11.30.09 By: John Gholson

I don't think anyone saw this coming. Harlan Ellison, the prickly sci-fi author best known to Star Trek fans for spending the last forty years bitching about changes to the only episode he ever wrote ("City on the Edge of Forever"), has opened his arms to J.J. Abrams, asking to be part of the new Star Trek creative team.
"If anyone out there thinks this melding has legs, let Abrams or anyone else with the chops to get in touch with me directly," Ellison pleads. "I am without full-time film-agent representation, by choice, at the moment; so if the job presents itself, I will work for pay."
Ellison has been a vocal critic of the late Gene Roddenberry for years, and he couldn't resist the urge to get a few cracks in, "Where's the 'downside' to getting topside the radar of J.J. Abrams? This guy ain't Roddenberry!...He's a writer I respect, whose work has frequently blown the lid off my box of surpriseability." The notoriously litigious Ellison recently settled a lawsuit with CBS/Paramount Television over monies owed from his classic episode.
I can't imagine Ellison working on the sequel to Abrams' hit feature film, but he might have a few interesting adventures up his sleeve for that new Star Trek television series that the folks at Bad Robot keep drumming up interest for. Time will tell.
(via Trek Today)
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Sean Traegerat 12-06-2009
If there is to be a new series of Star Trek Movies, I think they should not receive a traditional Movie Numbering system: Star Trek 2, Star Trek 3, etc.--instead, they should have an "alphabet" system: Star Trek B, Star Trek C -OR- Star Trek Beta, Star Trek Gamma.
Kelly Mosleyat 12-07-2009
I agree!!!!!!
BoopusFromHellat 1-03-2010
Star Trek B and C? Star Trek Gamma and Delta?
I don't agree. That idea, unfortunately, sucks, m'lad. Fer cryin' out loud, it's a McDonalds of Science Fiction type TV show turned film.
Bless Abrams for making it a wee bit better. Bless Harlan for being coaxed back after trekkoid nerddom and this kind of "Star Trek Gamma" bullshit caused the franchise to implode on itself.
Hint: None of us out here watching regular TV shows give a shit what a "Multiplexing Phase Inverter" is, or want to hear it. Again. EVER.
Chuckat 1-24-2010
Shut up Harlan. No one cares what you think nor would anyone give you the chance to work on Trek again.
So f. off!