Fred Freiberger

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Fred Freiberger

Not popular with fans due his work on the third season of Star Trek: TOS and Space: 1999.

In 1979, D.C. Fontana wrote about her decision to leave after the second season, citing the change in leadership:

And when they--then producer of the show--told me that Dr. McCoy was Kirk's contemporary and was not old enough to have a daughter at twenty-one years old, I realized they hadn't even read the writer's guide. I didn't want to work for anybody who didn't even have a working concept of the show. In fact, the story editor some three months later wandered onto the set and asked our set decorator, "By the way, what does that transporter thing do again?", at which point most of the crew gave up caring. Because when you do not have people doing the stories who are knowledgeable about what the entire show is about, you can't keep up pride in your work because you’re being given drek.

Fan Comments

O yes, about Space 1999. I have been accused of being gung-ho about Star Trek to the point of being blind to the possibilities of Space. Untrue. I do not use Star Trek as a criteria to measure television Science Fiction. Star Trek is Star Trek, imperfect but unique. Space 1999, like all other programs, must be analysed as an individual. Space's advertising campaign motivated the comparisons, not me. Star Lost, UFO and the Invisible Man were Science Fiction programs and they were not compared to Star Trek (at least, not by me). Space has potential, but special effects are not Science Fiction. No program can survive without acting, scripts and plots. I'd love to see Space survive, but if rumors hold true, and Fienberger [sic] (you remember him) is hired as producer or whatever, it's sewer-city. And you thought this season of Space" was bad.