Harlin Ellison wrote 1 original Star trek Episode.. the only one to win an award... a hugo or something... "City At The Edge Of Forever" aka Edith Keelor Must Die... With Joan Collins... Possibly the best episode of any star trek series, and likley my 2nd favorite of all time...

and what they did to Harlins story, it's no wonder he hated it, and all things star trekian, massed produced (have you seen how many star Wars, Forgotten Realms, junk there is in the speculative fiction section of any book store these days???)

When Harlin sings "If I had a Hammer", he sings, "There'd be no more trekies"!

My 'take' on star trek??

Well, the original series kicks ass in a huyge way, but should ahve never been renewed for the last year... Com'on?!?!? The Komes and the Yangs??? Let This Be Your Last Battlefield?!?!?!?! Absolute crap!!! The movies have run more hot than cold...

TNG.. TNG ran for 7 years, and in that 7 years produced amybe 1 or 2 full seasons of good, entertaining, original episodes... I mean, the very 2nd episode was a blatant rip off of a sorta lame, but delightfully tongue in cheek OS episode... How good could TNG get?!?! The TNG movies have been absolute garbage...

SS9... A damn soap opera set in the Star Trek universe... it's no wonder they had to wait for Gene to kick off before they could make it!! See my comment above about "To boldly STAY, where..." That said, possibly my favorite Star Trek ever is DS9's Return To Tribbles.. mostly on the tech merits of blending the old footage with the new characters! Absolutely delightful!

Voyagenerd... Started off as a neat idea and failled misserably in the implimentation... after about the 3rd series I pretty much gave up on it, and only tuned in hoping to see the ship blown up and the crew killed off... That and Jeri Ryan has a NICE RACK!! But she's no where near as cute as Jennifer Lien (Kes)... And can someone please get the captain a mint or something to help her clear her throat?!?!?!?!?!

Star Trek Shmar Smeck! The great bired in the sky has passed and the idiots left behind besmirch his name by tacking it onto the junk they produce...