I remembered just enough of it to be thinking that the Pledge of Allegiance bit was some reviewer making a nasty comment about the writing but the Preamble bit was for real. Nope. Both of them were real elements.
What I did not know was a pair of facts that left me seriously questioning Roddenberry's judgement, and realizing that the seeds of Ye Gods That Was Unsubtle episodes of first-season TNG existed all the way back in the beginning:
- The script for The Omega Glory was one of three scripts Roddenberry submitted to the network as candidates for the second pilot episode after The Cage failed to wow them. (The other two were Where No Man Has Gone Before and Mudd's Women.) So he'd loved the episode enough to hold onto it for an entire season-plus and insist on eventually making it. - More alarmingly, he loved it enough that Roddenberry submitted a nomination for the damn thing for an Emmy award. He thought it was that good.
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Date: 2020-07-19 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-19 07:39 pm (UTC)HEY, THEY CAN’T ALL BE “CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER”
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Date: 2020-07-20 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-21 02:06 pm (UTC)What I did not know was a pair of facts that left me seriously questioning Roddenberry's judgement, and realizing that the seeds of Ye Gods That Was Unsubtle episodes of first-season TNG existed all the way back in the beginning:
- The script for The Omega Glory was one of three scripts Roddenberry submitted to the network as candidates for the second pilot episode after The Cage failed to wow them. (The other two were Where No Man Has Gone Before and Mudd's Women.) So he'd loved the episode enough to hold onto it for an entire season-plus and insist on eventually making it.
- More alarmingly, he loved it enough that Roddenberry submitted a nomination for the damn thing for an Emmy award. He thought it was that good.
This... explains more than I wish it did.