WritingMadeHard

This year, those of us who consider Star Trek to be a major influence in our lives celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek series. Paramount and CBS are marking the 40th anniversary with a new edition of the old series. It is being re-released with new graphics and special effects and will be shown on 200 tv stations throughout the USA. Ironic that the show originated on NBC and the network that tried to kill it twice before succeeding has let it slip through their fingers again. The original series was a watershed because it used stories written by science fiction writers rather than TV writers. Had the succeeding series done the same thing, they would have been much more watchable. Let's hope that any new series bearing the Star Trek name will also hold to the old tradition of using stories written by science fiction writers. Steve