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DJW 🎨 🔞 @djwaglmuffin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is actually a damn good comic. @davidagoodman.bsky.social and @kashinorei.bsky.social did an amazing job putting this together. The characters are damn near 1:1 to their actors. 10/10 do recommend.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I don’t think Kevin changed the channel.

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Derek Tyler Attico @dattico.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If you’ve enjoyed the #StarTrek #autobiography #books and the #writers who brought the lives of these Captains to the page join us tonight! @soulofthestory.bsky.social at 9:30 PM EST I sit down with fellow #authors @unamccormack.bsky.social and @davidagoodman.bsky.social youtu.be/iP6XPEtNh44?...

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Derek Tyler Attico @dattico.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Hey folks, September 3 at 9:30pm I sit down with fellow #StarTrek Autobiography Authors, the incredible @unamccormack.bsky.social and @davidagoodman.bsky.social, for a @soulofthestory.bsky.social Roundtable session. I hope you’ll join us us! #podcast #storytelling #writing youtu.be/iP6XPEtNh44?...

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I built an old #startrek plastic model and added a customized decal and had the best time.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I also have a hot take on “Spy Who Loved Me.” (I hate it.)

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This was a fun conversation with some lively disagreements!

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I never met him but was a fan. I read an interview once where he jokingly said he composed these lyrics to the theme from “The X-Files”: “The X-Files is a show… with music by Mark Snow…” RIP variety.com/2025/artisan...

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Mark Snow, ‘X-Files,’ ‘Ghost Whisperer,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ Composer, Dies at 78

Mark Snow, the veteran television composer who turned "The X-Files" theme into an unlikely chart hit in the 1990s has died. He was 78.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Please read I’m very proud of this!

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

On second thought, should probably be GrandINFLUENCER.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

And building on that, what it it’s PB&J GrandMA? Think about that.

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Derek Tyler Attico @dattico.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I just had a fantastic discussion with fellow #StarTrek #autobiography authors @unamccormack.bsky.social and @davidagoodman.bsky.social And the @trektalks.net benefit for @hollywoodfoodco.bsky.social continues please check out the link and if you can give to such a worthy cause!!🖖🏾💜🖖🏾

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A privilege to take part in such a wonderful panel with fellow (auto)biographers @dattico.bsky.social and @davidagoodman.bsky.social: please keep the donations coming!

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Really looking forward to this conversation! Join us!

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I felt like Insurrection opened a can of worms with the romance with Anij and didn’t know how integrate it with the story I was telling with Picard and Beverly but looking back I probably should’ve tried harder to integrate it.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

You got a lot but missed a few - all the people Picard is running against in the marathon are named after Enterprise writers. - later Picard, Walker Keel and Jack Crusher are in a bar on Sigma Iotia II which is from “A Piece of the Action”, and the natives are dressed like they’re in starfleet.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Thanks I was very lucky to work there.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Thanks I’m very proud of that book.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I think one of the difficulties of Star Trek as a viewer is that in the show we see no lasting effects from this torture, and victims of torture live with it their whole lives, and I tried to correct that a little.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yeah this was a no brainer. The Joni Mitchell song I put in because I felt TNG always went a little too old with its music references. #TrekBookClub

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I actually was required by Paramount to put a Discovery reference in here, this was written before Discovery came out, so I actually didn’t understand the reference.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I hated how the Ferenghi were portrayed in first season TNG. I think DS9 saved them.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yeah as an Enterprise writer I wanted to have some character from the show in the book, but I agree that it’s a little bit of a stretch. I also did a version of this story in one of my “Orville” comics.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yeah I enjoyed that too that the brat grows up, which is also a theme of a lot of characters in trek, that they used to be irresponsible or self centered but they change and grow.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yeah, I felt trapped by what was said in Measure of a Man, which establishes her attitude about the court martial. But glad you liked it.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yeah I thought the way he talked about it in “The Battle” he seemed modest about it.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I think the other piece of this that was important to me as a writer was that bit of backstory that was introduced in “Attached” where we find out Picard was in love with Beverly, so that his responsibility for Jack’s death is all the more difficult.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I wanted to make Jack a lot like Wesley, very smart and open. I felt that his character really hadn’t been explored that way.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

In the ST-TNG writers directors guide it said Picard had been on the stargazer for 20 years, and that went against the idea of a successful officer moving up the ranks, so this chief of staff interlude was a way to say he’s moving up but decides he prefers his old ship and being a captain.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Definitely - there was a way in which Whoopi Goldberg’s performance gave us the impression she didn’t quite belong - like in “Yesterday’s Enterprise” she kind of exists outside of everything.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It was definitely a tricky thing to figure out how they met. That one line in “Best Of Both Worlds” where she asks Riker if he knew how they met put a lot of pressure on this.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Also his first name is “Humphrey” as in Humphrey Bogart who played Captain Queeg in “The Caine Mutiny.”

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is kind of what I was thinking when I wrote it, that there are regulations but the captain has let things lapse. This section was inspired in part by “The Caine Mutiny”, the first part of that movie and book the young officer comes aboard and finds a lax ship. #TrekBookClub

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

What doesn’t sit right? That there were kids running amok on the ship? I guess I understand that, although even in first season TNG Riker has to chase kids out of the conference room. #TrekBookClub

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yeah I wanted to portray them as being over-indulged so that Picard’s reservations on the Enterprise were justified. But one of Mazzara’s boys is redeemed later… #TrekBookClub

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yes, that was exactly what I was going for. Also the name “Laughton” is a reference to Charles Laughton who played Captain Bligh in the original “Mutiny on the Bounty.”

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The other Easter egg from Tapestry is taking over the bridge of the stargazer.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thanks. Part of it was just off of Q mentioning in Tapestry that Picard saved the ambassador on Milika III.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yes for those reasons he focused on the marathon as a way to separate himself out from the crowd.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yeah that ending of the series inspired a lot of the book.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yes I think unless you’re in an environment where talking about feelings is encouraged you don’t. #TrekBookClun

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yeah that was part of my intention that he felt isolated as a young man and then grew to appreciate the family he discovered through his work. #TrekBookClub.

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Yes this is what I was trying to do. I was trying to figure out given what we knew about Picard from Tapestry what would make him the captain we later knew he’d become. I thought he’d need to learn to depend on people. #TrekBookClub

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David A. Goodman @davidagoodman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thank you! I want to like Q, but I don’t want to forget that he’s responsible for a lot of deaths of Enterprise crew.

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