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Wiseguy yahoo.com> wrote:
> Anim8rFSK
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> 94EAB3.21202822042008@news.west.cox.net:
> >> In article
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>> Wiseguy yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>> "Kweeg" wrote in
>>> news:u8dPj.211035$pM4.164649@pd7urf1no:
>>>
>>>> "mrpemstar"
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>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> ** Posted from
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>>
>> Roddenberry didn't rewrite City. DC Fontana did.
>>
>
> Even if he didn't do it himself, it was his decision.
Sure. And he was right.
