Gene Coon

[Vulcanian]

I think he did contribute to TOS's writing sucess.

However, I D.C. Fontana is the real brains behind it.

 

[Ronald Held]

Wasn't it more of a collaborative, evolutionary effort between the Genes and DC?

 

[Tallguy]

TiberiusK said: Are you making fun of my geeky TOS chart?

No! I'm asking that it be posted, posibly updated to a scalable vector format, and added to a collection!

 

[ToddPence]

>There is a persistent rumour that Coon and GR fought like cats and dogs >over the script for "Bread and Circuses" - I've always wondered why it was >the second last episode aired from that season even though it was filmed >months before.

Maybe they purposely aired it on the Ides of March?

 

[Vulcanian]

Ronald Held said:
Wasn't it more of a collaborative, evolutionary effort between the Genes and DC?

I guess that's true but I am saying that D.C. Fontana's were more of a solid record.

 

[Tallguy]

Nebusj said:
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Hey, come to think of it, are there any good scenes of dramatic tension and conflict between Spock and McCoy that predate Gene Coon's arrival (which Memory Alpha says happened around ``Miri'')?

I'm trying to think of one, and while I can think of times when they disputed something -- like ``The Enemy Within'' -- but I can't think of them digging into one another.

Yup - The Naked Time. A little bit in Charlie X. I'll give you more as I get them. It was a nifty idea though.

 

[trevanian]

Early eps have got spock/scott exchanges too (then may heaven have helped your mother in CORBOMITE, for instance), but they don't have the chemistry.

Coon is the one who really saw Spock/Mccoy in the actors' chemistry and exploited it (and since he was rewriting most of the stuff, he is probably responsible for punching that up in otherwise forgettable shows.)

 

[Sulu_Love_child]

The concept of Spock's Brain is not bad. The sets, costumes etc ruined the episode. I see the scene with McCoy working hard during surgery sweating as classic.