From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:37:27 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

James Blish? No! No! His career was well established long before Star Trek
came along. He just happened to love the series and was a fan enough to
convince the powers to be to let him put the original series scripts into
something readable.

Bob MacIntosh

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