> In article
,
> Wiseguy yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> "Kweeg" wrote in
>> news:u8dPj.211035$pM4.164649@pd7urf1no:
>>
>>> "mrpemstar"
yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:fdaf70c0-9579-49c8-a714-19c8313a5617>>> ..
>>>>>>> If abrams is suggesting that he's going to do the same
>>>>>>> thing to Star Trek that he did to MI, i.e., turn a series
>>>>>>> whose plots involved complex intrigue into a slam-
>>>>>>> bang action pic with lots of big explosions, then this
>>>>>>> is *really* not encouraging.
>>>>
>>>>>> Why? TOS got sold to NBC as action-adventure. Any limitations
on
>>>>>> action were not due to writing but due to cost. Roddenberry
didn't
>>>>>> have the budget to show entire civilizations or wars between
whole
>>>>>> civilizations,
>>>>>> so the scripts were written to have a few token alien
characters
>>>>>> stand there and explain what was going on (e.g., "Let That Be
Your
>>>>>> Last Battlefield").
>>>>
>>>>> Indeed. All these people that moan on about "Roddenberry wouldn't
>>>>> have done
>>>>> that." Well Roddenberry did have the vision, but as far as a
writer
>>>>> or producer goes he was mediocre at best. GR didn't give a damn
>>>>> about continuity (or canon) in his own ST universe, if it would
make
>>>>> money (or he
>>>>> thought it was a good idea) he'd do it. One just has to look at
TMP
>>>>> and the
>>>>> first season of TNG to see that.
>>>>> Lucas is also a good example of how to ruin one's own franchise.
>>>
>>>>You are wrong on 2 points.
>>>>1. This was not a venture about MONEY.
>>>
>>> Since when has the entertainment industry been *not* a money making
>>> venture?
>>>
>>>
>>>>This was a life long dream of
>>>>Gene's, he was inspired by many s/f writers and had input from many
of
>>>>them in the 60's. So if you are gonna blame bad writing solely on
>>>>Gene, you are mistaken.
>>>
>>> Did Gene produce anything else that was successful? (err the anser
is
>>> no)
>>>
>>>
>>>>2. Yes he DID CARE about his Star Trek universe, there were many
>>>>copywrite lawsuits when he was alive of people infringing on HIS
>>>>CREATION. There are many "unabridged" novels about Star Trek and
Gene
>>>>made sure they were noted as so...
>>>
>>> hmm litigation is about making money. GR didn't persue lawsuits
>>> (usually against the very fans that made ST popular) Paramount (who
>>> *own* the rights) did.
>>>
>>>
>>>>I suggest watching "city on the edge of forever" again, it almost
won
>>>>a EMMY and was good writing to boot.
>>>
>>> Indeed it was and BTW it *won* a Hugo Award. Gene didn't write it.
See
>>
>> But Roddenberry re-wrote it which caused the Ellison-Rodenberry feud
>> which continues to this day even with Roddenberry dead.
>>
>> Harlan Edison invented the light bulb?
>>
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> Roddenberry didn't rewrite City. DC Fontana did.
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