Playwrights and Screenwriters: How to Be New in Your Story
Our television viewing was forever changed by Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, the first adult western Gunsmoke, and Gene Rodenberry’s Star Trek. These shows in either their settings, storytelling, characters or concepts offered something new or fresh. To highlight this issue of originality, let’s analyse one of these examples, Gene Rodenberry’s Star Trek, one of the most successful Hollywood franchises of all time.
