at San Diego Comic Con tomorrowd
they're going to be having a panel and
they're also going to have, I believe,
a screening at the Marriott as .
That's going to be tomorrow
as well on Saturday.
Thank you for joining us today.
We appreciate you guys being with us.
I'm going to introduce you.
Left to right, we have Ethan McDowell.
You are one of the actors,
Mark Scott, is it Zicri, Zicri,
Zicri and Andrea Lanae.
Thank you for being here with us today.
I want to get into this real qu.
It's First off,
can you give viewers,
people out there,
potential viewers quick synopsi,
what is Space Command?
So Space Command is a hopeful
vision in the future and it's
a sci-fi series that launches,
it deals with a bunch of different families
and their what their choices ma.
The choices that they make in te
world and how it ripples througt
the generations from. Yes.
And Mark, you're the mind behind this year
on a good day. Yes. Exactly. So this,
you just said it's a whole visi.
Well, yeah, because why is it
important to have hopeful scifi?
Super important. Exactly.
And so I grew up with Star Trekd
Twilights on The Outer Limits and all,
and they all had basically the same message,
saying we can reach across
boundaries and barriers,
we can build a future worth living in.
And and those were the writers
who were also writing the sciene
fiction novels that I I was rea.
And so I went on the Star Trek
set when I was 10 years old,
saw the last episode,
the original show that was ever shot.
And I grew up wanting to be a writer,
producer in TV.
And so I had a very successful career
working for all the studios and networks.
But I noticed,
as you were saying, Carlo,
that that there's so many dystoc
shows and in these times of divn
and divisiveness and polarizati.
I thought was super important to say to
people there's an there's another way.
The future doesn't have to be disaster.
It doesn't have to be there.
It has challenges.
But people forget that the origl
Star Trek was made during the Vietnam
War and during the riots in the
streets and there and Roddenbery
still had the the optimism or at
least the the the humanism to se
can create a future worth livin.
So,
So I wanted to do something inspiring
and I reached out to my audience
and they gave me the money to me
this show and so we're now shoog
our six of the 12 hour season.
And these wonderful,
my wonderful collaborators are
are making the vision come true.
I
want to touch on that briefly
just how this got started.
You first got started with a
Kickstarter on this process.
Yes, that's right.
And you know I run a roundtablef
writers and directors and actorn
in LA and it's it was basicallyo
create a compassionate Hollywoo.
I've been my wife and I've been running
it for 30 years and I started hearing
about Kickstarter for some of te
younger members of our roundtable and.
You know, I I,
I came up with the idea for Space Command.
Many of my friends run network
shows and they said, well,
let's go in and get a pilot dea.
But I thought, well,
that could get cut off at scripr
cut off at at pilot or there cod
be network notes that would rui.
And I thought,
let me let me try crowdfunding.
I'd never raised money before in my life.
And our target was $75,000
to raise over two months.
We raised that in three days and went on to,
in that first campaign to raise $221,000.
Amazing stuff. And so we're in e
world of scifi. We're at Comic .
Andre Lanae, you're kind of
making your debut in the
show. I understand. What's it le
to get in that world,
that fandom, that scifi vibe.
It's incredible. It's incredibl.
And the thing for me is that you never
really know the impact that you have on
an individual person until they tell you.
And these guys are so excited about it.
And that's what really makes.
Fun is that when going gets tou,
you can think back to that
and and remember that.
And that's really what helps
you pull through On any day
that you're you do it for them.
We only have about a minute lef.
I wish we had much more time.
Ethan, you've been on many other sets.
Your IMDb. I had to read down a.
What's different about this kinf
project and are you having fun doing this?
I love it. Yeah.
I think what's different is that
Mark has created a family. It's.
It's an independent project.
I think that's really,
it's like the Manson family.
Yeah, not quite like that.
But yeah, it's just that camaraderie that
you know that we're all in it
together and it is like the fans
are the ones that are supportins
and allowing us to make it happ.
So it's telling wonderful storis
and get wonderful people and.
Yeah, it's a whole collective t.
I love that positive vibe aspect of it for
people to find it where they see this. I
have a YouTube channel called M.
sci-fi. It's Sci Hyphen Fi, Mr. sci-fi.
The first two hours of Space Cod
is there and that can lead them to all
the other things we're doing. So, all
right, love it. I'm going to
tell them we've got a graphic,
I believe for this you have a Comic Con
preview for Space Command cast and crew.
Space Command redemption Saturday, July 22nd.
The panel is at the Neil Morgan Auditorium
at the San Diego Central Public Library.
You have a screening at 4:00 PM
at the Marriott Grand Ballroom.
Congratulations on this latest edition.
I hope this keeps growing into
something bigger and bigger for
you because I can see the passin
you all have for this project.
Thank you, Carlo.