This will be my 14th Shoreleave. Part of Shoreleave for us is a thing called Mystery Trekkie Theater. If you have ever seen Mystery Science Theater 3000, you have an inkling of what is done. In MST3K (as it is known), they take a terrible movie and have two \u201crobots\u201d and a human commenting on the film. You can see their shadowy outline at the bottom of the screen. It started on local cable and became a bit of a phenomenon. <\/p>\n
In our case it is Peter, Bob Greenberger, and Michael Jan Friedman who are the shadowy figures on the screen and various Star Trek and Star Trek related shows that get skewered. There is also an opening sketch which Peter writes every year and then manages to both direct and perform in.<\/p>\n
Now the only people who know which episode we are going to do are the three guys and their immediate families and we have been sworn to secrecy. <\/p>\n
So yesterday was another next step in the process. The first being getting the time coded tape so we can sync the jokes to the episode. Then we dub that off and get copies to Mike and Bob. Everyone watches the episode at least once and writes up their commentary on it. Then, closer to Shoreleave, Bob, Mike, and Peter get together at one of their houses and create the final script for the whole thing.<\/p>\n
This involved putting everyone\u2019s ideas in the pot and seeing which we think is funniest. The process takes a number of hours to do for just a one hour show. Depending on how silly we get, it can take a while to get pass even a few minutes of the episode. <\/p>\n
The joke writing skills of the three are a bit different and that works to their advantage. <\/p>\n
We do get off on tangents sometimes and have to bring ourselves back to the task at hand. There is also the traditional eating of the pizza for lunch with the usual catching up on things.<\/p>\n
And there is the laughter. We have a good time coming up with the script. I did laugh so hard that my sides are a bit ache this morning. It is nice to laugh like that occasionally.<\/p>\n
The next steps are taken at the convention and a week from tomorrow (Sunday), they will be presenting it to the convention for their amusement.<\/p>\n
Now I just have to get some stuff done for it and get some props together. And that will be most of today I think. We\u2019ll see how fast I can get this together.<\/p>\n
I am grateful that we do have fun putting this together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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