Lawsuit on the Edge of Forever
Harlan Ellison is an incredibly entertaining writer, and no topic puts him in such fine form as that of his aclaimed Star Trek screenplay, The City on the Edge of Forever. No, I don't mean he was in fine form when he wrote the screenplay; I consider it a mixed bag of inspired character development and embarrassing cliché. No, what really brings out Ellison's genius is writing about the writing of, and the subsequent decades-long argument with Gene Roddenberry over, The City on the Edge of Forever.
My friend Jeremy, alert as always, reports to me today that the case is seeing—oh, how shall we put it?—fresh developments. You'll laugh, you'll cry.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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That book was great fun. I think writer D.C. Fontana actually did some of the clean-up after the corporate folks had it gutted. -spk
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