Comment Re:wow (Score 1) 483
While I disagree on the reason I do think it reflects badly on Ellison. He needed to compromise more than he was willing to (he was willing to make quite a lot of changes, just not enough).
Unfortunately the producers, while maybe willing to compromise, were already annoyed that Ellison took so long to finish the script so they rewrote it a second time without his input (the first rewrite was by Ellison, IIRC).
So yeah, Ellison's an uncompromising jerk, but Roddenberry and the rest of the ST peoples were unappreciative of genius (understandable, when you consider the package it comes in).
The great thing is that Ellison really is a genius*, the problem is that he knows it.
* Go read his article on Superman, Lois Lane, and Kryptonite condoms if you don't believe me.