Writer's Guide available?
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@Mytran posted a link recently:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/pro...-reconnection-too.301285/page-2#post-13210751
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/pro...-reconnection-too.301285/page-2#post-13210751
You might also find this interesting - it's the earliest series draft when Captain April of the USS Yorktown was still around!
http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Star_Trek/1_Original_Series/Star_Trek_Pitch.pdf
It features Gene's speculative top speed of "0.73 light years per hour" that was dropped from all subsequent series bibles.
With a Writers’ Guide and 2 seasons of episodes behind them, I wonder how in the Hell some of the 3rd Season writers came up with such lame ideas and characterizations.
Probably, no one ever told them of said Guide.
I’m assuming that should have been part of Fred Freiberger’s job when he hired some of the S3 writers.
Freiberger didn't seem to have a solid grasp on the overall concept, judging by a certain comment that he is said to have made when he was joining the production.
Kor
Working with @Harvey and thus having read some of the story related memos around Gerrold's 3rd season submissions, methinks this is not an entirely accurate assessment, understandably tinged by his own experience. This isn't the kind of letter you write if you want people to see you as a team player in Hollywood, and he may have screwed himself a bit.This column from the April 11,1969 edition of Life magazine seems apropos for the latter part of this thread:
Roddenberry himself suggested pairing Gerrold with "a good practical TV writer" to see if they could make his two (paper-thin, pointless) story outlines for "BEM" work as a script. Gerrold was a pretty wet behind the ears n00b at this point w/a lot to learn.
Not to suggest Freiberger was nice to him.
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I'd really like to know if anyone has a copy of the TAS bible, which has been mentioned here before by @Therin of Andor:
I'd love to see that hand-drawn map! (I once contacted someone at Temple, hoping to get a glimpse. Unfortunately, the Paley Library has now permanently closed, and they never got back to me about where exactly the collection in question was moved.)
-MMoM
I'd love to see that hand-drawn map! (I once contacted someone at Temple, hoping to get a glimpse. Unfortunately, the Paley Library has now permanently closed, and they never got back to me about where exactly the collection in question was moved.)
-MMoM
I have one of the original writer's guides. Will have to check which one when I am home.
Weren't a fair amount of the character and ship descriptions in The Making of Star Trek drawn from the Writers' Guide?
I'd really like to know if anyone has a copy of the TAS bible, which has been mentioned here before by @Therin of Andor:
I'd love to see that hand-drawn map! (I once contacted someone at Temple, hoping to get a glimpse. Unfortunately, the Paley Library has now permanently closed, and they never got back to me about where exactly the collection in question was moved.)
-MMoM
I couldn't 't believe that the Samuel Paley Library at Temple University in Philadelphia, which I visited so many times, closed.
But according to the Google Maps the Samuel Paley Library at 1210 Pollet Walk, Philadelphia, PA is permanently closed. https://www.google.com/maps/place/S...789225fbb004cd3!8m2!3d39.9809391!4d-75.154457
The Paley Library opened in 1966 and closed on May 9, 2019. https://hiddencityphila.org/2019/05/a-fond-farewell-to-paley-library-at-temple-university/
Apparently the new main library at Temple University is the Charles Library at 1900 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia PA..
https://www.google.com/maps/place/C...bc5676129eea2e!8m2!3d39.9822974!4d-75.1552187
The Charles Library opened on August 25, 2019. https://library.temple.edu/webpages/explore-charles
I think that Temple Univiersity probabled retains all of the collections from the Paley Library at the Charles Library or other libraries at Temple. Or possibly they transferred the special science fiction collection to another institution. But they should have some record of where the collection went.
According to my old contact, the TAS Writers Guide was almost identical to the Season Three edition TOS Writers' Guide. It had brief entries for Arex and M'Ress (possibly the biographies once circulated by Lincoln Enterprises?) and a tiny, hand-drawn sketch showing the location of Cait and the Lynx constellation in relation to Earth. It seems there were plans to focus on her origins in a proposed episode? At least one storyline didn't progress to full script, as the production numbers showed.
I remember puzzling over the first commercial "ST Concordance", which gave species and planet-of-origin for M'Ress (but not for Arex), even though those M'Ress details were never mentioned in actual episodes. Seemingly, Bjo Trimble had access to that background info when compiling the book.
When Andy Mangels was working on the TAS Blu-Ray set, I did send him the whereabouts of the guide at the research library.
