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However, David Gerrold — who wrote " The Trouble With Tribbles "— drew his inspiration from an actual event: Australia's environmentally destructive rabbit overpopulation.
Within days of seeing the Star Trek series premiere " The Man Trap " on 8 September 1966, Gerrold wrote a sixty-page outline for a two-part episode called " Tomorrow Was Yesterday ", about the Enterprise discovering a generation ship launched from Earth centuries earlier.
Gerrold later wrote a book, The Trouble With Tribbles, telling the whole story about producing the episode and his earlier premises.
The Trouble with Tribbles was one of two books Gerrold wrote about Star Trek in the early 1970s after the original series had been canceled.
Gerrold wrote a script for Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled " Blood and Fire ", which included an AIDS metaphor and an incidentally gay couple in the ship's crew.
Gerrold wrote this script in response to being with Roddenberry at a convention in 1987 where he had promised that the upcoming Next Generation series would deal with the issue of sexual orientation in the egalitarian future.
Gerrold wrote a novelization of the Star Trek: The Next Generation series premiere " Encounter at Farpoint ", published in 1987, and an original Star Trek novel titled The Galactic Whirlpool, published in 1980.
* A sequel episode appeared in Star Trek: The Animated Series titled " More Tribbles, More Troubles ," for which Gerrold also wrote the script.
Voyager producer Jeri Taylor wrote two novels featuring backstory for Voyager characters, and screen authors David Gerrold, D. C. Fontana, and Melinda Snodgrass have also penned books.

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Many of the changes Gerrold had advocated in The World of Star Trek were incorporated into Star Trek: The Next Generation when it debuted in 1987.
He parted company with the producers at the beginning of the first season, after a dispute before the Writers ' Guild in which the Guild required that Gerrold be paid additional wages for the work he did helping to create the series, because he had largely written the show's bible rather than Gene Roddenberry.
Gerrold had wanted to appear onscreen in an episode of Star Trek, particularly " The Trouble with Tribbles ".
In his 1973 memoir The Trouble With Tribbles: The Complete Story of One of Star Trek's Most Popular Episodes author David Gerrold states that he had been a science fiction fan since childhood, and was a film student in college when the series was aired.
Roddenberry began putting together a production crew which included colleagues who had worked with him on the original series, including Robert H. Justman, as well as David Gerrold and Eddie Milkis.
) David Gerrold, the author of the Star Trek episode, claims that he had read the Heinlein book years before writing his screenplay, and was not consciously aware of the similarities, until a routine studio clearances review prompted a contact with Heinlein who, graciously, admitted the similarities but also waived all rights.
Gerrold had not thought to repeat the effort, but as work on Method for Madness progressed, he received so many fan inquiries about " buying a character " that he decided to do it again.
Prior to that, In A Rage For Revenge, Gerrold included several characters, particularly children who were fated to be eaten by worms, named after friends he had made when attending his first UK Star Trek conventions.
Science-fiction writer David Gerrold was with Roddenberry when he promised that Star Trek: The Next Generation ( referred to by fans as TNG ) would integrate LGBT characters into the series and thus drafted a script for an episode that would have had two male crew-members that were a couple, in the backdrop of an allegory about the mistreatment of people infected with AIDS.

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This feature was originally proposed for the original series ( see, e. g., Gerrold, The World of Star Trek ) but was never used.
The character of Ensign Freeman, who appears in the famous bar scene with the Klingons, was originally intended by Gerrold to be a walk-on part for himself, although another actor took the role.
Additionally, David Gerrold, in an interview about Star Trek: The Animated Series, commented on Roddenberry's parsimony and how it originally affected " canon ":
The Chtorr series was originally planned as a trilogy, but as the story became more intricate, Gerrold realized that three books would not be enough for him to tell the entire story.

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* " More Tribbles, More Troubles " was written by David Gerrold as a sequel to his famous episode " The Trouble With Tribbles " from the original series.
Butler's story, in turn, inspired the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble with Tribbles ", written by David Gerrold.
It was written by David Gerrold and directed by Joseph Pevney and is episode # 44, production # 42.
It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on October 6, 1973, and was written by David Gerrold as a sequel to his Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ".
In the late 1970s, Bantam published a number of original Star Trek novels, including two written by noted science fiction author Joe Haldeman, and one by original series scriptwriter David Gerrold.
It is episode # 76, production # 74, written by Margaret Armen, based on a story by David Gerrold and Oliver Crawford, and directed by Jud Taylor.
The War Against the Chtorr is a series of novels written by David Gerrold.
To date, seven episodes have been released: " Come What May " ( the pilot ); " In Harm's Way "; " To Serve All My Days "; " World Enough and Time "; " Blood and Fire ," a two-part episode written by original series scribe David Gerrold ; " Enemy: Starfleet "; and " The Child.

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Other fans have suggested that office politics, including a labor dispute between Gerrold and Roddenberry, prevented the script from getting produced, rather than bigotry or hypocrisy on the part of Roddenberry or the studio.

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* The Flying Sorcerers ( 1971, with David Gerrold ), previously serialised as " The Misspelled Magishun ", includes portraits of other SF authors — e. g. the lead character name becomes translated into the local language as " As a color, shade of purple-gray " ( or Purple for short ), that is, " As-A-Mauve "
According to screenwriter David Gerrold, the show's producers noticed similarities in the two stories and asked Heinlein for permission to use the idea.
Kaypro published and subsidized ProFiles: The Magazine for Kaypro Users, a monthly, 72-page, four-color magazine that went beyond coverage of Kaypro's products to include substantive information on CP / M and MS-DOS ; frequent contributors included Ted Chiang, David Gerrold, Robert J. Sawyer, and Ted Silveira.
David Gerrold ( born 1944 ) is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek.
Gerrold contributed two stories for the Emmy Award winning Star Trek: The Animated Series which ran from 1973 to 1974: " More Tribbles, More Troubles " and " Bem ".
In particular, Gerrold can be credited for reshaping the position of " first officer " as the ship's executive officer and commander of " away teams " ( to overcome the unrealism of the ship's captain routinely beaming into dangerous situations ).
After his early success with " The Trouble with Tribbles " Gerrold continued writing television scripts ( mostly for science fiction series such as Land of the Lost, Babylon 5, Sliders, and The Twilight Zone ).
Gerrold is the author of the War Against the Chtorr series of books, about an invasion of Earth by mysterious aliens: A Matter for Men ( 1983 ), A Day for Damnation ( 1985 ), A Rage for Revenge ( 1989 ), and A Season for Slaughter ( 1993 ).
One reason given by Gerrold for the length of time taken between books 4 and 5 is the need to develop a writing style called " first person psychotic ".
The writers who have acknowledged his assistance include Anne McCaffrey for the Dragonriders of Pern ; Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes for their Legacy of Heorot ; James White of Sector General fame ; David Gerrold for the Chtorr ecology ; and Terry Pratchett for several works.
Story editor David Gerrold saw the sketch and brought it to creator Gene Roddenberry's attention, who approved the sketch as a starting point for the Enterprise-D's design.

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