XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: wdstarr@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
   "Ken from Chicago"  said:   
      
   [ from an interview with David Gerrold: ]   
      
   >> About working on TNG:   
   >>   
   >> "Well, actually I was supposed to be a producer, but they kept   
   >> whittling my duties.  And my title.  And my pay.  And I   
   >> finally got the very clear message that Gene's lawyer didn't   
   >> like me.  And that whatever Gene promised me, the lawyer was   
   >> going to take away.  And the lawyer was afraid that Gene was   
   >> going to lose control of the show.  So what he was doing was   
   >> significantly undermining everybody that might be a threat to   
   >> Gene, so that he could stay in control.  And he appointed   
   >> himself chief of staff.  And the result was that we had a   
   >> lawyer running the show.  A lawyer who had no knowledge of how   
   >> to do television.  No knowledge of what Star Trek was supposed   
   >> to be.  And he was re-writing scripts.  [...] I was the second   
   >> or third person to leave, but there were 30 other people who   
   >> followed me out the door in that first season alone."   
   >   
   > Um, the NAME of this lawyer wouldn't happen to be "Richard   
   > Arnold" would it?   
      
   I was thinking that too, but Gerrold does give the name later in   
   the interview.  I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I do   
   remember that it was no one I'd ever heard of before.   
      
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