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After being lost for forty-five years, He Walked Among Us<\/em>, Norman Spinrad<\/strong>‘s unproduced Star Trek<\/em> script is has come to light.<\/p>\n Spinrad is best-known to Star Trek<\/em> fans for the superb original series episode, The Doomsday Machine<\/em>. But that was not the only Star Trek<\/em> script written by the author. In 1967, the author penned He Walked Among Us<\/em>.<\/p>\n The original version of the script was rewritten into an “unfunny comedy,” according to Spinrad, who was dismayed when he realized that it was meant as a vehicle for Milton Berle<\/strong>. “This original version was rewritten into an unfunny comedy by the line producer Gene Coon<\/strong> apparently unaware that Uncle Miltie was also a serious dramatic actor and a good one,” said Spinrad. “It was so bad that I complained to [Gene<\/strong>] Roddenberry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “‘This is so lousy, Gene, that you should kill it!’ I told him. ‘You can’t, you shouldn’t, shoot this thing! Read it and weep!'”<\/p>\n Roddenberry agreed with Spinrad and the episode never saw the light of day.<\/p>\n For years, Spinrad thought that the original script had been lost, until a copy appeared courtesy of a fan. “…recently a fan asked me to autograph a faded copy he had bought somewhere,” said Spinrad. “I did, and in return he sent me a PDF off a scan.”<\/p>\n The original story was a mission by Kirk and crew to the planet Jugal. A check on the developing culture of the primitive warrior-clansmen Jugalis revealed that they were using technologies that shouldn’t have discovered yet.\u00a0 When a landing party goes down to the planet to investigate, the Jugalis are none too happy to see them.<\/p>\n Spinrad is now offering copies of the script via Amazon Kindle. Copies can be purchased here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After being lost for forty-five years, He Walked Among Us, Norman Spinrad‘s unproduced Star Trek…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[4102,4099],"class_list":["post-15208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-he-walked-among-us","tag-spinrad"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"20","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15217,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208\/revisions\/15217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}