 In a TV series, that temptation is particularly strong, because, after all, it is a series.There are people out there who contribute the stories, create the world, and there's always the possibility that you can become one of them.In my case, because I came to Trek from the Blish novelizations, and was acutely conscious of how the written versions compared to the actual episodes, the idea of writing not screenplays but novels was very appealing.