André Bormanis as Self

Episodes 2

Bryan and Lili tease there's a mid-season Star Trek: Discovery climax. The segment "Tractor Beam me!" brings Joanna Ferbrache back on the viewscreen to reveal Geordi LaForge's visor provided him with the gift of sight and the science behind this Trek technology at its pinnacle. Bryan boisterously states, "This is going to be an intellectually charged interview with André Bormanis". Star Trek Science Consultant, writer, and producer André Bormanis is interviewed in this part one of two discussions. The conversation with André continues with him talking about hitting it off over the phone with Jeri Taylor, a supervising producer on TNG at the time, after interviewing Andrea Jeri invited him to go out to L.A. to officially meet Michael Pillar, Brannon Braga, Ira Steven Bear, and Ronald D. Moore. Andre talks about how Star Trek: Voyager was being created while Star Trek: The Next Generation was winding down plus he discusses having a smaller boutique Lit agency get him into Trek.

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A conclusion to the interview with Star Trek Science Consultant, writer, and producer André Bormanis. Bryan and Lili ask André about the third overall Star Trek: Voyager episode titled "Parallax" where the story needed a particle beam, and André would look at what it does in the story and prescribe the right kind of particle beam in the case of the "cracked" event horizon. André takes the interview through the step-by-step process on how he approaches a science level into episodes even where he's done the Teleplay and science pieces. André talks about his very first episode he wrote completely on his own in a script for Star Trek: Voyager titled "Waking Moments" plus Kenneth Biller's involvement. A discussion around favorite moments for André Bormanis surrounding the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Desert Crossing" working on this with Brannon Braga is discussed. André expresses that the DS9 sets were amazing and seeing the Voyager and Enterprise sets under construction.

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