DavidTai wrote:
Peter David did some decent Star Trek work despite the shackles that Paramount placed on him...


As I recall, that was more the work of Richard Arnold, who tended to come up with really arbitrary decrees. Got him fired by Paramount, and that was that.
Yeah that's right.

If you search around the net, you can find a story from PAD about how he submitted a comic story that was flat out rejected by this Arnold guy, then PAD turned around, put a different name on the script, and it was approved.

In fact, I think I read that story at the Comic Book Urban Legends revealed site.