Warning!

This post has extremely high levels of nerd toxicity. That’s because it contains a link to Gene Roddenberry’s pitch letter for Star Trek. The letter even contains a “baffle ’em with BS” appeal to the Drake Equation, just to make the execs’ eyes glaze over before Roddenberry returns to saying. “so anyway, there’s lots of opportunities for jiggle and fisticuffs” and then proceeds to lay out some future story ideas. Fun stuff, especially when you see how an original concept wound up evolving into an actual episode. Also: Captain April? What’s up with that?