Author Topic: If You Thought Shat Was Bad on MDP Before... (Read 11425 times)

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #15 on:** February 03, 2009, 11:43:19 AM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'207486\' date=\'Feb 3 2009, 11:16 AM\']Ron Goulart was the ghostwriter of the TekWar novels.[/quote]
And what a smart, smart man.

TekWar by Ron Goulart: Who cares?

William Shatner's TekWar: Massive, monster hit.

PYLdude · « **Reply #16 on:** February 03, 2009, 06:20:24 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'207488\' date=\'Feb 3 2009, 11:43 AM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'207486\' date=\'Feb 3 2009, 11:16 AM\']Ron Goulart was the ghostwriter of the TekWar novels.[/quote]
And what a smart, smart man.

TekWar by Ron Goulart: Who cares?

William Shatner's TekWar: Massive, monster hit.
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Well, I guess it's true...the kids have to learn about TekWar sooner or later.

inturnaround · « **Reply #17 on:** February 03, 2009, 11:00:30 PM »

The Shat Trek books were "co-written" by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stephens.

calliaume · « **Reply #18 on:** February 03, 2009, 11:27:33 PM »

[quote name=\'Robair\' post=\'207485\' date=\'Feb 3 2009, 12:04 PM\']
So now that this new dirt about Shatner has come out, it begs the question...who the hell helped him write all those TekWar and Star Trek books? I just can't conceive of a published author sucking at "Password".
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Probably part of the contract that the ghost writer was kept anonymous.

I know when I was working on Tor books that we had to completely pitch out the first manuscript for a book "written" by Jonathan Frakes because he didn't like it.

TLEberle · « **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2009, 11:25:44 PM »

I realize that I'm diverting the discussion away from TekWar, but I'd like to put in that I think it's really lame when a game show unilaterally decides that a contestant's appearance may as well have never existed for whatever reason they choose.

Yes, I know. It's in the contracts and all of that. I also know that the example in question ended with no money being won. But part of the reason that game shows are interesting and exciting is because you don't know if someone is going to win or lose. (In the case of MDP, though, you do know when someone's last money round; by fail or bail, is coming.) Millionaire would be much less interesting if everyone got to $1,000.

That's to say nothing of the contestant who tells all of her friends and family that she's going to tape an episode of Password, and has to come home and explain that her game was so utterly awful that it was chucked, and they replaced it with something else.