Yeah.

um he pens a bunch of pilots most of them don't get picked up you know but you know he owes his ideas his first producer credit comes in 1960 a summer replacement series at nbc called wrangler doesn't last long but hey it's a credit it got something it gets on the air his first big deal is a show called the lieutenant which ran for one season it's set on a marine base in california and a lot of the people he would meet on that show would later work for him on Star Trek.

But he was the creator of the show, the producer, he wrote a bunch of episodes, so it was very much his show.

And it's important to point out, one episode in particular, an episode called To Set It Right.

And this was episode 21 out of, I believe, eventually 29.

So, it's an episode addressing racism.

You know, you've got a young black, I believe a ensign maybe? I don't know military ranks, but a young black officer type and a slightly older officer type who is, by the way, a young Dennis Hopper.

Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, go on.

Uh, which is, she's basically just like a dragon lady kinda role.

Like, she's the, she's the evil lady with, um, uh, Judge Rico, uh, Armand Assante.

Whereas Diane Lane, again, [laughs] coincidental, Diane Lane is the good lady who's with Stallone.

And the other movie, which again, is probably even more obscure than this movie, is called Wild Side.

I believe it was premiered on HBO, but it's only notable for me because it has an exquisite extended lesbian sex scene between Joan Chen and Anne Heche.

And look, I understand-

Mm-hmm