Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:25:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Can't think of any writers who came out of
Roddenberry's stable to establish themselves apart
from Gerrold, though maybe James Blish could be
credited with getting his career from Trek. (I think
his earliest published works were Trek adaptations.)

And yeah, I think sf fans want good sf but Hollywood
isn't interested in whether it's "good" or not. The
counter-argument here (to me) is that, if it's GOOD,
the audiences will support it, whether they're fans of
sf in general or not. But as I said, Hollywood is not
about good.

Drew

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> > 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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