Sci-Fi USA, some *very* rare praise
Good arguements. I’ve never been one to praise Gene Roddenbery, in fact much to the contrary if any of you saw my post on Enterprise and how if they make anymore G.R. programs I’ll puke.
Sure the guy didnt have any creative talent, but his concepts ran away with themselves. Im clearly not the expert some of you are on Star Trek in fact other than seeing all the eps I dont know much, but I’ve read that most episodes werent his writing but of those around him. Even his secretary wrote an episode apparantly.
Why EFC and Andromeda are good in spite of being his series’s are the fact that Space Operas have life of their own. Sure the concepts are old and far overused but the soap opera style in which they are told make them incredible intriguing.
And if ya really want to break it ALL the way down everything is a ripoff. Asimov, Tolkien, Heinlein all credited as huge innovators could be called ripoffs of DaVinci, Shakespeare, and they could be ripoffs of Sophocles, Euripedes, Homer and if you REALLY want to break it down EVERY fiction is a ripoff of Gilgamesh, the first story known to man. It has every element of current fiction and is better written than most fictions. Its epic.
Every writer is a plagarist, influenced by those who come before them and all they have seen and known. A person locked in a box their whole life cant come up with ideas of spaceships or even space. The Cave by Plato is a great reference, albeit fiction of why this is so.