
As a result of the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, the studio was looking for more scripts of this type and so it was accepted. Snodgrass submitted a spec script to Paramount Television for "The Measure of a Man" for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

She also acted as a co-writer for the Wild Cards anthology and subsequent books, alongside George R.R.
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She wrote an outline of a Star Trek: The Original Series novel for Pocket Books, which was purchased and became The Tears of the Singers. She had previously been an attorney at a law practice, but she quit the position, and a friend suggested that she become a writer. The episode was the television debut for writer Melinda M. Are you prepared to condemn him and all who come after him to servitude and slavery? Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. It could significantly redefine the boundaries of personal liberty and freedom, expanding them for some, savagely curtailing them for others. It will reach far beyond this courtroom and this one android. It will reveal the kind of a people we are, what he is destined to be. And the decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this creation of our genius. Now, sooner or later, this man or others like him will succeed in replicating Commander Data. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time. Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. Do you? (to Riker) Do you? (to Phillipa) Do you? Well, that's the question you have to answer. Consciousness in even the smallest degree. "You see, he's met two of your three criteria for sentience, so what if he meets the third.
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