[GrandJediMasterYoda]

DC Fontana wrote that who is a woman who wrote a lot of stuff for Star Trek. Dororthy Fontana who used initials in her name to avoid sex bias by Democraps in Hollywood. She also wrote my favorite Star trek episode of all time "This side of paradise" which was a huge dig at the hippy drug movement at the time, and even addiction how the real cost is wasted time. Brilliant episode. She's still around too, still writing.........

[yarddog]

I agree that also was a good episode.

There were some good ones and some weak ones. I did like the series. Have not liked any of the sequels.

[MUDDOG]

Impressive!

[a fool in paradise]

>> She also wrote my favorite Star trek episode of all time “This side of paradise” which was a huge dig at the hippy drug movement at the time, and even addiction how the real cost is wasted time. Brilliant episode.

I get the impression that was one of the things Brian Wilson was warning about on Pet Sounds in Hang Onto Your Ego/I Know There’s An Answer

I know so many people who think they can do it alone
They isolate their heads and stay in their safety zone
But what can you tell them
What can you say that won’t make them defensive
Hang on to your ego
Hang on but I know that you’re gonna lose the fight.
They come on like they’re peaceful
But inside they’re so uptight
They trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night
But how can I say it
How can I come on when I know I’m guilty
Hang on to your ego
Hang on because I know that you’re gonna lose the fight
And how can I say it
How can I come on when I know I’m guilty
Hang on to your ego
Hang on
Hang on but I know that you’re gonna lose the fight

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I don’t see the uptight people being the ones taking LSD, I see it as a reflective look at uptight people who take LSD to seek THE answers to life only to trip all day and waste their thoughts at night (any illusion of enlightenment or discovery is lost and wasted).

Drug guides of the time advised thrill seekers to surrender their egos and be born anew by the LSD experience but Brian is saying hang onto your ego and that he’s guilty of the same errors, losing your ego can be a crushing experience. It took Brian a long time to come back...

[kiltie65]

:It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself. D.C. Fontana

Maybe not, but it is a sin of omission.