re: #240 The Squire of Logos

Roddenberry would tell fans he was ‘protecting’ Star Trek from studio greed. But the reality was, he was only interested in it when it was making money for him. Otherwise it was on to other projects (one of which was actually intriguing… Spectre, starring Robert Culp).

I still remember him appearing at conventions and telling fans that he had to change Ellison’s script of City on the Edge of Forever because Ellison had Scotty dealing drugs. No, Ellison’s script did not have Scotty dealing drugs. It was more of Roddenberry ‘protecting’ Star Trek, in this case from something that never happened.

Great Bird of the Galaxy my ass.

It was Harlan who led the campaign to get Star Trek renewed for the second season. And the thanks he got for doing that…he was stabbed in the back.

Harlan’s original script didn’t have Scotty dealing drugs to another crewman. It had another crewman doing that who wound up jumping thru the Guardian and winding up for all eternity inside a star being burned alive.