In 1979, Harlan Ellison — the man who wrote “The City on the Edge of Forever,” the most beloved episode in Star Trek history — slipped a brutal takedown of both Star Trek and Star Wars into the introduction of a Pinnacle Books Doctor Who paperback. He called Star Trek “superficial self-conscious twaddle” that would turn your brain into “puree of bat guano.” He dismissed Han Solo and Luke Skywalker as “pantywaist nerds” and Star Wars as “adolescent nonsense.” Jon Del Arroz digs into why Ellison’s 1979 critique was more prophetic than anyone realized at the time — and how the decline of nuTrek proves him right decades later.

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