(September 5, 2009 at 4:36 pm)Godlesspanther Wrote: The writers of Star Trek episodes have stolen a lot of material from various sources. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I do it all the time myself. Some famous writer stated "A good writer doesn't borrow -- he steals." I steal that one frequently and I forgot who I stole it from.
It's strange that Conan Doyle the creator of the great detective Sherlock Holmes was anything but a detective himself. He was a very gullible man. He believed all kinds of hokum. He was one of the people who examined the famous photos of the Cottingly Fairies and he determined them to be real.
He also played in goal for Portsmouth AFC.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
