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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] Adding the Harlan Ellison factor into this only highlights the irony further. Ellison wrote TOS: "City on the Edge of Forever." Roddenberry made, in Ellison's opinion, signifigant changes to the script because Ellison had a drug dealer among the Enterprise crew and that went against Roddenberry's vision of the future. Roddenberry may have wanted to explore "The Human Condition," but he didn't want to use humans in that metaphoric exploration. So much better to have the AOTW be the racist or dealer. Roddenberry felt by the 23rd century humanity would have evolved beyond the base, animalistic nature they exhibit today. Ellison was never too favorable toward Roddenberry or Star Trek after that. Flash forward 30 years and Ellison is buddy-buddy with JMS because JMS IS willing to use humans to explore "The Human Condition." Ellison was a consultant on B--5 and even appeared on an episode. Now JMS is saying that he's the man that can best pick up on Roddenberry's original vision? That's rich. Now, I'll admit that JMS would do a great job and I've said that Star Trek needs to follow his example in telling a good story. Still, don't try to feed us a line. Tell us how it really is. Trek is a major franchise and JMS wants to try his and at that phenomenal franchise. It's got nothing to do with being true to Roddenberry's vision. Heck, even Ellison cashed in on Trek's success. He released his original TOS script for "City on the Edge of Forever" in a book that also detailed his dealings with Trek at that time. He had to have been counting on the number of Trek fans wanting to buy that book. Guess everyone's a little ironic. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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