Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 01:37:25 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: In Defense of Fred Freiberger References: <1162120697.736723329.472692.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <20240506204650.000031c9@example.com> <2126053556.736736988.954402.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 01:37:25 +0000 Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-jXnSE7wm0oorzEPJ2SkxwGNlCPSoPEhT13J4C9tAGqDwp/b3DWWymGdipijnBFK9o8cgXhF5PnyghQ9!GRFFu66nk0e4K2ujsXfRp+IgRcZhZ8FCG0MwbzeP/nIXYjbsknkt2S5hlpL+L/3fp5d7B+u8RsIN X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2887 X-Original-Lines: 39 On May 6, 2024 at 6:27:29 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" wrote: > Rhino wrote: >> On Mon, 6 May 2024 14:46:02 -0700 >> anim8rfsk wrote: >> >>> Ubiquitous wrote: >>>> Last week I created a video claiming that Fred Freiberger was >>>> responsible for the demise of such shows as "Star Trek", "Space >>>> 1999", "The Six Million Dollar Man" and others, but was he? We'll >>>> re-examine that today! >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqn_DJdZQGw >>> >>> Man was an incompetent menace. >>> >> I recently saw a quote from Shatner where he defended Freiberger, >> saying he did the best he could with a severely reduced budget. >> >> Maybe Shatner wrote the IMDB article on Freiberger which says: >> >> =========================================================== >> Because of a planned European vacation, he then spurned an offer by >> Gene Roddenberry to produce Star Trek (1966) from the onset. > > I’ve never heard that before and I’d go far enough as to call it a blatant > lie > > However, >> in 1968, he took up the option to produce the show in its final season. >> By then, severe budgetary cuts (which resulted in many 'bottle show' >> episodes and lower quality scripts), the exodus of top creative talent >> and the take-over of Desilu by Paramount > > I’ll also call that a blatant lie. While it happened, it had happened at > the first season. And weren't *all* the episodes of TOS "bottle show" episodes? I don't remember there being any kind of multiple episode or season-long story arcs.