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AVC: A lot of science-fiction franchises are expanding their story via other media, like The Matrix with The Animatrix, or Buffy continuing from a movie to a TV show to a comic book. What do you think of that?

RM: I think it’s great. I think that’s a tremendous outlet for being able to tell stories in that universe. I’m always tempted in the back of my mind to continue to write things in the Star Trek universe, in the novels or the comics, just because I don’t get to play in that universe and I don’t get to hang out with those characters any more. You spend hours upon hours of your life, day after day sitting in writers’ rooms, talking about these people and these situations, and it becomes very real to you. They’re friends of yours, in a lot of ways. I can go see Michael Dorn or I can run into Patrick Stewart or whatever every once in a while, but I don’t get to hang out with Captain Picard or Worf any more. So the idea that maybe you could capture that again a little bit, and write more and create more stories in whatever form, I think is a great thing, and certainly for Joss, it must be a tremendous boon. He must really enjoy that.

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