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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] Bernd, if you associate yourself too much with the Star Trek vision, people might become worried that you don't have a taste for good writing, even if you do criticize some of it. Would you like to be associated with Gene Roddenberry? I suppose yes. But if you were a writer in Hollywood, other writers might become worried about your attitude toward intellectual property, wondering if you like people misusing you? Do you know what kind of person Roddenberry was in real life? Have you read "Inside Star Trek: The Real Story" by Bob Justman and Herb Solow, "City on the Edge of Forever" by Harlan Ellison, or "Roddenberry: The Man and the Myth Behind Star Trek" (have only looked through it, but it deals with the same issues). How many writers have been hurt because he was loose about who did what on Star Trek, taking the credit for creating everything? He's lost a great number of friends over the years. He was a guy who's nice and polite in person, who sparked Star Trek, but also let a number of other people make it into what it became, and then took credit for their work. If you're not in favor of Roddenberry, would you like to be associated with Harlan Ellison, writer of one of the best Star Trek episodes ever written, who hates him for spreading misinformation about the rewrites of "The City on the Edge of Forever", who looks at TNG seriously and says what it is compared to what TOS was? The guy who yells at everyone, loves to argue, who said that "one isn't entitled to an opinion, but rather an informed opinion." He tears apart people's writing in creative writing courses, and praises what he sees as good because he has a passion for good writing, even if he admits knowing little about other things. What about Ron D. Moore, who also wrote a bunch of great DS9 shows, but posted the series of opinionated, one-sided interviews you so much dislike? I'm sorry, but one doesn't create works of art by being tolerant of other people's opinions, always looking for a quick consensus. All of the abovementioned individuals were responsible for some of the best of what we've seen onscreen. Perhaps there are other Trek issues you cannot let pass just like that, such as web design, drawing schematics, or identifying Wolf 359 ships. I have a passion for good writing and good television, and see these forums as a place to voice creative criticisms and think of ways to improve the show by taking it as literally as TOS. I see Mike Wong trying the same (he is a fan of TOS and lists Star Trek II as one of his favorite movies), which is why I support parts of his site while I find others completely weird, annoying and irrelevant. I've supported your site heavily because I've seen you have a passion for detail and good execution, and because your voice is being heard by some creative people on Star Trek. Mike Wong has chosen to attack Star Trek and defend Star Wars because he honestly doesn't like what he sees in today's Trek, using an extremely annoying style. He's being objective in the narrow sense of deriving conclusions from what he sees onscreen without any preconceived visions of it. Perhaps I really should put up my own website about this, but it would owe a lot to annoying people with something good to say. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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