Tag: Gene L. Coon
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STAR TREK REWIND: “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth”
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” I remember reading an article in the old Trek fanzine published and then re-printed for a paperback compilation in which writer Russell Bates was required to defend himself on charges of stealing the central idea of the second season episode, “Who Mourns…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The Return of the Archons”
“You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good.”* Gene Roddenberry was a humanist. He didn’t embrace religion. In his works, he disliked religion, perhaps considering it the “opiate…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Tomorrow is Yesterday”
“The truth is, I’m a little green man from Alpha Centauri. A beautiful place. You ought to see it.“ Time travel. We hinted around with it in “The Naked Time,” flirted with it a little, but the top-notch science fiction writers of the time knew that theme could be a crutch if over-used. The majority…
Misadventures in Blissville 