Somewhere Between Apathy And Anarchy

Star Trek, I Thought, Was A Very Inconsistent Show, Which At Times Sparkled With True Ingenuity And Pure Science Fiction Approaches, And Other Times Was More Carnival-like, And Very Much More The Creature Of Television Than The Creature Of A Legitimate Literary Form.

There Is A Fifth Dimension, Beyond That Which Is Known To Man. It Is A Dimension As Vast As Space And As Timeless As Infinity. It Is The Middle Ground Between Light And Shadow, Between Science And Superstition.

I Find It Very Difficult To Live Through The Censorship Of Profanity On Television.

You Must Always Assume That The Relationship Between Writer And Producer Is That Of Adversaries - However You Slice It. They May Be Your Dearest Friends, And They'll Invite You To Dinner, But When All The Smoke Clears And The Ozone Lifts, Your Enemy Is The Producer, That's The Guy You're Competing With, And You Have To Battle Him, Just As If You Were An Adversary.

In Terms Of Screenwriting Adaptations It's Trying To Cut Out Stuff That's Extraneous, Without Doing Damage To The Original Piece, Because You Owe A Debt Of Some Respect To The Original Author. That's Why It Was Bought.