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Peterson  \nMS Date: 11-30-2015  \nFL Date: 12-01-2015  \nFL Number: FL-000033-00  \nCitation: Peterson, David J. 2015. \"Remembering  \nDefiance.\" FL-000033-00, Fiat Lingua,\u003C [http://](http://)fi[atlingua.org](atlingua.org)>. Web. 01 Dec. 2015.  \nCopyright: © 2015 David J. Peterson. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)  \nFiat Lingua is produced and maintained by the Language Creation Society (LCS) . For more information about the LCS, visit [http://www.conlang.org/](http://www.conlang.org/)  \nRemembering Defiance  \nDefiance was an American television show filmed in Toronto, Canada that ran for three seasons on the Syfy network from 2013 to 2015. I worked on the show as its alien language and culture consultant starting in the fall of 2011 up until its cancellation in the fall of 2015. Though hard to precisely quantify, I'm confident that Defiance has featured the largest volume of conlang material of any television show or film to date. This essay is a catalogue of some of that work.  \nBACKGROUND  \nDefiance began its existence as a computer game created by Trion Worlds. Its initial development started in 2008. Trion's idea the entire time was to create a game that would have a television show associated with it, the idea being to have the world of the show and the game feed off of and into one another. After coming up with some initial ideas for the world of Defiance, they struck a deal with Syfy to produce the show.  \nSyfy turned to Rockne O'Bannon, creator of Alien Nation and Farscape, to write the pilot and serve as the show's show runner. It was at this point that I joined the show. In the spring of 2011, the first season of Game of Thrones aired on HBO, and one of the executive producers of Defiance, Tom Lieber, thought after seeing Game of Thrones that it would be a good idea to have some alien languages in Defiance. Tom, a former NBC page, had a friend who was also a former NBC page who was friends with Bryan Cogman, originally the assistant to Game of Thrones show runners and creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss (he's now a writer and producer on the show) . Through that connection, Tom got my contact information and, in the fall of 2011, invited me to work on Defiance.  \nFor conlangers, it's worth noting that this is how Hollywood prefers to work. The competition that was held for Game of Thrones (and later for Noah) were great exceptions, and likely never to be the norm. Casting calls for actors continue to work for two reasons: (1) even if they're not actors themselves, producers/directors can decide which actor better fits what they have in mind fairly easily; and (2) there are legions of both established (and highly paid) actors and new actors trying to break in who won't command as high a salary. The fact that well-known actors are a draw means wellknown actors will always continue to get cast, but the fact that all productions have budgets means there will always be casting calls and opportunities for new actors. Plus, all shows and movies need actors. Since there isn't enough demand for conlangs in television or film—and since producers/directors know neither what they're looking for nor where to look, let alone how to evaluate what they find when they find it—there aren't any calls initiated by production companies for conlangers. If we want for there to  \nRemembering Defiance-David J. Peterson  \nbe an industry, we need a different model. We need to find a way to work within Hollywood that gets more conlangers a shot. Plus, as Game of Thrones is closer to the end of its run than the beginning, our window may be closing. Clock's ticking.  \nINCEPTION  \nTo get things moving, Tom sent me a draft of the pilot written by Rockne O'Bannon, which I read. 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