Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche is an English television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best known as a writer of the HBO comedy "Veep", the BBC Television series "The Thick of It" and its film spin-off "In the Loop". He is credited with inventing the word omnishambles, which was named 2012 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary. After graduating from Warwick University with a degree in English, Roche became a stand-up comedian using material from a magazine he had produced in his final year. He was spotted at one of his stand-up comedy shows and
Star Trek spin-off fiction the Worf/Troi relationship, which was left unexplained on screen. Spin-off fiction will often use re-use characters who appeared only once or twice in the actual show. Dr. Selar has appeared in more "TNG" novels than television episodes, and she and Elizabeth Shelby, who appeared in the two-part episode "The Best of Both Worlds" are major characters in the "" series. The cast of the "Starfleet Corps of Engineers" series largely comes from such guest parts. Similarly, the "IKS Gorkon" series features Klingon characters drawn from a variety of "TNG" and "DS9" episodes. The spin-off fiction has also engaged in world