Did Roddenberry Really Write "The Cage"?

[Armored Saint]

So, I'm confused, is it GR or Oswald who killed the script of Harlan Ellison?

 

[trevanian]

There's a proper use of the word "objective," and then there's the sloppy colloquial one.

As we're talking about ejaculate, the sloppy one seems to fit.

But thanks for caring enough to notice.

 

[trevanian]

So, I'm confused, is it GR or Oswald who killed the script of Harlan Ellison?

If we keep going on this, GR is going to turn out to be the guy on the grassy knoll (or at least he hired somebody to ghost-shoot for him that day.)

 

[RandyS]

Roddenberry was a successful TV freelancer who'd sold a boatload of scripts, had won an award, and previously sold a series. Frankly, the writing in "The Cage" isn't that wonderful. The ideas are better than the dialog (which totally smacks of Gene). As such I have little trouble believing it's Roddenberry's work, even if he got a lot of notes.

Not to mention that he flew 89 combat missions in WW2 as a USAAF bomber pilot, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal, flew commercial airliners for Pan-Am, and attained the rank of sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department. The guy had already lived one hell of a life long before he had ever dreamed of creating Star Trek, and he will always be one of my heroes, no matter how much of a "jerk" he may or may not have been. There is a good reason why the people of his time are known as the Greatest Generation.

Yes, but today is all about tearing people down and playing up their "flaws". There is no such thing as "heroes" anymore. I can't remember anymore when it started, but it's been that way for at least a decade. If not a little longer.

I personally hope it stops.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

He's somewhere in between the sinner Solow claims and the saint Nichols suggests.

I believe the word for that is "human."

Nobody's perfect, Saavik.