A Captain's Log — Season 1, Episode 12: A trek full of stories with Michael Jan Friedman

Episode synopsis

Bryan and Lili express their affinity of the latest released episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks among other Star Trek news and input by their animated android Rogg on the viewscreen. Bryan and Lili interview NY times best selling author Michael Jan Friedman, who has authored 80 books, more than 30+ books he authored are Star Trek books. Michael discusses his first book titled "Double Double", with the Gene Roddenberry stardate guidelines set forth coupled with the Paramount/Pocket books story behind the story. Bryan compliments Michael Jan Friedman and conveys how his first hardback book "Reunion" wet his appetite for the Star Trek franchise. An in-depth outline on how a proposed written episode story from Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ryan was pitched to Star Trek: Voyager producer Jeri Taylor is told which turned into a season two episode titled "Resistance". Michael shares his early days as a writer in New York and many other stories on fans favorite books of his and more.

About A Captain's Log

A Journalistic news source and interview TV Talk show beaming down the latest Star Trek news and views from all the ships crews. A Captain's Log guides viewers through this side of our galaxy's quadrant with a splash of knowledge in our top 10 lists and interviews. Looking through Roddenberry's Star Trek universe and beyond in this half hour scoop at warp power, host Bryan Kreutz, his co-host Lili Fox-Lim steer viewers into a knowledge-based trek of Klingon language all the way through full interviews with guests the fans want to hear from. Bryan and Lili are accompanied by an animated alter ego named Rogg to humor viewers with relevant Star Trek news and views. From a Starfleet ambassador's point of view, as Ambassador to the fan's, Bryan Kreutz hands over the conn to his animated android counterpart's perspective ranging from logical knowledge to unknowns in Star Trek's Past, present, and beyond.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Enemies of the Federation
• E2Best or weakest villains our top 5
• E3Sci-Fi writer/designer/game-tester - Karl Johanson
• E4Scientific illustrator - Jenny Parks
• E5Strongest and Weakest Klingon's our top 5
• E6Linguist - Marc Okrand
• E7Record Breaking Documentary Producer - David Zappone
• E8Record Breaking Documentary Producer - David Zappone (Part-2)
• E9All-American actor, musician, and author - Gary Graham
• E10Best or Weakest Androids our top 5
• E11J.G. Hertzler - From "A"cting to "Z"orro... and Everything Klingon
• E13Robert O'Reilly, Raising the Next Generation of Leaders