What if Gene Roddenberry was still alive.

[xortex]

I think I'll wait until September when you're back in school or until I see the movie.

 

[Harvey]

...right.

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

Yes, please explain. What did Spock do that was worse than what Nero did?

 

[BillJ]

Worse than Nero? Do go on. This ought to be good.

Yes, please explain. What did Spock do that was worse than what Nero did?

You could make a point that Spock Prime enabled Nero since he could've/should've destroyed the Jellyfish and its weapons instead of allowing them to fall into the hands of a madman.

The Federation could probably charge Spock Prime with negligent genocide.

 

[xortex]

That was no mistake, whatever you said there. Spock doesn't make stupid mistakes on that magnitude.

 

[BillJ]

That was no mistake, whatever you said there. Spock doesn't make stupid mistakes on that magnitude.

Well Vulcans gone. Don't really know what else to say.

 

[xortex]

Well he wasn't counting on that. That was a backfire.

 

[BillJ]

Well he wasn't counting on that. That was a backfire.

Negligence- Conduct that falls below the standards of behavior established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. A person has acted negligently if he or she has departed from the conduct expected of a reasonably prudent person acting under similar circumstances.

 

[xortex]

It was deliberate.

 

[BillJ]

It was deliberate.

Maybe I'm stupid... but I have no idea what your talking about.

 

[Harvey]

I don't have any idea what anyone is talking about in this thread at this point.

 

[Elder Knight]

... And he had every right to put words to that song. It lended itself to and almost demanded words.

I don't really think it "demanded" words, and certainly didn't require ridiculous lyrics.

 

[xortex]

I wouldn't have minded the words. They already had a soprano singing the melody line. They might have had as well given her words. She would have been paid the same any way. So, it was kitchy. So what. It would have made it more interesting and surreal and mysterious. Did GR write the lyrics to 'Beyond Antares'? Love that song and all the rest of 'em in 'Charlie X' and even 'The Way to Eden'. It was catchy as was the Brahms waltz and the piano music in 'Spectre of the Gun'.

 

[number6]

GR had nothing to do with those.. He did write "Nightingale Woman."
He wrote the lyrics to the theme to share the royalties. Nothing more. They aren't well written and the syllables don't match the melody most of the time. "Ah" is the only "lyric" needed.

 

[Elder Knight]

This just in: Roddenberry's lost lyrics for the TMP theme, designed to intercept half of Jerry Goldsmith's royalties:

Go, Enterprise, boldly go,
And be back next week against the all odds.
Fly, Enterprise, high and low,
And contend with children, computers and gods.

Go, Enterprise, boldly go,
Out to where the foreheads are wrinkly and strange.
Like "Wagon Train," long ago,
Though it's not exactly home on the range.

Entrerprise far; Enterprise near;
All the while at warp maximum.
When you save a world, you just know they will cheer:
"N! C! C! One seven oh one!
It's done!"

Go, Enterprise, boldly go,
Where no man (or person or thing),
Has gone before -- and all that.

 

[Maurice]

^^^Try singing that to the tune and your larynx will probably explode.

 

[Elder Knight]

True. It can only be sung by a chorus of Pikes blinking two lights.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I don't have any idea what anyone is talking about in this thread at this point.

This is worse than the Stargate forum.

 

[Warped9]

^^^Try singing that to the tune and your larynx will probably explode.

 

[CaptainStoner]

... And he had every right to put words to that song. It lended itself to and almost demanded words.

No. You must understand that this was an instrumental piece by Courage. That a soprano was used for the melody, instead of a trumpet, or violin, in the arrangement used for the TV recording does not grant anyone the right to pull some lyrics out of their ass and claim an equal share of the royalties when it's played! It's too bad Roddenberry got away with it, what a douchehammer. I wonder if Courage had the piece properly filed and whatnot. Or if he fought it legally.