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Title: Ridiculous whining and excessive toadying...
Review: ...are the main hallmarks of this book about why Harlan's script was a classic and why Gene and the Star Trek empire are evil. The truly funny thing is that the script is so sparse that it's difficult for me to see how anybody could get so worked up over the changes which were made - we're talking about bare stage directions and a dozen or so pages of material here, not something that rises to the level of literature.The pats on the back administered with regularity by Ellison were bad enough, but the effusive sucking-up in the foreword and epilogue by other Star Trek "luminaries" made this book seriously painful to read.I came into this _wanting_ to like Harlan and his version of the script. This book (and seemingly Harlan himself) is so annoying that I'm ready to believe that Gene, though for stupid reasons, made the best decision of his career by snubbing this loser.
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