Talk:Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2/@comment-5455120-20140514020739/@comment-4531340-20140515015144

Aye, they're one in the same (though to be fair, Discord was thought up in large part by Faust after marathoning Star Trek: The Next Generation one night, what with Q and all)

That was never the reason he stopped writing for the show in the first place: he just took a season off because he was writing a book.