{"id":266474,"date":"2013-07-23T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/23\/in-novels-stream-of-consciousness-goes-inside-the\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T18:17:09","slug":"in-novels-stream-of-consciousness-goes-inside-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/23\/in-novels-stream-of-consciousness-goes-inside-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In novels, stream of consciousness goes inside the hero\u2019s head and you can read what he\u2019s thinking. You don\u2019t have that in television, and so I thought that if I took a perfect person and divided him into three parts, I could have the administrative, courageous part that would be the Captain; the logical part who is the Science Officer and the humanistic part with the Doctor. Then when something comes up, the Captain could say, \u2018I don\u2019t know, fellas. We must do it,\u2019 and Spock would say \u2018However, the logical thing is\u2026\u2019 and the doctor would say, \u2018Yes, but the humanity of it,\u2019 and I could have them talking about it without having stream of consciousness, and it worked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Gene Roddenberry (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/leighway.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">leighway<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In novels, stream of consciousness goes inside the hero\u2019s head and you can read what he\u2019s thinking. You don\u2019t have that in television, and so I thought that if I took a perfect person and divided him into three parts, I could have the administrative, courageous part that would be the Captain; the logical part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/07\/23\/in-novels-stream-of-consciousness-goes-inside-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11270,19,24309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}