Jerry Sohl, the author, wrote magazine SF in the fifties. He represents Gene Roddenberry's willingness to have someone who actually knew something about science fiction write tv sf. You might think that by now television producers would have learned from his success, but you'd be wrong. Watching these old Star Treks on DVD gives the viewer a chance to see how the Star Trek universe developed. This episode also introduces the annoying inconsistency of the star effects.
Stars stream by either too fast or too slow.
In the Next Generation , a great deal of time and effort would be spent getting star movement relative to the Enterprise right. They didn't always succeed, but at least they tried. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly , which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon.