From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Orson Scott Card takes a flamethrower to Trek
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 19:32:08 -0400
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From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 6:32 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Orson Scott Card takes a flamethrower to Trek

> At 02:04 PM 5/4/05 -0700, Cathy Green wrote:
> >The Ellison bit is amusing because he's bitching about
> >the series not having taken advantage of the writing
> >talent of the time when Ellison did in fact write the
> >script for City on the Edge of Forever (the one where
> >Joan collins gets run over by a truck)
>
> Ah.  Got it. Thanks.  Wouldn't Harlan have been pretty young at the time?
> Like in his teens?

No.  Harlan left his teens in the early 1950s.  He started writing
professionally in 1955.  He moved out to Hollywood in late 1961.

> David Gerrold also wrote for the series (_The Trouble With Tribbles_,
just
> in case there's a fan who didn't already know that).  He wasn't a big
name
> like the ones mentioned, but I believe he'd written before.

Not for print publication.  Gerrold was a lippy kid (a full generation
younger than Harlan) when he started writing.  He was active in Los Angeles
fandom in that period, but abandoned fandom when he discovered that it
didn't exist solely for his benefit (he wrote a piece for a fanzine in
which he vented his disappointment).

--Ted White