IMDB says Errand was written by both.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708429/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
They list a lot of uncredited work, and we know Roddenberry was rewriting just about every script at that point. So I think it was both.
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IMDB says Errand was written by both.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708429/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
They list a lot of uncredited work, and we know Roddenberry was rewriting just about every script at that point. So I think it was both.
They actually wanted to bring John Colicos back to reprise 'Kor' in the later TOS Klingon episodes; but he was a busy actor in the 60s and they could never make the scheduling work. He had stated many times that he would have been happy to reprise 'Kor' had his schedule allowed back then.
Yes, and Blish's Spock Must Die, the first ST novel targeted at an adult audience, portrayed them as active enforcers to the point of taking the Klingons more-or-less permanently out of the equation. Kind of like what Douglas Adams would do with the planet Krikkit.
I know. That's one of the "books and comics" I referenced in my first sentence. It's surprising to me how many people managed to miss the point that the Organians wanted nothing to do with us if they could possibly avoid it, when Coon stressed it so strongly in the episode. Even ENT: "Observer Effect" missed it and portrayed Organians as active explorers that could even inhabit humanoid bodies without discomfort.
And of course, multiple stories, including the opening arc of DC's first TOS comic and D.C. Fontana's Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment for IDW, have felt it necessary to "explain" why the Organians left the UFP & Klingons alone by having them depart the galaxy altogether. "Errand" gave an explanation! Why does everybody miss it?
I suppose even the Organians might not be monoliths; there could be rogue factions that want to get more involved.
That's how I handwaved it in The Buried Age, that those Organians were a fringe group seen as perverted by the mainstream culture. Still, it's annoying that the writers of "Observer Effect" threw in the gratuitous continuity nod of calling their energy beings Organians even though they bore no resemblance to Organians beyond being energy-based.
IMDb lists Roddenberry as a writer on EVERY episode. That still doesn't make it true.
At the end of the first season when he was no longer the showrunner but instead the executive producer? I doubt it.
TV credits aren't arbitrary. If Roddenberry had contributed significantly to the writing of "Errand of Mercy," his name would be on the episode itself.
Case in point, Enowil, from Stephen Goldin's Trek to Madworld.
Yes. A real head-scratcher.
So Organians are temporal agents?
IMBd does that all of the time. They'll list the writer of a book, say Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan, under writer for a movie.
DC comics had them facing off with Yarnek and other Excalbians.
Yep. I've run into this when interviewing creatives from various shows of the DC Animated Universe. People are listed as producers or story editors for episodes before or after they were on a show all the time.
Because the episode uses things they added to the show?
No, because IMDb is crappy with credits.
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