55 Years Ago: William Shatner’s Favorite ‘Star Trek’

UltimateClassicRock ^ | April 6, 2022 | Martin Kielty

[HeadOn]

That was intended to be the pilot for a spin-off! Somehow or other, though, it didn’t make it. I’ve read about it but cannot remember why.

[\/\/ayne]

[enraged]

Kind of like Indiana Jones really didn’t matter in raiders of the lost arc.

[GOPJ]

...truly terrifying story. If you wanted to give someone a sense of Hell...

You're right.

[The Antiyuppie]

“You write something great, it’s your baby, you don’t want people messing with it, in this case good thing they did.”

The way the Writer’s Guild rules work in Hollywood, it was his work, and no matter what Roddenberry et al, did to improve it and make it usable for actual TV production, it remained and still remains “Ellison’s work”, for better or worse.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

My favorite Star Trek will always be, The Trouble with Tribbles. I have a warm spot for that episode.

[eldoradude]

Among other things, in Ellison's script the drug that McCoy was accidentally injected with was an illegal drug being trafficked by some of the engineering crew on the Enterprise. Roddenberry cut that part out, insisting that in the future, illicit drug use would not exist.

Ellison went on to write an entire book griping about this, and the book included his original script.

Shatner later wrote a series of scifi novels - TekWar - about 22nd century microchip drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TekWar

"The 22nd century universe is centered on "Tek"—an illegal, addictive, mind-altering digital drug in the form of a microchip. The drug creates a simulated reality (and in the films and TV series taps into "the matrix" hyperspace). The protagonist, Jake Cardigan, is a former police officer framed for dealing the drug four years prior to the start of the first novel. Having been sentenced to 15 years' cryo-imprisonment, his release is brought forward by Walt Bascom, the head of private investigation agency Cosmos, who has uncovered the framed charges and exonerates him. In return Bascom wishes to employ him as an expert in a series of Tek-related crimes, mostly in Greater Los Angeles, referred to as "GLA". In the first few novels Cardigan is portrayed as a recovering Tek-user with several lapses, but this aspect diminishes as the novels progress - it is implied in later novels that to break the addiction for even a light user is impossible."

[central_va]

I think “Patterns of Force” is a great episode.

[Kevmo]

Very applicable to today, with a dunderhead in charge.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Man, you can find anything on the internet. I remember in “ye olden days” when, if you couldn’t find it in the Encyclopedia Brittanica or some such, then you had to drive to a library and search through old books, magazines, or even microfilm.

Egads it is easy to find anything these days. Right at your fingertips.

[WhattheDickens?]

Star Trek ping

[nickcarraway]

How much did Shatner actually write those?

[daniel1212]

The reviewer much misses the profundity behind changing the past, for since even the smallest event (even less than a sneeze) affects other things, and so forth. Thus even the death of drunk who vaporized himself with the phaser of Mcoy had an effect and could have prevented Kirk from every even existing.

God knows. For (as I told an atheist) He alone is omniscient, and thus knows even all the very thoughts of man, good and evil, as well as his acts, and also knows what every single effect will be of even every minuscule thought and act in this life and country and world, as well as eternity ( King Hezekiah found out how negative an extension of life past his due date can turn out to be, for knowing he was to due, he prayed for an extension and which was granted, but afterward did evil).

And being omnipotent, He not only restrains evil (which man, as a being who can make moral choices, must be allowed to choose) but can make the negative choices of man, as well as His own, to work out for Good, often in the short term but most certainly in the light of eternity, since He can and does promise to do so. (Romans 8:28)

Thus, knowing all, even all thoughts and their motive and effects, and able and purposed to make them work out for what is just, yet with mercy and grace, then as the Giver of life, God can even take the life of an infant, and allow suffering, and send judgments such as are not allowed of man since he is limited in knowledge and ability

Atheists would argue that God should not allow evil, or immediately judge evildoers (while atheism has no sure supreme universal standard for morality), yet as exceedingly finite mere specks in this universe, and in the expanse of time, and of humanity, man has no standing to judge an omniscient omnipotent Being, and while atheists rail against Him who they deny, it seems they never express potential gratitude unless He would act according to their omniscient wisdom.