At one point I had a long mental list of Heinlein ideas that rather blatantly slipped into Rodenberry’s Star Trek. I haven’t read RAH in years, so the list is lost to me now except for one item.
It seems obvious to me that Heinlein’s Flatcats became Tribbles.
I know there were plenty more. Anyone have any to share?
His 1958 juvenile title, ‘Have Spacesuit Will Travel’ had a very good depiction of early home built computing, some 20 years before Appple II, C64 and Atari.
Yes, and if you compare Heinlein's ROLLING STONES with the Star Trek TRIBBLES episode, you will see that it even contains "The bombastic Harcourt Fenton Mudd" in the form of an asteroid miner.