ST:TMP Novelization: Mystery Solved.

[Kurgan]

I'm very interested in this "moral rights" concept relating to fiction. I am not trying to sarcastic here, just curious.

What you mean is that the original creator of a fictional series has the write to define what happens in it and how it goes, right?

And this right belongs soley to that person, and once they die, the "canon is closed" so to speak? Or am I wrong.... thanks.

[snap10764]

Ok Alan Dean Foster did do the movie Novelization But Gene did write a script called In Thy Image which at one point was to be the pilot of Star Trek Phase 2 which was to be a new tv series which chronicaled the next five year mission of the Enterprise after an extensive overhaul but Paramont did not like the script The pilot for that tv series was to deal with the disaperance of Kirk and the crew coming together to find him on a planet that was previously not known to the Federation a so called planet of titans. When they decided that it was to be a motion picture several scripts were written including on called the God Thing and what they did was take parts of In Thy Image and The God Thing gave them to a writer and what came out was ST:TMP. This has happened with several of the movies at one point with lawsuits flying everwhere.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

You have ADF and GR switched.

And many of us already know plenty about Phase II...

[Uraniun235]

Ok Alan Dean Foster did do the movie Novelization

Dude, did you even read the fucking thread? Foster emailed Poe saying he didn't write the novelization!

And for god's sake, earn yourself some punctuation!