David Goodman

Writers Guild Strike

David A. Goodman, the former president of the Writers Guild of America currently leading the negotiations and strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), takes a break from the picket lines to explain why this existential fight is so important. David reveals what’s at stake, avoids heroic hyperbole; declines to craft narratives; confides who has the real power in Hollywood; explains the gutting of the American middle-class; possesses an admirable reluctance to participate in childish banter; and expresses gratitude for the extraordinary support the WGA is getting from its sister Hollywood unions. (Length 20:18)

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Episode 566. Captain Picard’s Autobiography

David A. Goodman (author of Federation: The First 150 Years and The Autobiography of James T. Kirk) returns to talk about his new book The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard, the definitive chronicle of Starfleet’s most inspirational captain. David discusses how his television writing helps address the challenges of writing Star Trek fiction, and gives a Read more…

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Episode 563. Orville Family Guy

David Goodman is the executive producer of the The Orville, the futuristic sci-fi comedy adventure created by (and starring) Seth MacFarlane. David discusses his 30 year (so far) career in television, writing on everything from the Golden Girls to Star Trek: Enterprise; his long collaboration with MacFarlane, dating back to Read more…

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Episode 458. Captain Kirk’s Autobiography

”Writer David Goodman (Enterprise, Futurama, Family Guy, Federation: The First 150 Years) discusses his fantastic new book The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, which he “edited” from the actual papers of Starfleet’s greatest captain. Featuring much dot-connecting and blank-filling, writing in voices, carrying on traditions and storylines established fifty years ago, woefully Read more…

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Episode 430. Remembering Leonard Nimoy

”We remember Leonard Nimoy this week (who passed away February 27, 2015) with the man who literally wrote the history of the Federation, David A. Goodman. In addition to writing on Star Trek: Enterprise, David worked with Nimoy on the famous episode of Futurama he wrote called “Where No Fan Has Gone Read more…

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Episode 336. History of ‘Federation’

”Greetings from the future! Historian (and TV writer) David A. Goodman has written Federation: The First 150 Years, the history of the United Federation of Planets, which was assembled as a special exhibit on Memory Alpha (and is available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk). David talks about how he created the Read more…

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