{"id":10255,"date":"2010-09-20T11:41:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T18:41:54","slug":"bormanis-getting-the-science-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/09\/bormanis-getting-the-science-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Bormanis: Getting The Science Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a science background in addition to writing experience helped <strong>Andre Bormanis<\/strong> land a job on <em>Star Trek: The Next Generatio<\/em>n.<\/p>\n<p>Bormanis was no stranger to <em>Star Trek<\/em>, having watched the original series when it was in syndication. &#8220;I grew up watching the original series, in reruns,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I probably watched every episode a dozen times when I was a kid. Even today, when I come across an episode on TV, I\u2019ll watch for a few minutes \u2013 or more. So I was very familiar with the original series and naturally started watching TNG when it premiered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Bormanis092010.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10256\" title=\"Bormanis092010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Bormanis092010.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>After taking screenwriting classes at Arizona State, and submitting a <em>Next Generation<\/em> spec script, Bormanis landed a Los Angeles agent. &#8220;&#8230;she was trying to get me in to pitch for the show when she found out they were looking for a new science consultant,&#8221; said Bormanis. &#8220;They wanted someone who had both a science background and some writing experience, as well as someone who was familiar with the Trek world. Turned out I was a pretty good fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Getting the science right was a priority for those involved in the show. &#8220;It was very important to the writers and producers to ensure that our fictional, far future Trek universe was scientifically credible,&#8221; said Bormanis. &#8220;The basics \u2013 the physical nature of stars, planets, and nebulae, the distances between stars in the Milky Way, the interstellar medium \u2013 all of those things were represented as accurately as possible, along with the proper terminology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But a show set in the future meant that the writers weren&#8217;t bound to just today&#8217;s science knowledge. &#8220;But of course our shows took place hundreds of years in the future, and new science will be discovered in the future,&#8221; said Bormanis. &#8220;So when it came to warp drive, exotic spatial phenomenon, parallel universes, and other &#8216;far-out&#8217; ideas, we were able to stretch the limits. But I always tried to make sure the characters used credible scientific language and reasoning when they encountered fictitious phenomena.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a science background in addition to writing experience helped Andre Bormanis land a job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[3390],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-bormanis"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}