Somehow I have it in my head these discs are where Roddenberry stored his endless thoughts on the concept of Love Instructors...
Data recovered from Gene Roddenberry's old floppy disks
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This instance on yahoo lends to it being Data vs. data. Not really, but funny anyway.
I'm hopeful that Gene Roddenberry's left us even more of a legacy, thanks to this new find! Whilst I'm excited about STAR TREK's current direction, perhaps the franchise could incorporate some of these ideas and, in so doing, keep his spirit alive. I have great respect and admiration for the Man. He was a WW2 pilot, a cop, a producer and a visionary. The Man had was a dreamer and a fighter ... the best of both worlds! And if I could only accomplish half of what he did, in my own lifetime, I'd be world famous ... and satisfied, knowing that I had the world's adulation.
Perhaps, there has been some "aggrandising of the dead," with regard to the boldness of Gene's "Vision." Some say that it was not "inclusive" enough. Others feel that he should've been bolder with what he did present, for the first time, on television. And still others feel that the footsoldiers making his dreams reality should've been given a greater say in The Human Adventure. I'm not prepared to argue or defend any of that. All I'm saying is that Gene Roddenberry was driven to succeed and was, in his own way, an Artist. And I'm impressed - and well pleased - that STAR TREK became a cultural icon, thanks to his steadfast determination.
Back in the mid-1980s, we were watching TNG with our little son.
When they sent Mister Data on a very dangerous mission, the kid offered "They should back him up first!"
When they sent Mister Data on a very dangerous mission, the kid offered "They should back him up first!"
Are you guys Star Trek fans or a bunch of clowns?! I'm guessing the latter by your comments.
What is important is what the data says. The article never ever states that. Looks to me like CBS/Paramount is looking to drum up some buzz before the release of the new series. This smells of a publicity stunt and any real fan has been around long enough to sniff one out.
And if you bothered to do some research before you opened your mouths you'd know that unfilmed and unpublished Roddenberry stories exist on paper. Majel had stated at the time of Gene's death that he had a few filing cabinets of material she was going to look through.
So if you're not interested in Star Trek and just wanna make stupid, smart-aleck comments go somewhere else and post them.
What is important is what the data says. The article never ever states that. Looks to me like CBS/Paramount is looking to drum up some buzz before the release of the new series. This smells of a publicity stunt and any real fan has been around long enough to sniff one out.
And if you bothered to do some research before you opened your mouths you'd know that unfilmed and unpublished Roddenberry stories exist on paper. Majel had stated at the time of Gene's death that he had a few filing cabinets of material she was going to look through.
So if you're not interested in Star Trek and just wanna make stupid, smart-aleck comments go somewhere else and post them.
Is it likely there's some unpublished screenplay in these disks that raises Gene's reputation as a quality writer? Probably not. I suspect there will still be some interesting ideas he was mulling over though, probably some concepts that may not have been written about in official biographies, or just providing more actual detail where history only records broad strokes. If you recently bought the TMP book and revel in all the behind-the-scenes minutiae I would think this would be of similar interest, just to know things for the sake of knowing them, not expecting to be blown away by some hidden masterpiece.
Please feel free to express your opinion without the insults. It's really not that big of a deal.
Thanks.
It was actually worse than that - CP/M actually required users to choose parameters for formatting disks, which means it wasn't just a proprietary format, but figuring out which "flavor combination" of that proprietary format (out of a large number of possibilities) that the disks were in. Without damaging them in the process.
I'm not expecting anything huge to come out of those disks. But it's neat that they were able to do it from a technical perspective, and they will add to our historical database of info regarding the Great Bird.
... I look forward to it!
Interesting article, but the cutesy Trek references every other other sentence is a bit much.
If that's your attitude, then I think you completely fail to understand the internet.
On topic: I hope it's a hoax. I don't want anything else G-Rod wrote to surface. After the clusterfuck let-down that was Andromeda, no thanks. Some people come across as if Gene could wipe his ass and the story formed with his leavings would be a masterpiece unlike anything written by Shakespeare. Sorry, no. The dude was a mediocre writer at best with half a great idea. It took other writers crawling out from under his influence to really make the concept/franchise sing.
Hey... Andromeda had some good concepts, at any rate: the individual point defense weapon, the ship's avatars, some of the species, the ship design. For its failings, I would say that execution was at least as much to blame as any problems with the concepts - and Roddenberry can't be blamed for the execution.
And honestly, I'd say the same about Earth: Final Conflict, too. I want to doubt Gene that envisioned... whatever the hell those were in the final season... as space vampires in 80's glam band leather.
And honestly, I'd say the same about Earth: Final Conflict, too. I want to doubt Gene that envisioned... whatever the hell those were in the final season... as space vampires in 80's glam band leather.
There was so much more than meets the eye with the late Gene Roddenberry. He certainly had quite a prolific phase and it's just interesting, intellectually, perhaps, to see and know all that he had either planned, or was thinking of. That's the beauty, really, of what this data might entail ... to see into the Artist's creative processes. It's sometimes very helpful to see another approach to something. It might not have made for great entertainment, always, but it's very good in terms of creativity ...
Bit of column a, bit of column b.
The more seriously you take life, the harder it bites you in the arse when you least expect it - trust me I know.
In the words of the great Ham Salad: "Relax, kid...it's only a movie."
It was actually worse than that - CP/M actually required users to choose parameters for formatting disks, which means it wasn't just a proprietary format, but figuring out which "flavor combination" of that proprietary format (out of a large number of possibilities) that the disks were in. Without damaging them in the process.
I'm not expecting anything huge to come out of those disks. But it's neat that they were able to do it from a technical perspective, and they will add to our historical database of info regarding the Great Bird.
Thank you for enlightening us. Makes way more sense now. I couldn't wrap my head around why it was soooo difficult to reverse-engineer the comparatively simple 40-year old tech, but this explains it.
We can't blame Gene Roddenberry for any issues one had with Andromeda or Earth: Final Conflict, since they were based vaguely on some ideas he had, but he was long gone by the time they were being developed for television and definitely before any episodes were written.
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