You, Billy and I could fart up some fan faction that’s better this is, I’d bet. If not better, at least something with 100% less magic spores.
I mean for F sake, warp drive is based on semi-realistic actual theory but magic spores? In it’s own way that’s sillier than a planet full of 1930’s gangsters. Magic spores and fugly Klingon religious fanatics, this is what they bring Star Trek back to tv for?
I’d suggest we all head for Hollywood but they’d give us a hard time about the casting couch now (thanks, Harvey!) so what’s the point.
Well, remember “A Piece of the Action” episode was quite believable and an example of why leaving stuff behind could poison a primitive culture (to wit, a crewmember leaving a book on Chicago Gangsters of the ‘20s/’30s). That particular planet’s inhabitants were supposed to be one that liked to “copy” things. The USS Horizon makes contact with them, they get ahold of the book (I’d postulate one of the creative people might’ve “lifted” the book) and 100 years later, the whole planet resembles Chicago under Mayors Big Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak. Yikes.
Curiously, I read somewhere that after the Enterprise encounter, where McCoy accidentally leaves a piece of equipment (communicator ?), when another ship is dispatched to “NuChicagoland” to collect their “cut” a decade or so later, they discover that the entire planet has been transformed into a fully-functional Federation Starbase, and Boss Oxmyx is now Fleet Admiral of the planet, and Kirk’s fictitious cardgame of Fizzbin, the planetary pastime.