How to Write A Screenplay – 20 Lessons from Star Trek
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problem. If we can follow the hero this means there is a clear sense of continuity in the script.
LESSON #6 – Emotional Storyline Incites that Action and Drives the Plot Forward
Each character has to have something he/she desires. This desire is connected to something which has an emotional meaning to them. This desire is called the B Storyline and it is what creates the actions the character chooses to take – the A Story Action line.
The reason the hero is tossed out of his familiar life must be connected to the emotional line (B Story Line). The predicament the hero ends up in stems from his inherent problem, the thing he has to face in his life that he has not yet faced until this point. It’s quite clear that for the Hero, Kirk, it’s facing his past.
For Spock it’s obviously the loss of his home planet,
