In the Pale Moonlight: Author's Note or What Would Gene Roddenberry Do?
What was your inspiration for this story?
Most of my fellow females in my family love a good romance movie. I get sick thinking about them but I actually do get dragged to some and have to watch them. One of their favorites is Disney's Ella Enchanted. I decided to crawl out on a limb and see if I could do anything with it. That caused a problem as I didn't want to be too girly.
Your solution?
I took one element of the story, Ella having to kill Char, and started to working with that. I encountered another problem, no real plot.
Back to the drawing board?
You know it! I pondered until I remembered!
Remembered?
My favorite episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 – In the Pale Moonlight. I can't tell you anything about the episode because of spoilers.
Will this be romantic?
I'll try not to make it so but if it does, don't blame Tris, blame Cassandra, her muse.
Will anybody die?
Ah… SPOILERS!
Moving on, why that episode?
I chose that episode for its amazing portrayal of the human mind, especially the guilt-ridden one.
Seriously, will anybody die?
Spoilers!
Is that a yes?
Maybe…..
