ROBERTA ROGOW:  “. . . Pat is in the process of creating a universe—”

WINSTON HOWLETT (to Pat):  “Stop now, while you can!”

PAT PAUL:  “Too late.  I’ve got thirteen of the stories down, so far . . .”

ROBERTA:  “Pat is working on a universe . . . roughly, that starts out TREK and goes off—”

PAT:  “Way off!”

ROBERTA:  “—into interesting connotations and permutations.”

JEAN LORRAH (to PAT):  “Drop the TREK and go pro!”

PAT:  “Well, actually, I’m doing that, too . . .”

JEAN:  “I’ve done that with a story just recently.  I sold a rewritten version of a TREK story.”

ROBERTA:  “Okay, let me just tell who everybody is, and then we’re going to go on right from there — This panel is called ‘Creating Universes’, about how to go about the building blocks of making a universe or a body of works.  Let me just tell who everybody is:  (Left to right) Pat Paul . . . Winston Howlett . . . Jean Lorrah . . . Take it from there . . .”  (Roberta makes her exit)

WINSTON:  “The Jean Lorrah?”

PAT:  “May I have your autograph?”

JEAN:  “The one and only, I am the only one in the U.S.A., and maybe the world.”

WINSTON:  “I doubt that.  Now . . .  (To audience) ‘Creating a Universe’ . . . I have one piece of advice for you:  DON’T DO IT!”  (Laughter) “You start out with something small, and it gets to become very large . . . All right, which one should we talk about?  NIGHT OF THE TWIN MOONS?”

JEAN:  “I think Winston and I created our universes the same way:  by falling in love with a character.  He fell in love with Uhura and I fell in love with Sarek . . .”

WINSTON:  “Perfectly logical.  Nothing wrong with either one of us.”

JEAN:  “Right.”

PAT:  “It would’ve been harder the other way around. . .”  (Laughter)

WINSTON:  “Shoot that man . . . Now, I started off with one story: