I truly wish the folks running the Short Treks series could get behind adapting Matchmaker of Mars by Edonohana.
[End of a rejection letter from Campbell...]
As for “The Phonemes of Aldebaran,” it’s well-written but I have to pass. Astounding is a science fiction magazine and linguistics is not a science.
I mean, how can any Trekkie with a sense of the history of the genre resist a storyline which pits the combined unstoppable forces of Uhura and T'Pring against the immovable object that was John W. Campbell, Jr at the height of Astounding's dominance?
Think of it as a sort of companion piece for Deep Space Nine's Far Beyond The Stars
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