And which one, the one from TOS or the animated series? Let's see 4 for Gerrold compared to Fontana who wrote...dun dun duuuuuun. 7-fucking-teen. More than Gerrold.Cock_Knocker wrote:Clearly, you have no idea what a TV legacy is, or have no idea how to research a topic you're arguing about. David Gerrold not only wrote one of the two most popular episodes of Star Trek ever airedGstone wrote:You clearly have no idea what a TV legacy is. All he did was work on scripts, as a writer and editor and did some voice work for most of his time with Trek. He wasn't ever that big of a guiding hand for Trek.
And it's not the only bible. There's been bibles for each series (except TOS which was more making it up as they went along with basically just a few ideas jotted down on paper) and there's been 3 tech 'bibles' that he didn't write. Joseph, Okuda and Sternbach.but he is the author of the TNG writer's/director's "bible".
The latest thing I know of Fontana doing is working on Star Trek Tactical Assualt that came out fall 06 and Legacy that came out last december. She's even writting for New Voyages, which while I don't like, has gotten Takei and Koenig to work for the series.
Fontana has had greater Trek stamina no question. Show me where Gerrold is working with Trek fans or on Trek video games.
But, not for when the popularity of Trek for the whole franchise reached its highest peak. That is a greater legacy for Trek. The stories at that time drew far more attention from the fans and got more people interested in Trek than did any tribble. People weren't clamoring around their tellies to watch balls of fur that did nothing but pur, eat and fuck.So again, Gerrold was chiefly responsible for what TNG was to begin with.
He was gone before that happened. And when did that happen? That's right. When Berman was in charge of TNG. Gerrold never got that high in the Trek heirarchy.
So, let's compare.And again, Berman was the instrument of Trek's massive decline over the years.
Gerrold
Lasted only just under 4 seasons as a script writer/editor (5, if you want to count the animated series).
Berman
Hand picked by Gene to lead Trek, brought it to its highest popularity after Gerrold left. 7 season for TNG, 7 for DS9, 7 for VOY and 4 for ENT.
What's Gerrold's claim to fame in the end: Tribbles.
And still...the guy was so far from being instrumental.Also, as one of the two authors of one of the two most popular episodes of Star Trek ever aired (funny how the author of the other one, Harlan Ellison, also has less than positive things to say about Trek), and, an author with over 50 books to his credit and holder of Hugo and the Nebula awards, he has more believability than Brin, who has never worked on Star Trek in any significant way whatsoever.
He would have been high and talking out of his ass. This is applicable to Baywatch. People have actually died in Trek. By their own hand or someone else. Civilians, spies, Starfleet, klingons, jem hadar, vorta, changlings, bajorans, kazon, caretakers, species 8472, borg, artificially intelligent life forms (missles and holograms), ktarians, trills, breen, species 116, cardassians.So, when he says:
David Gerrold wrote:"Star Trek’ is the McDonald’s of science fiction; it’s fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don’t really have to get involved. It’s all plastic.â€
The one hour is compressed time and there were often multiple episode stories. But, a lot of the series is deliberately written as an anthology and written so that the viewer doen't have to see the entire series beforehand to get what was happening in that particular episode. This was a deliberate thing. And oh, look at that. What were pretty much every episode of TOS? Why... it was written the same way. Stand alone episodes...at a time when he was a writer and story editor.
That same story style he bitches about now is the one he helped to create every week for year after year. To complain now is childish whining.
Oh, give me a break. He's bitching years after he quit because he didn't like how things were going with Trek; a direction, which lead to the height of the fanchise, regardless of what happened afterwards. Far exceeding what TOS every got and still...the last Trek series had a longer run than TOS did, despite the fact it's referred to as the end/death/endspot downfall of Trek. TOS 3 to ENT's 4....he must know what he's talking about.