From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: will.dockery{at}gmail.com
Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison

On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:01:20 PM UTC-4, Jim G. wrote:
> 
> It's almost always mentioned as something worth a revisit, but I think
> that everyone is just waiting for Harlan to die so that the chance of a
> lawsuit is diminished. I was very surprised not only to see him agree to
> this comic book treatment
This covers it all, really:
Harlan Ellison gave his permission for the adaptation.
Another couple of Star Trek movies will easily run into the next decade
sometime, maybe even longer if the whole Abrams reboot suddenly bombs...
H.E. may be immortal, like Poe and Shakespeare are... but he's only human,
and in his 90s who knows where his thoughts will be?
God, Ellison, Shatner, not to mention the Rolling Stones, in their 90s.
Even though I'm a "kid" relative to these giants, I gotta say
I... feel... old (in my best Wrath of Khan era Shatner voice)
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