: Lower Decks. While it was my entry into two Paramount writing competitions, I'd actually written it earlier.

It was also a trans story I wrote cause the trans community had really taken it on the chin, and animation would allow for a few possibilities live action couldn't do. I even did some research on it, asking my trans-man friends for advice on the flip-side of the trans coin. I think it's funny, and plays well with the characters, and would have made a good episode.

Not being WGA (I don't come close to qualifying for for membership) or represented, there was little to no chance of it ever being produced. And I'm glad it didn't because instead we got Ad Astra per Aspera, which basically takes on the whole "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy of the 1990s, as well as the plight of the LGBTQ community (and the many forms of discrimination out there still). It made the point better, and stronger and far more powerfully than my thirty minute comedy could have done it.

Thanks for that, folks at SNW. It didn't go unnoticed.