If you’re looking for the geekiest meet-cute you can find, you won’t do much better than Ash Miller and Zack Stentz, who met in an online chat about Star Trek and soon became writing partners. Since then, the two have worked on such geektastic properties as the X-MEN franchise, FRINGE, THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES and THOR.

They’re also working on the upcoming FALL GUY movie.

Here’s why Ash and Zack are truly awesome, though: They’re joining us for the inauguration of GENRE SMASH!, our new series where we chat with writers of the finest science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy working in the industry today.

EVEN BETTER: We’ll be meeting in the NerdMelt showroom, located in West Hollywood’s historic Meltdown Comics. See you there, earth creature.