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[Bud Brewster]

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All Sci-Fi member Pow is the author of the fine post below, which I copied from the five-page thread for The Outer Limits and pasted below to start a new thread for this topic.
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TOL had quite a number of wonderful scripts written by highly talented writers.

So I always found it curious that when Star Trek: TOS premiered only a year after TOL's cancellation that Gene Roddenberry used few writers from TOL for ST:TOS.

Harlan Ellison wrote 2, now considered classic scripts, for TOL; he wrote one script for Trek, also considered a classic.

There may have been a couple of other writers who wrote for TOL that also wrote for Trek. But not many.

TOL creators & writers Leslie Stevens & Joseph Stefano never wrote for Trek.

I would have thought that given the quality that TOL stories generally had that Roddenberry would have sought out the script writers for TOL for Star Trek. I think the same applies to few Twilight Zone writers ever writing for Trek. Richard Matheson who wrote for Zone did one script for Trek.

Rod Serling never wrote for Trek but perhaps his fee was more than the Trek budget allowed at the time.

And of course perhaps for reasons unknown to us these writers for Zone & Limits did not want to write for Trek. Maybe Gene didn't want them either for his own reasons.
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[Maurice]

The Star Trek office talked to lots of writers and the 2nd pilot was screened multiple times in early March 1966 to get writers interested in pitching stories. The problem the show had was getting pitches that fit the show's format, and getting scripts that worked. An anthology show doesn't have to worry about consistency. In the first season Trek cut off a lot of story assignments to name writers because their pitches and scripts just didn't work.
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