re: #123 Targetpractice

Roddenberry was an ideas guy, you could call him into a TV exec’s office and he’d pitch ideas for several TV shows that would sound interesting and full of potential. But then you’d greenlight one of them and find out that he only ever had the base outline in mind of what he wanted. That was most obvious in the ill-fated third season of TOS, when all the talented members of the writing staff saw the writing on the wall and jumped ship, leaving him and the guys with no better job prospects to muddle through under the new producer’s mandates until the axe came down.

Roddenberry left the show after season two. He kept the executive producer title, but moved his office to another building, and concentrated on a different job after they changed the broadcast date/time.