If it's true Baron it wouldn't be all that suprising. Story pitches are routinely "borrowed" in Hollywood. Scripts are rehashed and rewritten with new characters for new shows. Very little is truely original because it's tough to get financing for an "unproven" idea. You can go back decades and find the same episodes done over and over again in different shows. It's rather amusing actually. You ever notice how movies always seem to come in pairs? Two volcano movies one year, two asteroid movies the next.
I remember reading that Roddenberry had an idea for a DS9/B5 like series when the original Trek went off the air in the 60's, but he couldn't get the backing for it. TNG was supposed to be it, but Paramount insisted on a more familier formula. He referred to TOS/TNG as "Wagon Train to the stars", and the show he wanted to do would be more like "Gunsmoke in the stars".
Geoschmo
[ June 27, 2002, 14:48: Message edited by: geoschmo ]
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