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Ryan Thomas Riddle

Make it the future, but Filipino, part one

When I was a toddler, my Mom spoke to me in Tagalog and taught me a Filipino nursery rhyme, "Sampung mga Daliri." But then I went to elementary school and she stopped. Like many First-Gen Filipino Americas, our parents feared we wouldn't assimilate if we spoke

A nerd, punk kid from Paradise Hills in San Diego

When I told Mom I was going to become a writer, you'd think I'd taken a knife to her heart. She let out a screech of utter pain, like the birds in Werner Herzog's quote in BURDEN OF DREAMS.

Welcome to DISTANT WORLDS, a work-in-progress...

I've made no secret of my goal to staff on a STAR TREK show, but these days the odds of that happening are... well, slimmer than getting a Royal Fizzbin. Streaming TV is contracting. The Skydance-Paramount Merger in limbo. Paramount ending the voyages of four STAR TREK series.