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Here's comedy: at first I was going to write "no," because I couldn't remember having done so, then paused. I haven't had any contact with Eric Lewald since the invention of the steam engine, but he's a reliable guy who was on the show for some time (along with Mark and Michael Edens who --

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@straczynski.bsky.social this video with Eric Lewald says you wrote a show Bible for the Exosquad Cartoon? I've never heard that. My dad was a big fan of Babylon 5 and I loved Exosquad. www.facebook.com/share/v/1LXn...

-- I worked with on TRGBs, so I thought, let's check this out because if Eric says I worked on this then I probably did. It's hard to be sure on some of these things because a lot of animation back then didn't always credit the writers, and I was developing a bunch of shows for studios --

-- so it's possible this was one of them. I found the series bible online and my voice/style and fingerprints (references to I, Claudius and the British SAS motto "Who Dares, Wins" which I was shoving into damn near everything I wrote during that period) were definitely there, and gradually a --

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-- very small bell began to ring down a long, dark hallway. I believe this was originally titled ExoForce or something like that, which is why I didn't connect the name to Exo Squad, and since I wasn't involved with the show beyond this point, with no sense back then that this would ever go --

-- into production, I dumped it into a memory hole and never returned. As the innkeeper in LoTR says, "One thing pushes out another." In reviewing the bible more closely, my part of it is less than a third of the document, mainly the character descriptions (not the supplementary ones) and --

-- even that has been revised by divers hands (yes, that's spelled correctly though archaic). So in short to reply: yes, I'd forgotten, but only in part. The rest, and the best, stays with Eric, Mark and Michael Thanks to Eric Lewald who brought to light a chunk of my work I'd long ago forgotten