boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (03/04/86)
> From: mtx5d!elb (Ellen Bart) > Interesting also that The Cage is the only ST story that *won* a Hugo > award (though there are others that were nominated) Not quite. (1) "The Menagerie" won a Hugo, not "The Cage". There's an important distinction. The same year, two other TREK episodes were nominated for the Hugo as well. (2) The following year, all five nominees for Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo were TREK episodes, the winner being Ellison's "City on the Edge of Forever", which probably sticks in his craw, since he claims that his script was ruined in re-write. You can read in original script version in an anthology (relatively scarce, unfortunately) called SIX SCIENCE FICTION PLAYS, edited by Roger Elwood (Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1976). When Blish wrote the novelization (or to be more accurate, "story-ization"), he combined what he thought were the best elements of each version. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM