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Douglas Pabst was the editor of Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder magazine during the 1950s in New York.

In his role as editor, Pabst oversaw the writing staff of the magazine and its in-house illustrator. His responsibilities included setting the pay rate for the writers and selecting which story would be featured on the cover each month. He was also in the position of enforcing the decisions of the magazine's publisher, a fact which brought him into conflict with Benny Russell when the magazine refused to publish the latter's story about a black captain of a futuristic space station. (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")

Pabst was played by actor Rene Auberjonois. Ira Steven Behr once described the character as an "unenlightened white man." Auberjonois recalled, "Ira was very concerned about how I would react to being the only one of the principal characters to be, essentially, a bad guy. But I loved the part. And I don't necessarily see Pabst as 'the bad guy.' He was a peripheral character, and the only one [in 'Far Beyond the Stars'], aside from Benny, whose viewpoint went through a whole process." Although Auberjonois usually played Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the actor had no difficulty with separating Pabst from Odo in his performance choices. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 535)

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Apocrypha

In the novelization of the episode, Pabst had been receiving stories from Russell long before the latter worked for Incredible Tales. The story that led him to hire Russell featured a partially robotic alien race, and it was Pabst who came up with the opening line for it - "Resistance is futile".

External link

Douglas Pabst at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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+'''Douglas Pabst''' was the editor of ''[[Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder]]'' [[magazine]] during the [[1950s]] in [[New York City|New York]].
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 In his role as editor, Pabst oversaw the writing staff of the magazine and its in-house [[:Category:Artists|illustrator]].  His responsibilities included setting the pay rate for the [[:Category:Authors|writers]] and selecting which story would be featured on the cover each month.  He was also in the position of enforcing the decisions of the magazine's [[Stone (publisher)|publisher]], a fact which brought him into conflict with [[Benny Russell]] when the magazine refused to publish the latter's story about a black [[captain]] of a futuristic [[space station]]. ({{DS9|Far Beyond the Stars}})
+{{bginfo|Pabst was played by actor [[Rene Auberjonois]]. [[Ira Steven Behr]] once described the character as an "unenlightened white man." Auberjonois recalled, "''Ira was very concerned about how I would react to being the only one of the principal characters to be, essentially, a bad guy. But I ''loved'' the part. And I don't necessarily see Pabst as 'the bad guy.' He was a peripheral character, and the only one [in 'Far Beyond the Stars'], aside from Benny, whose viewpoint went through a whole process.''" Although Auberjonois usually played [[Odo]] on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', the actor had no difficulty with separating Pabst from Odo in his performance choices. (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion]]'', p. 535)}}
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