>Roddenberry wrote the TMP novelization himself, IIRC, so I think it's
>probably the most direct conduit to the frustration he must have felt
>pretty much daily at the fact that literally no one else
>involved in the development and production of Star Trek shared
>the full extent of his idealized vision. He had to sell it to the
>network as Wagon Train to the Stars and Wagon Train to the
>Stars it has remained forevermore, in spite of his most
>strident efforts to steer it back onto what he considered its
>proper course, most notably in the early going of Next
>Generation.

I have to wonder what he would have made of Iain M. Banks's Culture novels, which take his ideals to their logical extreme. The Federation sometimes seems like a precursor phase of a Culture-like civilization.