I actually came in to pitch an idea to Henson way back when I pitched to Marcie Ross. I had a space series in the back of my head that I was flouting around town and Marcie said, "Well, we love your idea, it's really good except we've got this other space show that's been in limbo for a couple of years and we're thinking it just might come out of limbo soon. It's called Space Chase." I nodded and said "Okay, fine, when it goes please think about me," and lo and behold it actually happened and they did think about me and I came in.

I'd known David Kemper from Star Trek. He'd come in and done a freelance script on Star Trek when I was on The Next Generation, so he remembered me, but in spite of that he brought me in. I met Rockne O'Bannon and pitched some ideas to them and wrote one of them into a script called Throne For A Loss.

They must have liked it because the next thing I knew I woke up in Australia and I was on the show. They shanghai-ed me.