Don
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Harlan Ellison wrote Star Trek’s greatest episode. He hated it.
The famously cantankerous science-fiction legend died this week. The story of “City on the Edge of Forever” represents his career in miniature.
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Why did Ellison hate Roddenberry's production so vehemently? Paramount's proffered rationales of skimpy budgets or storied drug use ring a little false to me. Shortly before his demise, Ellison produced a graphic novel based upon his original script:
Review: Harlan Ellison’s “The City on the Edge of Forever” | Pixelated Geek
Fans of Star Trek: The Original Series will remember the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". Fans of Harlan Ellison will probably remember that he wrote the teleplay, which was then altered by several writers. In 2014, IDW published a five-issue version of Ellison's teleplay, adapted by...
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An Ellison analog appears in the story as a character named Trooper. A character who lost both of his legs fighting in the American Army at Verdun. A character cast away afterwards by an ungrateful nation. In my opinion Ellison gave the Bonus Army a voice. A voice too subversive for Paramount to screen.
The 1932 Bonus Army (U.S. National Park Service)
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