Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:21:03 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> drewbitt at yahoo.com 4/19/2005 9:05:01 AM >>>
>I seem to remember a young whippersnapper named Davey
>Gerrold in there somewhere too...

True, but I think he made his name with Trek, the others were well
established prior to the show.  Hmmm, how many of the writers for the
post-original Trek series have had a career any where near as successful
as Gerrolds?

>Yeah, getting sf writers to write an sf show would
>seem awfully radical to Hollywood. After all, it's
>*just* science fiction... (kidding!!)

I'd say you've actually nailed the problem.  What SF fans want is ...
good SF.  What the Hollywood types want is a product that appeals across
a larger spectrum of viewers, and I don't think that's compatiible with
the best the genre has to offer.

I offer as evidence.... Earthsea.

mjw

>Drew
>
>--- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
>> To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:02 PM
>> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
>>
>> > Here's a radical idea... if it was good enough for
>> Roddenberry... hire
>> > SF writers to write for Trek.
>> >
>> > Orignal Trek had scripts by Robert Block,
>> Theordore Sturgeon, Norman
>> > Spinrad, & Harlan Ellison .
>>
>> And, of course, by "Robert Block," you mean *Robert
>> Bloch*....
>>
>> --Ted White
>>
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