Sci-Fi USA, some *very* rare praise
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Originally posted by Evil_Lister:
Earth Final Conflict has to be the dumbest show on TV, worse than Babylon5 and i HATE that show. Gene Roddenburys wife must be making a mint selling off her late husbands throwaway sci fi ideas. Im sure he had alot of half baked scenarios for shows written down before he died, and EFC is one of them.
[i]Before[/i] he died? Man, other than the [i]Star Trek[/i] franchise, *every* scenario the guy came up with was half-baked. Does *anyone* really want to see [i]Genesis II, The Questor Tapes, Planet Earth[/i] or [i]Spectre[/i]? What about that show that he tried to use an episode of [i]Star Trek[/i] as a launching pad for? “Assignment: Earth” with Robert Lansing as superhuman secret agent/big-time doofus Gary Seven and Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln, his hapless assistant? With his “now she’s a cat, now she’s a hot babe” companion? With Kirk delivering one of the worst “hey, let’s do a spin-off!” lines of all time, something like “We’ve checked the historical records, and you two have some very interesting adventures ahead of you…” That episode (with “Spock’s Brain”) just makes me want to dig up Roddenberry’s corpse and punch it in the face a few times, but they cremated him.
The guy could assemble some talented people, but I have to agree with Harlan Ellison: Gene Roddenberry couldn’t write himself out of a paper bag.
–Aleck