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29 Days of Star Trek Meme: Day 29
Mar. 6th, 2012 10:55 pm29 - If you could tell Gene Roddenberry one thing, Star Trek related or not, what would it be?
Honestly, I’m going to reject this question, just because Star Trek – maybe even more so that other media franchises – isn’t purely the work of one person. Yes, Roddenberry came up with the original concept, but the strength of Star Trek has always been how easy it’s been to adapt that basic premise to cover such a variety of stories.
(And, of course, a lot of TOS’s world building was fairly obviously ad-hoc. It takes the better part of the first season for the writers to reach any sort of consensus as to who, exactly, the Enterprise works for!)
Roddenberry wasn’t the single genius behind Star Trek, and his involvement in Trek was quite often blatantly mercenary. I’ve heard the characterisation of Cochrane in First Contact was, in part, a bit of a parody of Roddenberry, and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was true.
So instead, a thank you to all the writers, actors and artists that contributed to Trek as whole in its many incarnations.
Honestly, I’m going to reject this question, just because Star Trek – maybe even more so that other media franchises – isn’t purely the work of one person. Yes, Roddenberry came up with the original concept, but the strength of Star Trek has always been how easy it’s been to adapt that basic premise to cover such a variety of stories.
(And, of course, a lot of TOS’s world building was fairly obviously ad-hoc. It takes the better part of the first season for the writers to reach any sort of consensus as to who, exactly, the Enterprise works for!)
Roddenberry wasn’t the single genius behind Star Trek, and his involvement in Trek was quite often blatantly mercenary. I’ve heard the characterisation of Cochrane in First Contact was, in part, a bit of a parody of Roddenberry, and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was true.
So instead, a thank you to all the writers, actors and artists that contributed to Trek as whole in its many incarnations.