MM>Timecop was pretty ordinary.
MM>The Six Million Dollar Man was a popular series that ran several years,
MM>lead to one spin-off series, and multiple made-for-tv movies.  No,
MM>it wasn't really very good science fiction, but it was a commercial
MM>success, which is what the job of the producers is.
        Both of these failed as SF because of a "Whatever" view on the
 part of the producer.  Steve Austin never found his character and then
 got altered into a fairly dim super-hero when there might have been
 some stories to tell there.  If someone pointed out that no matter how
 strong your legs are, if you fall that far your guts will go splash,
 then I'm pretty sure the attitude was "Yeah.  Whatever."  That hurt 6
 Million Dollar man and aboslutely *killed* Timecop.
        OTOH Harve Bennett did have a handle on your basic story telling
 thing and so I imagine that bringing him in on VOY as a white knight
 sure couldn't hurt.
        I tend to blame what I liked about the Stories of ST:II, ST:IV
 and ST:VI on Nicholas Meyer and Leonard Nimoy.  I have *no doubt* that
 Harve Bennett had vital and creative input there. But... I think that's
 more Nicholas Meyer or a Leonard Nimoy thing.
MM>The Mod Squad was a break-through series that was also very popular.
        I have never seen an episode of this all the way through.
MM>Harve Bennett was involved in some good Star Trek projects.  He then
MM>came up with a bad idea, and left when it was rejected -- an idea that
MM>has since been adopted for a line of books about the Star Trek universe.
MM>:-)
        I read the Starfleet Academy books about the TNG crew.  I liked
 them, allowing for what they are.  (As if Star Trek books need to be
 written down for anyone.)  But I stayed away from the TOS characters in
 Starfleet Academy.  Kirk, Spock and McCoy *didn't* know each other in
 the Academy and went there at different times anyway!  The idea of the
 TOS characters having "Academy" adventures does violence to how I see
 the TOS set up.
        Just because someone puts it in a Trek book, or even in an
 episode doesn't mean that I have to accept it.  Heck, I don't even
 consider the episodes necessarily binding.
        I'm not saying that these things aren't Trek.  I'm saying I
 reject them and don't consider them on a personal level.  So there (Or
 something...)
Jay P. Hailey 
Chief Editor
THE UNIVERSE: TREK
 * OLX 2.1 TD * "So, I built a second one!  That sank into the swamp."
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