DC Fontana and David Gerrold came back from TOS to TNG. Tracy Tome and Peter David started with TNG but I don't believe they returned to any spin off.
What if Gene Roddenberry lived to a ripe old age?
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DC Fontana and David Gerrold came back from TOS to TNG. Tracy Tome and Peter David started with TNG but I don't believe they returned to any spin off.
He tried that after TOS with Genesis II and Planet Earth, which are the source for many ideas found in Andromeda, including the name "Dylan Hunt". I thought his other pilots, The Questor Tapes and Specter, were better.
He would probably be telling people to shut the hell up about trying to carry on his legacy in very specific and annoying ways.
Only if the checks don't clear.
What decisions of the last 25 years do you think cause Gene to spin in his grave the fastest?
Emphasis on religion and war storylines on DS9.
No love instructors
Read Star Trek The Motion picture novel by Gene Roddenberry
From what I recall, the novelization doesn't actually explain the concept. It just made a brief and casual throwaway mention, to give a flavor of how different the advanced humans of the future will be from us mouth-breathing 20th/21st-century primitives.
Kor
I think Roddenberry would have been fine with the DS9 religious aspect. He investigated a variety of faiths - got married in a Buddhist ceremony and had his son baptized in a Christian ceremony as well as put through a Jewish ceremony. He may have expressed Atheist beliefs in his later years, but he wasn't always or completely opposed to any religious expression. Plus, it seems that many Atheists, at least in the United States, are more tolerant of non-Christian religious customs. The Bajoran faith is definitely non-Christian.
The war aspect, however, would have been counter to any of his viewpoints.
The war aspect, however, would have been counter to any of his viewpoints.
Bris?
Roddenberry-era Trek solved the problem of impending war by having a godlike alien species (Organians) intervene and nip it in the bud before it could ever blossom and ripen into the flowery fruit of galactic bloodshed.
But what if there had been no Organians around? How would Roddenberry have the protagonists deal with aggressive alien powers that are bent on conquest and do not share the Federation's ideals?
Kor
But what if there had been no Organians around? How would Roddenberry have the protagonists deal with aggressive alien powers that are bent on conquest and do not share the Federation's ideals?
Kor
I agree with your assessment. TNG would have been good, but not great, and likely petered out after five seasons or so, and have been nowhere near successful enough for there to be a DS9.
Assuming Paramount still launches a new network in the 90s, they probably would have had a new Trek show to anchor one of the nights. If Roddenberry was still around for that, my guess is it would have been something like "TNG Phase II".
D.C. Fontana wrote a teleplay for DS9 (season one's "Dax").
Perish the thought.
The TMP novelization just mentions that Kirk was given the name "James" after his uncle and his mother's first love instructor. No detail is given on the nature of the "love instructor" profession.
Kor
See Rock Hudson in Pretty Maids All in a Row.
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