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David and Jeri were a huge influence on me as a showrunner because where many EPs can be shouters, they were gentle and supportive and went way the hell out of their way to teach me techniques and tricks that I'd never even *heard* of before, which I was able to do with others --
-- later. David also had a policy of non-arbitration, meaning: in TV if a showrunner rewrites a script s/he often puts their name on it, which divides the residuals between them. But David's feeling was that we're already getting a salary for our work, so why the hell are we --
-- taking money from some freelancer who needs that to survive between gigs? Like everybody else in town I'd arbitrated scripts as a story editor, but seeing David's selfless example prompted me to decide that I would never again arbitrate a TV script. As to which episode is --
-- my favorite, it's probably The Committee. I'd say Incident in Lot 7 except for concerns about some of the casting. To The Last also had some good stuff in it. Finally, we never really gave much thought to the new/old fan equation once we finished our research and --
-- got started writing. Our obligation was to tell good stories, and we went wherever those stories took us.
