Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 116, the season finale of the first season of

Allander.

I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of the Allander series and I'm joined this time by my co-writer of this episode, Ira Stephen Bear.

Hello and it's exciting to both come to the end of what was a long season but it was also it's going to make me smile and I see our names together.

Yes.

On the writing credit.

That's been a while.

Yes, indeed.

Do we have a joint writing credit on the old show?

Well, we did stuff together, but I don't know if we...

Only with other people, like yesterday's Enterprise and the triple show but nothing like this. It's taken only 25

years to get to this moment. So yes my PTSD is going to come back while watching this being on the set and going through all of this

It's strange to be doing the podcast now. We are in Cumbernauld at the studios as we do this recording and we are pre-

We're about we're two days away from starting production on season two and now we're going back to the end of season one and

and during the podcast so it's a little out of space out of time for us.

Oh memories.

Yes. There you go. There is the time. There it is. Very nice. Wow. A long time coming.

All right. Well, structurally, this episode didn't change radically in from early story to final draft.

This opening sequence of the escape of the escape from what were in the first draft was

much longer and more extended it was easily twice as long played some more action

with centuries standing up on the ramparts watching the ceremony in the courtyard and we actually saw the highlenders outside and the cows and how they snuck in.

The whole sequence just kind of got collapsed for time and for production budget to a much more abbreviated

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