Star Trek cast on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow, 1976, Part 5

Conclusion: NBC's Tomorrow with host Tom Snyder and guests DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. A 1976 interview and are joined by scribe Harlan Ellison and convention organiser Al Schuster. Part 5 of 5.

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[AgentSmithClan]

I bet Harlan would be raving over how great Trek was if they had kept his original script for Trek and had McCoy selling drugs on a streetcorner or whatever he had in there.

[memoryiotia]

Could be. Of course, now he's suing Paramount and the WGA about it. Variety reported the story yesterday. (I'd post the link, but YouTube doesn't allow links in comments.)

[keytoothed]

I was wondering if you could tell me against whom H.E. is litigating and why? (The City on the Edge of Forever.) Thanks for the time for posting these. Loved them.

[memoryiotia]

Sorry, didn't catch your comment down here until today.

I honestly don't remember. I think I read it on the Variety website a couple of months back.

[verbusen]

Harlen is just so bitter. I saw him do some clips for the Sci Fi channel's anniversary showing of Star Trek and he was still bitter. Very bitter guy that they "butchered" his story of City On The Edge Of Forever. I liked James and Walter standing up to him a little bit because despite Harlen's elitist views if he had run that show instead of Gene, there would never have been a Star Trek! Great series of post's seeing it now at age 44 and growing up with Trek TOS so much, thanks!

[thanks51]

people that don't like star trek are haters and don't have the grey matter to grasp its strength and positivity

[sondano]

Ellison doesn't get it the reason why people love Star Trek is that it's a better world than the one we have live in it's a way to escape from reality's shit and we don't love Proust that much if at all because few would think that fucking Combray in the 19th century was any better than today's world and it's undeniable that far more good came out from Star Trek than ever will from In Search of Lost Time as the latter may do many things but not inspire to actually develop something new

[sondano]

Ellision doesn't get it people like Star Trek because they see it as a better world than the one they are living in it's a way to escape you cannot fucking escape with Proust because few people would like to live in fucking Combray in the 19th century

[sondano]

Yeah  I never liked Ellison as much as I love CotEoF

[maskguy100]

wow, that is a hell of a lot of smoking going on- like little chimneys in every corner of the set

[MultiShriek]

Ellison is a jerk. The years of trek success that followed this rant prove that.

[QYB555]

I, too, have had a brief meeting with Harlan Ellison. He gives the term "Dique" a bad name.

[robertlaberge]

Mr Ellison is some kind of Mr Bitterness.

So negative and disillusioned.

Hope I never get to be like that...

[bearrnabas]

Love watching Doohan totally repel Ellison's pessimism.  Ellison's opinion of Star Trek is so low. He wanted to "own" the characters--make them do things they'd never do--make them tragic. Doohan sees Ellison trying to "recast" the series, or spin it. Glad he's strong enough to counter him.

[knoxvilleguy2]

ZombiestRevolution:

I fear that he's becoming like George Carlin did before he died.

Carlin was a " bitter old git ".

At least Ellison owns up to being a crotchety old man at times, & he doesn't harangue & swear at an audience. Sometimes his readers get reamed out.

He still beats the drum about the script for " City on the Edge of Forever ".