Tracy Tormé

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Tracy R. Tormé, the son of Mel Tormé, is a screenwriter and producer of such works as Saturday Night Live, Odyssey 5, Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Fire in the Sky. He is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School.

1 Sliders
2 Political views
3 Fictional References
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Sliders

Main article: Sliders

Tracy Tormé is the co-creator of the show Sliders, but has had conflicts with the Fox Network during the production of the show.

Tormé wanted the end of an episode to be linked to the beginning of the next episode, but he claimed that Fox did not allow him to do this because they wanted to air the episodes in their preferred order, and that linking episodes would force them to air them in Tormé's order. He also felt that this damaged the show's continuity. ^[1]

He claimed that Fox wanted an action-oriented show based on popular movies where it is intended that the viewer forgets what has been seen five minutes later. He also claimed that Fox did not want anything intellectual or political, and that they didn't want satire. He says he was embarrassed by the third season. ^[2]

Tormé says that by the third season, all his allies had been fired, the other executive producers, the network, and the studio all wanted to go in a direction that he disagreed with and by that time he had gotten tired of fighting battles with the network, so he walked away from the show. ^[3]

He has been critical of the changes to the characters of Sliders, saying that originally, Quinn Mallory and Rembrandt Brown were intended to be misfits but were then changed to be "action heroes" and were always getting into fights with people.

In the summer of 1997, after Sliders had been cancelled by Fox but before it was picked up by the Sci Fi Channel, Tormé said he would like to bring Sliders back to its original roots ^[4]. The Dimension of Continuity claims that Tormé had bid to reclaim control of Sliders in the fourth season (which is the first season on the Sci-fi Channel), but that he did not want to work with David Peckinpah, who had been contracted for another season.

[edit] Political views

During an interview with Brad Linaweaver during the 1990s, Tormé said he has libertarian tendencies and that he voted for Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party's candidate for United States president in 1996. He finds the official libertarian position too isolationist though he agrees with libertarians on 90% of domestic issues and says that if the whole world accepted libertarian principles, then there would be no need for an aggressive military. ^[5]

Torme has made connections between his politics and the television show Sliders that he co-created. He suggested that there has been a libertarian tone to Sliders^[6] and said, "If we ever had the Sliders find a libertarian world, it would be the closest they'd come to Utopia as far as I'm concerned." ^[7]

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He stated he is an ex-Democrat. Tormé has also said that he is sort of a radical animal rights person, sort of a radical environmentalist, and that he is to the left by nature. He opposes political correctness because he sees it as the great lie of the left. ^[8]

[edit] Fictional References

In the world of Star Trek, Tormé is known as the creator of the Dixon Hill series. He wrote the first season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "The Big Goodbye", in which the Dixon Hill series is introduced.