Yes, SithBorg is a character from my TV script that I was testing out here in the pages of SoulCast.  And Live from New York - It's Saturday Night Live's Tracy Morgan

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The Bottom Line: This is a blog about mOOn platOOn, by Steve Games. Working in Hollywood but outside the bounds of studio controls, it’s a dream to create a movie – a TV series – a video game, books, interactive website and toys, and this is the beginning.

The Sith, The Borg & Tracy Morgan: Two DUI's & Acerbic Wiseguy

For the 2nd time in a month, I ran into Tracy Morgan, star of 30 Rock on NBC and formerly of Saturday Night Live, on Friday as he was coming out of the ipod store.

He did not look happy. I figured I knew why. I’d seen something in the news about him getting fitted for an alcohol ankle bracelet. Yep, that one ankle seemed bigger than the other one. And he was walking slow, real slow…ambling, you might say.

So naturally I intruded.

“Mr. Morgan…?”

He had his iphone to his ear but was kind enough to quietly acknowledge me. “Yeah…”

“ Hi there  – say, can I get a picture with you?” I asked, fumbling with my cell phone camera.

“Sure,” he responded agreeably.

He quietly turned, stood beside me and put his hand on my shoulder. He leaned in and smiled as I held out the camera and snapped.

“Did it turn out?”

I checked. Damn, no. I screwed up. "I...don't think so."

The nice man was standing there waiting for me to pose again with him, but instead for some stupid reason I decided it was time to dork things up.

"How's everything goin' on 30 Rock? Man we love that show. Nice work..."

Now Tracy never said this, or even gave it away in his expression, but in his mind the dork-ometer went off. I imagine he was thinking (at the speed of thought, instantly) "Man I do not have time to stand around with this dork tryin' to shove his nose up my celebrity ass. Sayonara."

Instead he just turned away and kept going with a quiet "It's goin' good, you take care man."

Well, "good" is relative I suppose. This is from the Miami Herald...

30 Rock star Tracy Morgan has been ordered to wear an anti-alcohol bracelet for another 80 days after admitting violating probation by drinking booze, reports IMDB.com. The former Saturday Night Live cast member was handed the punishment during a progress report in court in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was first fitted with the SCRAM device on May 25 after pleading guilty to driving under the influence in New York last year, which violated his probation from a previous DUI arrest in Los Angeles.

Morgan has one final chance to stay drink-free -- if he violates probation once more, he faces a 30-day sentence in Los Angeles County Jail. The punishment came just two days after 30 Rock -- also starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin -- scooped Best Comedy Series at the Emmy Awards.

So Tracy, thanks for taking a moment off the phone with your lawyers to pose with a fan. You're funny, talented and you can have it all. Take a deep breath, ride out the storm and live long. Next time I see you we gonna get a drink and...um...I mean...

Ah well, at least nobody's dead - yet.

It Came From Out Of The Script

In the TV series mOOn platOOn, SithBorg is originally from the northwest Soviet Union, but defected to the West in the 60s during the Cold War. Bitter from his harsh indoctrination to the other side, he is glad that he now lives and works in relative isolation at Moonbase Portland. It’s 1984. He must conduct a dangerous experiment away from the main camp. He hardly speaks to anyone, but when goaded by a pesky platOOner, SithBorg cuts loose with a rant that may sound familiar to longtime SoulCast readers…

EXT. Lunar surface. The lunar rover Betsy is rolling across a crater floor carrying SithBorg and his experiment, driven by Pepper.

Pepper

If you aren’t gonna talk to me, I’m turning the music back on…!

SithBorg

What’s the point in talking with any of you? You slide behind the wheel and immediately reach for the audio controls. Lest a troubling original thought pop into your unsuspecting ID, you drown out any chance for introspection with the latest drugged-out jam session / “song” by Bootie & The Beats. Emotional manipulation and unexamined sentimentality allow you to wallow in repetitive conjectures over the “turns” your shallow existence has “taken.” Psychopathic tendencies are encouraged with passages proclaiming the worthlessness of life without “you,” the pathological need for “you,” the bleeding, sweating, yearning fearful thought of having to bear existence without the validation of an idealized romantic object packaged in the convenient form of “you.” How you swelter now, and suffer in this heat of your summer innocence. As you pretend that nothing malicious is afoot, you condition the air beneath your salty lip. You bleat and bloviate about inconsequential sidebars in hopes of drawing the attention that will reassure you that you are not simply a lame dream from which the rest of the world will soon awaken.You rant authoritatively on treadmill topics that have minor significance to anyone outside of your particular social niche, and wonder why no one really listens to your unimaginative, run-of-the-mill blather. This, the fruit of the tree of slavery and individual kingdoms, the democratic dichotomy of modern times.

Pepper

Wow. That was one hell of an ass-ripping.

If I Were Casting Now

The part of Vladimir SithBorg, thermo luminescence specialist, defector from the Soviet Union: Vincent Spano (to reference go to www.imdb.com the Internet Movie Data Base.)

mOOn platOOn Byproducts

[Fantasy Edition] A byproduct suggestion from SithBorg, previously mentioned to the SoulCast regulars. SithBorg was “hinting” that the “popular” bloggers should give it a rest, in the usual acerbic demeanor:

Alas, if only the byproducts of excessive alcohol consumption and nicotine absorption could be sold, the Gross National Product would increase a million fold and SoulCast’s popular clique could all give up the 9-to-5 façade, able at last to devote that final 24th hour of the day to their favorite activity – spewing uncooked opinions, getting hooked up and whining about spouses to internet chumnumbies. At least then something coming out of them would be valuable.

Quite the charmer, huh?

mOOn platOOn Issues

INSIDER’S CHAT… Nice meeting you all in real time online. Our core crew includes a fascinating mix of folks from all over the place. Issues included the screenplay (almost all of you had read it) for the mOOn platOOn movie and suggestions regarding scenes …gossip from Hollywood …special effects that will be cool …religions of the characters …origins of the idea …and some of you suggesting that it’s a true story disguised as fiction.

Come now. Would a Republican administration let us get away with that? (If I should suddenly disappear, alert PETA!)

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